Software factories, built to operate in your organisation
From your backlog to verified results — and beyond
Axiom Lane builds and commissions software factories that execute well-defined engineering work through isolated agents, automated checks and controlled review. Start with that complete execution capability; add event-driven intake and planning later if you want incoming signals to become actionable work automatically.
Your infrastructure or cloud. Your policies. Your team in control.
Start with execution — extend upstream when ready
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Execute ready work
Phase 1 — Autonomous execution
Executes engineering work that is already specified and ready for implementation, through isolated agents, automated checks and controlled review.
Ready task → isolated agents → verified result
Fully functional on its own
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Turn signals into work · Optional extension
Phase 2 — Event-driven orchestration
Listens for authorised events, interprets them under policy, and hands ready work — or a decision — to the existing Phase-1 factory.
Events → context → decision → ready task
Feeds the existing Phase-1 factory
Build Phase 1 first; Phase 2 sits upstream when added.
Phase 1 does not need Phase 2. If your team already has well-defined issues and approved plans, the factory can execute them immediately. Add Phase 2 when you want the system to respond to events and help turn incoming signals into executable work.
About us
We got here by building it
Our background is in hands-on software and infrastructure engineering, and technology leadership — not simply experimenting with the latest coding agents. We have built and operated integrated engineering workflows, worked through their failures and trade-offs, and learned what it takes to move from a convincing demonstration to dependable operations. That experience is what we bring to your organisation.
What we learned the hard way
- Isolation
- Reproducibility
- Verification
- Cost
- Integration
- Team adoption
A complete system around the agents
In Phase 1, a ready task enters a durable execution workflow: the factory provisions a clean, isolated worker, the configured agents apply the already-agreed change, the repository's checks run, and the result returns for human review with its evidence. The agents are one component of that system.
Phase 2, when added, sits upstream of this pipeline — interpreting authorised events and preparing work for the same execution path. It is not required: Phase 1 runs without it.
Human oversight stays in the loop where it belongs: architectural decisions, risk approval and production release. Failed validation loops back or escalates — a run that fails verification is never silently promoted.
Explore the engineering-
Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage capacity — existing, refurbished or new.
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Workflow coordination
Planning, durable task state, scheduling, retries and limits.
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Agent execution
A clean, isolated environment per task, with the agent’s harness inside it.
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Verification and integration
Your repositories, CI, test gates and review process — wired in, not bolted on.
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Visibility and operating knowledge
Status and evidence for every task, plus the runbooks and training your team operates on.
Illustrative — the same work, at two levels of automation
One scenario, two levels of automation
Phase 1 — autonomous execution
An approved dependency-upgrade issue is ready. The factory allocates a worker, applies the change, runs the tests and opens a reviewable pull request with evidence.
With Phase 2 — optional extension
A dependency alert or issue comment arrives. The system correlates it with the backlog, proposes a scoped update, requests any required approval and hands the ready task to that same execution factory.
Same execution engine. Broader automation around it.
Engineers spend more time engineering
The machinery around coding agents — environments, sessions, retries, coordination — keeps eating senior attention. The limiting resource increasingly becomes human attention, not code generation.
What the factory carries
- Environment setup and teardown, every time
- Keeping individual agent sessions moving
- Coordinating parallel work around shared machines
- Assembling the evidence that changes are safe
What your engineers keep
- Defining problems worth solving
- Design and architecture decisions
- Domain and product judgement
- Reviewing and approving changes
* The benefit applies to suitable, bounded work. The capability supports your engineers — it does not remove them from review or decisions about risk and release.
Why Axiom Lane
Infrastructure, integration and economics
We make heterogeneous resources and the engineering systems you already own work together within a measured capacity plan.
See: Representative capacity examples on the economics page, and the deployment design behind them.
Orchestration at scale
We engineer durable, coordinated workflows across agents, tools and infrastructure — with deterministic code enforcing the rules.
See: The task lifecycle and its visible controls on the engineering page.
Practical delivery and enablement
We carry the build through commissioning and hand your team the runbooks, workflows and training to operate it.
See: The commissioning and handover evidence per delivery area
* Your environment. Your preferred technologies where practical. Our experience making the whole system work.
How we validate a delivered factory
Before handover, a delivered factory is validated against the intended workflow rather than demonstrated once. Three criteria decide whether it is accepted — see the worked example or request a walkthrough.
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01 · Agreed criteria
The representative workflow runs against acceptance criteria agreed before work starts, so both sides know exactly what commissioned means.
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02 · Failure and recovery
The same validation includes a failing check and its bounded correction or escalation — recovery is demonstrated, not assumed.
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03 · Recorded evidence
Check results, task records and the review trail become handover artefacts your team can audit and reuse.
Start with one suitable workflow
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Reproducible environment
Known setup, build and test commands for the selected work.
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Meaningful automated checks
Tests that cover the behaviours this work can break.
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Bounded task and acceptance criteria
What may change, and how we will know it is done.
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Scoped access and review
Limited permissions, an explicit review path, named approvers.
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Named operational owner
Someone accountable for exceptions, upgrades and budget.
Existing capabilities count. Gaps — even missing foundations — are not a blocker: the factory's first delegated work can be readiness work itself, improving agentic readiness before it produces features. They can be addressed by your team, by Axiom Lane or both — a bounded pilot does not wait for a whole-of-team transformation.
Own the capability; choose the economics
Existing equipment, purpose-built servers, cloud resources or a hybrid are all supported design options. Model inference and execution infrastructure are separate cost centres — keep them separate in every plan, and evaluate the total before choosing.
Execution compute
Hardware or hosted runtime, storage, networking, power and operations.
Model inference
API, subscription or local model capacity and its separate costs.
Complete delivery, with flexible ways to engage
The default path is a complete, commissioned factory — built, verified and handed to your team to own. The stages of that default path:
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01 · Assess
Environments, pipelines and meaningful tests against the work you intend to delegate.
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02 · Design
Workflows, worker classes, verification gates and economic assumptions from measured representative work.
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03 · Build
Infrastructure, orchestration, execution, verification and visibility — connected to your repositories, CI and review.
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04 · Commission
The real workflow, including failure and recovery.
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05 · Enable
Training, runbooks and supervised operation.
You can also commission selected parts of the system or build alongside your engineers — the same components, at a smaller scope. The working patterns and what each includes are compared on the business page.
Ready to commission your factory?
The first conversation covers your desired workflow, your existing environment, your constraints and a potential next step — no preparation needed beyond that.