We're building something for the problem that causes everything else to fail.
AI changed how software gets written. It hasn't changed how often teams end up building the wrong thing. We think we know why — and what to do about it.
The industry has built AI tools for many parts of software delivery. The part that drives the most expensive failures has been left largely untouched. That gap is real — and it compounds.
AI tools have made parts of the development process measurably faster. The rate at which teams complete work that then has to be redone has not moved in the same direction. Something is unchanged — and it is costing organisations more than it used to.
The rebuild is rarely caused by bad engineering. Teams that rebuild work typically built it correctly — they built the wrong thing. The cause of that lives somewhere before the engineering begins, and it has not changed despite every improvement in tooling.
Delivery overruns have been a persistent feature for decades. AI tools have changed the speed of individual stages but have not changed the underlying pattern. The problem was never in those stages. It has always been somewhere else — and that somewhere else remains unsolved.
There is a part of software delivery that AI tools have moved past, not through. The failure pattern that causes the most expensive rework has not been addressed. That is where we are focused.
We started from first principles. We asked why the pattern of failure in software delivery has remained so consistent — despite better tools at almost every stage.
The answer is in a part of the process that most tools treat as already solved. We don't think it is solved. We've been working on it for a while.
We're not ready to describe what we're building yet. But we believe it addresses the root of the problem — not another symptom downstream from it. When we're ready, you will hear about it here.
We've built something and we're now running a private beta with a small number of enterprise teams. We're not looking for volume — we're looking for teams who recognise the problem and want to help shape the solution. If what you've read here resonates, we'd like to hear from you.
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