Tollens provides an AI‑driven engineering companion that guides autonomous coding agents to focus on the 90 % of software work beyond initial prototyping. By embedding quality‑first processes, it helps teams define stakeholder goals, enforce deliberate engineering standards, and run targeted testing to ensure the product remains reliable and user‑centric in real‑world conditions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
AI-generated code can produce a functional prototype quickly, but most software projects require extensive engineering effort beyond initial coding to ensure reliability, usability, and alignment with stakeholder needs.
Solution
Tollens acts as an agentic companion that guides development teams through the remaining 90% of the software lifecycle. It begins by interviewing the team to surface implicit assumptions and define a quality strategy aligned with the product’s current state and stakeholder priorities. Throughout development, Tollens directs AI agents to apply quality‑first engineering practices, such as targeted testing and continuous quality reasoning, rather than treating quality as an after‑the‑fact checklist. By embedding these processes from the start, the platform helps transform raw prototypes into deliberate software that reliably serves users while reducing developer stress.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software development teams and product groups that use AI code generation tools and need a structured, quality‑first process to mature prototypes into production‑ready products.
Features
- Interactive sessions that elicit undocumented assumptions and translate them into a concrete quality strategy
- Automated generation of test suites focused on identified stakeholder priorities and real‑world usage scenarios
- Continuous quality reasoning engine that evaluates design decisions against the defined quality criteria throughout the project
- Integration hooks for existing AI coding agents, enabling seamless handoff from prototype generation to deliberate engineering
- Dashboard that visualizes quality metrics, test coverage gaps, and progress toward stakeholder‑defined goals