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CoBolt · ErupThe governed autonomous SDLC platform.

CoBolt Erup plans, builds, reviews, validates, and ships enterprise software end-to-end — with the deterministic governance and audit evidence your CIO, your auditors, and your engineering organization can all sign off on.

CoBolt IDE·CoBolt Studio·CoBolt EngineOne platform · Two surfaces · One engine underneath
Production platform·SaaS · Self-hosted · Air-gapped·Counted from disk, not marketing
The bottleneck has moved

AI now writes code at machine speed.
Your enterprise still ships at human speed.

Copilots, Cursor, Devin, and friends accelerated the keystroke. They did nothing for the 40–60% of engineering capacity consumed by requirements drift, review backlog, test gaps, security findings, compliance evidence, and modernization debt — the work that actually decides whether software ships.

71%
CIOs blocked by

"AI code without governance" — cited as the #1 enterprise rollout blocker.

Gartner CIO Survey · Q4 2025

3.8h
Lost per developer · per day

Context-switch, review wait, rework, status reporting.

DORA 2025

$47M
Avg modernization spend

Per Global-2000 per year on legacy COBOL/Java. 18–36 month cycles.

Deloitte 2025

40–60%
Non-coding toil

Of engineering capacity is consumed before a single line ships to production.

McKinsey 2024

A control problem, not a generation problem.
Today's stack

Three tiers of AI tooling — none of them ship enterprise software end-to-end.

Tier 1 · IDE Assistants

Copilot · Cursor · Codeium

Single-turn code completion. Brilliant for keystrokes, blind to architecture, security posture, requirements coverage, and audit trail. The bottleneck simply moves to review and validation.

Tier 2 · Autonomous Agents

Devin · Factory · Replit Agent

Task-to-PR autonomy with a handful of generic agents. Ungoverned by design — cannot produce the deterministic enforcement and evidence regulated enterprises require. Brownfield blind spot.

Tier 3 · DevOps Platforms

GitLab Duo · Harness · Rovo

Strong on CI/CD and policy. Weak or absent on requirements engineering, multi-agent build orchestration, and the reverse-engineering work that legacy modernization actually needs.

Tier 4 · The governed control plane

CoBolt Erup's category

Plans the work. Decomposes it. Builds it through 210 specialist agents. Reviews it through 23 dedicated reviewers. Validates it against the original requirements. Produces audit evidence. Engineers operate it through CoBolt IDE; governance lives in CoBolt Studio. Not a replacement for Tier 1–3 — the orchestration layer that makes them safe to scale.

CoBolt orchestrates Tier 1–3. We do not ask you to replace your IDE.
What it is

One platform. Two surfaces.
One engine underneath.

CoBolt Erup is an autonomous delivery platform that runs the full software lifecycle as a governed, evidence-producing pipeline. Engineers operate it through CoBolt IDE. Organizations govern it through CoBolt Studio. Both surfaces share the same engine, produce the same artifacts, and enforce the same policies.

Same engine, same artifacts. An action initiated in the IDE produces evidence Studio can audit. A gate configured in Studio binds the IDE's next pipeline run. The two surfaces are operationally identical from the engine's point of view — only the persona changes.

Every codebase, every vintage

Whether the codebase is one day old — or twenty years old.

CoBolt Erup handles two kinds of starting points with the same platform, same agents, and same evidence pipeline. Only the entry point differs.

Greenfield

From an idea.

Requirements → architecture → design → build → review → validate → ship

Idea-to-production in one pipeline. Most AI coding tools accelerate this — CoBolt Erup's edge is the governance layer wrapped around it.

Brownfield

From legacy code.

Reverse-engineer → business-rule extraction → re-engineerable spec → parity tests → forward build

Reads what exists. Writes what should exist. Proves the two match before cutover. Almost no AI tool ships this end-to-end — 80% of enterprise engineering spend lives here.

One platform · Same agents · Same evidence · Two entry points into the lifecycle.
The numbers behind the platform

Years of engineering. All in production. All source-backed.

210
Specialist Agents
101
Pipeline Skills
263
Enforcement Hooks
529
Deterministic Tools
194
JSON Schemas
01 / AGENTS

Domain specialists

From the analyst and architect to security-exploit-verifier and chaos-engineer. Each agent has a defined role, a model tier, a tool budget, and grounding sources. No generic generalist doing everything badly.

02 / SKILLS

Pipeline orchestrators

Each lifecycle stage is a skill: plan, build, review, fix, audit, validate, deploy, dream, release. Skills compose. Skills are versioned. Skills emit evidence.

03 / HOOKS

Deterministic enforcement

PreToolUse and lifecycle hooks. They are the physics of the platform — fail-closed, census-based, audit-logged. This is what makes agentic delivery safe to operate in regulated environments.

04 / TOOLS & SCHEMAS

Verifiable contracts

Deterministic CLI tools and JSON schemas. Every artifact the pipeline produces is structurally validated. Every agent decision is reproducible from inputs.

Counted from disk, not marketing.
End-to-end · governed · evidence-producing

Ten stages. Every handoff verified.

This is the pipeline Studio governs. Each stage has gates between roles — visible and operable from Studio, executed by the engine that the IDE opens.

S0
Init
Project setup
S1
Plan
PRD · TRD · NFR
S2
Architect
Design · ADRs · contracts
S3
Decompose
Epics · stories · milestones
S4
Build
TDD · parallel worktrees
S5
Review
23 parallel reviewers
S6
Fix
Census · exploit-verified
S7
Validate
Acceptance · UAT
S8
Deploy
Release · rollback ready
S9
Operate
MTTR · DORA · dream
Each stage emits a machine-readable artifact your auditors can read.
The differentiator

We don't ask agents to behave.
We make misbehavior structurally impossible.

Prompts are advisory. Hooks are physics.

  • Fail-closed by default.

    Missing proof, skipped verification, or unknown state halts the pipeline — never warns and continues.

  • Census-based, not sampling.

    Every endpoint, every role check, every requirement traced to every test. Never a sample, never an extrapolation.

  • Sub-agent write isolation.

    Three-layer enforcement prevents agents from silently mutating state outside their lane.

  • Hooks above the LLM.

    Deterministic checks fire before, during, and after every tool call. The model proposes; the hooks decide.

"Show me the hook" is the only honest answer to "Show me the policy."
Capabilities you will not find combined elsewhere

Six governance moves the rest of the market hasn't shipped.

Each tile is an enforcement mechanism running today on every CoBolt project — not a roadmap aspiration. Industry comparison reflects open and major commercial agentic-SDLC tooling as of Q2 2026.

Census
Plan-close gates

Project + feature gates, every item verified — never sampled.

vs 0–3 in industry, often advisory only.

Per-endpoint
Authorization census

Every endpoint × every role probed with non-owner tokens for cross-tenant rejection.

Most platforms do not test authorization at all.

Multi-signal
Phantom-output detection

Catches plausible-but-fabricated code, missing imports, ghost references, and silent test deletions.

A failure mode every other agentic tool ships with.

Runtime
Exploit-verified fixes

Every CRIT/HIGH security fix is re-attacked at runtime. If the exploit succeeds, the fix is rejected.

Industry standard: "the test passes" = done.

Per-feature
Capability contracts

Machine-checkable JSON contracts: operations, invariants, error taxonomy, idempotency, perf budgets.

A concrete artifact mapped to SOC 2 / ISO control families.

Self-improving
cobolt-evolve

Shadow-test promotion + canary auto-revert. Proposals to prompts and hooks only land if they strictly improve the Pareto frontier.

Most "agent platforms" are static between releases.

Brochure summary; full diligence matrix on request under NDA.
The wedge no competitor ships

Reverse-engineer legacy systems into forward-engineerable specifications.

"80% of enterprise engineering spend lives in systems no one wants to touch — undocumented legacy Java, monolithic .NET, business logic buried in stored procedures. Every AI coding tool on the market accelerates greenfield. We built the reverse-engineering pipeline that makes legacy systems intelligible again."

R0
Intake
System classification
R1
Discovery
Code · data · infra archaeology
R2
Deep analysis
AST · call graphs · dead code
R3
Rules
Business rules + confidence scoring
R4
Strategy
Gartner 7Rs · risk-scored plan
R5
Forward
Re-engineering + standards gates
R6
Handoff
Forward-engineerable spec + parity tests

What makes this different

Business rules get mined from legacy code with confidence scoring, then cross-validated against runtime behavior. We're not asking the model to be right — we're checking its output against what the live system actually does.

Parity, proven

Parity test suites are generated automatically to prove the modernized system matches the legacy system's observable behavior. Cutover happens when the tests are green, not when someone signs off on a memo.

Stack-specific extractor coverage detail under NDA.

80% of enterprise software budget lives in legacy. No competitor ships this end-to-end.
Compliance as a delivery artifact

Auditors don't want promises.
They want artifacts.

  • Most AI delivery tools treat compliance as something you reconstruct after the fact — pulling logs, hunting for evidence, writing narratives.
  • We flip that. The pipeline emits audit-grade evidence as it runs — requirement traceability, gate logs, exploit-verified fixes, authorization coverage, mutation scores.
  • That evidence maps directly to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, EU AI Act, and FedRAMP control families.
  • The line: Zero post-facto reconstruction. Evidence exists before the audit asks for it.
ArtifactMaps to
Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)SOC 2 CC8 · ISO 27001 A.14
Gate skip & bypass logChange management evidence
Authorization census reportHIPAA §164.312 · SOC 2 CC6
Cross-tenant access testsMulti-tenant isolation proofs
Exploit-verified fixesOWASP ASVS · PCI-DSS 6.2
Capability contractsBehavioral surface for ISO 42001 · EU AI Act Art. 9
Compliance is a delivery artifact, not a department.
Where we sit

The only platform in the high-autonomy + high-governance quadrant.

Governance ↑Autonomy →
Copilot · Cursor
Devin · Factory
GitLab · Harness
CoBolt Erup

The quadrant nobody else occupies.

Tier 1 tools sit in low-autonomy / low-governance. Tier 2 autonomous agents trade governance for autonomy. Tier 3 DevOps platforms trade autonomy for governance. CoBolt Erup is the only platform that ships both at the same time — autonomous specialist agents under deterministic hooks above the LLM.

Translation: an organization can grant CoBolt Erup more lifecycle scope without losing its ability to prove what was done, why, and by whom.

CoBolt Erup orchestrates Tier 1–3. We do not ask you to replace your IDE.
Deployment

Meet your security posture without compromising capability.

SaaS

Hosted control plane, BYO model keys, evidence in your bucket. Fastest path to value.

Self-hosted

Your cloud or your datacenter. Full source available. Identical platform, identical evidence pipeline.

Air-gapped

No internet. Local model providers (LM Studio, Ollama). For regulated and classified environments where data cannot leave the boundary.

Engine protection

In every deployment mode, the engine ships as an encrypted local sidecar. Your machines run it; the engine source never leaves them.

Model neutrality

13 AI provider profiles supported, including local options for air-gapped customers. Bring your own keys; we never see them.

Same platform · Same agents · Same evidence · Three trust boundaries.
Outcomes

Faster cycles. Higher confidence. A shorter path to audit.

3–5×
Faster cycle time

End-to-end delivery; varies by codebase complexity.

In our pilot deployments

~70%
Less review burden

Counts only findings that required engineer action; the rest are resolved inside the pipeline before review.

With our design partners

Days
Audit pack assembly

Customers who used to run 6–8 week pre-audit sprints now produce the pack on demand.

Pilot reports

Reference calls on request.
Honest disclosures

Where we are today, in plain language.

CoBolt IDE

Shipping today

Real desktop application. End-to-end verified against rust-analyzer. Demoable in five minutes.

CoBolt Studio

Frontend complete · backend integrating

Multi-tenant web control plane. Frontend prototype demoable today; full backend integration in flight.

Meru Gateway

On the roadmap

Architecture laid out. Production code in year 2 after CoBolt Erup has enterprise traction.

Trust is built on what we tell you before you ask.
Timing

The window for governed autonomy is open right now.

01 / FORCE

Model inflection

Frontier-class agentic models shipped in late 2025. The capability floor moved; the governance gap widened.

02 / FORCE

Regulation

EU AI Act Article 14 enforcement: August 2, 2026. Penalties up to €35M or 7% of global revenue. CIOs cannot wait.

03 / FORCE

Modernization mandate

$38B/year in spend. US federal COBOL phase-out 2029. India RBI core-banking mandates. Non-discretionary buying.

Standing still is the most expensive option in 2026.
Get in touch

Let's talk about the work you're trying to ship.

Pilots, partnerships, or a general conversation about governed AI delivery in your organization. We respond within two business days.

The next conversation is the one that matters.