Why I Built Evident
I love OpenCode.
It’s powerful, open, and transparent. You can see exactly what your AI agent is doing — every file read, every tool call, every decision. For a developer, it’s the perfect AI assistant.
But there’s a problem.
The Terminal Trap
OpenCode lives in your terminal. And while that’s great when you’re at your desk, coding away, it creates limitations:
You can’t message it from Slack. You’re in a meeting, someone asks a question, and you think “my agent could answer this.” But you’d have to open your laptop, start a new session, wait for it to spin up…
You can’t reach it from your phone. Walking the dog, and you have an idea? It’ll have to wait until you’re back at your desk.
You can’t share it with non-technical teammates. Your PM wants to use your agent to draft specs. But they’re not going to open a terminal.
The Channels Insight
The value isn’t in another AI runtime. There are plenty of those.
The value is in making your existing agent reachable.
- DM it from Slack like you’d DM a colleague
- Message it from WhatsApp while you’re away from your desk
- Share a web link with anyone
Your agent stays on your machine. Your code and data stay local. We just connect it to wherever you are.
How It Works
Evident creates a secure tunnel from your local OpenCode to our relay. When you message your agent from Slack or WhatsApp, we route it through the tunnel to your running agent, and send the response back.
Your Computer Evident You
┌──────────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌─────┐
│ OpenCode │ ◄──────► │Relay │ ◄────► │Slack│
│ Agent │ Tunnel │ │ │ Web │
└──────────┘ └──────┘ │Phone│
└─────┘No cloud compute. No data leaving your machine (except the messages you send). Just channels.
What’s Next
This is just the beginning. Right now, Evident supports:
- Web UI — Full interface with transparency
- Slack — DM your agent like a colleague
- WhatsApp — Message from your phone
Coming soon:
- Email — AI in your inbox
- GitHub Actions runtime — Always-on agents using your free CI minutes
- Discord — For communities and teams
Try It
Evident is free to start. The web UI is free forever.
Channels (Slack, WhatsApp, Email) are $9/month — because that’s where the value is, and that’s what costs us to maintain.
You bring the compute. We connect it everywhere.