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Practice 01 — AI-native engineering

Rebuild how software gets made — around agents.

Giving engineers a coding assistant is the easy part. We redesign the codebase, the workflow and the review process so agents can do real work safely — and your team ships more of what matters.

The problem

Most teams bolt AI onto a process designed for humans typing every line — and get faster typing, not faster delivery.

The shift

AI-native teams write specs, context and tests first. Agents produce the code; engineers design, review and own it.

What we put in place

/repo

Agent-ready codebases

Context files, module boundaries, fast deterministic tests and scripts an agent can run end to end without guessing.

/specs

Spec-driven development

Work starts as a reviewable spec with acceptance criteria — the contract both humans and agents build against.

/review

Review pipelines that scale

Automated first-pass review, risk-tiered approvals and clear ownership, so more output doesn't mean more bugs.

/ci

CI with eval gates

Any change that touches a prompt, model or agent runs its eval suite before merge, just like unit tests.

/agents

Background & parallel agents

Safe sandboxes, permissions and task queues so agents can run long jobs while engineers keep their focus.

/team

Team enablement

Pairing, workshops and new rituals — planning, estimation and code review rewritten for an agent-assisted team.

The AI-native loop

Humans decide. Agents execute. Tests arbitrate.

Every change moves through the same loop, whether a person or an agent wrote it.

  1. 01Spec & acceptance criteriahuman
  2. 02Plan & implementagent
  3. 03Tests & evalsCI
  4. 04Review & mergehuman
  5. 05Observe in productiontelemetry

Typical engagement

We start with one team and one codebase, prove the model, then scale it across the organization with your engineers leading.

DURATION
[WEEKS]
TEAM
[FRONTIER ENGINEERING ENGINEERS]
YOU GET
Agent-ready repo, eval-gated CI, team playbook
INVESTMENT
[YOUR PRICE]

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