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AI made code cheap.
Judgment is still scarce.
A model can write working code in minutes. Deciding what to build, how it should fit, and whether it’s safe to ship still takes experience. Here’s how the options compare.
Architecture
Human judgment
AI-generated recommendations
Senior engineer
Code execution
Human developers
AI
AI
Technical sign-off
Team-dependent
Self-assessed
Senior engineer
Testing
Human + automated
AI-generated
Automated + reviewed
Production approval
Human process
User-managed
Senior review + client approval
We don’t use expensive human time for work machines can do.
We use it where getting something wrong gets expensive.
A CTO when you need one.
A team when you need things built.
You focus on your product and your business. We handle the engineering decisions, execution, and technical oversight.
01
Talk to your CTO
On Active, meet weekly with a senior technical leader to discuss product priorities, architecture, UX/UI, technical decisions, and whatever is blocking progress.
You get experienced technical advice from someone who understands your product.
02
Tell us what you need
Add requests to your ticket queue in plain language.
We help turn them into clear specifications and approved technical plans. No statements of work or change-order negotiations for every feature.
03
We handle the engineering
Senior engineers make the technical decisions. AI handles execution.
Every completed change is tested, demonstrated, and reviewed before you decide whether it ships.
Four stages.
Two human gates.
You decide what your product needs. We make the engineering decisions, handle execution, and give you working software to approve.
ST-01
Define the work
Describe the outcome you want. We help shape it into a clear feature specification.
Input
Your idea
Output
Approved feature spec
Owner
You
02 · Engineering gate
Approve the engineering
A senior engineer reviews and signs off on the technical plan before implementation begins.
Input
Feature spec
Output
Signed technical PRD
Gate
Senior sign-off
ST-03
Build and demonstrate
AI executes the work, runs tests, prepares working staging, and records proof of work.
Input
Signed PRD
Output
Staging + proof video
Owner
The factory
04 · Engineering gate
Review and ship
A senior engineer reviews the implementation. You approve the release. We handle deployment.
Input
Staging + proof
Output
Verdict, then release
Gate
Review + your approval
Two engineering gates: technical sign-off before execution, senior review before release. Customer approval is always a separate requirement.
Every change follows an approved technical plan, passes automated checks, and receives senior engineering review before reaching production.
01
Feature specification
What it does, in plain words. Approved by you.
01
02
Technical plan + senior sign-off
Engineering decisions are approved before execution.
02
03
AI execution + automated testing
The approved plan is implemented and checked.
04
Working staging environment
Its own live environment you can click through.
03
05
Agent-recorded proof-of-work video
The agent records the change working.
04
06
Senior technical review
Implementation, tests, compatibility, security review, and release readiness.
05
07
Customer approval
You test the change and explicitly decide whether it ships.
08
Deployment + health checks
Automaze deploys the approved release and checks production health.
Every ticket ends with something you can see.
Don’t approve a status update. Approve working software.
Every completed ticket includes a working staging environment, a short video demonstrating the change, and a written technical review.
Test it yourself. See what changed. Decide when it ships.
Staging
App
API
DB
FIG. 05A
Working staging environment
A live version of the completed change that you can test.
Proof of work
AMZ-142 · 01:24
FIG. 05B
Proof-of-work video
An agent-recorded demonstration showing the implemented change working.
Verdict
Example review · AMZ-142
Tests passed
Security review passed
Matches signed spec
Approved
FIG. 05C
Senior review verdict
A written technical assessment covering tests, compatibility, security review, and release readiness.
Engineering doesn’t stop
when you ship.
Your product doesn’t stop needing engineering because you stopped building features.
Ladybug watches production for recurring failures and edge cases. It groups duplicate errors, identifies problems that keep happening, investigates qualifying issues, and attempts to prepare fixes for senior review.
Instead of discovering a problem and finding someone to investigate it, you may already have a proposed fix waiting.
01
Detect
Production error
Ladybug watches supported production errors.
02
Filter
Recurring issue
Duplicate errors are grouped; recurring, qualifying issues move to investigation.
03
Investigate
Investigation
Qualifying issues are investigated in the context of your product.
04
Prepare
Proposed fix
Where possible, Ladybug prepares a fix with tests and proof for review.
05
Govern
PR ready for review
Fixes require senior review and customer approval before deployment.
Illustrative example · Ladybug
Checkout times out on Safari
Recurring · grouped from repeated events
Root cause found
Fix PR prepared
Staging + proof ready
Waiting for review
By the time you know there’s a problem, the fix may already be waiting for review.
Included in Active and Steady. Proposed fixes follow normal review and approval. No guaranteed automatic remediation or 24/7 human incident response.
No scope of work.
The queue is the scope.
No statements of work for every feature. No change-order negotiations. Tell us what you need, and we’ll move it through the engineering system.
Your queue is your roadmap. Your monthly plan is your engineering capacity.
Getting started
Every engagement begins with Factory Readiness: preparing your codebase, tests, deployment pipeline, staging environments, and monitoring for the Automaze operating model.
Onboarding is scoped and priced separately. For an existing product in reasonable shape, it typically starts at $5,000. More complex systems and new-product foundations require a larger engagement.
Your monthly plan starts only when your product is factory-ready.
Want us to run the whole thing?
Need someone to drive delivery, manage priorities, coordinate design, and keep development moving without you managing the queue?
Our full-service CTO and development engagements include dedicated development capacity, product management, and delivery ownership.
From $12,500/month
Questions, answered.
The practical details of working with Automaze Works.
N.01
Is this just AI-generated code?
N.02
Do I need to manage the AI?
N.03
What happens if something breaks in production?
N.04
Who owns the code and infrastructure?
N.05
What does onboarding involve?
N.06
What counts as a ticket?
N.07
Can I use Automaze without weekly meetings?
N.08
What if I need more development capacity?
N.09
Can you take over an existing codebase?
N.10
Why not just hire a developer or use Claude Code?