How we work
Everything we do is a plan you can run again.
We work through the engine rather than by hand. A job becomes a plan — a sequence of operations the engine carries out across the codebase — and that plan is what you get.
We aim for robustness
A plan holds its value after we leave.
The same result every run
A plan is a fixed sequence, and each operation works out its edits from the codebase in front of it. The same plan on the same code produces the same edits.
Readable before it runs
Every operation in a plan can be run as a question first, returning exactly what it would change. Nothing has to be taken on trust.
It keeps working as the code changes
Operations resolve against the code they find rather than against text or line numbers, so a plan keeps working as the codebase moves underneath it. Where what an operation targets is no longer there, it reports that rather than guessing.
Custom work where needed
We write new operations against the same engine.
Codebases have their own conventions, their own frameworks and their own history. Where the existing operations do not cover something yours does, we build the ones that do, and they behave like the rest: resolved against the code, checkable before they run, repeatable afterwards.
Getting to a plan
Priorities first, then measurement.
We start with a conversation about what is blocked and what you want to move first. Measurement follows, because what a piece of work costs depends on how tangled the code behind it turns out to be. Scope is fixed from those numbers rather than from an estimate.
What suits you
Three ways to work with us.
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