your engineering team. on a monthly engagement.
a dedicated pod of engineers and AI agents running your roadmap. same faces every week. flat monthly fee. no token bills. full transparency through the steerdev workspace.
80% AI execution. 20% human judgment. 100% accountable to a real team you can talk to.
software consultancies were built for a world that's gone.
the consultancy model was designed when implementation took 70% of the time and senior engineers were the bottleneck. AI changed the math. most consultancies are still pricing and staffing as if it didn't.
slow without a reason
a feature that should ship in two weeks is quoted in two months. you're paying for typing time AI can do in an afternoon.
black-box delivery
you get status reports. you don't get specs, agent sessions, evidence. when something slips, nobody can show you why.
locked into the model
the methodology is whatever your account manager remembers from a 2018 scrum certification. it doesn't bend to your project's risk profile.
80% agents. 20% humans. 100% steered.
the productive ratio for AI-native software is roughly 80/20: agents handle execution, humans handle judgment. our pods are sized and priced for that ratio — you don't pay for typing time AI can do.
dedicated pod
a small team of engineers and agents assigned to your roadmap. same faces every week. no rotating "resources."
weekly cadence, risk-scoped iterations
low-risk work ships in days. high-risk work gets the verification it deserves. no fixed two-week sprint just because the calendar said so.
transparent workspace
you have a seat in the steerdev workspace. specs, task waves, agent sessions, PRs, evidence packages — visible to your team in real time.
flat monthly fee
no time-and-materials. no token markup. no surprise consulting bills. you know what next month costs.
one steering call a week. async the rest of the time.
a typical week. agents execute continuously inside the workspace; your team drops in when they want to. one synchronous touchpoint anchors the week — everything else moves async.
the methodology underneath the cadence is mini-cascades. you don't have to learn it. you just see it working.
you don't pay for hours. you pay for shipped, verified work.
faster. better. cheaper. pick all three.
this works best for teams that want a partner. not a vendor.
for the founder without an engineering team
you have a product to build and you don't want to hire 8 engineers to do it. you want a pod that can ship like a senior in-house team, with a methodology you can trust.
for the head of digital / head of product at a mid-market company
you have a roadmap that's bigger than your in-house team. you've burned cycles on consultancies that overpromised. you want speed and transparency without losing control.
for the operator modernizing legacy systems
you have systems built before the cloud and a team that's already underwater. you want to migrate, modernize, and not be locked into another decade of vendor dependence.
from first call to first ship, in two weeks.
discovery call
we listen, you describe. no slides.
scope brief
a one-page brief: what we'd do in the first cascade, who's on the pod, what success looks like.
kickoff cascade
first mini-cascade runs. you watch the workspace fill up. by end of week, the first PRs ship.
monthly cadence
same pod, same workspace. roadmap evolves with you.
your roadmap.
our pod.
one workspace.
we work with a small number of engaged teams at a time. if your roadmap needs a partner that ships at the speed of AI without the chaos, we should talk.
prefer email? leo@pento.ai
one methodology. three ways to start.
all three flow through the same mini-cascade methodology. pick the one that fits your team's shape.