How it works
Production is the starting evidence. A reviewed System Specification is the contract we agree to build and prove against. Five stages, each with an output your team can check.
The method, step by step
Each step produces something your team can review before the next one starts. The diagram follows a single illustrative workflow.
01 · Observe
Through a guided, semi-automated setup we connect application instrumentation, request traffic and available product analytics, read the schema and map reporting dependencies. Each pass adds evidence. Behavior that has not been observed stays an explicit gap.
No change to what your customers see.
02 · Specify
Owners and engineers review workflows, rules, data relationships and exceptions. When coverage and confidence are sufficient for an agreed scope, a versioned System Specification is approved, with testable outcomes and known limits. Unresolved gaps lead to more observation or a narrower scope.
Your owners approve what gets built.
03 · Build
Engineering agents rebuild the scoped workflow on a modern architecture in short, tightly scoped sprints against the approved specification. Engineers review the results. Relevant production changes update the contract and its tests, so the rebuild tracks a moving business.
Built alongside. No customer traffic yet.
04 · Prove
Both implementations are compared against the same specification. We check business outcomes, data and reports, permissions and performance, and resolve differences before the replacement takes on any responsibility.
Differences are measured, not assumed away.
05 · Shift
We shift a bounded workflow or cohort at a time, with acceptance criteria, a data transition plan and rollback. Evidence and the contract stay current, then the next agreed priority starts. Your team approves each transition.
Your pace. Your approval. A way back at every step.
If a freeze is required
Some replacement plans need a period of stable behavior or schema during reconstruction, validation or cutover. A freeze is not assumed: parallel builds and incremental replacement do not need a whole-system freeze. Where one is needed, we agree what it covers and how much interruption the business can accept.
Humans and agents on one board
Business analyst, architect, developer, QA and DevOps roles run each item through declared stages. People step in at the gates that matter: plan review, merge, open findings and budget. Nothing moves to production without your team's approval.
What you can inspect
Observe
Correlated requests, jobs, queries and outcomes, with provenance, version history and known unknowns.
Specify
A versioned contract of rules, data and acceptance tests. Enough to build and prove, with its limits stated.
Build
Each workflow's items, owners, stage and cost, and every change as a reviewed pull request in your repository.
Prove
Outcome, data, permission and performance differences, and how each one was resolved.
Shift
Acceptance criteria, cohorts, rollback steps and the record of every transition.
Ongoing
Pages that stay current as linked work reaches done, so the next renewal starts from what is known.
Book a 30-minute conversation about one priority and the system behind it. You leave with a practical first step.