CodeForce · ADLC Delivery

When software learns, the lifecycle has to learn with it.

SDLC was built for code with one job. Agentic systems reason, adapt, and rarely take the same path twice. We deliver them under a different lifecycle entirely — six phases, one feedback loop, every gate accountable to a human.

3–6×
Engineering velocity vs. baseline, sustained through compliance gates.
4 weeks
Proof-of-Value pilot to first ROI signal — outcomes scoped before sign-off.
70 / 30
Agents on volume, senior engineers on judgment. No silent autonomy.

The shift, in one frame.

Agentic systems aren’t just faster software. They behave differently — non-deterministic, multi-surface, learning in production. The lifecycle has to match. Here’s where every assumption changes.

Dimension
SDLCWhat you’re used to
ADLCWhat ships now
Behavior
Deterministic. Same input, same output.
Probabilistic. Same input, different paths — by design.
Logic lives in
Code and configuration.
Code, prompts, models, tools, and external services — five surfaces, all part of the system.
Testing
Pass / fail of known paths. Predefined cases.
Continuous evaluation of reasoning, safety, and tool use against a golden dataset.
Success metric
Functional correctness.
Accuracy distribution, hallucination rate, cost per outcome — none collapse to a single boolean.
Deployment
End of development. Start of the steady state.
Start of active monitoring. The system keeps changing after it ships.
Maintenance
Bug → fix → close ticket.
Drift watch. Behavioral guardrails. Continuous learning loop closes back to discovery.
Accountability
Code review.
Human-in-the-loop at every reasoning gate — explicitly mapped before the agent ships.

Six phases. One feedback loop.

Each phase maps onto an SDLC stage you’d recognize, but the work inside it changes. We’ve codified what we do at every gate so the engagement is legible from day one.

01 / 06

Discovery & Hypothesis

Before we touch architecture, we map the real workflow — where humans do repetitive judgment work, where the process breaks, and what the cost of failure actually is. Then we form testable hypotheses about where agents earn their keep.

How it differs from SDLC
Planning used to map features. Here, we map behaviors — because the same inputs can lead the system down different paths.
How CodeForce delivers this
A two-week discovery sprint led by a Principal Architect. Stakeholder interviews, workflow trace, and a written hypothesis register — each hypothesis tied to a measurable outcome.
Artifacts you walk away with
Workflow mapHypothesis registerGround-truth checklist

Where most teams stall.

We’ve watched four patterns repeat across teams shipping their first serious agentic system. Each one shows up only after production. ADLC is built to make these expensive failures cheap and early.

01 — Skipped
They skip the simulation gate.

Most teams still go spec → build → ship. With agents, the cost of a wrong hypothesis multiplies in production. Simulation against real data is the cheapest place to be wrong; skipping it makes the next six months a recovery.

02 — Untracked
They treat prompts as throwaway.

Prompts are now part of your logic surface — equal weight to code. Without version control, review, and eval, you’re shipping an unobservable codebase that changes silently every time a prompt is tweaked.

03 — Mis-measured
They ship with pass / fail tests.

Functional tests don’t catch what actually breaks agents — hallucination drift, reasoning regressions, cost spikes from a model swap. You need a different test paradigm, instrumented before deployment, not after.

04 — Unwatched
They deploy and walk away.

Models drift. Context windows fill with noise. Tool dependencies change underneath you. Without behavioral monitoring and explicit drift alerts, you find out from your users — and by then the trust loss is already booked.

Three doors into the lifecycle.

Pick where you want us. Full Team covers all six phases as an embedded extension of your team. On-Demand plugs into specific phases when you need surge. Managed means we own the outcome end-to-end.

What we deploy underneath.

The stack is opinionated on purpose. Every layer is here because something fails without it — and most teams discover that after shipping. We bring the answers in.

Orchestration
Agents that coordinate, not collide.
LangGraphClaude Code agentsAgent supervisorsMCP tool routing

A single orchestration layer manages the agent fleet. You manage the manager, not five concurrent sessions.

Evaluation
Continuous, not on a release schedule.
Golden datasetsRAGASCustom rubricsRegression suitesHallucination detectors

Eval criteria are written in phase 03, before code. Every change is gated against them before merge.

Observability
Behavioral telemetry, not just uptime.
Drift alertsCost-per-outcomeReasoning traceUser signal capture

Production tells you what eval missed. Signals route back to the next discovery cycle — that’s the loop.

Governance
Auditable. Sandboxed. Yours.
Human-in-the-loop gatesFull audit trailSandboxed execIP isolationOWASP / GDPR / HIPAA

Client code never trains external models. Every reasoning gate is logged. Every deploy is reversible.

For the CTO doing diligence.

Real questions we hear in week one of evaluation. Plain answers — no marketing softening.

Who owns the IP — including prompts and trained context?
You do. Code, prompts, evaluation datasets, and any fine-tuned weights or RAG corpora are yours from sprint one. We sign IP assignment up front. Client code, customer data, and proprietary prompts are never used to train external models — that’s contractual with us and with every model provider we route to.
How do you handle hallucinations and rollback?
Three layers. Pre-merge: every agent output is gated through eval criteria your architect approved in phase 03. In production: behavioral monitors trigger alerts on hallucination-rate or accuracy-distribution drift. Rollback: every prompt, model version, and tool change is versioned the same way code is — reverting a regression is a deploy, not a rebuild.
What does evaluation actually look like in production?
Continuous, not scheduled. We capture every agent decision against the golden-dataset criteria set in phase 03 and watch three things: hallucination rate, accuracy distribution, and cost per outcome. User thumbs-up / thumbs-down signals are routed back into the next discovery cycle so the loop closes. Eval is treated as production telemetry, not a release gate.
How is this priced — by sprint, by outcome, or by team?
Three doors. Subscription — dedicated team, monthly retainer. Project — fixed scope, fixed price. Outcome-based — for managed engagements where we own the KPI directly. Every engagement starts with the 4-week Proof of Value: outcomes-first, then we shape the long-form contract. No long-term commitment is required to start.
Where do humans actually gate the agents?
At every reasoning boundary that affects production: architecture decisions, prompt changes, model swaps, code merges, deployments, and any agent decision tagged “review required” by the accountability model we set in phase 02. No silent autonomy. Where agents act unattended (low-risk, high-volume work), the boundary was approved in writing first.
How do you keep our code out of training data?
Sandboxed execution environments per client. No API calls to consumer-tier endpoints. Contractual no-training clauses with every model provider, named in the engagement letter. Periodic data-flow audits with named accountable owners. If you bring HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC2 constraints, those flow into the sandboxing model in phase 02.
Proof of Value · 4 weeks

Start where the cost of being wrong is lowest.

A four-week Proof of Value pilot. Two senior engineers plus an agent fleet against a real workflow you pick. 160–200 story points. Three success criteria signed off before kickoff: 3× velocity against your baseline, zero production defects from agent-written code, and a clean handoff if you stop there.

Most pilots start within two weeks of signed scoping. No long-term contract required.

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