Practitioners, not AI influencers.
We are comfortable with skeptical senior teams, complex systems, and the gap between AI hype and production reality.
The work has changed shape
Agents can write the code. That was never the hard part.
The hard part is everything around it: a codebase with domain rules and customer exceptions, tests you don’t fully trust, architecture in motion, and a delivery system that now has to absorb far more change than it was built for. Teams that point agents at that reality without changing how they work get plausible output and a review queue nobody can keep up with.
A software factory is what you build instead — the harness, the constraints, the review lenses and the feedback loops that make agent-driven work safe to ship.
What we stand for
The practices that make this work are old ones: making intent explicit, keeping the loop tight, validating before you trust, teaching each other what you learn. Agents raise the stakes on all four. So we care less about which model you use than about whether your team has a shared way of working that gets better every week.
Who we are
Between us we have decades of experience in production software, BDD, testing, DevOps, SRE, release engineering, modernization, coaching, and agentic software delivery.
- Matt Wynne co-founded Cucumber and co-authored The Cucumber Book.
- Aldric Giacomoni has been building software through agents since 2023 and authored Stone, an agentic harness framework.
- David Laing brings deep DevOps, SRE, and release engineering experience from Pivotal, VMware, Shopify, and Mechanical Orchard.
- Zach Marcin has designed and taught agentic training for high-quality modernization work.
- Jeremy Lightsmith has 25 years in tech and spent three years at Mechanical Orchard helping teams use LLMs to modernize mainframes for Fortune 500 clients.