Start with a clear decision.
Agree the outcome, constraints and acceptance evidence. Record the architecture choices and the assumptions that need to be tested.
How we work
Forward-deployed.
Inside your team.
A forward-deployed team works in your repositories, your tickets and your release process. Architecture decisions, working software and release evidence stay visible from the first increment through launch, and we can stay on to run it.
Engineering, delivery & handoff
Define the outcome. Build it. Make it maintainable.
Review working software.
Build in bounded increments. Inspect behavior, design and failure cases, with progress and open risks visible throughout the work.
Make the system operable.
Deliver the code, checks, decisions and operating guidance, rehearsed with your team, or keep us on a monthly retainer to run it.
Scope, milestones, access and acceptance criteria are agreed before work starts.
How we work
Clear ownership.
A deliberate handoff.
We design, build and verify the system against agreed outcomes. Your team inherits the working software, the evidence behind it and the guidance to keep changing it, or keeps us on to run it.
Harness engineering gives agents the repository context, bounded tools and feedback to implement useful changes. Engineers own the architecture, acceptance and release decisions.
- Define what working means
Agree the scope, owners, acceptance evidence and constraints.
- Build in reviewable increments
Prepare the repository. Delegate bounded implementation. Inspect the change, its evidence and its unresolved risks.
- Verify the release
Test the agreed eval, permission, observability and recovery gates against the candidate being released.
- Transfer operational ownership
Client-approved personnel, least-privilege access, project guidance, checks, runbooks and a demonstrated handoff.
How we build
Agents implement.
Engineers own the result.
Harness engineering is how we prepare the context, tools, permissions and feedback around an agent. The delivery workflow adds architecture decisions, review and release ownership.
Every change runs through these gates. Your team receives the project guidance, checks and operating workflows alongside the software, so the speed carries over to your own engineers.
Explore the engineering methodThe software construction loop
01 / A bounded task
Define the outcome, acceptance criteria and exclusions. Prepare the repository context and allowed tools.
A client-approved handoff
Demonstrate. Work together. Transfer ownership.
Handoff is planned from the start. Your team receives the code, decisions and operating guidance needed to keep the system running and make the next change.
System access follows agreed confidentiality, security and approval requirements, with auditable least-privilege access.
- Demonstrate
- The current owner explains the system and shows the operational tasks. Everyone attending is introduced and authorized.
- Work together
- The incoming owner performs the tasks with support. Capture gaps in the runbooks, access and decision records.
- Transfer
- The receiving team demonstrates the agreed tasks. Confirm acceptance, escalation paths and remaining support; remove access that is no longer needed.
The working rhythm
Progress you can inspect.
Reviewable increments
Two-week increments with working software or agreed evidence, and dependencies and research work in plain view.
Written decisions
A weekly status and decision log: progress, risks, tradeoffs and the decisions needed from your team.
Operational handover
Runbooks, evaluation coverage, dashboards, access ownership and a rehearsed transfer, plus the repository guidance, verification commands and delivery workflows behind them.
A sample decision record
A decision, with its evidence and owner.
A sample entry built from our customer-export worked example: what was decided, why, the evidence behind it and what happens next.
Inspect the worked exampleDecision record · synthetic example
Customer export: tenant boundary and output limits
Accepted
- Context
- Administrators need a CSV export of active customers. An export that crosses a tenant boundary, or fails halfway, is a data incident.
- Decision
- Check the administrator role and export permission before reading. Return active customers from the caller’s tenant only, with three fixed fields. Refuse the whole download past 1,000 rows or 1,048,576 bytes.
- Evidence
- 24 tests passed: 6 existing-list and 18 export tests. A deliberately unscoped version returned another tenant’s row, and the exact-membership check caught it.
- Tradeoff
- Query parameters are refused with HTTP 400, and identity headers sent by the client are ignored in favor of the session, so a caller cannot widen the export by editing the request.
- Next
- Verify integration with the identity system and tenant model, then agree rollout, monitoring and owners.
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