Research

From platform concepts to research

Bespoke Agile began with a set of platform concepts for coordinating people and AI agents around a shared, graph-based model of the product. They were never shipped as products. The ideas carried on into ongoing research, and this page records what each one was.

The concepts

Coherence

Cross-functional alignment as something you can compute

Sales, product, finance and engineering each hold part of the picture. When those parts are connected in one graph, predicates evaluated over it can catch the places where they disagree before the disagreement compounds.

Codesign

Every role gets an agentic coworker

People and agents coordinated through a shared model of the product. The question that mattered most was whether a team is actually learning to delegate, measured from how it works rather than from how it describes itself.

Conductor

Planning as a model you can run

Schedules, dependencies and delivery forecasts held in the same graph as the work itself, so that a change in one place shows its effect everywhere it reaches, across machine, human and business timescales.

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Retired

Comply and Coauthor

Two open-source tools, Comply (compliance scanning) and Coauthor (git authorship analysis), were built alongside the platform concepts. Both were retired in September 2026 and are no longer available.