Strategic Machines
Platform preview · now delivering on Machine Shop

Your direction. Your specialized AI crew.

What you intended.What you approved.Delivered.

An executable record of business intent and proof for your software assets, delivered by your specialized crew of agents.

You set direction · Your crew coordinates · You keep authority

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Your executive workspaceProduct preview

Team Lead · recommendation

Simplify the mobile quote journey. The designer has two options; I recommend the shorter flow.

See it work · 90 seconds

Sally asks for checkout. Her crew delivers it, step by approved step.

Sally runs an online shop and doesn't write code. She asks for a Buy now button with Stripe. Her crew designs it, plans it, builds it and tests it. Because money moves, every decision comes back to her.

The platform screens are an illustrative replay of the real run, labelled as a sample. The shop before and after is the live Machine Shop test site.

What this one change left behind

Buy now with Stripe

Machine Shop, our test site

Request
“Let shoppers pick a product, pay with Stripe and have it shipped. Test mode only.”
Rated
Sensitive: money moves, so the owner decides at each stop
Design
Approved v1: Buy now, price always from the catalog, flat $9.95 US shipping
Plan
4 steps, each with its own tests
Tests
243 → 276, every step passed first time
Decisions
Rating, design, plan, preview and release: all the owner's
Record
Written into the shop's own code repository at Prove
Result
Live: the drill at $136.63 + $9.95 shipping, in Stripe test mode

Defined work packages

Every change arrives as one complete package.

No loose ends and no “who changed this?”. Every improvement follows the same path, and everything it produces stays together: your request, the design you approved, the plan, the tests that proved it, your decisions and the release. Your site's history becomes an asset you own, not knowledge locked in someone's head.

01Your requestIn your own words, typed or spoken. The team lead restates it and asks what's unclear.
02The designWhat will change, what must not, and how it will be proven. In plain English, for you to approve.
03The planSmall steps, each one tested on its own. Nothing is built that the plan doesn't name.
04The testsEvery step adds tests that prove it. Nothing moves on until every test passes.
05Your approvalsWho decided what, on which version, and when. A change after you approve resets the approval.
06The releaseChecked again, released, and confirmed live. If anything isn't clean, it stops.

You're asked only where it matters.

The crew rates every request by what's at stake. The more that's at stake, the more often it stops for you.

Simple

A blurry photo, a broken link, a typo

Your part: Nothing. The crew fixes it, proves it and ships it. You see it in the record.

Standard

Search by brand, a new page section

Your part: Approve a one-page brief. The crew plans, builds and proves it; you decide when it ships.

Sensitive

Payments, prices, customer data, sign-in

Your part: You approve the design, the plan, the preview and the release. Money and data always come to you.

Product preview · illustrative walkthrough

A team that helps you think it through.

One accountable lead brings specialists into a shared workspace. Explore options, challenge assumptions and agree the work. Your crew handles the coordination.

Team Lead

Clarifying the outcome

You want a simpler mobile quote journey. Do we know where customers stop, or should we establish that baseline first?

Executive decision

Agree the outcome and missing information

Shared presentation

Start with the business question

  • Outcome: make quote requests easier
  • Open question: where do visitors stop?
  • Boundary: preserve catalog and pricing rules
1 of 4 · example, not a live session

A clear picture of your software assets.

See what your business relies on, its current condition and the improvements underway. A live capability can stay healthy while its next enhancement is in design.

Illustrative inventory · no live measurements
CapabilityCurrent conditionPlanned change
CatalogVerification evidence linkedSpecifications review
SearchCondition tracked separatelyBrand filters in design
Quote requestsProposed capabilityScope awaiting agreement

Know what needs your attention.

The planned executive view connects business outcomes, customer journeys, delivery and budget. Every vital sign needs a source and a date; missing information stays visible.

Business outcomes
Your chosen measures, baseline and targets
Customer journeys
What was verified, when and against which version
Commitments and budget
Agreed scope, exposure and blocked decisions
Risk and complexity
Fragile dependencies and unresolved tradeoffs

Industry crews

A crew that already speaks your business.

Each crew is trained for one industry: the words you use, the practices of the best firms in it, the places where a change needs extra care, and the customer journeys that must keep working. Choose yours.

Commerce and online stores

Available

Shops that sell products online: catalogs, quotes, carts and checkout.

Speaks your language

  • catalog
  • product
  • variant
  • price
  • promotion
  • cart
  • checkout
  • order
  • inventory
  • fulfilment

Takes extra care with

  • Checkout and payments · money moves, and an error costs a sale
  • Prices, promotions and tax · a small rule change touches every order
  • Stock and availability · overselling, or hiding what you have
  • Customer accounts and orders · personal data and order history

Keeps this journey working

  1. Find a product
  2. Compare
  3. Cart or quote
  4. Checkout
  5. Order confirmed

Reports against

Conversion rate · Average order value · Quote completion

Proven on Machine Shop: Buy now with Stripe, from request to release, with every decision on record.

19 more industries are planned. A crew is offered when its practices are proven on a working site.

The shift

Every improvement builds on what came before.

Explain the outcome you want. Explore options with your crew, agree the work, and inspect the evidence. Observations from delivery inform the next discussion, while evaluated lessons can improve how the crew works.

Without a shared operating record

Intent, decisions and evidence can become scattered across tools and conversations.

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

The accelerator

A connected loop: understanding, agreement, delivery, verification and learning. Your crew coordinates; you govern the decisions that matter.

INTENTBUILDVERIFYRELEASEOBSERVEThe Acceleratorintent, delivery and proof connected

Your starting point · free

Discover your starting point.

Start with your URL. Combine business priorities with public capability signals, technical scores and a recommended first step. An honest assessment may suggest lighter maintenance rather than an ongoing crew.

Customer Zero

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

Cypress Resort's live booking, payments and ledger platform shaped the delivery practices we are packaging into the Accelerator. The owner sets priorities, makes policy decisions and challenges results. The coming commercial platform brings that approach into a shared expert workspace.

For example, dashboard balances must agree with the financial ledger. A paging defect became a targeted regression scenario, alongside checks of pricing and financial integrity. The business rule becomes a lasting verification check.

Read the Customer Zero story
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Automated tests guarding every change

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AI-assisted delivery commits

<0

Weeks from first commit to live production

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API routes in the platform

Historical baseline: Customer Zero repository, September 25, 2026.

Why not just use an AI model?

Your business deserves continuity.

The Accelerator is being built to connect expert advice, approved decisions, delivery and evidence in one lasting record. Your specializedcrew works from your business context; your privateLibrary preserves how that understanding develops.

ContinuityImportant context can remain scattered across threads.Planned Library connects business rules, decisions, work and evidence.
Expert adviceYou may need to frame and coordinate each task.One accountable lead coordinates specialist recommendations.
AuthorityDiscussion alone does not define permission to act.Agreed boundaries and application-enforced gates govern execution.
ProofA convincing explanation is not an acceptance check.Verification links the delivered behavior to the approved design.
Open threadsUnfinished questions can get buried in a long exchange.Save topics with their context and return without treating them as approved work.
LearningRemembering more does not prove better outcomes.Evaluate lessons, approve activation and measure subsequent work.

Keep the ideas you aren’t ready to pursue.

Save a question, park an option, and return with its original context. The planned Library connects unfinished thinking with approved decisions, designs and delivery evidence. Saving an idea does not approve it or commit it to the backlog.

Know-how at every level

Crew skillsOurs, shared by every crew

Next.js upgrade playbook · database security rules

Partner skillsYour delivery partner’s methods

Accessibility standards · industry delivery practices

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. Open-format export is planned.

Machine Shop · Library · exampleExport

Decisions, open questions and evidence for Machine Shop

  • DecisionThe assistant only mentions products its search returned · from Work #4
  • ReleaseSearch by brand, live with before/after screenshots · Work #7 · release record
  • Site skillCatalog is read-only; every query is paginated · v2 · approved
  • Open questionShould shoppers be able to share saved lists? · saved for later · not approved
  • ProposalMobile search box too small; crew proposes a layout rule · awaiting you

Illustrative Library preview. Machine Shop is the proving ground for the coming platform.

Getting started · Boarding

Start with your business. Build confidence step by step.

Seven steps, at a fixed onboarding price. Each one is checked off against real records, not a to-do list, and every point where a person had to step in is logged so the next site boards faster. Boarding is being proven on Machine Shop.

Checkup01

See where you stand

A scan of your live site and a read-only look at the code: speed, freshness, tests and fit.

Connect02

Connect safely

Your code, previews, a test database and test payment keys. The crew never touches live customer data.

Survey03

Map what your site does

The crew proposes your site's capabilities from the code. You confirm what's right.

Interview04

Talk through the business

Your outcomes, the customer journeys that matter, what must never break, and who decides what.

Assemble05

Fit the crew to you

Your industry crew, with the first rules written for your site, reviewed before it starts.

Stabilize06

Prove the first change

Fix what the checkup found and release one change through the full path, with your approval.

Agreement07

Agree how you'll work

A one-page agreement: what the crew may do, what always comes to you, and what you keep.

A clear starting point for your site

Illustrative assessment categories

Mapped

Capabilities

Agreed

Business rules

Checked

Customer journeys

Visible

Unknowns

Explicit

Decision authority

Scoped

First improvement

Proof of what works

See that it works the way you agreed.

First, agree how the business process should work. Then check the change against that agreement, using realistic scenarios and checks that help protect what already works. Our assurance design separates implementation from independent review, so you can see what was demonstrated and what remains uncertain.

  • Acceptance checks tied to the agreed design
  • Checks that protect your business rules
  • Scenarios drawn from earlier problems
  • Realistic customer scenarios in a test environment
  • A preview to try before release
  • Clear findings for an informed decision
Evidence package · exampleMoney · Owner approval

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 → client Owner approval

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

The Toolbelt · planned security architecture

Connected services. Bounded authority.

The planned Toolbelt connects your crew to approved services through a governed server gateway. Permissions, protected decisions and action records belong in the application. The platform already includes a vault; gateway rollout and service availability are being validated separately.

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. The design keeps service credentials out of prompts, chats and logs.

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. Tool invocation enforces the permission boundary; hiding a tool alone is insufficient.

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
Planned: connect your own AI assistant to your Accelerator and ask your crew what shipped this week. The proposed connection provides read and request access; every gate still needs you.

The Accelerator

Delegate the work. Keep authority.

A clear picture of your website

See the capabilities your business relies on, their condition, and improvements planned or underway. Technical assets remain traceable underneath.

Proof against the agreement

Realistic customer scenarios check the proposed change and help protect existing behavior. Findings show what was demonstrated and what remains uncertain.

Delegate the work. Keep authority.

Agree priorities, budget and boundaries. The crew coordinates execution and returns consequential decisions to the people authorized to make them.

A team that helps you think it through

One accountable lead brings specialists into the conversation to explore options, challenge assumptions and refine the design before work is approved.

A clear picture for the people in charge

Your direction

Set the business outcomes, priorities and rules that guide the crew.

Shared workspace

Review recommendations, documents and previews in one lead-led conversation.

Business vital signs

See customer-journey health, commitments, budget and missing information.

A lasting decision record

Connect what you intended and approved with the work delivered.

Experience becomes better practice

Evaluate proposed lessons before activation, then measure whether later work improves.

Ideas saved for later

Park questions and options with their context, without approving or committing them.

Pricing

Get established. Keep improving.

Planned offers, subject to fit and launch availability. The onboarding target below is a proposal; subscription prices and inclusions are confirmed in writing after an assessment. No guaranteed turnaround is implied.

Boarding

Establish the foundations for your crew

$2,500 target

planned one-time onboarding · subject to fit and agreed scope

  • Business interview and capability survey
  • Connection setup and permission boundaries
  • Agreed priorities, business rules and acceptance checks
  • Initial crew and verification baseline
  • Final inclusions confirmed before purchase
Discuss onboarding

Crew

The core

Ongoing improvement under your direction

Pricing to be confirmed

planned monthly subscription · scoped to your site

  • One accountable team lead with specialist support
  • Shared recommendations, previews and decision records
  • Capability inventory and business vital signs
  • Verification evidence linked to agreed work
  • Usage limits and included services agreed in writing
Request a walkthrough

Managed engagement

Additional support for complex applications

Custom scope

separately quoted onboarding and ongoing support

  • Architecture and migration assessment
  • Additional stabilization and integration work
  • Human advisory and operational support
  • Agreed responsibilities and service boundaries
  • A written scope, budget and delivery plan
Discuss your application

A clear commercial agreement

Onboarding and subscription fees, usage limits and service inclusions are agreed before work begins.

Authority stays with you

Set priorities and budgets; your crew coordinates delivery and brings consequential decisions back to you.

Knowledge you keep

The planned Library keeps business rules, designs and evidence connected, with open-format export.

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

Founding clients and partners

See how your expert crew would work.

Request a walkthrough of the coming platform. Tell us about your site and priorities; we'll arrange a conversation and give you an honest assessment of fit.

FAQ

Questions worth answering up front