An engagement flows through Blueprint into Agentic Builder, with Compass as a knowledge layer feeding both. Excavator is a second way to populate Blueprint, so the same machinery serves new builds and legacy rebuilds.
Specifications become reviewable contracts that clients approve before any code is generated.
Failures surface in stakeholder-readable form, not buried in logs only an engineer can parse.
Economics are dominated by labor rather than compute, which changes what is worth automating.
Audit traceability is first-class, recorded as a matter of course rather than reconstructed after the fact.
The team is a design parameter, with senior people placed where judgment matters most.
The harness paper documents the system, the five design constraints, and an honest defect analysis.