AI tools are fast.
Your pipeline isn't.
Autonomous programming, installed.
Managed-agent services rent you outcomes. Vibe-coding shops ship prototypes. Shipwright is a customizable agent system plus two senior engineers who handle the infrastructure the agents can't — cloud deploy, secrets, scaling, optimization. One bundle, one offer.
40+ years combined engineering leadership
The problem
Everyone's adopting AI.
Almost nobody's getting faster.
Code generation is solved. Everything around it — build, test, CI, deploy, review — still moves at human speed. Most AI rollouts just move the bottleneck downstream. Autonomous programming that ships in production has to handle the whole flow.
Where the bottleneck actually moves
AFTER AI TOOL ROLLOUT
WITH VITALS AGENTS INSTALLED
Install, don't transform
No curriculum, no 1:1s, no culture-change theater. Your engineers keep working. Our agents start shipping alongside them — in your environment, in your codebase — on day one.
Customizable, not managed
Managed agents rent you outcomes. Shipwright runs in your environment, configured to your codebase, your conventions, your guardrails. You control it. You own it. It moves with your org.
The last 10%, included
Agents handle 90% of the work. The last 10% — cloud deploy, secret management, DB optimization, scaling, performance — takes senior engineers. Dan and Dave. Included in the engagement, not a separate line item.
The difference
Not a managed service.
Not a code generator.
The market has two options today. Both leave something critical on the table. Here's what the picture actually looks like — and where we fit.
Managed Agents
You don't own the system. You rent outcomes from someone else's infrastructure.
- ✕ Black-box config
- ✕ Your code flows through their system
- ✕ Ongoing vendor dependency
Vibe-Coding Shops
Ship prototypes fast. Skip the guardrails production actually needs.
- ✕ No testing or review discipline
- ✕ Can't touch regulated codebases
- ✕ Doesn't survive code review
Shipwright
A system you install, run, and eventually own — with the operators who built it.
- ✓ Runs in your environment, your guardrails
- ✓ Same bar as human code — review, tests, CI
- ✓ Your team owns it when we leave
The proof
This is what the agents do.
Every sprint, in our own shop.
PRs in 2 weeks
Authored by humans
Autonomous execution
These numbers aren't aspirational — they're what our own team produces, every sprint, using the system we install at clients. We built Shipwright because running autonomous coding at enterprise quality required infrastructure we couldn't find anywhere else. Architecture, CI/CD, observability, testing, guardrails. Now we install it for you.
Read how we got hereHow it works
Install. Co-operate.
Hand off.
8–10 weeks, end to end. No open-ended transformations, no curriculum-building, no adoption phase where nobody shows up. Install the system. Ship with it. Own it.
Install
~2 weeks
Set up Shipwright in your environment. Integrate with repos, CI, and review. Configure guardrails. Ship a first production PR through the system inside the first two weeks.
Co-operate
~4–6 weeks
Your engineers queue tasks, review the agents' PRs, and tune the guardrails. We pair on tricky tickets and turn one-off fixes into repeatable patterns in the system.
Hand off
~2 weeks
Ownership transfers. Your team runs the system day-to-day. We stay reachable for new use cases, but there's no ongoing dependency on us to keep shipping.
Start here · Design Partners
Early. Honest.
Room for a few more.
Shipwright is new. We're working with a small number of design partners — companies who want autonomous programming early, direct access to the founders, and a seat at the table as the product matures.
Design partners get
- — Reduced-rate pilot
- — Weekly sessions with Dan and Dave
- — Direct influence on the roadmap
In exchange
- — Real engagement from your team
- — Honest feedback as we iterate
- — Permission to share results (anonymized where needed)
Room for a few more. If your engineering org has a real problem autonomous programming could solve, and you want to help shape the product, we'd like to talk.
Faster shipping velocity
Install to hand-off
Quality compromised
If you speed up code generation but your CI takes 45 minutes, you didn't get faster. You just moved the bottleneck.
The velocity engineering thesis — why we built the product
Your engineers are ready.
So is the system that ships alongside them.
30 minutes with Dan and Dave. No pitch deck. We'll ask what you're trying to ship and tell you honestly whether Shipwright is the right shape.
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