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Backboard for your hackathon.

Persistent memory, 17,000+ models, retrieval and threads, free for your team this weekend. Pick how you want to build and you’re set up in a minute.

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Backboard Studio

The desktop IDE with everything built in.

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Backboard R-CLI

An open-source coding harness for the terminal.

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Backboard Studio

You want to ship an app, not live in a terminal.

The desktop IDE. Memory, 17,000+ models, documents, and the R-CLI harness in one app. Open it, sign in, build.

Backboard R-CLI

You live in the terminal and want an agent that ships.

Open source recursive coding harness. 84.3% on Terminal Bench 2.1, above every published result. Any model, including open ones.

Unified API

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One key. Memory (#1 on LoCoMo and LongMemEval), routing across 17,000+ models, agentic RAG, threads, tools. Python and JS.