Strategic Machines
Customer Zero: live in production

The AI Control Room for your website

You manage your website.AI delivers the outcome.

At your direction, AI Agents design, build, test, and deploy the work, and every change carries its proof from request to production. The first AI control room for your modern website.

One Control Room · Every change under your control

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Autonomy

AC2

Health

Nominal

Coverage

71%

Work in the ring

Package stays — prepaid cancellationgated
Itemized card charges in Stripeverifying
Dashboard balance paging fixshipped
Dependency + flaky-test sweepshipped
Guest activity logrunning

Latest evidence · dashboard balance paging fix

Suite passedInvariants heldReplay cleanPromoted

The shift

Software was never a factory.

A factory moves a part down a line, with hands at every station. Software never worked that way: it circles through build, test, refactor and ship. AI makes each turn faster than people can inspect. So stop inspecting parts and run the machine.

The software factory

Linear. Human hands at every station. Throughput limited by review.

  1. Ticket
  2. Developer
  3. Pull request
  4. Code review
  5. QA
  6. Deploy

The accelerator

A loop that gets faster each turn. Machines build, independent judges verify, and people steer from the control room.

INTENTBUILDVERIFYRELEASEOBSERVEThe Acceleratorevery turn adds velocity

Fit Scan · free

Is your site ready for an accelerator?

Paste a URL. In under a minute you get a Lighthouse-style report on stack fit, application depth, delivery pipeline and hygiene, plus the backlog we'd start with.

Customer Zero

Proven on a live resort, with real guests and real money.

Cypress Resort's booking, payments and ledger platform was built and is operated by the Accelerator. It covers reservations, taxes, refunds and guest credit, and reconciled years of history to the penny at cutover. The owner runs it from the control room: setting priorities, making the money decisions and challenging results. Nobody hand-writes the code.

When a production bug escapes, it comes back as a root cause, a regression test and a fix, with the evidence attached.

Read the Customer Zero story
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Automated tests guarding every change

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Commits authored by the Accelerator

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Weeks from first commit to live production

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API routes under custody

Measured from the Customer Zero repository.

Why not just use an AI model?

Claude is a brilliant contractor. The Accelerator is the team that remembers.

On its own, a model has no memory of your business, no hands on your accounts and no safety rails. Every client site gets its own crew of specialist agents and its own private Library, which grows smarter with every change.

MemoryForgets between sessions. You re-explain your business every time.Your Library: every decision, design, conversation and change, kept and organized.
HandsYou copy code, paste keys, run commands and deploy.Connected to GitHub, Vercel and your database through a secured Toolbelt.
SafetyEdits whatever it's pointed at, and grades its own work.Test data only, an independent judge, human gates, a preview before live, one-click undo.
TeamOne generalist.A crew of specialists tuned to your site: design, build, data, test, release.
Proof“Trust me, it works.”Evidence on every change: tests, screenshots and a full audit trail.
LearningThe same tomorrow as today.Every job teaches your crew something, with your approval.

Your Library: the memory of your site

Every decision, design, conversation, change and lesson, organized by your site and private to you. Ask it why something works the way it does, and it answers with the decision and the conversation where it was made.

Three tiers of know-how

Crew skillsOurs, shared by every crew

Next.js upgrade playbook · database security rules

Your companyShared by all your sites

Brand voice · pricing rules · tone with customers

Your siteOne site, private to you

Catalog rules · checkout quirks · what must never break

In your own repository

Everything needed to understand your site without us: the handbook, decisions, approved designs, site skills and tests, as plain Markdown and code.

In your private Library with us

How the work happened: conversations, evidence, previews, the tool log and the release timeline. Exportable in one click, any time.

Machine Shop · Library · exampleExport

Your crew knows 47 things about Machine Shop

  • DecisionThe assistant only mentions products its search returned · from Work #4
  • ReleaseSearch by brand, live with before/after screenshots · Work #7 · undo
  • Site skillCatalog is read-only; every query is paginated · v2 · approved
  • DesignSaved lists for shoppers · approved · in build
  • LearnedMobile search box too small; crew proposes a layout rule · awaiting you

Machine Shop is our test site. See its real Library in a walkthrough, not on slides.

Commissioning

Six weeks from your repo to a running accelerator.

No rewrite. We attach to the application you already have, learn it, test it, and prove we could have shipped your recent work. Only then do we take custody.

Week 001

Connect

Repo, CI, hosting, and a test database. Production stays read-only. The first interlocks are set before anything moves.

Week 102

Survey

Map the architecture, interview your operators, read your incident and backlog history. Out comes the Application Model.

Week 2–303

Instrument

Find what your tests can't see. Build a held-out suite on a test database and install the Discipline Pack.

Week 404

Shadow

Replay your recent changes and current backlog through the Accelerator, and compare the results with what your team shipped.

Week 5–605

Custody

Bounded autonomy goes live. Your operators are trained in the Control Room. You receive a Readiness Report.

Week 7+06

Raise energy

More classes of change open up as the evidence stays clean. Autonomous coverage climbs week over week.

You leave with a Readiness Report

Example report

1,842

Behaviors mapped

1,216

Independently testable

94

Production invariants

14

Restricted change classes

6

Human authorization gates

71%

Autonomous coverage

Evidence, not code review

The builder never grades its own work.

An AI that writes both the code and its tests can confidently prove its own misunderstanding. So the Accelerator separates the actor from the judge. Every change arrives with an evidence package that answers one question: why is this safe?

  • Held-out tests the builder can't edit
  • Business invariants, checked on every change
  • Replay against historical behavior
  • Synthetic users on a test database
  • Preview telemetry before release
  • People judge outcomes, not diffs
Evidence package · exampleMoney · AC3

Dashboard balances must match every folio

Root cause
Unordered paged read repeated/skipped rows
Surfaces touched
Dashboard, integrity checks, directory
Regression test added
1,280 ledger rows · concurrent reads
Full suite
All tests passed
Invariant
Balance = Σ posted ledger rows
Invariant
One pricing function, every surface
Preview deploy
Staging data reconciled to the penny
Promotion
Money class → operator approval

Modelled on a real Customer Zero fix: dashboard balances that disagreed with the ledger.

The Toolbelt · secured by design

Your keys never enter a prompt.

Your crew reaches GitHub, Vercel and your database through one governed gateway, built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). It is the same pattern large engineering organizations use to let agents act on real systems safely, sized for one website.

Agents never hold your keys

Your credentials sit in an encrypted vault. Agents call named tools, and the Toolbelt attaches the credential on our server. No key ever appears in a prompt, a chat or a log.

Connect, don't paste

GitHub, Vercel and your database connect with sign-in buttons. Each connection is tested at setup, so problems surface on day one, not at 11pm.

Short-lived, single-job passes

Every job gets a pass that works for one site, one task and one specialist, then expires. Your tenant comes from the pass, never from anything an agent types.

Each specialist sees only its tools

The builder can't see the release tool. The judge can't edit code. Least privilege is enforced by what exists in the agent's world, not by asking it nicely.

Gates live inside the tool

Going live, data changes and anything touching money or sign-in check the gate policy at the moment of the call. An agent can't talk its way past a gate.

Every action on the record

Each call is logged with who, what, when and what it cost. That record becomes the evidence on every change and the timeline in your Library.

One tool call, step by step
  1. 1Agent asks for a tool, with a single-job pass
  2. 2Toolbelt finds your site from the pass
  3. 3Checks the specialist may use this tool
  4. 4Checks the gate (money, data, sign-in, go live)
  5. 5Attaches your credential from the vault
  6. 6Calls the service, hides sensitive data, logs it
Bonus: connect your own Claude or ChatGPT to your Accelerator and ask your crew what shipped this week. You get read and request access; every gate still needs you.

Autonomous coverage

You set the ceiling. The evidence raises it.

Autonomy is earned one class of change at a time. The measure is simple: what share of your application's changes can the Accelerator safely own?

AC0Observe
Map, test and report. No changes.
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AC1Repair
Bugs, flaky tests, dependencies, copy
Auto to staging
AC2Implement
Well-specified backlog features
Operator OKs the evidence
AC3Refactor
Changes across modules and architecture
Replay + held-out suite
AC4Operate
Incidents, performance, data fixes
Interlocked prod path
AC5Evolve
Bounded experiments behind flags
Your mission bounds

Typical commissioning exit: AC1 live, AC2 on selected work

The Accelerator

Everything it takes to hand over the keys

Application Model

Your architecture, invariants, money and identity surfaces, and what “done” means — written down, versioned, and checked on every change. The machine reads it; so can you.

Independent Assurance

The model that writes the change never grades it. Held-out tests, invariant checks, historical replay, synthetic users, and preview telemetry judge every change independently.

Interlocks

No production write keys in an AI session. Money, auth, and destructive migrations never auto-promote. Spend caps, loop limits, and full provenance on every change.

The Discipline Pack

The operating habits that made Customer Zero work — a rulebook, a numbered backlog, design-before-code, every incident becomes a regression test — installed on your app.

…and a Control Room for the people in charge

Mission

What the application should accomplish — and the bounds it may never cross.

Work

What the Accelerator is doing right now, queued, held, or done.

Health

Is the application behaving correctly — tests, invariants, and live telemetry.

Changes

Every change, in plain language, with the intent that caused it.

Confidence

Why the Accelerator believes each change is safe — the evidence package.

Controls

Raise or lower autonomy, hold a change, roll one back, pin a model.

Pricing

Commission once. Operate continuously.

Priced per application, not per seat. The ranges below are indicative; every engagement is scoped and quoted after an assessment call.

Commission

Bring your application up to speed

$5K–$20K

one-time · quoted by complexity and scope

  • Application Model + invariants
  • Held-out test suite on a test database
  • Discipline Pack installed
  • Shadow replay of your recent work
  • Readiness Report + live AC1–AC2 autonomy
  • Complex sites: training courses so your team can lead the migration, plus a support contract
Apply for commissioning

Operate

The core

The Accelerator, running your app

$6K–$20K

per month · by change volume and assurance level

  • Continuous build, test, refactor and release
  • Independent assurance on every change
  • Evidence package for every change
  • Control Room seats for your operators
  • Model spend included — no per-token bill
Apply for commissioning

Managed Operator

We run the Control Room until you're ready to

+$10K–$20K

per month · tapers as your team takes over

  • A dedicated Strategic Machines operator
  • Weekly mission and backlog review
  • Operator training for your team
  • Incident on-call with the Accelerator
  • Handover plan: managed → co-operated → yours
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Priced on outcomes

You pay for accepted change and assurance, not seats or “AI developers.”

A fraction of a team

A three-engineer team costs $600K+ a year. The Accelerator targets 25–50% of that.

Knowledge you keep

The Application Model, tests and evidence history stay yours.

For agencies & system integrators

Your firm. Your clients. Your crew.

Board and run your clients' sites on the Accelerator with a crew of AI specialists branded to your firm. Silver, Gold and Platinum levels, coming soon.

Partner Program

Commissioning cohort 01 · now forming

Put your application under power.

We're commissioning a small number of production web apps next. Tell us where yours lives. We'll reply with a scoping call and an honest read on fit.

FAQ

Questions worth answering up front