How it works

One orchestrated loop. Agents on the work, you on the gates.

Devaumate runs the same delivery loop your engineers do — but specialised agents execute each stage, a single orchestrator sequences them and enforces the gates, and it only stops for a human when it must. Here's the shape of a run, end to end.

The orchestrator model

One conductor. Many specialists. No free-for-all.

A single orchestrator — a Delivery-Manager seat — sequences the specialist agents, enforces every gate, and pulls in a human only when it's unavoidable. Agents never call each other; the conductor is the only one who dispatches work.

Orchestrator Delivery Manager Sequences agents · enforces gates · escalates to a human
dispatches, one specialist at a time
Planscopes the spec
Buildwrites the code
Testruns it to green
Reviewverifies the work
Shipdeploys, staged
Operatewatches prod
One conductor, not a swarm. Every task is dispatched and sequenced from a single seat, so the run is always ordered and auditable.
Agents can't call agents. Specialists only do their own job and hand back. No hidden chains, no agent quietly triggering another.
Human only when unavoidable. The conductor auto-advances by default and stops for you only at an irreversible, costly or judgment call.
The six-stage loop

Plan to operate — the loop, one stage at a time

Every change moves through the same six stages. Each stage is an agent with its own paired reviewer, and the loop closes back on itself: what production tells you becomes the next plan.

  1. 01 · Plan & scope

    A goal, ticket or roadmap item becomes a scoped, testable spec with explicit acceptance criteria — nothing gets built against a vague ask.

  2. 02 · Build

    Backend, frontend and data agents implement the change as real, reviewable code written to the agreed contract.

  3. 03 · Test & verify

    Unit, API and end-to-end tests are generated and run to green — the change is exercised, not just typechecked.

  4. 04 · Review & gate

    An independent reviewer agent checks the work adversarially, then it stops at a human gate for anything irreversible or judgment-heavy.

  5. 05 · Ship

    Build, package and deploy through your pipeline with staged rollout, release gates and a rollback that's ready before the first user sees it.

  6. 06 · Operate

    Production is watched around the clock — alerting, triage and hotfixes — and every signal loops straight back into planning.

The rule that never bends: nothing reaches production without passing its gate. Agents do the work; humans hold the authority to ship.
Three gates, cheapest first

How every change earns its way forward

Work passes through three kinds of gate, in order of cost. The cheap, automated ones catch most problems — so the vast majority of changes never need to interrupt a human at all.

01 Automated · free

Deterministic hooks

Automated checks fire on every action — tests must pass before anything ships, no secrets in the diff, no stubbed-out shortcuts. They block. They can't be talked around or bypassed.

Runs on every action · before everything else
02 Agent · independent

Reviewer agents

Every builder agent has a paired, independent reviewer that reads the spec and the work side by side and verifies it adversarially — before it advances. Nothing self-certifies its own output.

Runs after hooks pass · before any human
03 Human · you decide

Human gates

A person approves anything irreversible, costly, or that needs real business judgment — production deploys, paid infrastructure, access changes. You get the full package and make the call.

Runs only when the first two can't decide

Cheapest first, by design — most checks never reach a human, so your attention is spent only where judgment actually matters.

Producer ⇄ reviewer pairs

Nothing grades its own homework

Every producer agent is paired one-to-one with its own independent reviewer. The one that builds is never the one that signs off — a second agent always verifies the work against the spec before it moves on.

Producerbackend-developer
Reviewerbackend-code-reviewer
Producerfrontend-developer
Reviewerfrontend-code-reviewer
Producerqa-lead
Reviewercoverage-trace-reviewer
Producersolution-architect
Reviewerarchitecture-reviewer
Producersecurity-architect
Reviewerthreat-model-reviewer
Producerdevops-engineer
Reviewerpipeline-iac-reviewer

A representative slice — every producer in the pipeline has its own paired reviewer, so independent verification is built into the run, not bolted on at the end.

Where humans stay in control

You hold the authority to ship

Agents carry the work; you keep the decisions that carry consequences. These always stop for a person — no exceptions, no override, no matter how confident the agents are.

Production deploys

Nothing goes live until you approve the release. The pipeline stages it and hands you the go/no-go.

Paid infrastructure

Spinning up anything that costs money — new cloud resources, scaled capacity — waits for your sign-off.

Real secrets & credentials

Injecting live keys, tokens or production secrets is a human action. Agents never handle the real thing on their own.

Access & permission changes

Altering who or what can reach a system — roles, scopes, security settings — is always yours to approve.

Permanent deletion

Anything irreversible — dropping data, tearing down resources — stops for a person before it happens.

Business-judgment calls

Scope, trade-offs and priority calls that aren't purely technical come to you, framed with the context to decide.

The authority to ship stays with you. Everything up to that line is automated; the line itself is always human.
A run, start to finish

What a single change looks like moving through the loop

Follow one change — "Add SSO to the billing service" — through all six stages, with the same status chips you'd watch on a live run.

Add SSO to the billing serviceIllustrative run · not a live deployment
Live
01
Plan & scopeSSO story written with acceptance criteria and the auth surface mapped.
product-agentDone
02
BuildOIDC flow, callback and session wiring implemented against the contract.
backend + frontendDone
03
Test & verifyUnit, API and end-to-end sign-in tests running to green, including a security attack set.
qa + securityRunning
04
Review & human gateReviewer agent has passed the code; the release decision is waiting on you.
you approveGate
05
ShipStaged rollout with a ready rollback — queued until the gate above is approved.
devops-agentQueued
06
OperateSign-in success rate and error budgets watched once live; anomalies loop back to planning.
sre-agentQueued

Illustrative example. Agent names, stages and statuses shown to explain the operating model — not a record of a specific customer deployment.

Ready when you are

See your own backlog move through the loop

Book a demo and we'll run a real slice of your work through plan → build → test → review → ship — with you on every gate.