How we ship production-grade apps with AI in weeks, not months

"Built with AI" usually means one of two things: a throwaway prototype, or a black box nobody can maintain. We build a third thing, production software, shipped fast, that a human team fully understands and owns.

AI drafts, humans decide

We treat AI like a fast, tireless junior engineer. It drafts code, tests, and migrations at a pace no human can match. But every line crosses a human review gate before it reaches main. The model proposes; we dispose.

That split is the whole trick. Speed comes from the draft. Durability comes from the gate.

The build loop

Every feature moves through the same loop:

1. Spec, we write the behaviour and the acceptance criteria first, in plain language.
2. Draft. AI implements against the spec, with tests written alongside.
3. Review, an engineer reads every diff for correctness, security, and fit.
4. Verify, we run the app and watch the real behaviour, not just green checkmarks.

AI writes most of the code. A human reviews every change and owns what ships, that's the line we don't cross.

Quality gates that don't move

Some things are never up for negotiation, no matter the deadline:

• Type safety end to end, no any smuggled in to silence a compiler.
• Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA, checked on real assistive tech.
• A security pass on every change that touches data or auth.
• Performance budgets enforced in CI, not hoped for.

// A gate is just a promise we keep in code.
export function assertNoSecrets(env: Record<string, string>) {
  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(env)) {
    if (/(key|secret|token)/i.test(key) && value.length < 12) {
      throw new Error(`Suspiciously short secret: ${key}`);
    }
  }
}

Fast and built to last

The two aren't in tension when the system is right. AI removes the drudgery; humans keep the judgment. You get an app in weeks that still makes sense in years, that's the whole point of the studio.