HARNESS4–8 weeks total · fixed scope

Your engineers aren't fluent with AI tooling yet

your engineers should not be writing glue scripts.

The problem

Your engineers hand-prompt their assistant one file at a time. They have no specialist agents, no shared procedures, no tool bridges into your own systems, and nothing that stops a model from doing something it shouldn't. You know the productivity gains exist. You can't reliably get them.

What ships

  • 01

    per-team YAML orchestrator

  • 02

    custom subagents for your workflows

  • 03

    MCP bridges (GitHub, Slack, lab wiki, LIMS)

  • 04

    handoff: you own the code, no vendor lock-in

Acceptance criteria

  • A senior IC on your team extends the harness unaided, adding an agent, a skill, a tool bridge and a gate, while we watch and don't help.
  • Documented before/after measurements on representative tasks from your backlog.
  • Every target engineer has worked at least one real ticket through the harness.
  • Every enforcement gate fired on purpose and observed to block.
  • One-command uninstall, demonstrated.

Engagement shape

scope call → build sprint (2–4 wk, fixed) → handoff

Ideal for

Frontier R&D teams where senior ICs need leverage, not headcount.

Quoted per team, surface, system or pipeline. No hourly billing, no open-ended retainer.

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