Introducing Single Agent Layout and Company Space Layout
We designed Company Space Layout for background automation. Users showed us they wanted something else entirely — and we listened, even though it costs us.
This is the new default Buda experience: one agent in focus, with Drive, Channels, Skills, Settings, and that agent's sessions organized around it. The left sidebar no longer asks you to manage a long list of agents first. It asks you to continue the work inside the current agent. When you do need the broader company view, the top switcher still lets you move back to Company Space Layout.
When we built Company Space Layout, we had a specific mental model in mind.
AI agents, in our minds, were background workers. You'd set them up, connect them to Slack or Discord or whatever automation pipeline you were running, and they'd go do their thing while you got on with your day. The dashboard was a management surface — a place to configure, monitor, and coordinate a fleet of agents. The sidebar listed your agents because the agents were the things you were managing.
It made sense for the way we used Buda internally.
It turned out our users had other plans.
What we got wrong about how people use Buda
We watched something unexpected happen when real users got their hands on the product.
People weren't treating their agents like background workers. They were watching them work.
There's something genuinely compelling about seeing an AI agent reason through a problem in real time — picking tools, executing steps, course-correcting, producing output. Users were coming back to the Buda interface to follow along. Not because they had to. Because they wanted to.
Buda's UI made this experience good. Users noticed. They stayed.
But we'd built the sidebar for the wrong moment.
The sidebar problem
In Company Space Layout, the sidebar shows your agents list.
For a user who's already engaged, watching their agent work, sitting with the interface — that sidebar is in the wrong register. When you're deep in a task with an agent, the most natural next action isn't "create another agent." It's "start a new conversation." Most tasks can be solved through a new session with an existing agent. You don't need a new agent for every new problem.
But the sidebar was right there, full of agents, and creating a new one was one click away.
We started noticing users accumulating agents they didn't need — one agent per task, instead of one agent used across many tasks through different sessions. It was the path of least resistance the interface had quietly carved out.
The awkward part
Here's where we have to be honest with ourselves.
Buda's pricing is tied to agents. More agents in your space means higher plan usage. In a narrow sense, users creating lots of agents was working in our favor.
But we kept coming back to the same question: is this actually what's best for the user?
The answer was no. A user who has 40 agents they barely use isn't getting more value — they're getting more confusion. A user who has 5 well-used agents with rich session histories is doing better work, getting better results, and building something real with Buda.
We'd rather have that user — even if it means fewer agents per account.
Single Agent Layout
Single Agent Layout flips the sidebar.
Instead of agents, the sidebar shows sessions for the current agent. The top switcher lets you move between agents when you genuinely need to. The main area stays focused on the work at hand.
It's a small structural change. But it reframes the fundamental question the interface asks.
Company Space Layout asks: which agent do you want to work with? — every time.
Single Agent Layout asks: what do you want to do next? — then lets you pick up where you left off, or start fresh.
For most users, most of the time, that second question is the right one.
Both layouts are here to stay
We didn't kill Company Space Layout. For users who genuinely need to coordinate work across multiple agents — running parallel workflows, managing a team of specialized agents, using the full Drive / Browser / Terminal surface — it's still the right tool.
You can switch between layouts any time. The setting in Appearance → Default Layout controls only where /dashboard takes you when you arrive. Nothing is locked, nothing is hidden.
Starting today, Single Agent Layout is the default for new users. It's the experience we think gives most people the best start — focused, approachable, and designed around how people actually use Buda.
We'll keep watching how users engage with both. That's how we got here in the first place.
How to switch layouts (step by step)
Besides the default /dashboard redirect to Single Agent Layout, you can switch manually from either side:
From Single Agent Layout → Company Space Layout
- In Single Agent Layout, click Agents Selector at the top-left.
- Click Company Space Layout.
From Company Space Layout → Single Agent Layout
- In Company Space Layout, click the three-dots menu next to the current agent.
- Click Single Agent Layout.
