A Piece of You Is in Dojo Workspace
The most rewarding work I did this year never appeared in a job description — helping shape an AI tool built to make people more capable, not more replaceable.
By Fatemeh Rostami — Software Engineer
The most rewarding work I did this year never appeared in a job description.
When my friend Val Neekman was building his AI agent, he told me he wanted a feminine touch on it. So I became one of his testers — living in it through real workflows, leaning on the rough edges, and telling him honestly what wasn't working and what I expected from a tool like this.
A while later, he wrote something I haven't stopped thinking about:
A piece of you is in Dojo Workspace. Your thoughtful feedback helped make it better.
I've rarely been prouder of a product I didn't build.
So here's what it actually is
Dojo Workspace rests on a single conviction: AI should help people grow, not replace them. Most AI tools sell access to a model. Dojo sells a better way to organize the work around it.
🥋 Dojo Solo — one focused lane for heads-down execution.
🥋 Dojo Duo — a Sensei and a Grunt working side by side: planning, research, peer review, and validation in parallel. Instead of forcing everything through one enormous context window, Dojo keeps work focused across coordinated lanes. Less context bloat. Better answers. Lower cost.
🧠 It mentors while it executes — explaining its reasoning as it goes, so you grow into a sharper builder instead of a button-pusher.
🎬 It creates — video, audio, and images, produced in a fraction of the time you'd expect.
🔒 Local-first by design — agent work, browser automation, terminal control, and voice all run on your machine. No telemetry. No data collection.
🔌 Bring your own model provider.
And here's the part that surprised me most
It began as a tool for engineers and coders. But somewhere along the way, it outgrew that box. The same engine that reviews your code can now compose a soundtrack, cut a video, or render an image in minutes.
Which means it isn't really a developer tool anymore. It's a tool for anyone who makes things.
While much of the industry races to make people replaceable, someone chose to build the opposite — something that makes them more capable. That deserves attention.
If you build, write, design, or create in any form, give it a try. A piece of me is in it — and I think a piece of you could be, too.
Written by Fatemeh Rostami, Software Engineer. Connect with me on LinkedIn.