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Acyclic Labs: a hero that shows the swarm working

Unsolicited concept for Acyclic Labs. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Acyclic Labs. See their live site

The thinking

Teams running a dozen Claude Code sessions don't buy "agent swarms". They buy one task in, many agents at once, and only the verified work merged into a single PR.

Reimagined. Our redesign of Acyclic Labs' hero: the claim as a large headline with Install the CLI and Talk to us, a murmuration of dots behind it, and a swarm view below where six agents merge into one PR.

The business

Sells

A CLI, with a dashboard and MCP, that fans one coding task out across sandboxed agents, forks on conflict, and merges what passes into one PR.

Who signs

Engineering leads at startups building agents, and teams already running many Claude Code or Codex sessions on large codebases.

What's at stake

"Exponentially faster" is the whole pitch. A visitor who sees the swarm merge a real-looking PR installs the CLI or books the call.

What the page does now

The hero is centred and logo-led on a cream ground: the logo, one line of claim, the YC pill and three buttons. The product only shows further down the page.

What we kept

The DAG logo and wordmark, the cream ground and warm ink, their claim as the headline, the YC mark, the CLI install line, and the deep teal of their own cursor effect, used only for "verified" and "merged".

What we changed

  1. The claim, shown in the product.

    A swarm view rises under the headline: one task fans out into agent lanes, one forks, four verify and merge into one PR, with the time against a single session in its header.

    The redesigned Acyclic Labs hero: "Make any agentic workflow exponentially faster" over a swarm view where one task fans out to six agents and four verified patches merge into PR #2141.
  2. A swarm behind the page.

    A murmuration of dots with fine trails drifts behind the copy, in the same spirit as their own cursor effect.

  3. What a buyer reads in five seconds.

    Fan out: six agents work at once. Fork: a conflict retries instead of failing. Merge: only verified patches reach the PR.

    Breakdown of the swarm view with three callouts: six agents fanning out, a conflict forking into a retry, and only verified patches merging into the PR.

Our hypothesis

More CLI installs and "Talk to us" calls from engineering leads, because the swarm, its speed and its safety are visible before anyone scrolls.

Invented for the concept

The repo, the swarm, the task, the agent names, every time, and PR #2141 with its diff are invented for the concept. The murmuration is our own procedural animation, not their cursor effect.

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