C8VA built its own harness with specific grounding to maintain code quality using tools like flog, flay, and reek to feedback to the LLM on smells within generated output and missing code coverage.

C8VA runs two practices. Forward deployed engineering, for API and AI startups selling into enterprise. Enterprise deals don't die at the demo. They die in the months after it: integration nobody scoped, a security review nobody owned, a champion who's gone quiet. We put a senior engineer inside the account to build against the customer's real systems and get your product to the point they renew on. Prototype in their environment, unblock the pilot, ship to production, land the renewal. Technical advisory, for investors and founders in a transaction. - Technical due diligence for investors and acquirers: what's solid, what's fragile and what the fix costs, with a severity and a number on every finding - Raise-ready audits for founders: everything an investor's advisors will look at, looked at first, then fixed or answered before the data room opens Founder-led by Chris Garrett. Twenty years shipping products used by millions for Universal Music Group, Spotify, Google and the BBC. An Engineering Emmy, three Webby Awards, a seed round and an exit of his own. Every engagement is scoped, delivered and signed off by the person whose name is on it. Fixed scope, fixed price, no retainers. Based in the North West, working across the UK.

Founded 2018