Marc von HolzenCohesion — Quality Scales With Velocity
AI agents can build fast, but are they building the right thing? This engagement ensures your architecture guides agent output.
Best Suited For
Architects and Product leaders who need to ensure AI-assisted development stays aligned with strategic technical decisions.
Your current architecture is understood differently by different parts of the organization.
You need to carefully integrate disparate systems before embarking on the next large refactoring.
You have legacy but critical code no-one truly understands.
What We Deliver
Your architecture becomes the source of truth, and agents and engineers alike work from a shared understanding of how the system should evolve.
- Architecture of every component documented in agent-consumable formats
- Automated compliance checking catches drift early
- Clear escalation paths for architectural questions
- All stakeholders provide guidelines consumed by agents
We apply these practices together for all the systems your team owns.
Outcome
Higher quality because the pieces fit together
Disparities shrink, fewer bugs reach production
Your team solves the hard problems that have been in your backlog for years, with no regressions
Key Integrations
- Architecture and Product artifacts synchronized and improved through feedback loops
- All stakeholders involved and iterating to solve hard problems
Activities
Define
Articulate your architecture in a form that agents can use. Document the decisions, patterns, and constraints that define how your system should evolve.
- Identify artifacts beyond guidelines that drive architecture (technical strategy, key engineering principles, product direction, UX guidelines, architecture diagrams)
- Convert diagrams and visual content to text-based formats for agent consumption
- Setup agents capable of document conversions
- Document non-functional requirements, error handling patterns, and performance goals
- Establish clear ownership for each artifact type
- Transition stakeholders to work directly in version control where possible
Align
Connect your architecture documentation to your development workflow. Ensure agents have access to the context they need to make good decisions.
- Identify and codify which architecture departures are acceptable and which ones require review
- Create subagent skills tailored to architecture compliance checking
- Define clear escalation paths for architectural questions and guidelines for handling deviations
- Set up automated adherence checking including techniques to avoids agreeable agents
Verify
Build verification into your process. Create checkpoints that catch architectural drift before it becomes technical debt.
- Review alerts to distinguish between unintentional drift and intentional experiments
- Update architecture compliance guidelines accordingly
- Identify possible experiments and track initial opportunities and challenges
Roadmap
Ready to Align Your Agents?
Let's discuss how to make your architecture guide AI-assisted development.
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