Apex · AI-driven development lifecycle (AIDLC)

Ship software faster,
with humans in control.

Apex runs the software development lifecycle as a chain of AI digital clones, one per team role. Each takes the previous role’s work, does its part and hands on a structured artifact, with a human review at every handoff.

  • A human reviews every handoff
  • Works with Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub and GitLab
  • Your content stays in your own systems

The challenge

Faster coding is not faster delivery.

  • Problem 1

    Point-tool AI, not lifecycle AI

    Coding assistants speed up one stage while design, testing and review stay manual. The bottleneck just moves.

  • Problem 2

    Lost context at every handoff

    The reasoning behind a decision lives in someone’s head or a chat thread, so the next role re-derives it.

  • Problem 3

    All-or-nothing trust

    Tools that run the whole lifecycle offer no checkpoint. Teams trust the black box completely or not at all.

The pipeline

A digital clone for every role.

Every role your delivery team already has gets a matching AI clone that works on that role’s inputs, in that role’s own format, so a person in the role can review it the way they would review a colleague’s work.

  1. 01

    Business Analyst

    Produces the PRD

  2. 02

    Scrum Master

    Produces the sprint plan

  3. 03

    Architect

    Produces the design doc

  4. 04

    Developer

    Produces code and unit tests

  5. 05

    QA / Tester

    Produces the test report

  6. 06

    Reviewer

    Produces the review verdict

Not a replacement for a team. A digital mirror of one. Clones fill in the PRDs, plans, designs and pull requests you already use, in the tools you already use.

Human in the loop

Nothing moves on until a person says so.

Every artifact waits for review by the human who owns the next role. As trust grows, you can relax the gate role by role, without loosening it anywhere else.

  • Approve

    Move it on

    The artifact is approved and unlocks the next role.

  • Edit & approve

    Make it yours

    Change a design decision or acceptance criteria. Your edited version is what moves downstream.

  • Reject

    Send it back

    The clone re-drafts using your comments as extra context.

Fits how you work

On top of your tools, not instead of them.

Apex is tool-agnostic. Tickets, code and pipelines stay in the systems you already use, whether that is Jira or Azure Boards, GitHub, Azure Repos or GitLab. Which ones is a project setting. Documents and code are written straight into your own repositories and wikis, not copied into ours.

  • Greenfield

    Starting from a blank slate

    The Architect and Developer clones design and scaffold from the PRD and sprint plan.

  • Brownfield

    Working in your existing codebase

    Apex first maps your repo: structure, conventions and dependencies. Clones then extend existing modules, follow your patterns and flag conflicts instead of overriding them.

See Apex on your own codebase.

Tell us about your delivery process and we will show you where a clone fits first.

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