Autonomous development loop

Autonomous software developmentFocus on what matters

Ship on time

Most teams bought Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and got a few faster developers. We install a full autonomous development loop that carries every ticket to a reviewed pull request inside your own pipeline. That is a change to the process, not to the editor.

Production-provenRuns on your stackYour team owns it
Illustrative
Story points shipped / sprint
More features, sooner
3.4×
by sprint 6
Current teamAutonomous loop
0100200STORY POINTSS1S2S3S4S5S6SPRINT
Cost per story point
Salaries + tokens, per point shipped
−66%
by sprint 6
00.51.0$K / POINTS1S2S3S4S5S6SPRINT
Bolt the loop onto the same team: agents carry whole tickets to reviewed pull requests. Spend rises a little on tokens, output rises far more, so every shipped point costs roughly a third of what it does today.
The shift

You bought an AI tool. The development process never changed.

A faster autocomplete makes a few developers quicker at typing. The software development pipeline itself, spec, review, tests, deploy and the waiting in between, works exactly as it did before. That is where the time goes.

The tool approach

AI in the editor

A few developers type faster.
Review, tests, and handoffs unchanged.
Cycle time barely moves. ~10% faster.
The process approach

Agents in the pipeline

Agents carry whole tickets through the cycle.
Humans keep the judgment work: specs and review.
The whole cycle gets faster, from spec to deploy.
How the loop works

Think, act, check: an autonomous development loop at every stage.

Each agent runs the same loop of decide, act, read the result, repeat. The pipeline it plugs into changes with the work. Below, a feature and a bug go from ticket to merged pull request.

Think
plan next step
Act
call your tools
Check
read result
Ticket → merged & documented
01Quality CheckAgent
Verifies the ticket is actionable: acceptance criteria, affected components, edge cases. Gaps go back to the PM as specific questions in minutes.
02Test CaseAgent
Writes executable test cases straight from the ticket, before any code exists. QA later checks the change against a spec that never saw the implementation.
03PlanningAgent
Researches the codebase and produces an implementation plan: approach, files to change, risks, and test strategy.
04Plan ReviewHuman gate
A human approves the plan before any code is written, and only low-risk changes skip the gate. Reading a plan takes 5 minutes, and a wrong direction costs a comment instead of a rebuild.
05BuildAgent
Implements the approved plan, running tests in an isolated sandbox until they pass green.
06Code ReviewAgent
A separate agent with fresh context reviews the diff against your conventions and security checklists.
07QAAgent
Functional and browser tests in a real environment. Only high-confidence work moves forward.
08LearnAgent
Turns what just happened into durable rules and skill fixes. They go to a human as candidates, so the loop gets sharper with every ticket.
09PR StabilizeAgent
Rebase, conflict resolution, CI re-runs. The merge request stays merge ready.
10MergeHuman · always
A human reviews and merges. Always a human.
11DocsAuto
Changelog, runbooks, and API docs updated automatically after merge.
Agent works the stepHuman owns the stepGated, waits for approvalRuns automatically
The loop reports on itself

You see every run, priced to the line.

Agents that work unattended are only worth having if you can check them afterwards. Every ticket the loop touches lands here with its time, its tokens and its cost, so the question stops being “is this working?” and becomes “what does a shipped change cost us now?”

Loop dashboard overview: total cost of all runs, tickets, agent time, tokens, and the share of tickets that finished without a human

What the whole thing cost. Every attempt of every stage is accounted for. Cost comes from what the model provider meters, cache included, so it is not an estimate. Next to it sit the two numbers that decide whether the loop is working: how often it finishes on its own, and how often CI passes first try.

AI slop

AI writes the code. A developer prompts another AI to review it. Slop still reaches prod.

The review turns into prompt ping-pong. Someone types a prompt, waits, skims a wall of generic findings, pastes the useful ones back, waits again. The hours go into driving the tool, and the questions that need a human (does this solve the problem, what does it cost us in six months) never get asked.

Today · prompt ping-pong
Agent writes the codePR opensDev types a review promptWaitsSkims a wall of findingsPastes the real ones backWaits againApproves, tiredAI slop in prod

Every arrow is a person waiting on a chat window. Attention runs out long before the deep questions start, so the diff gets approved on vibes.

The loop · delegate the machine work, keep the judgment
Agent writes the codeReview cycle runs itself ↻Agent fixes what it findsClean PRExpert review

Anything a machine can check (the spec, the tests, your conventions, the obvious security holes) is handed to the machine completely, and the agent fixes what the review finds before a human is pulled in. Nobody types a review prompt. The pull request that lands on your desk has already been through a full review cycle.

Which leaves the reviewer the part only a human can do.

01

Does it actually solve the problem?

The reviewer reads the ticket and the diff together, instead of re-litigating naming and null checks a machine already caught.

02

What does it cost us in six months?

A duplicated path, a leaky abstraction, a shortcut that hardens into a house pattern. Tech debt is a judgment call, and judgment is the one thing you can’t delegate.

03

Where will this break?

Load, edge cases, the failure mode nobody wrote a test for. The real risk usually lives in the parts of the system that aren’t in the diff.

Built for control

You set the rules. The agent can’t step outside them.

Every action is gated, scoped to the launching engineer’s own permissions, and logged. You decide how much autonomy each class of action gets, and you raise it as the agent earns your trust.

Autonomy policy

live · try it

Set what each risk class is allowed to do on its own.

Readinspect code, logs, tickets
Writeedit code, open a PR
Deployship to an environment
policy →read runs on its own · write waits for human approval · deploy is blocked

Ready for regulated teams

Start fully supervised. Every change waits for human approval, and your team raises the autonomy per action class instead of all at once.

Runs with your permissions

An agent uses the launching engineer’s credentials and never more. If a human can’t touch it, neither can the agent.

Sandboxed · never prod funds

Agents work in isolated environments and open pull requests. They never reach money-moving or production-fund code.

Crash-safe & fully audited

Checkpointed runs never double-execute a write on retry. Every action is logged in a complete, audit-ready trail.

Compliance-readyYour cloud, your dataNo lock-in, you own itAudit-ready logs
Compliance

Compliant by design. Hosted on your servers.

Every system we ship is built to meet GDPR, CCPA, and the EU AI Act from day one. It runs in your own infrastructure, on your servers or in your cloud, so data never leaves your environment and compliance stays fully in your hands.

GDPR

GDPR

Your data never leaves your environment. Agents run on your servers, under your own access policies, and touch only what a ticket needs. Deletion and audit requests are simple to honor because every action sits in one log.

CCPA

CCPA

Consumer data stays where it already lives. The loop adds no new data brokers, no third-party processors, and no shadow copies, so the CCPA posture you have today carries over unchanged.

AI ActEU

EU AI Act

Human oversight is on by default. Every agent action is gated, logged, and reversible, and a human approves plans and merges. That maps directly to the transparency and oversight the AI Act asks for.

Self-hosted or your cloudData never leaves your environmentHuman oversight on every mergeOne audit-ready action log
Who’s building it

Two founders, in the room with you.

There are no account managers and no handoffs. The people who design the loop are the people who sit with your engineers.

Igors Abramovs
Igors Abramovs
Co-founder, Solution Architect
  • 9+ years building high-load systems
  • 3+ years as Tech Lead and Solution Architect on enterprise delivery
  • Builds autonomous AI agents, MCP servers and RAG pipelines with LangChain
  • Keeps improving autonomous loops so engineering tasks finish faster and cost less
Artyom Jurkevich
Artyom Jurkevich
Co-founder, Certified Agent Builder
  • 2x agency founder, built 100+ AI agents
  • Implemented context layers and second-brain structures in GTM systems
  • Delivered AI implementations for 80+ clients across 20 verticals
Straight answers

The objections you’re already thinking.

Agreed, which is why we never start there. The sprint runs on your bug flow, off the money path, in sandboxed environments. Agents open pull requests; they never touch payment, compliance, or production-fund code, and every action waits for human approval until you raise the autonomy yourself.

Good, keep them. Those are developer tools that speed up individual engineers. This is a process change: an autonomous development loop that carries whole tickets through code, tests, and review. The two work well together.

The loop is self-correcting: agents run your tests and fix until they pass, then a human reviews every PR before merge. Nothing ships on an agent’s say-so. The output goes through the same gates your engineers already trust.

They don’t. Everything runs on your stack, in your cloud, with the launching engineer’s own permissions. We’re tool-agnostic and integrate with what you run: Jira, GitLab or GitHub, your CI/CD, AWS, Temporal.

Your team could get there on its own. We already know which mistakes are expensive and how to keep token costs down from day one, so the engagement pays for itself and keeps paying after we leave.

You own everything: the loop, the config, the knowledge. The whole engagement is built around your engineers operating and extending it without us. There is no lock-in and no proprietary runtime to depend on. That is the deliverable.

Book a 30-minute process review.

No pitch. We look at your pipeline together and you leave with improvements.