The pipeline used to start at the architect, so the first decision you approved was HOW to build. But the most expensive mistakes are made before that — in WHAT to build. So we added a product-owner agent that frames the problem, runs a 4-model idea debate, and hands the architect a validated brief. The gate moved to it.
Approve a gate → an agent spawns and streams live. Plus: a self-improvement loop with anti-overfit gating, $0 context compression, scope-pinned task briefs, and Fable 5 support.
Durable runs, an inbox for licensed humans, a signature ceremony for irreversible writes, and an Ops tab with a dead-letter queue. WCAG 2.2 AA, axe-core: 0 violations.
From 6 to 25 verticals in one week — each runs on live connectors, and the runtime physically refuses to fire an irreversible action without a human signature.
A discovery pipeline, a quota-warning hook, a digital-health pack — and a no-drama model upgrade.
–87.7% tokens per pipeline run. Not by squeezing — by splitting.
One install, everything works. Companion plugins, jurisdiction-aware agents, 16 new board features.
Added email alerts and browser push to the board. Because 'check the terminal every 5 minutes' is not a workflow.
Per-feature, per-MVP, per-quarter numbers. Hardware ratios, runway math, and the honest places where the savings stop.
Startups have often reached out to me with the same problem: their team could ship a regulated feature in days, but the compliance setup around it took weeks and tens of thousands of dollars.
47 paired P0 incidents across 12 repositories. 4 honest misses. Full methodology + how to replicate the measurement in your own repo.
Not a complaint about lawyers. A breakdown of where the six weeks actually go, and which parts of it are mechanical.
Regex vs LLM-based archetype detection, the false-positive count, and why I keep rejecting the obvious fix.
The bottleneck in agentic SDLC isn't model quality — it's process governance. Here's the state machine that closes the gap.
Eight stages, two human gates, four memory layers. Why this exact shape, and what I tried that didn't work.
One run, one feature, from prompt to merged PR. Time, cost, and gate-by-gate breakdown — no marketing math.