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Service 03 of 06

AI-powered development

The code arrives faster than anyone can check it.

Asked by: Whoever is accountable for what reaches main
What we hear

“Review is now our slowest step.”

What it becomes

Evaluation built from real cases, merge gates that hold under volume, a test suite that grows faster than the output, and a codebase somebody still understands.

What keeping up with your own output involves

When generation speeds up and reviewing, integrating and operating do not, the queue moves rather than clears: more branches, a main branch that is no faster, and a growing pile of code that works and that nobody can account for. The answer is a checking half that grows as fast.

  1. 01Evaluation built from real cases, not invented ones, so there is something to fail against before review becomes the only gate.
  2. 02Verification in CI that scales with volume: tests, static and architectural checks, plus the ones your failure modes need.
  3. 03The merge gate stays exactly where it was. Review does not get looser because the author was a machine.
  4. 04An audit trail on every suggestion that reached the codebase.
  5. 05Somebody owns it afterwards: a team that can say what a change does and why, without us.
What you end up with
  • Evaluation & merge gatesWhat has to be true before a change can reach main, written down and enforced rather than assumed.
  • Verification in CIThe checking half of delivery, wired into the pipeline your engineers already push to, growing as fast as the output does.
  • A codebase somebody ownsYour engineers running it without us, and a written account of what to do the day it is confidently wrong.

The bottleneck was never typing. It is now deciding what is safe to merge.

Which is why the checking half has to grow as fast as the generating half. See our recent work
How an engagement usually runs
Week 1

Watch

Where the time actually goes, measured by sitting with engineers rather than by asking them.

Week 2

Baseline

Cycle time, review latency, rework after merge, and how much reaches main. Recorded first, or the result is an opinion.

Weeks 3–6

Wire it in

Evaluation from real cases, verification in CI, an audit trail on every suggestion, and the review path untouched.

Weeks 7–8

Hand over

Your team runs it. We write down what to do on the day it is confidently wrong.

Not ready for all of it? The same people will spend two days on one piece first, and you can stop there. Start a 48-hour sprint

What we need from you
  • A repository we can readHistory included. Comprehension is what is being accelerated, and history is where it lives: the reverts, the hotfixes, the guard nobody removes.
  • Two or three engineers who will use it dailyNot a champion who demos it. The people who will hit the annoying parts in week two and say so, which is the only useful feedback.
  • Your current numbersCycle time, review latency, rework. If they do not exist we measure them first; without a baseline the result is only an opinion.
  • A position on what may be generatedTests, migrations, production code. Someone senior holds that line, and it wants writing down before the first suggestion lands.
Questions we get asked
What is AI-powered development?

Building the half of delivery that decides what is safe to merge and safe to ship: evaluation from real cases, verification in CI, and a review path that holds under volume. Agents in the loop on the generating side too, with your repository and its history as context.

Is this just buying an AI coding assistant for everyone?

No. And if that is all you need, we will say so on the first call rather than sell you eight weeks. The work here is the repository context, the review path and the measurement around them.

Does this replace engineers?

It has not in any engagement we have run. It moves where their time goes: less reconstruction of how things work, more judgement about what to change. That is exactly why comprehension is the thing we measure.

Will our code leave our environment?

That is a decision, not a default. If it cannot leave, the constraint shapes the toolchain from day one, which is a sovereign deployment question and gets answered first.

What about the code-quality argument?

It is a real argument, and it is the reason the merge gate does not move. We also measure rework after merge, because that is where quality problems actually surface rather than in review.

We build software for our customers, not for ourselves. Does this apply?

Yes. This is that work. Full-stack and SaaS delivery is where the company started; it now runs with agents in the loop. You can hire us to build the product, not only to change how you build it.

If the problem is somewhere else

This is about how you build your own software. If what you want is an AI capability inside the product your customers use, that is a different engagement. That is GenAI implementation.

Can we review as fast as we build?

Two days in your repository. Written up at the end.