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Human-owned.
AI-built.

The building code for AI-built systems

The problem

Most builds still run on spreadsheets and email.

Decisions get lost, costs drift, and no one can show what was approved.

There is no way to do this in a spreadsheet.

What In-Haus is

A delivery framework for AI-built systems, and the App that runs it.

You bring the idea or the business system. Our AI crew builds it inside a governed process. Your own people check it, test it and approve each build phase; certified Architects and Stewards sign every gate; you sign for the whole project.

The 5 C's

What we solve for.

Cost
You approved a budget. Nobody can tell you where it went. Here the budget and the window are fixed, and you see spend and forecast on one screen.
  • You find out about the overrun after it happens. You see what's spent, and what it will take to finish, any day you look.
  • Half the budget goes to redoing work. Every piece is planned to be built once. When something is redone, you see why.
  • Changes get priced after you've said yes. You see what a change costs, how long it takes and what it pushes out, before you decide.
  • You're paying a team to wait on an answer. Every open decision shows who has it and what it's holding up.
  • Automation bills you didn't see coming. Stalled work stops on its own, and you see a cost change before it applies.
Control
Your vendor holds the code, the accounts and the decisions. Your accounts are yours from day one. The code and data are yours at handover.
  • Leaving means starting over. At handover the code, database and data move to your systems, and our access ends.
  • The contractor owns the logins. Payments, your email domain and DNS are opened in your name on day one.
  • Things change that nobody approved. Nothing runs without your permission, and you sign off on who can access what.
  • No one can say who approved it. Every gate has one accountable signer, and every signature shows who, when and what they saw.
  • Passwords live in someone's inbox. Keys stay in a vault. No one on the build ever sees them.
Coherence
What ships isn't what the business signed off. Every feature is agreed, with its test, before anyone builds it.
  • It works, just not the way you asked. A feature is done only when your own tester passes it.
  • The scope keeps moving. Once you approve the plan, it changes only by a change order you sign.
  • The status report is out of date by the time you read it. Status comes straight from the record, so what you read is current.
  • Each piece works alone and breaks together. Each phase is tested as a whole and released once, after it's signed.
  • Someone guessed, and now it's built in. A gap becomes a question for the person who owns that area. Nobody guesses.
Compliance
No one can show it's safe to put customers on it. It's tested, checked for security and restored from backup before launch.
  • You launch and hope. A full test run and a security readiness report come before go-live.
  • The backup has never been restored. We restore it before launch, so you know it works.
  • The auditor asks who changed what. You get a signed history of every feature, test and sign-off, and where each one came from.
  • Only the vendor has read the code. Your developers and your IT or security team review it before each phase is approved.
  • A key ends up in the code. Every change is scanned for secrets, and keys never sit in the code.
Community
Your people are left out of the build, then left holding it. They test it, sign it off and run it after.
  • IT builds it, and the business finds out at launch. Department leaders own their phases, and their own testers approve them.
  • The know-how leaves with the vendor. Your team gets the runbook and the handover, and runs it without us.
  • Every decision waits on one executive. Each area has an owner and a backup who answer from email. Nothing new to learn.
  • Stakeholders keep asking for updates. A live board shows status, cost and what's waiting, whenever they look.
  • When the vendor leaves, so does the capability. Your people work inside the build, so they can lead the next one.
How it works

Eight phases. A human hand on every gate.

Build and Demo repeat for each build phase, on the schedule set at Blueprint, until your scope is in. A new release goes back through Contract.

  1. Vet

    Is it worth building, and is it ready to contract? You answer the intake. The Chief Architect signs a readiness grade.

  2. Contract

    What are we building, for whom, inside what appetite? Scope, success metrics and access get signed before anyone builds.

  3. Blueprint

    What does done look like? Stories with acceptance criteria, screens and the access matrix. You approve them.

  4. Build

    We build it where you can see it. A daily build log, a decision log, and a change order for every change.

  5. Demo

    Does this build phase's work work for your business? Your assigned tester runs the tests. The builder never runs them for you.

  6. Diligence

    Does the whole thing work, and is it safe? A full test run, a security readiness report, and proof that backup and restore work.

  7. Deliver

    Can you run it alone? The code and database move to your systems. Our access ends.

  8. Appreciate

    How does it gain value? Funding, Sell and Launch kits come from the same records. The next release goes back through Contract.

AI builds. Stewards govern. Owners own.

Ownership and exit

Yours from day one. Nothing stays behind.

A business should stand on its own systems without permanent outside help. Here's what leaves with you, at Deliver or whenever you choose to go:

Data
Your data is yours from the first day. Payments, your sending email domain and DNS are opened in your name.
Decisions
Every decision: who made it, when, and what it was holding up. The decision log and the activity trail go with you.
Rules
Your Haus Rules, built from your own corrections, are yours.
Code
At Deliver, the code and database move to your systems and your team, with one clean history and a signed changelog of stories, tests and gate signatures. Then our access ends.
The In-Haus Build

One offer, crew-built. The appetite is fixed. The scope flexes inside it.

A scoping call is where Vet begins. We'll work out whether it's worth building, and whether it's ready to contract.