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slug: how-to-talk-to-dev
title: How to bring Dev into a task
category: capability
status: published
tags: [dev, engineering, cto, hand-off, ui, chat-panel, task-card, chairman-view]
aliases: []
lastEditAt: 2026-04-26
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**What you see**

The CEO chat panel is the only place you talk to the team. When Dev is brought in for a build, his name and avatar appear in the same panel as a new bubble, and a Task Card opens with him as the owner. Live URLs and code links land on the card as Assets.

**How to bring Dev in**

1. Open the CEO chat panel.
2. Type what you want, naming him if you know it's a build:
   - "Have Dev build a quick prototype of X."
   - "Dev, add Stripe to our signup flow."
   - "Fix this bug — Dev."
   - "I want a landing page that does Y."
3. Or just describe what you wish existed ("I wish we had a tool that does X") — Astra brings him in.
4. Open his Task Card to see what was built, where it lives, and how to test it.

**What Dev owns**

- Web apps, internal tools, scripts.
- API integrations and connectors.
- Bug fixes on existing code.
- Deploys to your hosting.
- Working code, deployed live, with a test URL on the card.

**How the team coordinates around this**

If the build needs copy (landing page text, email templates), Casey appears in the same Task Card thread. If it needs a design polish pass, Astra queues a design review on the card.