A product development methodology built around AI-assisted engineering that reduced cost and time to market by more than 90%.
Consulting firms build a lot of small, client-specific software, and most of it is expensive relative to its lifespan. AI-assisted development changed that equation, but only with discipline around what the tools were allowed to do. [verify: what was being built, e.g. client accelerators or internal products]
We defined the method before the tooling: where AI drafts, where humans decide, what gets reviewed, and what evidence a change needs before it ships.
Security and quality gates stayed non-negotiable. Speed came from removing waiting, not from removing checks.
The same practices now run Cinch, where they are documented in ADRs and enforced by the release gate.
Independent · 2025 to present
A multi-tenant Slack alternative in production at cinchme.app, with tenant isolation proven in the database, a browser suite run against the production image, and a release gate that refuses to promote traffic without evidence.
North Highland · 2014 to 2026
A full-scale cloud migration that cut total cost of ownership by 30% and replaced a 48-hour recovery objective with a 4-hour one.