Named after a person. Built for the work.
Zedbee is a one-person developer-tools company. Zedbee Swarm is its first product. Every tool starts as something I needed on my own desk, in my own repositories, before it becomes something anyone else can install.
Zed. Bee. Two initials, said out loud.
Zachary Biles
Founder · Zedbee
Atlanta, GA
Zedbee is named after me: Zachary Biles, Z.B. There is no metaphor to unpack and no origin story to fabricate. The name is a signature. It means a person is accountable for every decision the tools make, and that person is the one whose initials are on the box.
The bee showed up on its own once the name did. Bees are small, precise, and relentless about one narrow job. That turned out to be a fair description of the software.
Why Zedbee
Tools I need, not tools I think a market needs
Zedbee exists to build the development tools I reach for and cannot find. Swarm is the first; more will follow as the need shows up. If a tool does not earn a place in my own daily workflow, it does not ship. That constraint keeps each product small and its opinions honest.
Written by someone who still ships code
Two decades across architecture, backend development, and engineering leadership, currently directing engineering for a set of high-traffic storefronts and running an AI-powered product solo, end to end. The tools come from that overlap: leading teams by day, committing code by night.
Bounded, inspectable, and honest about limits
Every Zedbee tool states what it does, what it does not, and when it could not finish. Swarm reports incomplete checks explicitly, so a missing result is never mistaken for a completed check. A limitation belongs next to the feature it limits.
I started shipping code I hadn't typed. I needed a reason to trust it.
AI-assisted development changed how much code I could produce in a day. It did not change how much of it I could personally vouch for. Agents write plausible code quickly, and plausible is exactly the failure mode a tired reviewer misses.
Zedbee Swarm is the gate I built for myself: one command that checks the exact staged change, runs a managed suite of quality and security checks, and blocks only what is new or worse. It let me keep the speed and get the confidence back. Then I realized every team adopting agents was about to need the same thing.
- Prompt
- Agent writes the change
zedbee scanconfidence, not hope- Commit I can stand behind
Four rules every Zedbee product has to pass. Swarm was the first to pass them.
Check the change, not the world
Swarm judges exactly what is being committed. Old debt is a separate conversation from the commit in front of you.
Say what you cannot see
When a Swarm check cannot finish, it reports that as its own result. Silence is never a pass.
Never act on the developer’s behalf
Swarm previews, asks, then writes to working files only. Staging and committing stay human decisions.
Treat the repo as untrusted
Swarm inspects inside a boundary: isolated snapshots, inert config, verified binaries, disclosed network use.
Fast code deserves thorough review.
Try Swarm, the tool I built for myself.
Zedbee Swarm installs in one command and previews every change before it writes anything. If it doesn't earn a place in your workflow, it's one command to remove.
npm install --save-dev zedbee
npx zedbee init