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.