Criteria become a task graph
Your signed criteria are decomposed into dependent tasks, each with its own definition of proven. Vague criteria fail here, on purpose, before they cost anyone money.
Cambrian · the delivery system
Software should be bought finished
Cambrian is the system that makes that sentence possible. It is not for sale and you never log into it. It takes signed acceptance criteria, turns them into a task graph, runs agent teams against it around the clock, and stops at one human gate. What you buy is what comes out the other side.
In numbers
- 68mandates delivered
- 6agents in parallel, typical
- 100%senior-signed output
- 9outcomes productized
Why we exist
The services industry bills the clock. So the clock became the product, and finishing became bad business.
Every hour billed is an incentive to take another hour. We have watched that incentive eat roadmaps for decades, from both sides of the table. AI finally breaks it: when agents do the building, the cost of an outcome stops being proportional to time, and a firm can afford to be paid for the finish line instead.
That is the bigger thing we stand for. Not AI for its own sake: a services industry where the buyer pays for outcomes, the seller carries the risk, and finishing early is good business for everyone. Cambrian is our proof that it works. The mandates are the receipts.
What it does. Three jobs, one gate.
Agent teams run in parallel
Implementation, test and review agents work the graph around the clock, in your stack, in branches. Each task ships with the evidence that it met its bar.
A senior engineer signs, or it does not ship
Nothing reaches your repository unsigned. The gate is the deliberate bottleneck: it is why the warranty is real, and why our capacity number is honest.
And it compounds. Every delivered mandate leaves the system better at the next one. The nine prebuilt mandates exist because Cambrian has built them so often the estimate round became unnecessary.
See the prebuilt nineThe harness · how a mandate actually gets built
Locked on your criteria. Measured every round.
Every mandate runs as a locked goal inside the harness. The signed criteria become the benchmark. Agent teams iterate in rounds against it, and every round is measured, never assumed. A judge reads each round; when progress goes flat or the work drifts off the bar, it stops the loop and puts the question in front of a senior engineer.
BuildMeasure against the barRead the failuresRefine· round after round, until the bar is met
The Cambrian console · the judge stops a loopSample data
The goal is locked
The signed criteria become the benchmark. Nobody, human or agent, edits the bar mid-run. Moving a goalpost means going back through you.
The judge stops drift
A judge reads every round. Flat progress, rising cost, or work that stops moving the measured number halts the loop and raises the question to a senior engineer.
The gate signs the exit
Autonomy runs until the milestone is hit, never past it. The loop ends when the bar is met and a senior engineer signs the evidence, not when the agents feel done.
What we stand for.
- 01
Finish.
Shipped and accepted is the only state that counts. Progress is not a deliverable.
- 02
Evidence over opinion.
Every claim we make to you is a number with a source: criteria, benchmarks, audit logs. We hold our own marketing to it too.
- 03
Names on work.
AI does the labor; people take the responsibility. Anonymous output is not allowed to exist here.
- 04
Say no early.
Wrong work refused on day one is the cheapest gift we can give either side. The refusal list is public.
Cambrian · layer by layer
Five layers make the gate possible.
- IAgent meshA mesh of agents does the work. Capacity scales through the system, not headcount.
- IIGoverned memoryOne governed, time-aware memory. Agents retrieve only what they are cleared to see.
- IIILive environmentsEvery Mandate gets its own production-parity environment with a real database.
- IVVerificationNothing ships until it is proven against a running system, on every change.
- VHuman judgmentAI does the work. Architects own the gate and answer for the outcome.
See what Cambrian would build first.
The probe reads your codebase and quotes your first three mandates. Free, 20 minutes.