A pair programmer for the whole team. It watches everyone's work live, catches
+ collisions before the push (when GitHub still can't see them), and learns the team's
+ dynamics so it nudges less and helps more over time.
+
+
+
+ The 10-second story:Coding isn't the bottleneck anymore —
+ coordination is. PodMan gives a team real-time awareness with zero interruptions, catches
+ the pre-push collision that costs an afternoon, and the Team-Memory Graph proves it learned —
+ materialized live from MongoDB, not a mock.
+
+ observe ──▶ store ──▶ predict ──▶ outcome ──▶ adapt
+ │ │ │ │ │
+ Gemini MongoDB same-file accept / learned_from
+ Vision + records overlap dismiss edge + owner
+ git truth detected (1 tap) persists
+ ▲ │
+ └───────────────── recall ($vectorSearch) ◀─────────┘
+ "Seen before." → escalates on a repeat
+
+ The proof: one accept/dismiss tap — no retraining, no labels — changes the
+ NEXT run. Run 2 of the same collision says "Seen before." and a violet
+ learned_from edge appears on the graph. That edge is read straight from Atlas.
+
+
+
The 3-minute demo (read off this)
+
+
Time
Do
Say — land the value
+
+
0:00
Pod view, two live screen tiles
+
"Coordination is the bottleneck now, not coding. PodMan watches everyone's work live — nobody has to ask 'what are you on?'"
+
0:30
Point at tiles; activity stream fills
+
"Real screen-shares over LiveKit; each frame → Gemini Vision → file/symbol/activity. A perception layer, not a chatbot."
+
1:05
Two engineers edit the same file, unpushed
+
"GitHub can't see this — nothing's pushed. We fuse live screen context with local git truth." → collision card appears.
+
1:40
Accept the card
+
Real GitHub sync-PR created + outcome recorded. "One tap closes the loop."
+
2:10
Trigger the same collision again
+
Card now says "Seen before." and escalates to the Gemini TTS voice. "It recalled the prior event from MongoDB Atlas vector search and escalated — that's the learning."
+
2:35
Cut to GraphView
+
"This graph is materialized live from MongoDB right now — and here's the learned_from edge: PodMan learned who owns this file. Not a mock."
+
3:00
Stack + close
+
"All on DigitalOcean, systemd-supervised; ambient score is Gemini Lyria. Awareness, collisions caught pre-push, memory that sharpens each session."
"real screen-shares over LiveKit"; TTS audio over LiveKit
0:30 · 2:10
+
MongoDB
"Atlas vector-search recall" · "graph materialized live from MongoDB"
2:10 · 2:35
+
DigitalOcean
"all on DigitalOcean, systemd-supervised workers"
3:00
+
+
+
+
⛔ Last-hour caveats — read before you run
+
+
1 · Suppression is DISABLED for the demo
+
Every collision now surfaces (good — no accidental silencing). The old
+ "it learned to stay QUIET / no card fires" beat will not work. Use the
+ escalate beat instead: trigger the same collision again → "Seen before." + voice +
+ learned_from edge. Don't promise silence on stage.
+
+
+
2 · Do NOT redeploy prod
+
The live build has demo code not on main (e.g. userPodContext);
+ redeploying would remove it and surface stale "SUPPRESSED" beats. If the auto-deploy timer is on,
+ stop it: systemctl stop podman-hermes-sync-deploy.timer.
+
+
+
3 · Never debug on stage
+
Narrate, fall back to the backup recording, keep moving.
+
+
+
If it breaks — live recovery
+
+
Failure
Recovery
+
+
Voice doesn't fire
Cut to the card, say the line aloud — cards are the default path. (Click "Enable audio" in-room first!)
+
Collision won't trigger
Use the backup recording for that beat; keep narrating.
+
Graph looks empty / odd
Reload once; if still off, narrate from the recording.
+
Agent silent
Suspect a duplicate podman-hermes process, not the UI — but don't fix on stage.
+
+
+
+
Pre-flight checklist
+
+
+
curl https://podman.live/health → {"ok":true}
+
Deploy timer stopped; exactly one agent — systemctl status podman-platform-agent
+
Browser on the pod; click "Enable audio" (TTS needs it)