Scope a pilot

AI software delivery for your whole organization

Governance from first principles.

Agents build it. Your people approve it. Arkoria proves it. A coding assistant makes one person faster. Arkoria gets the whole organization delivering. Restart the roadmap you shelved, without an expensive vendor or a bigger team.

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per approved story
$60–$85
for bug stories
$0
fixed-price pilot, 4 weeks
$3,500
Every unit of work, drawn as the Arkoria mark An origin node at the top, the specification a person approved, with two branches descending through hollow gate nodes, each landing as a commit proven to be on main.

01 · OriginA plan a person approved

02 · ClearanceTests first, independent review

03 · Descent proofThe commit landed on main

Lineage · STORY-1042append-only
  1. originspec approvedhuman consent
  2. clearanceplan reviewed · 0 criticalindependent
  3. clearancecriteria 3/3 verifiedobserved
  4. review0 critical · 2 minorindependent
  5. descenta3f9c1e is ancestor of mainobserved

Not another coding agent: the governance your organization puts around a fleet of them

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Work is split into stories, small pieces that a person approves before any code is written. Each one is tested against criteria your people signed off on, checked by an independent reviewer, and closed only once the commit is confirmed in your codebase.

The real bottleneck

A faster developer doesn't make a faster company.

Go back to first principles and writing code was never the slow part. The slow part is everything that makes software safe to own and change.

Three questions your organization now has to answer

  1. 01

    When an agent says the work is done, who checks?

  2. 02

    What has to be true before a change reaches your customers?

  3. 03

    When an auditor, a client or your board asks what happened, what do you hand them?

How Arkoria answers all three

Who it's for

Built for the people who answer for what ships.

Three ways in, depending on whether you buy software delivery, deliver it for clients or already run agents on your own team.

  • Growing companies

    Unblock your roadmap

    Arkoria's engineers build your roadmap on your own codebase, at $85 a story (Managed Delivery). You approve each plan before anything is built, and you keep the documentation and the audit trail.

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  • Systems integrators

    Deliver more per engineer. Improve your margin.

    Put your delivery teams on a governed platform instead of building your own agent orchestration. Your clients get an audit trail they can check, and your teams get through more work.

    See partnership models
  • Teams already running agents

    Keep up with your agents.

    Your agents produce more than your people can review. Arkoria holds the process in place (approved specs, tests first, independent review, proof of merge), so you can stand behind what ships.

    See the platform

Delivering software for clients?

We're recruiting referral, solutions and technology partners.

See partnership models

The whole organization

It takes a whole organization to ship software. Arkoria works for all of it.

Arkoria changes how work moves between everyone who requests it, decides on it, builds it and answers for the result.

  • Asking

    Say what you need, in your own words

    Founders, product and operations describe the need and get back a plan of small, testable stories to read and question.

  • Deciding

    Approve the plan once, before any code exists

    Product owners and tech leads sign off on the scope and the plan. Changing either later takes a new approval, which is recorded too.

  • Building

    Engineers set the rules agents build inside

    Your engineers' time goes to architecture, standards and judgment; agents build inside the rules they set.

  • Answering for it

    Know what shipped, and what it cost

    Leaders, QA and compliance get the full history without anyone writing a report: who approved what, what each review found, and confirmation that the change reached your codebase.

The first principles

No story, no code. No failing test, no code. Not on main, not done.

Four rules hold for every story, regardless of which agent writes the code.

  • 01 · Decide

    No code without a yes

    A person approves the story or the epic it belongs to. The decision is recorded under their name.

  • 02 · Enforce

    Rules an agent can't talk its way around

    Unapproved code, code before its test, shipping without review: each attempt is refused on the spot.

  • 03 · Review

    A second opinion that can say no

    A separate reviewer, the Gate Keeper, starts with a clean slate, checks the work against your rules, and stops it on any critical finding.

  • 04 · Prove

    Done means proven

    Arkoria confirms the change reached the branch it was meant for, and every step goes into a record that can only be added to.

What a refusal looks like.

Runtime enforcement · STORY-1042
  1. DENIEDWrite code before a failing testtests come first, and must fail first
  2. DENIEDCommit on a stale reviewthe review must match the code being committed
  3. DENIEDPush without ship reviewshipping is a gate, not a default

See the six things an agent cannot do

The governed lifecycle

Your people make five decisions. Agents do the rest.

People decide before the work starts and again when it is accepted. Between those two decisions, each step has to pass a check before the next can start, and every step is recorded.

Agents work on their own, and every step is recorded

  1. Human

    Request

  2. Human

    Epic charter

  3. Human

    Story spec and plan

  4. Enforced

    Failing test first

  5. Agents

    Implementation

  6. Independent

    Independent review

  7. Platform

    Ship, with proof it landed

  8. Human

    Testing and acceptance

The fifth human decision, governance change, closes the loop: a retrospective proposes fixes to the rules, and a person approves them before they take effect. See the governed lifecycle, step by step.

How we charge

Others charge for their cost. We charge for your value.

A delivery vendor bills you for hours. An AI tool bills you for seats, tokens or credits. Each of those measures what the work cost the supplier. Arkoria bills only for stories you approved, once they are delivered and verified. Bug stories are never billable. Stories cost $60 to $85 each.

Why Arkoria See pricing
  • Per hourmeasures the vendor's effort
  • Per seatmeasures headcount
  • Per token or creditmeasures model consumption
  • Per generated linemeasures output volume
  • Per approved storymeasures work you approved, delivered

Where the principles come from

Built on practices engineering already trusts.

None of these practices is new. Arkoria makes them hold when agents do most of the work.

INVEST stories, 2003 · tests against approved criteria, 2002 and 2026 · independent inspection, 1976 · measured delivery, 2025

Read the science

“AI doesn't fix a team; it amplifies what's already there.”

Start small

Start with the project you keep putting off.

We'll scope a first piece of it as a Governed Pilot, built and shipped on your own codebase at a fixed price.

Scope a pilot See pricing
Duration
4 weeks from requirements
Price
$3,500 fixed, half on signature and half on delivery
Delivered
One epic of up to 10 stories, shipped with every approval and review recorded
You keep
The code, the documentation, the planning report, a backlog of small, testable stories and a governance report
Scope
One workload, up to five users; cutover, migration and certification out of scope
If you stop
Nothing to unwind, because your source, CI, database and dependencies were never modified