MAIA turns your team chats into living project boards

San Francisco–based startup Zyphra has opened a public beta of its team assistant MAIA, available as a Mac desktop app and a Slack integration. Instead of being “just another AI chat,” MAIA sits alongside your team conversations and continuously turns them into a shared project board.

As teammates talk, MAIA automatically pulls out tasks, decisions and open questions, and lays them out as cards on a visual board. Human teammates can rearrange, edit and add context, so action items and owners stay clear without anyone manually writing meeting minutes.

Zyphra says the goal is for MAIA to remember the long‑term context of a project – who’s involved, what’s already been tried, what’s still blocked – rather than answering one‑off prompts. The beta is currently free to use, with the company hinting at deeper integrations with other collaboration tools as it matures.