Products
cpe-app and linkdown — niche SaaS and consumer products I'm building with a small team of agents, to push the boundaries of what agents can ship.
Software studio · est. 2026
AI ships code faster than your team can review it. I help you catch up.
Twenty years of full-stack and distributed-systems engineering. I ship products, I take engagements to rescue AI projects that have gotten out of hand, and I publish the methodology in public so other teams can adopt it.
The product is the product.
Models, harnesses, and the surrounding tooling are ingredients. What we ship is what matters — and shipping well in 2026 takes expertise, good taste, and a small team of agents working under explicit constraints. In his AI Engineer Europe talk, Brendan O'Leary frames it this way: working with agents, not just using them. Dex Horthy's 12-Factor Agents names the rest of the discipline — own your context, own your prompts, own your agent loop.
What I mean by "agentic engineering"
Agentic engineering is the practice of becoming proficient with AI coding agents and shipping systems that can be externally validated. You're learning what the agents do well, what they don't, and how to design the harness so every change is testable, reviewable, and reproducible — not just believable. The team that ships safely in 2026 is the team that ships what they can prove, not what the agent told them.
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Specify first.
No agent run without a written contract: inputs, outputs, tests, and the failure mode.
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Verify, don't trust.
Every change goes through automated checks, a human reviewer, or both. Receipts, not vibes.
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Encode expertise.
Equip every agent with high-quality skills, persistent memory, the right tools, and zero-token architecture for routine work — so the humans review judgment, not boilerplate.
What I do
Three things I do.
I ship my own products, take on focused engagements, and publish what I learn. Every line of code is owned end-to-end.
Engagements
Fixed-scope work for teams that need an experienced engineer to drop in: discovery, build, operate — or rescue an AI project that's gone off the rails.
Practice
The methodology I use, published in public — research skills and the working definition of agentic engineering.
Founder
Who I am.
One studio, one engineer. No contractors, no offshore desk. The person who writes the spec is the person on call.
Garrett
Founder, engineering and product
Tenured software engineer and architect. Twenty years of full-stack and distributed-systems work, currently exploring product development and helping organizations build agentic-engineering expertise and capability.
Have an AI project that's gone off the rails?
Tell me what your agents shipped last week — or the repo your team is afraid to touch.