The expensive mistake surfaces early
Retrieval that will not hold at scale, or a model call in a hot path, is cheap to change in a design document and expensive to change in production.
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AI Buddy · Engineering
Kevin
AI Architect
The architecture review that happens while it still costs nothing.
Reviews designs and flags what will break before it is built.
- Replaces
- Architecture review that only happens when something has already gone wrong
- Typical setup
- First release in two weeks, inside your own cloud
What Kevin does
- Reads a proposed design and names the assumptions it rests on
- Models cost, latency and accuracy before a line is written
- Proposes an evaluation harness for anything model-backed
- Flags the parts a person should decide rather than deciding them
How it helps your business
Cost is known before commitment
Per-request cost and latency are modelled up front, so the budget conversation happens before the build rather than after the first invoice.
Reviews arrive with reasoning
Every flag comes with the assumption it questions and what would have to be true for the design to hold, so your engineers judge rather than re-derive.
How a request moves through it
- 01ReadDesign docs, tickets and the existing code are ingested.
- 02ModelCost, latency and failure modes are estimated for each option.
- 03ChallengeAssumptions are surfaced with the evidence behind each one.
- 04Hand overA written review lands with your engineers, who make the call.
Connects to
- GitHub
- Confluence
- Jira
- Claude
- OpenTelemetry
Not an exhaustive list. Kevin is built per engagement, so it integrates with whatever you already run.
