AI-DLC

AI writes the code. Who runs it in production?

AI-DLC turns months of building into days. CloudThinker is the operations layer that reviews, secures, and runs everything your coding agents ship.

AI coding tools like Codex and Claude send code changes and pull requests through CloudThinker — PR review, security check, regression detection, infra validation, safe release — into stable, secure production
The new speed
10–15×
development velocity teams report with AI-DLC ways of working
The new speed
76 days
for 6 engineers to rebuild what was scoped at 40 engineers × 1 year
The new risk
2×
the rate AI-assisted commits leak secrets vs human-only code
The new risk
10+
catalogued production incidents from coding agents in 16 months
The AI era

Construction got fast. The bottleneck moved to operations.

AI-DLC solved intent-to-code. Everything after the diff — review, security, cost, incidents — still runs at human speed.

Code arrives faster than you can review it

A bolt lands in hours. Every diff still needs security, performance, and architecture review.

Every release is new attack surface

AI-assisted code leaks secrets at twice the human rate. An annual pentest can't keep up.

Production is where AI needs guardrails

Coding agents have deleted live databases. Production autonomy demands scoped credentials, sandboxes, and audit.

At AI speed, every team faces the same three options.

Slow down

Gate every bolt on human-speed review. You give back the 10–15× you adopted AI for.

Ship unchecked

Ship AI code unreviewed — while attackers accelerate with AI too. You become the next incident.

Operate at AI speed

Specialist agents on review, security, cost, and incidents — under your policy, with full audit. The only option that scales.

The lifecycle

AI-DLC has three phases. Most teams only tooled two.

Inception
Intent → plan

Mob elaboration: humans and AI turn business intent into requirements, stories, and units of work.

Covered by coding agents
Kiro
Construction
Plan → code

Bolts of hours, not sprints of weeks: AI generates code and tests, humans validate every step.

Covered by coding agents
intent-to-diff, at 10–15× velocity
OperationsCLOUDTHINKER
Code → running system

The coding agent produces the diff. CloudThinker's agents review it, pentest it, gate the release, watch the spend, and take the pager.

Same human-oversight principle as AI-DLC itselfScoped credentials, sandboxed execution, full auditWorks with any coding agent — the two layers compose
Platform

Specialist agents for the operations half of AI-DLC

Not generic AIOps wrappers — agents shaped to the work that follows every AI-generated release.

Code Review

Every AI-authored MR, validated before merge

Security, performance, correctness, and pattern findings on every merge request — with one-click fixes. 128 AI-authored MRs validated in one week.

app.cloudthinker.io/code-review
Code Review — AI-authored MRs validated before merge, findings by security, performance, correctness and patterns, review time saved

Cyber

Ship a bolt, get a pentest

Every release is tracked as attack surface: risk trend, SLA clocks, and a remediation funnel from triage to verified fix — 0% false positives.

app.cloudthinker.io/appsec
Cyber Security Command Center — open risk trend, remediation funnel, SLA status and open findings by severity

Resolve

Root cause found, fix staged — you approve

Resolve investigates before you arrive: what happened, which PR caused it, and a reversible fix with cited evidence. You just approve.

app.cloudthinker.io/dre
Deep Response Engine — incident triage with root cause found, staged fix awaiting one-click approval

CostOps

AI velocity, with the bill under control

CostOps finds recoverable spend — including the LLM bill — and applies fixes like model tiering with one click.

app.cloudthinker.io/costops
CostOps — cloud spend overview with AI-discovered savings, quick wins ready to apply and Keeper findings
Governance

Velocity you can defend to an auditor

AI-DLC's rule is AI executes, humans oversee. CloudThinker applies it to production: agents act inside guardrails you define, and every action is attributable.

Start recommend-only. Expand autonomy as trust builds.

Graduated autonomy

Read-only → approve-to-act → autonomous, per agent and per environment.

Approval workflows

Sensitive operations wait for a named human; change windows are enforced.

Sandboxed execution

Brokered identity, scoped credentials, sensitive data tokenized at the boundary.

Tamper-evident audit

Who asked, what ran, who approved — SOC 2 Type II, BYOK available.

Getting started

Your first 30 days

No architecture changes, no migration project. Agents start read-only and earn autonomy as you build trust.

Day 1
See your cloud the way an attacker does

Connect read-only. Agents map your infrastructure and surface the first verified findings — before your next sprint review.

Week 2
Apply the quick wins

Approve the low-risk, high-confidence actions. Most teams recover 15–25% of cloud spend in this pass alone.

Month 1
Operations runs at bolt speed

Releases review and pentest themselves, routine incidents auto-resolve — your team works on the next bolt, not the pager.

Start Trial

Complete your AI-DLC.

Velocity isn't optional — and neither is operating it. Connect read-only and see verified findings within 48 hours.

  • No architecture changes required
  • Starts read-only
  • SOC 2 Type II