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Zenflow by Zencoder
Launched this week
Zenflow streamlines Al-first engineering with specification-driven workflows, parallel agents, and built-in verification - so you can ship production-grade software.
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Zencoder
🚀 Hey Product Hunt!
Andrew here. While building our IDE extensions and cloud agents, we kept running into the same problem many of you probably face when using coding agents in complex repositories: agents getting stuck in loops, over-apologizing, and burning time without making real progress.
We tried to paper over this with scripts, but juggling terminals and copy-paste prompting quickly became painful. So we built Zenflow - a free desktop tool for orchestrating AI coding workflows.
It handles the things we kept missing in standard chat interfaces:
Dynamic Workflows: Workflows are defined in simple .md files, and agents can dynamically rewire the next steps based on what they discover mid-execution.
Spec Driven Development: Use formal specs to guide agents, ensuring the implementation matches your architectural intent before a single line of code is written.
Cross-Model Verification: Have Codex review Claude’s output, or run multiple models in parallel to see which one handles a specific codebase or task best.
Blast Mode (Multi-Model Inference): Run up to four different models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Codex) on the same task simultaneously. Compare their outputs side-by-side and pick the best result.
Parallel Execution: Run multiple approaches on the same backlog item simultaneously mixing human-in-the-loop workflows for hard problems with faster “YOLO” runs for simpler tasks.
Project-Level Kanban: Track and manage all agent work through project lists and kanban-style views, not scattered terminal windows.
What we learned building Zenflow
After running 100+ experiments on SWE-Bench and private datasets, we found that models are increasingly overfit to public benchmarks. Real-world success doesn't come from "smarter" models alone; it comes from the "Goldilocks" Workflow just enough structure to prevent loops without over-orchestrating the creativity out of the AI.
We’ve been dogfooding this heavily to build our own IDE extensions, and we’d love to hear how it handles your toughest repos.
Zenflow is free to use and currently supports Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Zencoder.
@andrewsthoughts congrats on the launch! Is this like a no-code orchestration of code agents?
Zencoder
@andrewsthoughts @austin_heaton No-code in the sense that you can orchestrate agents with natural language, yes! Looking forward to hearing your first impressions 🙏🙏
Exciting launch, crew!
You guys are really taking spec-driven development to the next level. I'm excited to see how it pans out. Let's gooo!
Zencoder
@vibor_cipan Thank you Vibor! Do try the product and share your feedback!
Multi-agent “blast mode” and dynamic rewiring is powerful, but at scale the pain is non-determinism: agents race, loop, and produce conflicting diffs that are hard to replay or audit.
Best practice is a reproducible execution harness: sandboxed per-agent workspaces/branches, deterministic step graph with idempotent tools, and mandatory verify gates (lint + minimal tests) before merge, with full traces for replay.
How does Zenflow represent and version the workflow state, and can it enforce conflict-free patch application plus automatic rollback when verification fails?
Zencoder
@ryan_thill that’s a really good question and honestly, that’s exactly the class of problems Zenflow is designed to avoid. The way we think about it is: we don’t try to make multi-agent work “magically deterministic.” Instead, we make it observable, isolated, and auditable.
Concretely, every agent in Zenflow runs in its own fully sandboxed workspace. It’s a full copy of the repo with its own Git branch. So agents never race on files, they never overwrite each other, and you never get conflicting diffs produced at the same time. That whole class of non-deterministic merge issues just doesn’t happen.
On the workflow side, everything the agent does is driven by an explicit step graph things like requirements, spec, planning, implementation, verification. That state is materialized as real artifacts like spec.md plans, and diffs, and you can see and edit it at any point. If an agent decides to change the plan mid-flight, that change is visible and versioned as well.
For verification, we don’t auto-merge anything. You can add explicit verify steps run tests, lint, compile and you can also have another agent review the output before you move forward. If verification fails, nothing gets applied, because it’s still just a sandboxed branch.
Because of that model, we don’t really need rollback in the traditional sense. If something fails verification, you just discard that branch and move on main is untouched.
So the short version is: Zenflow enforces conflict-free execution by isolation, keeps workflows reproducible by making state explicit, and avoids chaos by never auto-applying changes. You get parallel exploration, but with the same safety properties you’d expect from a disciplined engineering process.
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Huge congrats! Zenflow’s multi-agent orchestration and built-in verification feels like a game-changer for scalable AI engineering. I'm excited to try real workflows beyond vibe coding. Good luck!
Zencoder
@srdan_stojadinovic Thank you Srdjan - do share your feedback
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Congrats!
Zencoder
@svpino Thanks Santiago!
Product Hunt
Zencoder
Great question, this is exactly the right bar
First: with Zenflow, you can run Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini agents directly. If you already pay for those, Zenflow is effectively free to try — no model switch, no new lock-in.
Second: Zenflow is spec-driven by default. You’re not playing prompt roulette. Work starts from an explicit spec that agents plan against, not vibes.
Third: you can cross-verify agents. Claude’s output checked by Codex or Gemini (and vice versa). That alone kills a huge class of silent failures.
Fourth: Zenflow gives you a real execution UI — Kanban views for agents in parallel stages, so you can see planning, execution, review, and failures instead of guessing in a chat window.
Lastly: built-in verification. Not “trust the model,” not manual review — verification is part of the system. That’s the part most tools skip.
Zencoder
@curiouskitty Thank you for the question! Now where do I start;
If a team is already productive with Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, the clearest reason to add Zenflow isn’t “better prompts” it’s orchestration. You can try to recreate this with internal scripts and stricter prompting guidelines, but what teams usually discover is that the real cost isn’t generation, it’s coordination: running multiple agents safely, keeping work isolated, reviewing outcomes, and knowing what’s happening where.
Where it really clicks is blast mode. You can run multiple agents in parallel Claude, Codex, GPT, Gemini on the same task, each in its own sandbox. Then you either compare results side-by-side or have one model review another. That’s very hard to do reliably with scripts.
Workflows are also lightweight. They’re just .md files, and agents can dynamically rewire the next steps based on what they discover mid-execution. Combined with spec-driven development, this means agents align to your architectural intent before they write code, not after.
Zenflow also gives you visibility. Instead of scattered terminal windows, you get a project-level Kanban board showing what agents are running, blocked, in review, or done which matters a lot once you scale beyond one engineer.
And yes, I’d definitely add multi-repo here. Being able to reason across repos, schemas, and services is a big reason teams bring Zenflow in.
On the model side, Zencoder is a strong, first-class citizen. Claude or Codex are great if you prefer direct subscriptions to those vendors. But if you’re an enterprise that prefers APIs like Claude via Bedrock or Vertex, or OpenAI via Azure, Zenflow is a very natural fit.
As for switching cost, that’s what we worked hard to eliminate. You don’t have to rip anything out. No new editor, no new workflow mandate. You just add Zenflow when coordination, verification, and parallelism start becoming the bottleneck.
Hope this helps to ans your question :)
I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and am now just babysitting the AI as it builds the product! Code quality is very good!
Zencoder
@glen_little Thank you for the kind words, Glen!