# Tom Krcha (slim)

> Tom Krcha is founder and CEO. pen.dev on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CEO.

Tom Krcha is founder and CEO of Pen.dev, which builds Pencil, an agent-driven design canvas that works inside code editors such as Cursor and Claude Code.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkrcha
- X: https://x.com/tomkrcha

## What Tom builds

- [pen.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pen-dev.md), graded D, 47.8/100, in Design workspaces & canvases. Design canvas from High Agency, Inc. that stores designs as JSON `.pen` files. Agents edit them through a local MCP server in the desktop app or IDE extension, or through a headless CLI. It was called Pencil until 2026. Founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Backed by

- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)

## Questions

### Who is Tom Krcha?

Tom Krcha is founder and CEO of Pen.dev, which builds Pencil, an agent-driven design canvas that works inside code editors such as Cursor and Claude Code.

### What does High Agency, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists pen.dev from High Agency, Inc..

### Who has invested in High Agency, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz.

### How are Tom's tools graded?

pen.dev is graded D, 47.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://speedrun.a16z.com/companies/pendev
- https://pen.dev
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkrcha
- https://x.com/tomkrcha
- https://www.pen.dev/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/pendev
- https://docs.pen.dev/troubleshooting
- https://www.pen.dev/terms-of-use

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.