Frontier series

Your team's
hardest project.
2 days.

Bring the roadmap target that never makes the sprint. Leave with production code, a tuned system, and the numbers that change how your team plans.

At Frontier,
a workshop
becomes a build.

Your engineers and ours work together inside Obvious on the work that was untenable.

Inside our own environment, we've seen projects that would normally take 12 weeks, ship in under 36 hours. Frontier is where we test these numbers on codebases we didn't write, with teams that don't know our shortcuts and don't owe us the benefit of the doubt. Inference has typically landed around $1,600–$2,000.

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Everything's changed. The calculus of how I think about engineering and product is fundamentally different than it was three or four days ago.

Ishmael Samuel, CTO · Paragon

Six weeks of work. One Frontier weekend.

Will, CEO · CoreGrid Power

See what a Frontier
sprint looks like.

Inside the build

What we actually mean
when we say Autobuild.

No one sees Autobuild and immediately gets it. These seven concepts are the ones that click once you're in the room.

The Confidence Layer

Verification

How you trust what an agent ships. Review patterns, confidence gates, and the evidence layer that makes every merge decision real.

The Spec as Code

Intent Engineering

The spec is the product. How strong intent specifications turn autonomous agents into useful engineering teammates.

Beyond Sprints

Parallelism

What happens when you stop thinking in sequential sprints and start running builds in parallel. How teams multiply output without multiplying headcount.

The Learning Loop

Feedback

The loop that makes the system sharpen. How real-time feedback during a build improves every subsequent iteration.

Where Humans Matter

Attention

Where human attention actually belongs in agentic engineering. What to watch, what to trust, and when to step in.

The System Map

Atlas

The map of your system. How Autobuild reads your codebase, understands your architecture, and builds with full context.

The New Ceiling

Ambition

The ceiling moves. What becomes possible when the constraint is no longer engineering capacity, but engineering imagination.

What to expect

Four things you leave with:

The scale depends on your codebase complexity and CL speed, but what you leave with doesn't change.

Shipped code

Merged PRs against your team's codebase. This is not a demo branch or a prototype.

A tuned system

A system configured to your architecture, your conventions, your review patterns.

The numbers

Cost per feature. PR velocity. Spec-to-ship time. The evidence your next planning cycle needs.

A new ceiling

Your team leaves knowing what's actually possible, not what your current sprint process allows.

How it works

Two formats.
One outcome.

Choose the depth that fits your team. Either way, you leave with production code merged into your actual codebase.

The Sprint

One day. One real roadmap target. One team that wants to see what this can actually do under production conditions. You leave with working code, a clear standard for review, and a much harder question for the rest of your roadmap: why wasn't this already moving?

  • 10:00 AMSpec-First Engineering
  • 11:00 AMEnvironment setup with your Build Support engineer
  • 1:00 PMFirst build: a real feature from your roadmap
  • 4:30 PMUnderwriting: what your agent built and why

The Full Build

Two days. Day one gets Autobuild configured to your architecture and gives your team a first win inside your own system. Day two is the real push: the initiative that has kept slipping, shipped in the room, with the people who normally have to wait weeks to see it move.

  • Day 1, 10:00 AMSpec-First Engineering + AI Software Lifecycle
  • Day 1, 1:00 PMFirst build + validation
  • Day 2, 10:45 AMOversight
  • Day 2, 1:00 PMBuild for real
  • Day 2, 4:30 PMUnderwriting: what your agent built and why

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The sessions

What shifts for your team.

Seven sessions across the cohort. Built and led by the people who use these systems every day.

The Spec as Code

Unlocking Agentic Engineering

How strong specs turn autonomous agents into useful engineering teammates.

Mastering High-Velocity Quality

Volume Without Drift

How teams increase output without lowering standards.

From Idea to Impact

First Ship

The moment the system stops being interesting and starts being useful.

The New Leadership Paradigm

The Oversight Layer

What leaders need in place when builds start moving faster.

The Breakthrough Build

The One That Never Made the Sprint

How teams pull forward the roadmap work that usually slips another quarter.

The Confidence Layer

Underwriting

How to review agent-written code with enough rigor to trust what ships.

The Monday After

The New Operating Model

What the best teams take back with them, and what changes immediately.

The process

What happens in the room

Four moments. Every Frontier sprint has the same shape.

01

The Setup

Meet our team. Configure your system. Connect CI, establish review patterns & calibrate.

02

The Reveal

You tell the room what you're actually here to ship. The hardest project. The real stakes.

03

First Ship

The first merged PR lands. Real code. Your codebase. CI passing. There's a timestamp. You'll remember it.

04

The Pivot

Every build hits a wall. A spec assumption, a dependency, a scope call. You decide.

05

The Diff

The readout. What shipped. What didn't. What changes next.

Frontier tour

Where Frontier
is happening.

Two cities are open now. More are coming. Register and tell us where you want us next.

01

ATL

Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 8–9, 2026

complete
02

ATL

Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 15–16, 2026

complete
03

SFO

San Francisco, California

Apr 22–23, 2026

complete
04

NYC

New York, New York

May 6–7, 2026

full

Frontier isn't
for every team.

The smallest team we've had: one person. The largest org: you'd recognize the name. Both left with production code.

You have a real codebase — not a greenfield project or a prototype

You have engineers ready to operate agents, not just watch them

You have a specific chunk of roadmap you've been putting off

Your CI isn't perfect, but it runs — and you know what breaks it

You're at seed to Series B — big enough to have real technical debt, small enough to move

You want operational data, not just shipped code — you're thinking about what comes next

The room is
limited by design.

If you're the kind of team for building big, Frontier was made for you.

San Francisco · New York · Atlanta

Before you register

No. If there were, it wouldn't be Frontier. The room matters. Decisions happen faster there, and the team leaves with the same memory of what happened.