From half-baked ideas to production-ready reality—without the translation tax

Intentive is designed to be a standard way to remove friction in an AI-native system. Tell the system what you want and watch it turn those words into code, workflows, and an audit trail you can actually trust.

Why Intentive Was Started

  • Lost in Interpretation – Bold OKRs shrink into bite-sized tickets, specs drift, and the 2 a.m. fire-drill never quite goes away.
  • Automation Islands – RPA here, CI/CD there, a chatbot somewhere else. None agree on a common “language of getting work done.”
  • Speed vs. Compliance – Shipping fast is easy … until the first SOC-2 questionnaire hits your inbox.

What Makes Intentive Different

1. Intent as Data

Intentive captures a request - say “Run May payroll for APAC with quarterly bonuses” - as a node in a Canonical Intent Graph. Every downstream action (code generation, workflow orchestration, approvals) hangs off that node. No translation loss, no hidden side-effects.

2. Opinionated, Swappable Layers

Rather than a single monolith, Intentive is composed of clear layers—each replaceable if your stack demands it:

  • Intent Mesh Gateway – Classifies and routes new intents (Fastify + embeddings).
  • Temporal Workflows – Handles long-running jobs.
  • Knowledge Graph – Anchors domain context (Neo4j, type-safe).
  • Guardrails – Enforces budget, policy, and security (Policy DSL + OpenTelemetry).
  • GraphQL Fallback – Provides a read-only safety net when custom handlers are offline.

If GitHub Actions, Zapier, and your risk team threw a hack-day together, this is what they’d ship.

AskQL vs. IntentQL — A Living Comparison

  • Purpose
  • AskQL focuses on safe, read-only queries.
  • IntentQL (in active development) will drive full lifecycle actions—reads, writes, and triggers.
  • Mental Model
  • AskQL feels like a “smart SELECT.”
  • IntentQL aims to feel like “git commit && deploy” for real-world operations.
  • Example Usage
  • AskQL → ask { orders(where:{status:"OPEN"}) { id } }
  • IntentQL (road-map) → intent { launchPromo("SPRING25") region:"APAC" }

AskQL lets teams interrogate data safely. IntentQL will let them change the world behind that data—using the same mental model.

Intentive - For the Builders

  • No Lock-In – Swap any layer; the core is open.
  • TypeScript First – Strict types from HTTP edge to graph node.
  • Plug-in Friendly - Designed with a plugin vision in mind

Roadmap Highlights

  • Q3 ’25 – IntentQL alpha + multi-endpoint GraphQL fallback
  • Q4 ’25 – Live RBAC guardrails + Slack approvals
  • Q1 ’26 – Visual Intent Designer (drag-and-drop graph editor)

Try It

  1. Docs – intentive.dev for a five-minute quick-start (docs will be updated shortly on site).
  2. GitHub – https://github.com/agenticaivc/intentive Star the repo.

Intentive turns the sentence you just spoke into an auditable, observable, production-grade outcome—quicker than you can schedule the kickoff. Ready to let intent become your primary interface?