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How dev3lop builds

How we build custom software, played as a game

Nine short levels, one player. Scroll to watch us map your business, build it with thousands of AI agents, and turn it into profit.

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  • Scroll to start
  • Reveal the map
  • Plant the target
  • Place 3 milestones
  • Interview 6 people
  • Connect the dots
  • Transcribe
  • Tag what matters
  • Write 12 backlog items
  • Trace each to its source
  • Deploy the agents
  • Claim every item
  • Clouds
  • Databases
  • APIs
  • Upgrade HQ
  • Ship 4 products
  • First income
  • 3 handoffs
  • Agents idle
  • Rejoin the board
  • Fast-forward a year
Profit over time · Illustrative
Four vendors One team (dev3lop)
DraftingInterviewsVoice → textBacklogAI agentsdev3lop
  1. How we build · about a minute

    One team runs every step, from the first diagram to profit

    Your business is the board and dev3lop is the one player at the controls. Each level below is one step of how we build custom software. Scroll to play.

    ! someone to interview profit (illustrative)

  2. Level 1 · Discovery

    We diagram your systems, targets and milestones

    Before any code, we map how your systems and teams actually work: where data lives, where it is re-keyed by hand, the target you are aiming at and the milestones on the way. Requirements start here.

    • System diagram
    • Targets
    • Milestones
    • Requirements
  3. Level 2 · Interviews

    We interview your people and connect the dots

    We talk to the people who do the work, then link what they said. When finance and ops describe the same spreadsheet from opposite ends, that link becomes a requirement.

    • CFO
    • Ops lead
    • Analyst
    • Sales
    • IT
    • Support
  4. Level 3 · Transcription

    Every interview becomes text we can search

    Interviews are recorded and transcribed, voice to text. Language models tag each line with the systems named, the pain described and the deadlines mentioned, so nothing depends on someone’s notes.

    “Every Monday I re-key the CRM export into billing, and hope nothing breaks before month-end close.” Example · ops lead, interview 3, 00:14:32
  5. Level 4 · Backlog

    The transcripts generate the backlog

    Tagged lines become backlog items with acceptance criteria. Each one links back to the person and the minute it came from, so every item is traceable.

    Example #214 Nightly CRM → billing sync Done when: zero re-keyed rows at month-end · from: ops lead, interview 3, 00:14:32
  6. Level 5 · AI agents

    Thousands of AI agents work through that backlog

    dev3lop spawns and orchestrates thousands of AI agents. They claim backlog items, then build, test and review in parallel while our engineers direct the work.

    The scene draws 2,048 agents; every one works an item that traces back to a person.

  7. Level 6 · Integration

    Your clouds, databases and APIs feed one core

    We are cloud-agnostic and on-prem capable. Wherever your systems live, we connect them into one place, including the CRM-to-billing step someone used to re-key by hand.

    Clouds & on-prem
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • GCP
    • Netlify
    • DigitalOcean
    • On-prem
    Databases
    • Postgres
    • Neon Postgres
    • SQL
    • SQL Server
    • MySQL
    • SQLite
    APIs
    • REST
    • GraphQL
    • Webhooks
    • Streams
  8. Level 7 · Delivery

    We build and ship the platform end to end

    Web apps in React, Vite and Tailwind, Vue.js and Astro front ends, and Electron desktop apps with C++ where speed matters. Once it ships, it starts paying back.

    What we build with
    • React
    • Vite
    • Tailwind
    • Vue.js
    • Astro
    • C++
    • Electron desktop apps
  9. Without the glue

    Split across four vendors, profit is hard to generate

    Hand discovery, notes, the backlog and the build to four different vendors and the work cracks at every handoff. Context gets re-explained, agents wait on someone else’s queue, and profit stalls.

  10. With the glue

    With one team connecting it all, profit grows over time

    With one company on the whole board, nothing falls through the cracks and each quarter builds on the last. The numbers here are illustrative; the shape is what we build for.

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