Building the Strike Software Factory

The Context

As models get more capable, AI stops being an ad-hoc coding assistant and becomes a software factory: structured specs, custom skills, automated review councils and deterministic CI gates that turn requirements into working software.

We spend heavily on alignment upfront ("grilling" the team until hidden requirements are on paper), build in vertical tracer-bullet slices so the agent can run and test its own work, and put every PR through a multi-agent review council before a human sees it.

Why This Matters

If an agent can run overnight, the constraint moves to review burden and correctness. Oversized or wrong output burns the one resource that doesn't scale: human attention.

The post covers what we had to change to make this work on enterprise financial software - strict WIP limits, group reviews, right-sized tasks - and why the strategy isn't a locked-in process. The strategy is continuous adaptation.