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Notes from building Gealo
Engineering deep-dives, product decisions and honest building-in-public posts. No fluff, no growth-hack listicles.
Gealo MCP server: connect Claude and Cursor to your workspace
Gealo now ships a per-tenant MCP server with OAuth, consent, and 66+ tools. Here is what it does, how permissions work, and when to use it.
- Product8 min read
MCP tool registry vs AI chat sidebars: what actually connects to your work
Chat-side AI is fast for one-off answers. Gealo MCP is an authenticated tool registry with task dependencies, tenant-scoped notifications, and project permissions on every call.
- Guides5 min read
105+ developer tools that run entirely in your browser
Convert, inspect and clean files without uploading them anywhere. Gealo’s microtools run client-side, so your data never leaves your machine.
- Engineering7 min read
How Gealo isolates every workspace’s data
Multi-tenant SaaS lives or dies on data isolation. Here is how Gealo scopes every query, cache key, file and socket room to a single workspace.
- Building Gealo6 min read
Why Gealo exists: one workspace instead of a dozen tabs
Most teams stitch together a tracker, a chat app, a meeting tool, an HR tool and a Git host. Gealo puts them in one place. Here is the reasoning.
- Guides11 min read
How to run a software team in one workspace: a practical guide
A practical guide to planning, communicating, meeting, managing people and shipping code, without juggling five separate tools.
- Product6 min read
Tool sprawl is a tax: what five subscriptions really cost you
The price of a fragmented toolset is not just the invoices. It is context-switching, broken integrations and decisions lost between apps.
- Guides7 min read
From backlog to release: how to structure work that doesn’t rot
Folders, tasks, subtasks, sprints and releases: a simple structure that keeps a backlog usable as it grows, with references that stay valid.