HiveMatrix — the complete guide

01What HiveMatrix is

HiveMatrix runs on a dedicated Mac and operates the parts of a business that would normally need staff — watching channels, drafting and publishing, engaging, shipping work, and managing itself, 24/7. It doesn't replace your judgment; it does the work and brings you the decisions.

In any posture it's honest: it tells you what works now, what's degraded, and what's queued for later — never a silent failure.

02Setup & first run

The first-run wizard walks you through everything below; here's the shape of it:

1. Hardware. A dedicated M-series Mac, 128 GB unified memory (runs Qwen3.6-27B 8-bit at 128K context with room to spare).
2. Install. The notarized DMG (build ≥ 0.1.1 so auto-update works) → run the first-run wizard. The daemon is supervised by launchd, so it restarts on crash and at boot.
3. Grant permissions (System Settings → Privacy & Security):
   • Full Disk Access — so MessageBee can read your Messages so you can run it by text.
   • Automation → Mail — so MailBee can read & draft.
   • Accessibility + Screen Recording — so DesktopBee can see and act.
   • Notifications — for the console and mobile pairing.
4. Pick a posture and, for local or mixed, let the wizard set up the on-device model — it pins sensible defaults and keeps the model running for you.
5. Wire your channels. Enable iMessage and add your own number to the allowlist; enable email and set your trusted senders; optionally connect Telegram. These are your control surface.
6. Pair your phone. Open the desktop console's pairing QR and scan it in the app — that's your board, your approvals queue, and your notifications.
7. Turn on secure remote access so your phone reaches the Mac from anywhere.
8. Add your first directives (see §4) and you're live.

Optional, depending on posture: higher-quality content generation, image generation (cloud or fully local), browser automation backing, and your license key. Telemetry is off by default and stays on the machine if you ever turn it on.

03The Bees — what they do & how to watch them

"Bees" are the capability lanes. You rarely address them directly — you state goals and they're used as needed — but here's the cast, and crucially how to see each one running.

How to see them running / their status

• Desktop console → Bees panel — every Bee with a mode badge (embedded / launchagent) and a health dot (green = healthy). Toggles for the manageable ones.
• Mobile app → Settings — the same Bee list and toggles from your phone.
• The heartbeat — a control-plane view (ManagerBee) folds everything into one snapshot: what's scheduled, what's running, what's waiting on you, and a single ok / needs-attention roll-up. BrainBee shows its memory-tidying activity alongside.
• At-a-glance health — a one-line liveness view shows status, version, connectivity, active work, and license state.
• Honest posture — a posture view shows, per capability, whether it works, is degraded, or is queued in your current mode — so you always know what each Bee can and can't do right now.

04How a directive works

A directive is a standing objective you hand it once — "keep my LinkedIn warm," "watch support email," "ship small fixes." When it's due, HiveMatrix opens a run and walks it through plan → execute → verify → reflect, replanning around failures and pausing at the checkpoints you set (e.g. approve the plan before it acts). It learns: every approval and correction it records sharpens the playbooks for next time. You can watch a run move through its phases right from your phone.

05102 ways to use it

Click any card to see what the exchange looks like. amber = you approve by text · green = runs fully offline.

A · Sales & pipeline

B · Marketing & content

C · Social & LinkedIn

D · Customer support & comms

E · Operations & admin

F · Finance & bookkeeping

G · Product & engineering (coding)

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H · Research & competitive intel

I · Recruiting & people

J · E-commerce & local business

K · Personal & life admin

L · Privacy-first / 100% local

M · Markets & trading insight (via TraderBee — analysis & alerts only, never auto-trading)

06Reporting bugs & enhancements

HiveMatrix keeps a local backlog of bugs and enhancement ideas so nothing gets lost. File one from anywhere:

• By text — "bug: the LinkedIn ritual double-posted" or "idea: add a weekly finance digest." It's captured and confirmed.
• From the console or phone — a quick form to capture a bug or an idea, tagged and timestamped.
• Review the backlog — see everything filed with counts by kind and status, and move items from open to triaged to done as you work through them.

It's deliberately lightweight — a capture-and-triage backlog, not a heavyweight tracker — and it stays entirely on your machine.

07TraderBee — coming (analysis only)

08Your first week

1. Stand it up (§2): install, permissions, posture, channels, pair your phone.
2. Start with one directive. Email triage or the daily LinkedIn ritual is a gentle first win.
3. Keep everything gated at first; loosen the low-stakes checkpoints as it earns your trust.
4. File feedback as you go (§6) — the rough edges you hit become the backlog.
5. Let it learn. Week two is noticeably better than week one.