Solutions for the CTO
For the CTO
Review that keeps pace with coding agents, rules that learn, and a morning that starts from decisions, not queues.
The jobsyou would bring.
A seat is a role a person and an agent hold together; the escalation matrix says who decides above each limit, seat by seat.
- Code review and release that keep pace with coding agentsEvery pull request to its owner; above a limit, up the escalation matrix.Who decides · Ana Okafor · Head of platform · above the service owner’s limitSee how it runs
- From idea to productionOne feature from a customer’s ask to the release.Who decides · Lena Fischer · Head of product · a change to the committed quarterSee how it runs
- Security and compliance gatesFindings become requests; critical ones reach the security lead the same day.Who decides · Priya Nair · Security lead · critical findings, the same daySee how it runs
- Environments and production changesOne request for an environment; production changes owned.Who decides · Ana Okafor · Head of platform · capacity above the standard quotaSee how it runs
- Rules you write, checked before work countsYour rules, versioned, checked before work counts.Who decides · Ana Okafor · Owner of the rulebook · every change to a ruleSee how it runs
- The rules could learnWhen a rule keeps escalating, the agent proposes the change.Who decides · Daniel Ruiz · CTO · a change to a ruleSee how it runs
- Which models each seat may useWhich models each seat may call, through one gateway.Who decides · Daniel Ruiz · CTO · a new model for a seatSee how it runs
- A coding agent joins the teamA coding agent joins like an engineer: a seat, an owner, limits.Who decides · Marcus Oyelaran · Department head · a new agent seatSee how it runs
- Ask the record who approved it, and whyThe auditor asks; the record answers.Who decides · The compliance owner · evidence that leaves the companySee how it runs
- Change the organizationA team split as a job, not a reorganization.Who decides · Marcus Oyelaran · Department head · teams split, merged or renamedSee how it runs
A day with an agenton your team.
A Tuesday at Halden, a fictional software company, with an agent in the invoicing service’s seat beside Sofia Brandt, through to the CTO’s Wednesday morning.
08:40Tue
HAREQ-2214Schema change: invoicing service
Payments · opened from the repository
REQ-2211Dependency upgrade: auth library
Platform
REQ-2209Release 4.12 readiness
Release
REQ-2203Incident follow-up: payouts delay
SRE
REQ-2198Access: contractor to staging
SRE
Illustration · Halden, a fictional company
Start with howyou run today.
Bring one piece of work that breaks at the handoffs: a pull request waiting on three reviewers, an initiative spread across twelve tools, a release nobody owns. We model the seats it crosses, give one of them an agent, and follow one decision to its record.