The Core · 1.0 FTE
One forward-deployed engineer (FDE), full-time and dedicated. An AI-native generalist who runs ticket to spec to plan to PR, with deterministic gates. Pods start at one FDE and scale with the roadmap.
AI-NATIVE SOFTWARE DELIVERY SERVICES
AI SDLC as a service:
ticket to spec to plan to PR.
Embedded engineering pods, one dedicated FDE plus a lean orbit, join your standups and run an agentic SDLC inside your existing codebase. Pod live in 2 weeks. Month-to-month.
Get expert help with your delivery acceleration.
AI VELOCITY POD™
A dedicated pod that embeds directly into your team and drives measurable velocity from day one.
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AI Velocity Pods (Forward-Deployed Engineers)
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Legacy System Modernization
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Delivery Telemetry & Reporting
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SDLC Automation (Velocity Core)
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QA Automation & Quality Gates
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Roadmap Acceleration Programs
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Legacy Vendor Replacement
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AI Productivity Acceleration
POD SPEC
What’s in an AI Velocity Pod™
1.5 FTE total: one dedicated builder at the core, a lean orbit of services around it. One monthly price, month-to-month.
The Orbit · 0.5 FTE
Shared services around the core: an AI-productivity lead, pooled PM and BA sized to the work, and a CSM who keeps the sponsor aligned on scope and outcomes. No idle overhead.
AI QA
Once delivery stops being the bottleneck, QA becomes it. The pod automates QA so quality keeps pace with throughput.
Coverage
4-6 hr daily overlap, daily stand-up, weekly demos, on-call runbook.
Telemetry
Baselined on day one: lead time, PR velocity, change-fail, MTTR. Velocity and quality visible weekly on live dashboards.
Governance & Gates
Principal Architect review and a quality gate before every merge. Defined cadence, risk tracking, and visible progress reviews.
Need domain depth? An industry tech partner joins the orbit when the vertical demands it: an RCM billing expert, a claims specialist.
BOOK A DISCOVERY CALLQA AUTOMATION
QA is the next bottleneck. We own it too.
Manual QA at enterprise scale means 3,800 regression tests across 2.8 million lines of code and release cycles that stretch to six months. When delivery speeds up, QA becomes the constraint. Agents compress the regression work, and an embedded QA engineer (SDET) owns what they can’t: test strategy, exploratory testing, and release judgment.
BOOK A DISCOVERY CALLSHIFT-LEFT TESTING
Defects caught at the PR, not in production.
AI-generated test coverage runs at the merge gate. Defects get fixed where they’re cheapest, before they ship.
REGRESSION AUTOMATION
Months of manual regression, compressed.
Agent-built and maintained regression suites that keep pace with pod throughput. Same discipline behind the 85% incident-rate reduction case below.
STANDALONE OR INTEGRATED
A QA track, with or without a pod.
Part of a Velocity Pod engagement, or a scoped QA automation track on its own. Same gates, same telemetry.
CASE STUDIES
Documented results from embedded delivery.
Uplift measured against each client’s own baseline on our Dev Intelligence Platform. Not industry averages.
LOGISTICS PLATFORM
42% faster delivery in 2 months
Embedded pod inside an existing platform team.
Uplift verified against baseline: $160K in annualized value.
- Embedded pod
- Dev Intelligence Platform
- Brownfield
FINTECH SAAS
85% incident rate reduction in 3 months
Release hygiene, quality gates, and AI-native workflows
retuned inside a compliance-heavy environment.
- Quality gates
- CI/CD
- Compliance
INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE
35% faster cycles, 40% higher predictability
Modernized delivery on a decades-old industrial control
platform without disrupting production.
- Legacy modernization
- Governance
- Sprint predictability
An essential part of our engineering team.
ABOUT LIMESTONE
Why teams trust Limestone.
US-facing, nearshore-powered, AI-native since before it was a pitch. Ten years of engineering on the market; applied AI since it could pass a code review.
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Engineers on staff
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Teams served
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Clutch rating, 56 reviews
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Years on Market
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Plug us in where you need us most.
EMBEDDED ENGINEERS
Extra seniority inside your team
Our engineers join your standups, your repos, your rituals. You lead, they deliver, and they act like teammates because that’s what they are.
DEDICATED PODS
A delivery unit with its own engine.
A pod plus structured PM oversight drives a workstream end to end. Cadence, backlog, and risk visibility stay on your dashboards.
FULL OWNERSHIP
You define outcomes. We own
execution.
Hand off the full lifecycle from planning to production. You stay looped in at every gate, without running the machine.
THE PROCESS
How delivery acceleration runs.
Applied AI engineering from baseline to compounding uplift, measured weekly against your own history.
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Diagnostic Sprint
Two weeks. We instrument your delivery with our Dev Intelligence Platform: cycle time, review load, open PR flow, and AI assist hours. You get a baseline and an architecture decision document.
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Pod Selection & Onboarding
Pod matched to your stack and domain. First standup within 2 weeks of signature.
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First Increment in Production
Real code shipped to production inside 30 days. Not a plan for code. Code.
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Weekly Uplift Measurement
Every week, delivery metrics against your baseline. Visible to you, your COO, and your board.
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Release Hygiene Retune
Planning, code review, testing, and release processes rebuilt around AI-native workflows.
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Quality Gates
Principal Architect review before every merge. Speed without change-fail creep, or the speed doesn’t count.
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Scale Pods
When one pod’s numbers hold, the next one starts warm: same telemetry, same standards, compounding output.
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Capability Handoff
If you want it in-house eventually, we train your team on the operating model as we go. The capability stays either way.
INDUSTRIES
Regulated or not, we’ve shipped in your world.
Healthcare, insurance, mortgage & lending, and legal are where we go deepest. Financial services and enterprise SaaS round out the bench. We arrive knowing your constraints, not discovering them on your dime.
Healthcare
Delivery acceleration inside HIPAA boundaries and clinical-grade release discipline.
Built for
- EHR and clinical platform delivery
- Medtech certification-aware releases
- HIPAA-compliant pipelines
- Patient-facing product roadmaps
- Interoperability integrations
- Clinical data platform modernization
Insurance
Roadmap speed that survives SOC 2 and state regulator review.
Built for
- Claims platform acceleration
- Policy admin modernization
- Underwriting workbench delivery
- Fraud and risk system delivery
- Billing engine modernization
- Integration-heavy insurtech stacks
Mortgage & Lending
Lending roadmaps shipped at startup speed with bank-grade evidence trails.
Built for
- Loan origination system delivery
- POS and borrower portal builds
- Servicing platform modernization
- Compliance-heavy release trains
- Document pipeline automation
- Reporting engine modernization
Legal & Professional Services
Document-heavy practices where technology adoption is slow and the caseload isn't.
Built for
- Document analysis and review automation
- Investigation and research platforms
- Matter and case management modernization
- Compliance-grade audit trails
- Limited-IT-resource environments
Financial Services
Fintech and banking platforms where every release meets an auditor
eventually.
Built for
- Fintech and payments platforms
- Reconciliation and reporting automation
- Regtech and audit-ready pipelines
- Banking and core-system integrations
- SOC 2 environments
Enterprise SaaS
Multi-tenant platforms shipping AI features without breaking existing customers.
Built for
- Multi-tenant architecture and isolation
- AI feature roadmaps in-product
- Enterprise integrations and SSO
- Platform modernization at scale
- Usage-based billing systems
FOR PRIVATE EQUITY
Engineering velocity, read as EBITDA.
More than half our business is PE-driven. Sponsors bring us into portfolio companies to turn engineering drag into value creation the deal team can measure.
VALUE CREATION
Capacity uplift that reads
as margin.
20-40% more delivery capacity at flat headcount. On a portfolio company P&L, that’s operating leverage, not an IT line item.
NO PILOTS, NO CHECKBOXES
Production code in weeks.
No 6-month pilots. The pod ships against the roadmap from week one, measured on the Dev Intelligence Platform from day one.
HOLD-PERIOD FLEXIBLE
Flex up and flex down.
Month-to-month, scaled to each quarter’s priorities, continuity through exit. Acquirers inherit a vendor already proven in diligence.
FAQ
What tech leaders ask us.
The software development lifecycle rebuilt around AI at every stage: ticket to spec to plan to PR, with agents handling the chores and deterministic gates before every merge. Humans own the decisions; the pipeline proves the quality. Our pods run it inside your existing codebase, and our enablement program teaches your team to run it without us.