The Engineering OS for AI-first software companies

Your engineering process was never designed for AI agents.

Kanso is the engineering operating system for AI-first software teams. Connect your backlog, repos, coding agents, CI, approvals, and delivery intelligence into one always-on software factory.

Built for teams already using Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Devin, Replit, Jules, and OpenHands.

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Command Center

Last 7 days

Live

Agent runs

312

PRs merged

52

High-risk blocked

14

Capacity unlocked

£68k

Weekly AI-assisted PR volume

W1W2W3W4W5W60255075100

Risk distribution

312changes
Refactor workspace permission resolverHighIn review
Generate billing flow Playwright testsLowIn review
The gap

Agents can write code. Your company still needs judgment, ownership, risk, and memory.

Engineering workflows were designed around human workers. Agents are multiplying inside your repos — but the process layer that governs them is missing.

Tickets are assigned to humans, not agents.

Sprint planning assumes human capacity.

PR review assumes human-authored code.

CI checks syntax and tests — never intent.

Managers cannot see AI coding ROI.

CTOs cannot tell whether AI changes are safe.

The future is not one agent. It is an engineering system designed around agents.

The operating system

One system, from product intent to a trusted, shipped PR.

Kanso maps the full lifecycle of AI-generated work — so every change carries its context from idea to outcome.

Intent
Agent-ready work
Agent execution
Quality gates
Pull request
Approval
Deployment evidence
Learning loop

Every AI-generated change should know its intent, owner, risk, evidence, and outcome. Kanso keeps that thread unbroken — the system of record and control layer above the coding agents your team already uses.

How it works

From backlog to trusted PR — in five steps.

01

Connect backlog, repos, agents, and CI

Link Linear, Jira, GitHub, your coding agents, and CI. Kanso becomes the system of record for AI-generated work.

02

Convert product intent into agent-ready tasks

Kanso turns tickets into engineering specs with acceptance criteria, impacted files, and an AI-safe vs human-led split.

03

Route work to the right coding agent

Each task is scored and sent to the agent that performs best for that class of work — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.

04

Validate with tests, policies, risk, and approvals

Every change is graded on spec coverage, risk, and policy. High-risk work is held for the right human reviewer.

05

Ship, measure, and learn from every change

Merge with evidence, then feed outcomes back into the loop to expand autonomy only where it is proven safe.

See it

A calm interface over genuinely complex work.

Click into any screen. The whole demo is interactive — send work to the factory, create a PR, approve it, and watch the audit trail fill in.

By role

One operating layer. Four points of view.

Humans set direction. Agents execute. Kanso keeps the system honest — for everyone who depends on it.

Product Manager

  • Turn product ideas into agent-ready engineering work
  • See which tasks are AI-safe vs human-led
  • Track product intent all the way through shipped PRs

Engineer

  • Send tasks to agents without losing control
  • Compare outputs across agents side by side
  • Review risk, tests, and spec coverage before the PR

Engineering Manager

  • See throughput, review load, merge quality, and rejected AI work
  • Define policies for safe autonomy
  • Understand which work types should be automated

CTO / VP Engineering

  • Track AI engineering ROI across teams
  • Control risk and keep everything auditable
  • Expand autonomy safely, only where it is proven
Integrations

Use the coding agents your team already loves.

Kanso does not replace Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Devin, Replit, or OpenHands. It sits above them as the system of record and control layer — adding the operating layer your company needs.

GiGitHub
GiGitLab
LiLinear
JiJira
SlSlack
CuCursor
ClClaude Code
CoCodex
CoCopilot
DeDevin
ReReplit
OpOpenHands
VeVercel
DaDatadog
SeSentry
Governance & trust

Enterprise-grade control, built in from the first change.

Agents can write code. Kanso gives your company memory, judgment, and control.

AI-generated change provenance
Policy engine with repo-aware rules
Approval rules and human-in-the-loop controls
Complete, exportable audit trail
CI evidence attached to every change
Sensitive file and path detection
No auto-merge for high-risk changes
Agents scoped away from production secrets

Policy blocked an auto-merge

PR #1839 · permission boundary

RiskHigh
ReasonTouches auth middleware
RequiredSenior platform review
ResultHeld for human

SOC 2-ready posture. Designed for enterprise audit from day one.

The outcome

Autonomy you can measure — and trust.

38%faster cycle time for low-risk work
27%reduction in the review queue
184AI-assisted PRs governed this month
0high-risk AI changes merged without approval
2.4×more test coverage for safe task classes
In the field
“Kanso gave us the missing layer between AI coding experiments and actual engineering operations. We finally know what our agents shipped, why, and whether it was safe.”
MC

Maya Chen

VP Engineering, Series B infrastructure company

“Our backlog keeps moving even when the team is offline. The factory never sleeps, and nothing ships without evidence.”
DO

Daniel Osei

Eng Manager, dev-tools startup

“The first tool that let me expand agent autonomy without losing a single night of sleep over an audit.”
PN

Priya Nair

CTO, AI-native SaaS

Packaging

Start by observing. Grow into a software factory.

Three packages that map to how much you trust your agents. Begin with visibility, add governance, then turn on automation where it is proven safe.

Observe

For teams

Visibility into AI-assisted changes.

  • AI-generated change provenance
  • Agent run and PR visibility
  • Delivery and ROI dashboards
  • Audit trail (90-day retention)
Most adopted

Govern

For scaling orgs

Risk, policy, approvals, and audit.

  • Everything in Observe
  • Policy engine and approval rules
  • Risk scoring and sensitive-path detection
  • Human-in-the-loop controls
  • Extended audit retention

Factory

For AI-native engineering orgs

Backlog-to-PR automation and delivery intelligence.

  • Everything in Govern
  • Backlog Factory automation
  • Multi-agent routing and comparison
  • Autonomy levels for safe classes
  • Delivery intelligence and learning loop

Add the operating layer your company needs.

Humans set direction. Agents execute. Kanso keeps the system honest — from backlog to trusted PR.

Revisit the thesis
Kanso

The engineering operating system for AI-first software teams. Autonomous where safe. Human-led where it matters.

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