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The software lifecycle laid out as artefacts, spec through architecture, code, tests and deployment, with a hand pressing the final clearance

GREENLIGHT - ENGINEER · GOVERNED AI DELIVERY

AI-led software delivery with Greenlight

Move at AI speed, and keep the human greenlight. Greenlight - Engineer runs your software lifecycle as governed AI agents, so your team moves faster without ever wondering what the AI actually shipped.

  • Works alongside GitHub Copilot and Cursor
  • Bring your own tokens
  • Human greenlight at every gate
ONE UNIT OF WORK

Every task runs the same governed path.

TASK-4192 · GOVERNED UNIT OF WORK
Add rate limiting to the /orders API
RUNNING
01
Agent proposes

The stage agent drafts the change from verified context.

DRAFTINGPROPOSED
02
Twin verifies

An independent twin rechecks it and can block.

CHECKINGVERIFIED
03
Automated gates

Automated checks test the change against agreed correctness, security and regression criteria.

RUNNINGPASSED
04
Human greenlights

An engineer owns the go / no-go before anything is trusted.

AWAITINGGREENLIT
Every decision and its evidence is recorded, and replayable on demand.

Every decision and its evidence is recorded, and replayable on demand.

THE PROBLEM

AI coding assistants made your team faster. They didn't make your team more certain.

More code arrives every day, written quicker than anyone can review it, and the gap between "generated" and "verified" is where risk now lives.

Most of that output ships on trust. A suggestion gets accepted, it passes whatever tests happen to exist, and it goes out. Nobody independently checked whether it does what the requirement asked, or whether it quietly broke something six months of decisions depended on.

Meanwhile the reasoning behind it is stranded in a chat history someone will close and never reopen, and the token bill climbs every month as every developer runs everything on the most expensive model available.

Unreviewed volume

Code arrives faster than anyone can read it.

Unverified merge

It ships on trust, not on an independent check.

Stranded reasoning

The why lives in a chat history no one reopens.

Unmanaged spend

Everything runs on the most expensive model available.

Speed without control isn't an advantage. It's exposure.

HOW IT WORKS

Three governed layers. One path through all of them.

Every task passes through Context, Blueprint and Map, and a human authorises each gate. A human greenlight authorises the transition between every layer.

LAYER 01IN

Context

Work starts from verified truth, not copy-pasted prompts.

Context pulls verified, source-linked truth from the systems you already work in, so every task starts from what's real. Shared context reduces repeated briefing. Missing information is flagged for resolution before the affected work proceeds.

RepoBoardsDesign tools
Verified for completeness and kept inside your data boundary, before any work begins.
LAYER 02BUILD

Blueprint

The whole lifecycle runs as agents, each independently rechecked.

Agents cover the full lifecycle, from requirements through architecture, code, test, deploy and docs. Each one is independently rechecked before its work is trusted, to help catch errors before they reach production. Your engineering standards are enforced by the system, not left to whoever remembers them.

RequirementsArchitectureCodeTestDeployDocs
Every stage is independently verified, and the check can block the output.
LAYER 03IMPACT

Map

You see a change's blast radius before you write it.

Map shows what a change will touch across code, data, APIs and tests before the work starts, so review effort lands where the real risk is instead of on a partial picture.

CodeDataAPIsTests
The impact assessment is independently checked against available code, data, API and test context. Gaps and uncertainties are raised for review.
A human greenlight authorises the transition between every layer
THE GOVERNANCE DIFFERENTIATOR

Everyone in this market says "governance." Greenlight makes it a mechanism you can point to.

THE AGENTProposes

An agent proposes the change for its stage of the lifecycle.

THE TWINVerifies

An independent twin, running on a different model family, verifies it against the requirement and the existing code.

THE GATESCheck

Automated checks test correctness, security and regressions against the agreed requirements and test coverage.

THE HUMANGreenlights

Then a human greenlights it before it's trusted.

GOVERNANCE AS A POLICY DOCUMENT

Written down, referenced in an audit, applied by whoever remembers it.

The intent is real. The enforcement depends on individual diligence at the moment of the merge.

GOVERNANCE WIRED INTO THE BUILD

The AI does the volume. The verification is independent. The final call stays with your engineers.

Every decision is replayable if an auditor ever asks why.

For every unit of work the loop is the same. Propose, verify, greenlight, at every stage of the lifecycle, not just at the pull request. Reproducibility: every decision is logged and replayable. If a client or an auditor asks why a decision was made, the answer is reconstructable rather than remembered.

THE COMPARISON THAT MATTERS

Not against another platform. Against the default.

Every developer with their own AI coding assistant, and no governance in between.

ContextRe-explained to each tool; lost between them.One shared, versioned engagement memory.
CoverageCode completion only.The whole lifecycle, independently verified.
TrustDepends on each developer's diligence.Independent verification and a human greenlight.
TraceabilityScattered across private chat histories.Every decision replayable.
CostUnmanaged; grows with use.Governed and routed; the curve bends down.
KnowledgeLeaves with the employee.Stays in the engagement graph.
ComplianceHard to evidence.Audit-ready by operation (on roadmap).
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU

Five things you can hold us to.

01

Nothing unverified reaches production.

Every change clears an independent recheck, automated gates, and a human sign-off before it's trusted. Your engineers retain the approval decision.

02

The economics are honest about their own timeline.

On day one the story is speed: agents run in parallel and failed attempts get caught early. Over time the story is cost, as the platform gets more efficient at how work runs and cost-per-delivered-task bends down. The calculator lets you test it against your own numbers.

~5×lower cost per task versus an unmanaged frontier tool (internal modelling).
MODELLED TARGET · NOT A PROVEN RESULT
03

Every efficiency is reflected in your delivery economics.

You bring your own tokens: inference runs on your accounts under your terms. We license the platform, not the usage, so we have no incentive to keep your consumption high. Every model call runs through one governed gateway, so spend is controlled and visible, with no shadow AI and no scattered subscriptions.

04

Knowledge stops leaving with people.

Requirements, decisions, diffs, and test results live in one versioned memory, not in someone's head or a closed chat. A new engineer can use that history during onboarding instead of reconstructing earlier decisions.

05

You govern the tools you already have.

Greenlight works alongside GitHub Copilot and Cursor. It doesn't replace them. It puts verification and sign-off around the tools your team already reaches for.

HOW TO START

Start small and measured.

Softobiz configures Greenlight - Engineer to your standards and runs it as a managed engine, so you get the output and the governance without building or operating the platform yourself.

STEP 01

Configure to your standards

Your architecture principles, security rules and conventions become the standards the system enforces.

STEP 02

Point it at one real engagement

Greenfield first, where value proves fastest.

STEP 03

Keep the human greenlight

At every gate. That is what makes the speed safe to keep.

STEP 04

Compare against your own baseline

Not our benchmark. Yours, measured before and after.

Cycle timeEscaped defectsCost per delivered task
SEQUENCING

Governed acceleration first, then autonomy, never the reverse. Earn trust and results with the human greenlight in place, and extend autonomy only where the evidence supports it.

ONE ENGAGEMENT, MEASURED AGAINST YOUR OWN BASELINE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Before you start with Applied Engineering.

No. We configure Greenlight around the tools and engineering standards your team already uses, adding independent checks and human approval to the delivery workflow.

We configure and run Greenlight as a managed engine. Your engineers retain the go or no-go decision at the agreed approval gates. Our agentic AI governance approach explains how responsibilities and escalation boundaries are set.

No check can guarantee that every defect will be found. Independent verification, automated tests and human review provide separate checks against agreed requirements. We measure escaped defects and rework alongside delivery speed.

We start with one engagement and compare cycle time, escaped defects and cost per delivered task against your baseline. The approximately fivefold cost reduction shown here is an internal modelled target, not a proven result or a guaranteed saving.

TWO THINGS TO TAKE WITH YOU

Model it against your own numbers.

PRODUCT BRIEF

See the AI-led delivery lifecycle.

Review the stages, approval gates and controls that keep engineers accountable for what reaches production.

CALCULATOR

Cost per delivered task, on your inputs.

Model the economics against your own team size, throughput, and rework rate, so the number is yours, not ours.