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We shipped the Desktop Studio Alpha. One app, three modes: → Simple — Describe it in natural language, watch it generate, edit, test, and iterate → Editor — The code editor you know and love, powered by our coding engine → Advanced — Orchestrate multiple agents in a grid, across different projects, running in parallel All on our unified API: 300+ models, BYOK, persistent memory, runs local. Your code never trains anything. Same engine that scored an 84.3% on Terminal Bench 2.1. Now on your desktop. Download the Alpha for Mac (M series): backboard.io/products/deskt…

Your terminal called. It wants R-CLI. Try it today and use code 1ONTBENCH for dev credits. 💻 backboard.io/products/cli #BuildWithBackboard

Hey Chat, we're bringing Backboard to NYC. 🗽 If you're heading to DevRelCon, don't miss our co-founder, Jonathan Murray. Swing by, say hi, ask hard questions, and let's talk AI, DevRel, and what comes next. See you July 22–23. Who's going?

Your terminal just got a buff. ⚡ Ask. Review. Ship. 💻 Install in minutes 🧠 Pick any frontier model with /model 🔥 Adjust reasoning with /thinking Less tokenmaxxing. More shipmaxxing. Watch the demo, then try it yourself. #BuildWithBackboard

Things invented in Toronto: ✅ Deep learning ✅ Snow plows ✅ IMAX So it makes sense that Canada has the coolest adaptations of each of them: 🤖 Artificial intelligence (shoutout to @cohere, @BackboardIO, and more) ❄️ @Bombardier on top 💯 🎬 Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

We intend to open source this fully. It’s too good not to share.

Backboard R-CLI is optimized for real repositories. ⚙️ Built for long-running workflows 📊 Benchmarked on real-world coding tasks 💻 Designed to fit naturally into your existing terminal workflow If you live in your terminal, we'd love for you to try it! Desktop interface coming soon.

Backboard R-CLI is now #1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Highest recorded score. But benchmarks only matter if they translate into better developer workflows. That's why we published the full benchmark run—including verifier reports, configs, and test outputs—for anyone to inspect. Performance you can verify. Infrastructure you can build on. Read how we got there: backboard.io/blog/backboard… #BuildWithBackboard

Today, Backboard R-CLI achieved the top result on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Using Claude Opus 4.8 through AWS Bedrock, Backboard R-CLI solved 75 of 89 tasks for an overall accuracy of 84.3%. backboard.io/blog/backboard…

Canada Builds 🇨🇦

Backboard Studio delivers frontier-class coding without frontier-class costs. ⚡ Up to 90% lower cost 🪙 Up to 30% fewer frontier model tokens 🔒 Cloud or self-hosted #BuildWithBackboard: app.backboard.io/signup

Canada has always produced exceptional builders. Now it's producing world-class AI infrastructure too. This Canada Day, we're celebrating the engineers, researchers, founders, and teams proving that AI innovation doesn't have to come from Silicon Valley. We're proud to be building that future from Ottawa. 🇨🇦 Read our story: ow.ly/OWhf50Zjeo4 Happy Canada Day! #BuildWithBackboard #CanadaDay

We thought the Backboard R CLI beta would grow slowly. It didn't. In the last few weeks we've seen: ⚡ Teams integrating it into their daily workflows in under an hour 🛠️ Power users throwing large mono repos at it 📈 Strong results on both benchmarks and real-world codebases That's why you should try Backboard Development Studio. Built for engineers who live in the terminal and care about speed, determinism, and control. The desktop interface is coming soon. The beta is open now, and adoption is moving faster than we expected. Want to see what it can do on your own codebase? 👉 Sign up now and get access: app.backboard.io/signup

Different coding tasks require different levels of reasoning, context, and execution. The more intelligently those resources are used, the more efficient the development process becomes. That's the idea behind Recursive-CLI in Backboard Studio. Production code. From a prompt. Build better code with fewer tokens using the same frontier models. Try Recursive-CLI at backboard.io

Our new CLI is a core part of Backboard Development Studio. Here is what we are seeing so far: ⚡ Faster feedback on real projects than some of our internal workflows 📊 Benchmarking alongside top AI coding assistants on end-to-end tasks 🛠️ Built for actual engineering workflows, not synthetic prompts We built it for engineers who care about speed, determinism, and control. Desktop interface coming soon. The beta is now open. Sign up now and #BuildWithBackboard app.backboard.io/signup

Production systems start with everything around them. 🧠 Memory for context ⚙️ Orchestration for workflows 🔁 Routing for cost, speed, and quality 📊 Observability for production visibility Without these layers, AI applications often work in demos but struggle at scale. We've put together real-world use cases showing how teams are building production AI systems with these patterns. Explore them at backboard.io/use-case

We turned Google Sheets into an AI research assistant with zero backend. Using Google Apps Script + the Backboard API, a spreadsheet can: ✅ Research companies from the live web ✅ Generate structured summaries ✅ Rank opportunities automatically ✅ Write results back into your sheet No infrastructure. No deployment. About 10 minutes of code. This is Lab 1 of 7 in our Progressive Build Track. 🔗 Build it yourself: bit.ly/bb-codelabs

Most AI systems stop at model selection. The better ones manage state. Routing determines which model responds. State determines whether the system remembers what happened before. As AI applications become more agentic, both matter. Backboard Development Studio supports stateful AI systems, giving developers a way to build applications that maintain context, preserve continuity, and make smarter decisions over time. Good AI systems don't just call models. They route intelligently and manage state continuously. Sign up now and #BuildWithBackboard backboard.io

Voice interfaces are becoming a core part of AI systems. The problem is that most voice experiences still live outside the workflow. 🎙️ Listen in one system ⚙️ Process in another 🔄 Pass context between both That creates friction. Voice should be part of the same execution path as everything else. That's why we brought Voice to the Backboard API. Build voice-enabled agents that can listen, respond, and act without stitching together separate systems. One API. One workflow. One stateful conversation. Read more and #BuildWithBackboard backboard.io/changelog/voic…

The future isn't just about generating better images. It's about making image generation a reliable part of production systems. That's where we think the industry is heading. Learn more and try it yourself: backboard.io/changelog/intr…