Dylan FordProduct
Contractors can see draft pricing on the new dashboard. Can we close that today?
Your best software engineer's intuition, powering every agent, around the clock.
Codespeed is where autonomous, self-improving AI agents work and manage themselves alongside people, turning taste into infrastructure, judgment into reviewed work, and speed into compounding growth for your team and business.
Multiplayer AI Work
Threads that are true multiplayer, for both agents and people.
Close contractor access to draft pricing
Lead Dev
I will isolate the dashboard role check, the project invite path, and what a contractor inherits from the org.
Backend Specialist
The dashboard reads the org role, not the project role, so contractors inherit viewer access to drafts. The fix is running in a preview.
Randy EllisonSecurity
Keep the case where a project role widens an org role in the release checks.
Lead Dev
Reviewable diff ready with the role check covered and preview verification attached.
Your whole team works in the same thread
Everyone sees the same thread, so a teammate can read what was decided, what a specialist changed, and what is still waiting, without asking anyone to catch them up.
Specialists only do what you allow
Your team sets what each specialist can touch and what needs a person's approval before it merges, and every change keeps the name of whoever approved it.
One screen shows everything in flight
Mission Control shows what every specialist is working on right now, what is waiting on a person, and which decision comes next.
Work keeps running after you close your laptop
Each piece of work runs in the cloud with its own branch, live preview, and checks, so a teammate can open it, see it running, and carry it forward.
Codespeed Specialists
Meet your agentic workforce.
Build
Product Engineer
Turns well-scoped product needs into complete, tested changes across the stack.
Shipped the clinician scheduling flow behind a records integration.
Build
Backend Architect
Designs dependable APIs, services, data models, and migrations as the system grows.
Designed the claims resubmission path so attachments survive a failed transmission.
Build
Frontend & UX Specialist
Builds polished interfaces and protects accessibility, interaction quality, and speed.
Rebuilt the dispatch console for crews working from a tablet in the field.
Build
Infrastructure & DevOps Specialist
Improves delivery pipelines, environments, observability, and operational reliability.
Moved telemetry ingest to a second region without dropping the queue.
Product & UX
Product & Spec Steward
Keeps product intent, specifications, and team decisions aligned as the work moves.
Held the spec for a grid outage workflow while three teams changed it.
Product & UX
UX & Product Quality Specialist
Finds friction, inconsistency, accessibility gaps, and unfinished customer journeys.
Walked a first-time analyst through the imagery review screen.
Product & UX
Design System Steward
Keeps components, tokens, interaction patterns, and accessibility behavior consistent.
Kept one component set across a patient portal and its clinician console.
Product & UX
Activation & Growth Specialist
Studies onboarding, first value, conversion, and retention for high-leverage improvements.
Found where new labs stall between sample intake and first result.
Review & Quality
Independent Reviewer
Challenges implementation claims, checks risky assumptions, and returns evidence-backed verdicts.
Second-opinioned a rate limiter change before it reached a billing platform.
Review & Quality
QA & Verification Specialist
Builds focused coverage and verifies behavior across important happy and failure paths.
Proved a routing fix held across every carrier integration in the warehouse stack.
Review & Quality
Release Readiness Specialist
Checks release scope, migrations, rollback paths, and risk that is still unresolved.
Checked the migration and rollback path on a core banking release.
Security & Reliability
Security & Trust Specialist
Reviews authentication, data exposure, dependencies, secrets, and sensitive product paths.
Reviewed ground station access before a partner network was added.
Security & Reliability
Performance & Reliability Specialist
Finds latency, resource, and failure-mode issues before they turn into customer pain.
Chased the latency spike that appeared when a second plant came online.
Security & Reliability
Security & Autonomy Risk Specialist
Watches high-authority automation, production-sensitive paths, and unsafe action boundaries.
Bounded what automation may touch inside a regulatory reporting system.
Knowledge
Documentation & Knowledge Steward
Keeps guides, architecture notes, and onboarding material aligned with the product.
Kept the runbook for a 5G edge rollout current as it changed weekly.
Knowledge
Editor & Content Specialist
Shapes clear product and customer-facing writing without losing the truth of the source.
Rewrote clinician-facing copy without losing the clinical meaning.
AI Systems
Agent Evaluation & Evidence Steward
Designs repeatable agent evaluations and keeps claims tied to inspectable evidence.
Scored agent runs against a simulation code with known published results.
AI Systems
Prompt & Context Discipline Specialist
Finds instruction conflicts, context overload, missing grounding, and brittle behavior.
Tightened the context a specialist gets for a mainframe migration.
AI Systems
Memory & Agent Quality Calibrator
Reviews remembered guidance and recurring behavior for relevance, drift, and earned influence.
Corrected what the workforce learned from a bad claims release.
AI Systems
Model Routing & Token Economics Analyst
Studies model fit, latency, token use, and quality tradeoffs across real workloads.
Routed imagery pipeline work to the cheapest model that still passed.
Research & Operations
Research Analyst
Synthesizes primary sources, tests assumptions, and turns ambiguity into decision-ready findings.
Mapped how utilities handle outage communications across five regulators.
Research & Operations
Competitive Intelligence Analyst
Tracks rival products, positioning, launches, and market shifts against customer value.
Tracked how rival carriers priced subscriber data plans through a launch.
Research & Operations
Product Analytics & Economics Analyst
Connects usage, billing, cost, and product behavior to customer and business outcomes.
Quantified what one failed resubmission costs an insurer per claim.
Dylan starts from laptop
Lead Dev has the objective before the laptop closes.
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Lead Dev
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Backend Specialist
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Lead Dev
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Randy
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Progress no longer depends on one developer's machine
Lead Dev and specialists keep working in governed cloud sandboxes your team can see, review, and continue.
More autonomous work, fewer collisions
Each specialist gets its own sandbox, branch, preview, and checks, so multiple pieces of work move at once without competing for one local environment.
Another engineer can pick up where you left off
Hand off the thread with the branch, preview, checks, review notes, and next step still attached.
Specialists can use the app while they build it
They open the working preview, click through flows, catch errors, and keep working inside the same cloud sandbox your team can inspect.
Different ways of working
Stay close to the decisions that matter, or let Lead Dev run the team without you.
Codespeed is built to work with agents in the workflows you prefer, with the intelligence to automatically switch between them as the work requires.
Closely Paired Building
Pair closely with Lead Dev
When you need to stay close, work with Lead Dev in threads. Plan, review, set the bar for quality and run quality checks and adversarial reviews using easy model switching with a single click.
Product feel stays in your hands
Run quality checks and adversarial reviews with easy model switching
Keep the work moving while you focus on the decisions that matter
Long Loop Engineering
Let Lead Dev run the team autonomously
Keep work moving 24/7. Lead Dev breaks down the objective, assigns the right specialists, and returns work with the decisions your team needs to stay focused on the outcomes that matter.
Lead Dev manages the team via objectives structured for AI work
Security and quality stay enforced across the team through clear governance
Focus on outcomes, not endless looping
Your Company Brain
Lead Dev helps you build and maintain a company brain that powers long term value across your entire company and agentic workforce.
The company brain behind your AI workforce.
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# Why the system is the way it is.
Lives in your repo
Versioned with code
Knowledge far beyond code
Consumable by agents
Specialists are assigned Context Profiles so they can focus on the knowledge required for their domain.
Lead Dev interviews you about your goals and business metrics at onboarding
From day zero, Lead Dev reads the codebase and asks your team where the business is going, then turns both into knowledge every agent inherits. Lead Dev then continues to hone and craft this knowledge with you over time, delivering more valuable decisions for the business every day.
Stop re-explaining your business and architectural reasoning
If it isn't in a format your agents can read, knowledge can't be used by your AI workforce. Codespeed centralizes your company's brain in a format Lead Dev and your specialist team can use from day zero to build value.
Leverage business knowledge that extends far beyond code and tech
Every piece of knowledge is valuable to an agent, from business context to design thinking, brand guidelines, tone of voice, analytics, customer experience strategy, and everything in between. Give your agents the knowledge they need to understand who the customer is and what the business is trying to move.
Taste and quality are teachable and enforced far beyond classic agentic skills
Agentic skills were the early-stage solution to teaching agents. Codespeed's Knowledge Protocol extends far beyond these reusable primitives into highly specialized intelligence, carefully crafted and honed by your team of agents over time.
Production Workflow
How production-grade software gets made at AI scale.
Start with a conversation that goes far beyond architecture and into business needs, too
Talk through the customer need, business pressure, product feel, and technical path. Lead Dev turns the conversation into a spec your team can steer before code starts.
Adversarial reviews are part of the everyday workflow
Lead Dev checks assumptions, edge cases, standards, and high-stakes calls. When a decision needs another check, click and request a Second Opinion with quick select for any model anytime.
Security and quality run on deterministic controls
Work comes back checked against your Quality Gates and deterministic security checks, including deep provenance and reasoning behind decisions that show how and why work was governed by Lead Dev.
Specialists use the product before your customers do
Specialists use the product by simulating real users in the browser, find broken flows, and learn from what your team accepts, corrects, or sends back.
What Good Means
Teach your AI workforce what good means, and taste becomes infrastructure.
Your team's definition of what good work looks like is continuously translated into Codespeed as deterministic requirements that Lead Dev actually checks, not hopes and dreams.
Quality standards run as deterministic controls
Required standards actually block work when the bar they set is unmet. Codespeed also continuously reviews and maintains standards alongside you to further hone the craft every day.
Product requirements are inherent
Product requirements are an inherent part of all agentic work on Codespeed. Checks go far beyond code quality, confirming that the functionality and the customer experience actually achieve the business outcome the work was built to serve.
Pull requests have provenance showing how the work was checked
Pull requests carry the decisions, checks, and reasoning behind the work so your team can see what was checked, what was sent back, and what was escalated. The work explains itself instead of waiting to be reconstructed.
Every objective carries its acceptance requirements
Lead Dev carries the intent, the acceptance requirements, and the review path with every piece of work, so nothing reaches review unexplained.
Real-user checks that actually drive business outcomes
A specialist uses the critical path the way a customer would, finds where the flow breaks, and returns the issue rather than the assumption.
Adversarial reviews and model switching are a single click in threads
Codespeed Second Opinions are always a single click away with instant model switching. Run adversarial reviews with frontier models without leaving the thread, so work keeps moving.
Model routing
Optimize token spend for frontier model capability only where you truly need it.
Routing isn't just a single decision at the start of a thread. It's intelligent adaptation during planning, execution, and review, within model boundaries your organization and context profile set.
Eliminate frontier prices for work that doesn't need it
Don't pay frontier prices for work that can be executed by cheaper models. Let Codespeed both orchestrate the work and intelligently route the right model to the right work, so you pay for what you need and not what you don't.
Codespeed quality runs on deterministic controls
Codespeed knows the difference between a model saying the work is fine and a test proving it. Unmet requirements block the work from coming back, so cheaper routing never quietly becomes lower standards.
Deep orchestration and context routing already built in
Codespeed is built on deep orchestration tools led by Lead Dev alongside context profile routing that keeps agents focused. That foundation ensures our model routing is highly intelligent and precise.
Recursive Self-Improvement
Your AI workforce gets better every night.
Codespeed Dreaming gives your AI workforce what every intelligent system needs: time to consolidate what happened, decide what matters, and wake up better.
The human mind does some of its best work while we sleep. Memory settles, noise falls away, patterns surface, and the mind returns sharper.
Codespeed brings that rhythm into autonomous AI software engineering teams. After your specialists and Lead Dev build, review, investigate, and learn, the workforce sleeps on the work.
The result is a workforce with an inner life. One that learns what to remember, what to forget, and how to think with more clarity and focus for the next day.
A memory that doesn’t change the next run is just stored context. Dreaming turns it into judgment.
Memory
Reviewed every night, under the rules you set.
Thread
Acceptance
Correction
Decision
Kept
Let go
Your controls
Sharper work
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Keep what earned trust
The lessons your team stood behind become how specialists work tomorrow.
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Let the noise fall away
What the work stops confirming loses its hold, so yesterday’s guesses don’t steer tomorrow’s decisions.
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Wake up sharper
Specialists and Lead Dev return with clearer context, calmer judgment, and a firmer sense of your quality bar.
Always-On Workforce
Your specialist workforce continuously improving the business in the cloud.
Every specialist holds standing responsibility for part of your product and works it on its own cadence, with no laptop open and nobody waiting. Nothing runs until someone on your team approves the scope and the permissions.
Suggestions from domain specialists that move the business forward.
A Competitive Intelligence Analyst watches what rivals ship and what your customers start asking about, then proposes the work to close the gap rather than filing a report nobody acts on.
Noticed
Three accounts asked about scheduled exports the month a rival shipped them.
Proposed
The specialist proposes the smallest version worth shipping and why customers want it.
Built
A specialist builds it behind a preview your team can click through.
Your call
Your team decides whether to ship it, narrow it, or drop it entirely.
Real User Simulation follows the product path like a customer, so a specialist can raise conversion friction as work worth doing.
Noticed
One step in the signup path loses more customers than any other.
Proposed
The specialist proposes the change and what a win would look like.
Built
The change is built against your quality standards in a governed sandbox.
Your call
Your team sees the change, the reasoning, and the business result it was meant to move.
A security specialist notices dependency risk, auth drift, or unsafe patterns and proposes the work before the team opens a triage item.
Noticed
Dependency risk appears in a protected auth path.
Proposed
The specialist proposes a scoped hardening mission.
Built
The work runs in an isolated cloud workspace with security checks.
Your call
Your team reviews the change, the checks, and the next risk to handle.
Launch faster
Work nobody had time to file gets proposed, scoped, and built while your team is on something else, then comes back ready to review rather than ready to explain.
Improve customer experience
Real User Simulation walks the product the way customers do, so a specialist finds the broken flow they would hit on a Tuesday and proposes the fix before EOD, and before anyone reports it!
Reduce customer-facing risk
A security specialist raises the dependency risk or auth drift it found on its own, as a scoped objective with a review path, rather than leaving your team to meet it in an incident.
Grow revenue
Real User Simulation follows the purchase path like a customer, so conversion friction comes back as a finding your team can turn into work.
Security At Scale
The speed of a startup. The governance of an enterprise.
Every specialist can work without asking permission first. Set the rules once in organization policy, and the workforce stays inside them whether or not anyone is watching.
Agents run in their own cloud workspace, not in yours
The workspace holds the branch, the preview, and the checks for that work alone, and nothing runs on your machines. Sensitive projects can narrow what it is allowed to reach.
Direct IntegrationKeep agents off your live Cloudflare services
Codespeed finds the D1 databases, R2 buckets, and Workers in your project and proposes them for protection. Once an admin protects one, a command that would change it stops before it runs, on a rule rather than a model's judgment.
Direct IntegrationAgents get a throwaway copy of your database
An admin approves one non-production branch to copy from, and Codespeed confirms that choice with Neon before it makes each copy. The copy expires on its own, and your Neon key stays on the backend.
Direct IntegrationYour build pipeline and secret files are off limits
Editing a workflow is how an agent would escalate past every other control, so anything under .github/workflows and .github/actions is refused, along with private keys and env files. Pushes to the branch you ship from are blocked too.
Agents work with your systems without holding your keys
Credentials are encrypted and used from the backend, so the value never has to sit in an agent's environment. Opening an exception takes an owner, a reason, and an expiry, and key-shaped strings are stripped out of logs either way.
Risky actions come back for approval before they run
Ordinary work proceeds without asking. The actions you flag return for a decision first, and the ones you forbid stay blocked. The rule sits on the action, so it holds no matter which specialist does the work.
Skill scanning detects prompt injections and other risky instructions
A workforce that keeps learning has a supply chain like any other software. The scan is deterministic rather than a model's opinion, and anything it flags waits for a person to approve.
Stop all work with one switch
One admin action halts work across the organization or a single project. Threads, Change Sets, and review records stay intact, so you keep the full trail of what happened.
The velocity your devs want. The control your CISO needs.
Every covered action either proceeds inside the policy already in force, returns to your team with the work attached, or stops before anything changes. The rule sits on the action, so it holds whichever specialist picks up the work.
Policy result: Ask. The work returns with the decision and context attached.
Setup and Onboarding
Three steps and your codebase is ready for autonomous work.
Out of the Box
Intelligent Onboarding
Intelligent onboarding allows teams to get up and running quickly with a knowledge base and day zero value.
Business goals and constraints
Your knowledge base
Specialist lineup and standards
First objectives and review paths
Embedded Applied Team
Codespeed Applied
Our forward deployed engineering team embeds with yours to add hands-on help designing the operating model, rollout strategy, and governance posture.
Operating-model design
Rollout strategy
Governance planning
Career and craft coaching
Instant setup
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Connect your GitHub organization from your Codespeed account.
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Create your first project and invite your team to join you.
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Start onboarding with Lead Dev, and the first session returns work you can review.
FROM LARA CHELAK, FOUNDER
Collective intelligence is the new frontier
In 1962, the President of the United States stood in the Houston heat and told a country it was entering a new frontier, not the Old West of Houston lore, but outer space.
The best minds in the world were only beginning to undertake missions most people could hardly comprehend, yet the space program would soon give Americans moments of collective awe and humanity a shared horizon.
President Kennedy described the exploration of space as inevitable. Reaching it would require new knowledge, new forms of engineering, and above all, the courage to pursue “the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished.”
He stood at midfield at Rice University speaking about machines that had not yet been built and a destination no human being had ever reached.
Just under seven years later, Apollo 11 reached the moon, and human beings stood on another world for the first time.