Steer, by Pento

The platform for building good, secure software, fast.

Pento runs every project on Steer, from ERP workflows and legacy migrations to ecommerce search, AI features, data pipelines and integrations. Our engineers write the spec, and agents write the code on branches in your GitHub, with every cloud run in its own isolated machine. Steer merges nothing into your main branch until a person approves it.

Your name, a work email and your website are enough to start · an engineer reads every request

01 / Good

Every project starts from a written spec, split into tasks with acceptance criteria. Each task comes back with an evidence report of what changed, the tests that ran and screenshots of anything on screen.

02 / Secure

Every cloud run gets a fresh, isolated machine that is thrown away when the run ends. Each git action uses a short-lived token that reaches only your project's repositories, and nothing merges into your main branch through Steer until a person approves it.

03 / Fast

Steer breaks each spec into ordered waves of tasks. Several agents can work at the same time, each in its own machine, while our engineers review what comes back.

Coding agents cut the cost of building software. The spec and the review decide whether it is good.

Most companies carry software they rent or keep putting off: the workflows the ERP won't do, the migration that never made the budget, store search that lets shoppers down, the report someone rebuilds by hand every month.

Agents can now write much of that code. Left unchecked, they also ship bugs and security holes. We built Steer around that risk. Every task starts from a written spec, and every cloud run happens in a fresh machine that is thrown away afterward. Each finished task comes back with an evidence report, and your reviewers read it before anything merges through Steer. That is also how we can quote a fixed price and a fixed date.

Where the engineering time goes now
Before AI
Implementation was the bottleneck
PLAN 20%
IMPLEMENT 60%
VERIFY 20%
After AI
Judgment is the bottleneck
PLAN 40%
IMPLEMENT 20%
VERIFY 40%
Agents do the implementation. Our engineers spend their time writing the spec and checking the result.
The team behind it

Steer is built by Pento. Our engineers have shipped production software for more than 15 years, including AI search that runs for clients like Mercado Libre.

Experience
15+
years shipping production software
Scale
1.4B
searches a month, Mercado Libre among them
Search lift
+30%
conversion with Pento's AI search

Every company has a system it has learned to work around.

The ERP keeps the books while quoting, scheduling and approvals live in spreadsheets around it. The search vendor bills monthly and ships its own roadmap. Agencies quote in hours, and the date moves.

We build the piece you are missing one bounded project at a time, each quoted with a fixed price and a fixed date, and the code lives in your repositories.

ERP and operations
The workflows NetSuite or SAP won't do
The usual quoteCustom module · hourly quote · vendor roadmap · a date that moves
On SteerBuilt for your process · connected to your ERP · code is yours

Scheduling, quoting, customer portals and approvals, built as software you own and connected to your system of record, which keeps the books as it does today. When a legacy system has to go, we move it one subsystem at a time, each piece specced, checked and approved on its own.

Describe the workflow →
Ecommerce
When native search stops being enough
The usual quoteSearch vendor · monthly bill · their roadmap · their data terms
On SteerTuned to your catalog · fixed price · code is yours

AI search and recommendations tuned to your catalog, voice assistants for the web and the store floor, and agent-ready storefronts with ACP and UCP support. For online stores, the free audit includes a search review run by a swarm of agents and checked by a specialist.

Request the search audit →

✳ The same approach covers document management, forecasting with ML, data engineering and custom integrations. The audit shows where to start.

What we build.

Each of these is a project with its own scope, price and date, quoted after the audit shows where it pays off. All of them run on Steer through the same evidence and approval steps, and the code is yours.

01ERP and operationsScheduling, quoting, portals and approvals that NetSuite or SAP won't do, built as software you own and connected to your system of record.
02MigrationsLegacy systems and aging platforms moved one subsystem at a time, each piece specced, checked and approved before the next one starts.
03EcommerceAI search and recommendations, voice assistants for the web and in-store, and ACP and UCP support so agents can find, compare and buy from you.
04Product and catalog dataProduct lifecycle management, image optimization, metadata creation, and data normalization and validation.
05Forecasting and MLMachine learning models, trained on your own data, that forecast the metrics you run the business on and help optimize them.
06Data, integrations and documentsCustom integrations, data engineering, business intelligence and document management across the systems you already run.

Audit, consult, execute. The first step is free.

Nothing is quoted before the audit. The same engineers run all three steps in the same workspace.

01
Audit
Free · your software and operations

We review the systems you run, the work people do by hand around them, the data moving between them and the software you rent. For online stores, it includes a search audit run by a swarm of agents. You get a written report of what we found, and it is yours to keep whatever you decide.

Request the audit →
02
Consulting
The audit, read against your goals

We read the findings next to your business goals and your numbers to pick the quick wins and the projects with the highest return. You leave with a one-page scope, a fixed price and a fixed date for the first one, before any code exists.

03
Execution
Fixed price · fixed date · on Steer

Our engineers and AI agents deliver the project on Steer, in a workspace your team signs in to. Each finished task comes with an evidence report, and Steer merges nothing into your main branch until a person approves it.

After launch, the same engineers can keep it running.

See how we deliver →

Every project runs on Steer. Your team can watch it happen.

Specs, tasks, agent sessions, pull requests and evidence reports live in one Steer workspace. Our engineers work in it, your team signs in to it with its own accounts, and every approval records who made it and when.

platform.steerdev.com/acme
Example · Acme workspace
● AGENTS RUNNING3 PRDS IN FLIGHT@MAYA · @TOM · @YOU
PRD-014 · QUOTING PORTAL · NETSUITEWAVE 2/4
Quote approval flow
● AGENT-03 · RUNNING
NetSuite item sync
MERGED · CANAL-09
Customer portal login
QUEUED · WAVE 3
PRD-015 · AI SEARCH & RECOMMENDATIONSWAVE 3/5
Zero-results fallback
MERGED · CANAL-09
Recommendation widget
● AGENT-04 · RUNNING
ACP product feed
QUEUED · WAVE 4
PRD-016 · LEGACY BILLING MIGRATIONWAVE 2/4
Invoice history import
DONE · PR #479
Invoice parity check
● NEEDS STEER · @MAYA
Cutover checklist
QUEUED · WAVE 3
Stage 01 · PRDs in

Work enters as plain-English requirement docs (PRDs). Clarifying questions get answered and the PRD is approved before any task exists. It is what gets priced and what the finished software is checked against.

This board is an example, filled with sample data. See the three steps →

FAQ

The questions that come up on every first call.

01Is the audit really free?Yes. We review your systems, workflows and data and write up what we find. You keep the report whether or not you hire us, and there is no paid version of the audit.
02Do you only work with online stores?No. Ecommerce is one area we work in. We also build the workflows an ERP won't do, legacy migrations, AI and ML features, data pipelines, integrations and document management. The audit shows which of these pays off first for you.
03Who does the work?AI agents do the implementation, several at a time, each in its own machine. Our engineers write the specs, steer each wave of tasks and review the evidence. Your team signs in to the same workspace and can follow every session.
04How do you keep our code and systems secure?Every cloud run happens in a fresh, isolated machine with a hard time limit, and the machine is shut down and thrown away when the run ends. Agents never keep a standing GitHub token. Each git action gets a short-lived one that reaches only your project's repositories. AI provider keys are stored encrypted and decrypted only for the run that needs them.
05How do we know the work is good?Every project starts from a written spec, and every task carries acceptance criteria. Each finished task comes with an evidence report showing what changed, the tests that ran and screenshots of anything on screen. Steer merges nothing into your main branch until a person on the project approves it, and when your repository has CI, it also waits for CI to pass.
06What does it cost?Every project gets one fixed price and one fixed date, in writing before any code exists. We quote after the audit, because the audit is what sets the scope. Keeping it running after launch is a separate line on the quote.
07What happens to our data?It is used to build and run your software. We never use your code, documents or content to train models, and we sign an NDA before you send anything sensitive.
08Who owns the code?You do. The code lives in your GitHub repositories from the first commit, and agents work on branches and pull requests there, so you keep the full history. If we part ways, the code and its history stay with you.
Audit request

Request the free audit.

Tell us about the company and the systems you run. We review your software and operations and send back a report of what we found, including the one project we would start first.

Reads itThe engineer who would run the project.RepliesWith the report and one named project, or with the reason we are the wrong fit.

We sign an NDA before you send anything sensitive, so this first note only needs the basics.

Or talk it through first

Talk to the engineer who would run the project.

If a workflow lives in spreadsheets, a legacy system is due to retire, or your store's search keeps letting shoppers down, put a time on the calendar. You can talk to us before the audit too.

Prefer email? steerdev@pento.ai

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