For the person who knows the business
Tell it what your business needs. It builds the software, checks it, runs it on your own computer and keeps it up to date. You decide. You don’t write code.
The person stays outside the factory: you decide the business rules, without writing code or supervising each step.
The platform keeps the written decisions, rules, changes and their reasons with the project. A change of person, AI provider or model does not require starting the record again.
The box is your installation, on your own computer. Connected AI models receive the selected work context. Local models can be configured.
Other tools help the person writing code. CodeHero does the whole job for the person who knows the business.
Self-hosted, from the start
CodeHero runs on your own computer — an ordinary laptop or desktop is enough; you do not need a server. The code, data, history and knowledge stay with you. You can also discuss a hosted installation, with a path back to your own computer.
What it needs. It runs on almost any computer. The minimum is 1 CPU core, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB free disk and an ordinary internet connection; with 8 GB RAM it runs comfortably. It runs on Ubuntu 24.04 — directly on Linux, or in a virtual machine on Windows or a Mac. Installation guides
One thing to know: the AI services you connect see the parts of the work they need to do it. If you prefer, AI models can also run on your own hardware.
See hosting and maintenanceThe difference
With ordinary AI tools you write what you want, and the AI fills the gaps by itself. CodeHero does the opposite: before it builds anything, it asks you what only you know — who approves, what happens at a limit, what must never be lost — and builds with your answers.
Try how it asks youThe AI guesses the rules.
You decide the rules.
The first step: it asks you
You know how the work should happen. CodeHero asks for the rules that turn it into software.
Pick one. Answer three questions. See the draft.
Scripted example. No live AI. Answers stay in this page and clear when you reload.
A real example
“Staff request equipment through the app. Up to €500 it is approved automatically. Above €500 a manager approves it — but never their own request.”
One AI built the app and tried it out.
A different AI, from another company, checked it. The rules worked. It found 2 small display problems on phones.
The 2 problems were repaired.
Everything was checked again from the start. All correct.
No one wrote code. The person only gave the rules.
Each row is one request. Look at the “Status” column: amounts up to €500 were approved automatically; a manager decided the larger ones, and one is still waiting. When a manager tried to approve her own request, the app refused.
| Request | Amount | Asked by | Status | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference speakerphoneMeeting room B | €799.00 | Kostas | Rejected | Room B already has one; use the spareby Nikos |
| Label printerWarehouse shipments | €612.50 | Kostas | Waiting for a manager | — |
| Laptop for the new accountantStarts on Monday | €1,240.00 | Maria | Approved | Order through the usual supplierby Nikos |
| 27-inch monitorSecond screen for invoicing | €500.00 | Maria | Approved automatically | Automatic — at or below the limit |
| Ergonomic chairBack pain at the reception desk | €289.00 | Maria | Approved automatically | Automatic — at or below the limit |
Build
Junior model · GPT Codex
Built the application and tried every rule in the browser.
114 actions
Independent check
Senior model · from a different AI company (Claude)
Every business rule passed. Two layout problems on phones.
Opened a repair · changed no product code
Repair
Junior model · GPT Codex
Fixed both layout problems and told the checker.
58 actions
Recheck
The same independent checker
Checked the repair and everything again.
103 actions in all
After delivery
CodeHero also hosts what it builds. Your application gets its own place to run. Later changes and fixes come back to the same factory.
Hosting and maintenanceThe knowledge stays in the box
What you decided. What changed. Why. CodeHero keeps that record with your project, on your computer.
A new person, a new AI company or a new AI model can pick up from there. Your software’s story stays with you, beyond one developer’s memory.
See what stays with youInside the box · illustrative record
Two things it does for you — automatically
Long projects fail in two quiet ways: the AI drowns in its own history, or a password slips into a prompt. CodeHero handles both inside the factory, for every agent it runs.
Like a person at a desk: when the agent has finished with a long report, it keeps a short note of what matters and puts the report away in a drawer. It works much longer without losing the thread — and nothing is lost: the report can be opened again.
Passwords and keys you store as secrets are used by your application, but their values are never sent to the AI service: a command that would carry one is refused, and any output that contains one is replaced first.
The release record
We build CodeHero itself with the same process: every release is reviewed independently, a real finding holds it, and installation and upgrade checks follow on x86 and ARM.
Engineering record collected 15 October 2026. Upgrade and clean-install counts refer to 5.0.0 → 5.0.1; they are separate from the equipment-request run.
For engineers and developers
Architecture, independent checks, repair limits, hosting and retained knowledge. The high-level analysis and the implementation detail live here.
Start with your own work
Use the free Spec Builder file in your AI chat. Bring the draft to a discussion about your own factory.
The original 24-hour story imagines work continuing while you step away. It is an illustration, not a delivery-time or savings promise.
Morning: work together. Through breaks, lunch, exercise and family time: build, fix, test, deploy and document. At night: review the completed work.
Built by Smartnav
CodeHero PRO started as an internal tool: we built it to develop and run our own company’s software, then used it to build itself. The platform we offer is the one we use every day.
No. CodeHero works with many AI companies at once and with models on your own hardware. You can change company or model at any time — the project, its rules and its history stay. Read the article
No. Passwords and keys you store as secrets are used by your application, but their values are never sent to the AI service. Read the article
Because one AI does not catch its own blind spots. In CodeHero one model builds and a model from a different company checks; problems go back for repair and are checked again. Read the article
It is a different kind of thing. Coding tools help a person who writes code. CodeHero does the whole job — asks, plans, builds, checks, hosts and maintains — for the person who knows the business. Read the article
You become the advisor: you decide the business rules, approve the plan and accept the result. CodeHero is the developer that asks, builds, checks and maintains. Read the article
With memory folding: when the AI has finished with a long result it keeps a short note of what matters and puts the rest away — it can open it again at any time. So it works much longer without losing the thread. Read the article
The factory gives it structure: smart tickets with one clear job each, a change ledger of every decision, a map of the code and search by meaning. The AI reads what it needs instead of guessing — which also saves a lot of cost. Read the article
Because it runs the whole production line on its own — planning, building, independent checking, repair, delivery and maintenance — with stations, rules and records, like a factory. A tool waits for a person to use it. Read the article
When the person who knows the work can get software made, checked, hosted and maintained without a development team, software can be made for every business and every need — not only for those that can afford a team. Read the article
Less repetitive work and fewer late nights. The factory takes the routine building, checking and fixing; developers decide the architecture, review what matters and handle the hard problems. Read the article
Because building and running belong together. The application runs where it was built, with its domain, secure connection, backups and recovery — and every later change returns to the same factory. No separate hosting panel to learn. Read the article
Always open, widely used technologies — PHP and MySQL first, and others such as Node, Python or .NET when the job needs them. Your application is never locked into a proprietary platform. Read the article
Because in our own measurements, for heavy daily work, a subscription has cost up to about 40 times less than paying per use for the same work. CodeHero runs the subscription AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build) as workers in the factory. Read the article
It is built up and kept inside your installation: decisions, rules, changes and their reasons, next to the code. A new person or a new AI continues from there — the knowledge does not leave with them. Read the article
Inside the factory, yes — more than on their own. Small, clear tickets, a checklist for finishing, tool help and a stronger model that checks the result let small models on your own hardware do much of the building. Read the article