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Agents at work. People in charge.

Ship more with the team you have.

We help engineering teams in regulated businesses move from scattered AI experiments to an AI-native way of delivering software, without losing control.

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Agent workingAgents draftPeople decide

Sound familiar?

Most teams have adopted AI tools. Far fewer have adapted how they work around them.

Why teams are acting now
  • Everyone has an AI licence. Nobody can say what changed.
  • Pull requests got bigger. Reviews got slower.
  • Security wants to know where an agent ran and what it could touch.
  • Your most senior people spend their days reviewing code nobody fully understands.

What we believe

The shape of an AI-native engineering team, whichever tools you choose.

For the red penthe black pen

Agents draft. Your best people judge, direct and decide.

For collaborationhand-off

Product, QA and engineering shape the work together, with agents in the loop.

For oversightmicro-management

Watch the signals that matter, not every prompt.

For dark micro-factoriesone giant agent

Bounded, gated micro-factories you can trust.

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Why now

Why teams are rethinking how they deliver, the challenges they hit, and the worries that hold them back.

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1122334455661. DiscoveryWhere are you starting from?2. DocumentationCould an agent understand how you work?3. AdjustmentWhat has to change in the machinery?4. AdoptionWill people actually work this way?5. IterationIs it working, and what next?6. Autonomy (lights out)What becomes possible now?

Our approach

A toolkit that grows with your team, from discovery to autonomy, with governance that fits your organisation.

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The impact

A human-monitored SDLC: dark micro-factories doing the work, people deciding what matters.

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Tom Richards, founder of dulcedo

Founded by Tom Richards

18 years optimising how software gets built in regulated environments, most recently as CTO and co-founder of a UK fintech running AI-native engineering.

3×output after a single quarter of adoption, in the last team Tom led
About dulcedo

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes to talk through where your team is today, what’s slowing it down, and whether we’re the right people to help. If we’re not, we’ll say so.

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