Tooling built for a multi-company workload
Most of what Sivario Buchanan ships publicly is client-facing: BuildsByBuchanan's web applications, Appxcel's consumer apps, Kittine's compiler. Layla IDE is the opposite — an internal tool, built to make the person running multiple companies at once faster at the actual work. It's an Electron desktop application (React and TypeScript via electron-vite), and as of today it's genuinely private: no public build, no download link, no marketing push. It exists because the workflow it replaces was slower than it needed to be.
A four-pane workspace, not a code editor
Layla IDE's layout is deliberate: a file explorer with live git status on the left, a read-only code viewer in the center (images and HTML get a live preview — there's no code-editing surface anywhere, by design), a console at the bottom that parses AI activity into a readable feed alongside real shell tabs, and an AI panel on the right. That right-hand panel is the core idea — it toggles between genuine Claude Code terminal sessions (running over node-pty, rendered with @xterm/xterm) and embedded, persistently-logged-in Gemini, ChatGPT, and Kimi web sessions, each in its own storage partition, all on free tiers with no API keys required.
Bridging a web AI's answer into a real file
One specific workflow shaped a lot of the design: getting an answer out of a web-based AI assistant and into an actual project file, without retyping or losing formatting. A "Send to Claude" compose modal handles it — paste or trim content, add a comment, preview HTML live with an "open in browser" option, and save it straight into the open project folder so Claude Code is pointed at a real file instead of a wall of pasted text.
Visual identity, on purpose
The interface is a flat, sharp-cornered look modelled on tiling window managers — Arch Linux blue as the accent color, monospace chrome text throughout. It's deliberately not styled to resemble Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Kimi's own branding, even though it embeds all of them.
Why it's worth mentioning at all
Layla IDE isn't a product BuildsByBuchanan or Appxcel sells. It's included here because it's an honest example of range: the same person who architects client web applications and ships his own consumer apps also builds his own developer tooling when the existing options don't fit how he actually works across multiple companies at once.