Product · Shipwright
Autonomous programming,
installed.
A customizable agent system that ships code alongside your team. Dan and Dave handle the infra agents can't — cloud deploy, secrets, scaling, optimization. Your engineers queue tasks like they queue PRs.
The Product
Customizable agents.
Your environment.
Most AI coding offerings are one of two things: a managed service that ships outcomes from somewhere else, or a tool that sits on an engineer's laptop. Shipwright is neither. It's a system you install in your own environment, configured to your codebase, your conventions, and your guardrails — and your engineers drive it from inside their normal workflow.
It's the same system we use to ship production work across our own client engagements in parallel. Every ticket that gets queued, every PR that lands, every guardrail that fires — it all flows through the product. We shipped it because running AI coding at enterprise quality required infrastructure we couldn't find anywhere else. Now we install it for you.
How it works
Install. Co-operate.
Hand off.
Three phases, total: about 8–10 weeks from kickoff to your team running the system without us in the loop.
Install
~2 weeks
We set up Shipwright in your environment. Integrate with your repos, CI, code review, and secrets. Configure guardrails and conventions. Ship a first production PR through the system before we leave the week.
Co-operate
~4–6 weeks
Your engineers queue tasks, review the agents' PRs, and tune the guardrails. We're in the loop — pairing on tricky tickets, refining context, and turning one-off fixes into repeatable patterns. No curriculum. No 1:1s. Just the work.
Hand off
~2 weeks
Ownership transfers to your team. We stay reachable for tuning and new use cases, but you're driving the system day-to-day. No ongoing dependency on us to keep shipping.
The bundle
Agents ship the 90%.
We handle the last 10%.
Autonomous programming is great at the 85–95% of engineering work that fits inside a codebase — features, refactors, tests, patches. It's not great at the last 5–15% that sits outside. That's where Shipwright engagements include us directly.
When the agents can't reach what needs doing, Dan or Dave pick it up. The engagement keeps moving. The expertise is part of the product, not a separate invoice:
That's why the bundle is inseparable. Shipwright isn't sold without the two of us, and the two of us don't install without the system — because the work each of us does only makes sense together.
How we're different
Not a managed service.
Not a code generator.
Customizable, not managed
Managed-agent services rent you outcomes from somewhere else. Shipwright runs in your environment, configured to your conventions, with guardrails you control. You own the system. You own the output.
Production, not prototype
Vibe-coding shops ship prototypes. Shipwright ships production — with the same review, testing, and CI guardrails your engineers already use. Same bar for agent code as human code. No shortcuts.
Two operators, not a team
You don't need a vendor army rolling out curriculum and running change-management sessions. You need the two engineers who built this to land it with you — and then get out of the way.
Proof · 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 to install autonomous programming early, work directly with Dan and Dave, and help shape the product as it matures.
Design partners get a reduced-rate pilot, weekly working sessions with the founders, and direct influence on the roadmap. In exchange, we ask for real engagement, honest feedback, and permission to share results — even when we anonymize the specifics.
If your engineering org has a real problem autonomous programming could solve, and you want to be part of how this product gets built, we'd like to talk.
What a pilot looks like
- — 8–10 weeks, install to hand-off
- — Weekly working sessions with Dan and Dave
- — Reduced-rate pilot pricing, shaped to scope
- — Direct influence on the product roadmap
Install the agents.
Ship 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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