Two things matter most this week: the OS home screen is now a command line to Cloudia, and your first message after signup no longer stalls while hire duties finish wiring up in the background.
The home screen is now a command line to Cloudia
Before this week, opening CloudAxis landed you on a busier home — greeting, quick-action tiles, notification summaries, and a path into Chat if you knew where to tap. Fine on desktop. On a phone between client calls, it was one extra decision: home or Chat? That friction adds up when you just want to say "check my competitors" and move on.
We replaced that layout with a calm home: pitch-black background, your name in the greeting, a single headline — "Your computer is ready" — and a glass command bar with the Cloudia orb above it. Type in the bar or tap a starter suggestion like "Summarize my competitors" or "Automate a browser workflow." Hit Enter. You land in Chat with Cloudia already working on your prompt. The bar always talks to Cloudia — opening Files, Browser, or Agents still happens through the dock, Launchpad, or Spotlight-style app suggestions when you type an app name.
Why this matters in the context of how CloudAxis works: CloudAxis is an agent OS, not a chat app with extras. Home should feel like waking a computer that is already running your team — not like opening a settings page. Cloudia is the builder who hires specialists and schedules duties; putting her one keystroke from home matches how founders actually use the product. Describe the outcome once; she wires Research, Browser, and handoff paths while you check email. We wrote about that no-code loop in our Cloudia builder guide.
On mobile, the bar is narrower, the orb uses a lighter animation, and starter suggestions appear in a touch-friendly sheet when you focus the field. Tap the orb itself to open Cloudia chat without typing. Desktop keeps an Enter hint on the right of the bar. Reduced-motion users skip the entrance animation entirely.
What comes next: we are watching how often home-bar sends become first hires versus follow-up steering. If you use home for something other than Cloudia, tell us — the dock and Launchpad are still the right home for app-hopping.
Also shipped
Smaller changes that landed in the same window:
- First Cloudia message no longer waits on hire duties. After signup, pressing Enter on your first prompt could hang while OpenClaw finished creating default specialist duties in the background. Chat now sends immediately if Cloudia already exists — hire wiring continues without blocking you.
- cloudaxis.ai homepage matches the prompt-first story. The marketing home now leads with the Cloudia orb and a rotating message bar — the same "describe your outcome" posture as the app. Suggestions cycle on their own so returning visitors see different starter prompts.
- Mobile landing craft on cloudaxis.ai. Phone visitors get a calmer scroll — sticky CTAs only after the hero, tighter type rhythm, and a fuller mobile story for the installable PWA. Add to Home Screen on iPhone or iPad is spelled out honestly: Safari once, then manage your agents like an app. See our iPhone agent guide for the install path.
- PWA positioning for iPhone and iPad. Homepage and press copy now lead with installable PWA language — not App Store fiction. Your agents run on the cloud computer; the phone is the remote.
What's next
We are measuring home-bar → first specialist hire conversion this week. If your first prompt from home should open a specific app instead of Cloudia, we want to hear which workflow — the bar is intentionally Cloudia-first for now.
Frequently asked questions
Does the home bar replace Spotlight?
No. Cmd/Ctrl+K Spotlight still jumps to agents, files, and settings. The home bar is the fastest path to Cloudia — type an app name in the bar and matching apps appear as suggestions you can open directly.
Did Chat move?
Chat is still in the dock. Home just removes the extra tap when your intent is "tell Cloudia what to do."
No-code agent builder (Cloudia) · Hiring specialist agents · AI agents on iPhone (PWA install)