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How we work

From Ground Truth to working software.

AI products require a shift from building features that work to calibrating systems that learn. We model the business precisely, derive specs from it, and let agents build under evals, guardrails, and human review.

The method

01

Knowledge

Everything we learn about your business, product, data, and constraints.

02

Ground Truth

A precise, validated model, owned, sourced, and kept current.

03

Specs

Capabilities and user stories with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria.

04

Agents + loops

Agents implement; evals verify; guardrails and humans keep it safe.

05

Working software

Production systems derived from the model, not demos.

The CC/CD loop

Two loops, not a straight line.

Continuous Development

Scope the next capability up the agency ladder, prove the logic, then build the application and add evals for it.

Continuous Calibration

Harvest real usage, run evals on live data, triage hallucinations and drift, and tune. No new code when a prompt fix works.

How we know it's right

Evaluation is a build artifact, not an afterthought.

Functional evalsQuality (semantic) evalsEdge-case & adversarialGuardrailsHuman reviewObservability

A fix agent never verifies its own work. Behavior is observable in production: not just what it does, but how it behaves when no one's watching.

We dogfood it

This site is the proof.

Rootstrap's own website is built this way: a validated Ground Truth, specs and user stories, agents and loops, with human review at every gate. Structure before scale.

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