The agentic SDLC: AI agents, thirteen phases.
Our delivery lifecycle runs on a system of AI agents working together across thirteen phases, from discovery to continuous improvement. Senior engineers review and approve every decision an agent makes. This is the same agentic system we build for clients. This page explains what happens in each phase, what you review, and what you approve.
The full lifecycle, phase by phase.
01Discovery
Understand the business context, stakeholders, and constraints before anything else.
02Business Analysis
Map current processes and quantify where software (and AI) changes the economics.
03Requirements Gathering
Turn goals into testable, prioritized requirements: AI-assisted, human-approved.
04Planning
Scope, milestones, staffing, and risk register agreed before build begins.
05UI/UX Design
Interfaces designed around real workflows, validated with prototypes.
06System Architecture
An architecture sized for your next 10x, not just today's load.
07Development
Senior engineers shipping in tight, AI-assisted loops with mandatory code review.
08Testing
AI-generated test suites reviewed by engineers; regression runs on every merge.
09Quality Assurance
Manual exploratory passes and acceptance criteria sign-off per milestone.
10Deployment
Automated, repeatable releases with rollback plans as standard.
11Monitoring
Observability, alerting, and SLO tracking from day one in production.
12Maintenance
Patches, dependency updates, and performance care on a defined cadence.
13Continuous Improvement
Production telemetry feeds the roadmap. The lifecycle never really ends.
Common questions
Yes. Every engagement runs the same thirteen phases, and the depth of each one scales to the work. The sequence is fixed so nothing is skipped quietly; the effort inside a phase is not.
A system of specialized AI agents works inside every phase: drafting requirements, generating and reviewing code, authoring tests, and watching production. Senior engineers review and approve what the agents produce at each step.
You approve at each phase boundary: requirements before design begins, system architecture before development starts, and a working demo at every build milestone.
Yes. Work on an existing system opens with an architecture review and delivery audit, so the remaining phases run against a documented baseline rather than assumptions.