Overview
Artel is the execution layer of the Metantel product pair. Where Foundry is for exploring and shaping ideas in conversation, Artel is for turning those ideas into real, versioned work. It provides all the tools a modern team needs — docs, tasks, whiteboards, code integration, and AI assistance — built natively on cloud infrastructure.
Every project in Artel is a self-contained workspace: a page tree of living documents, a task board, a whiteboard canvas, and a GitHub mirror. The AI assistant understands the full context of your workspace and can answer questions, draft content, run standups, and help make architectural decisions.
Workspace Surfaces
- Rich markdown documents — per-project page trees with autosave, real-time collaboration, and legacy import support
- Tasks — table, kanban, and timeline views with full lifecycle management
- Interactive whiteboards — infinite canvases as first-class project artefacts
- Member management — workspaces with role-based access and invitation flows
- Changelog — structured record of shipped work and significant project milestones
Code-Bound Context
Artel binds directly to GitHub repositories. Commits and issues are mirrored into the workspace in real time, and individual commits can be linked to specific docs and tasks. Code context flows into the AI assistant automatically, so the assistant understands what's been built, not just what's been written.
Workspace-Aware RAG
Grounded Retrieval at the Project Layer
Every document, task, and linked commit becomes part of a per-workspace retrieval surface. The Pro assistant answers with citations drawn from the project itself — no hallucinated context, no leakage across workspaces. As the project grows, the retrieval surface grows with it.
Flow Console MCP Connector
Five Live Tools
Artel ships with a native Flow Console MCP connector — five live tools that allow Flow Console to read and write to Artel workspaces programmatically. This turns Artel into a writable knowledge base for AI-driven workflows: agents can create docs, update tasks, and query project state directly from the Flow Console interface.
Pro AI Assistant
- Docs Q&A — ask questions about any document in the workspace and get cited, grounded answers
- Standup generation — auto-generate daily standup summaries from recent commits and task activity
- Architecture drafts — describe a system and get structured architecture documents and diagrams
- Forecasting — estimate project timelines based on task velocity and scope
- Decision logs — capture and structure architectural decisions with alternatives and trade-offs
Current Status
Live at artel.metantel.com
Artel is live and in active use. All core workspace features — documents, tasks, whiteboards, GitHub integration, and the Pro AI assistant — are shipped and available. The platform is at artel.metantel.com.
Ecosystem Connections
Artel doesn't ship in isolation. It plugs into the rest of the Metantel stack through a shared protocol surface — context flows in and out without leaving the family.