Living software

Your business changes every week.Your software should too.

Outline turns what you say you need into running software in days. Engineered to the standard your IT department would hold a vendor to, on an open platform built to be audited, with a record you can read at every stage.

Spoken requirements appear as speech bubbles beside a specification, each becoming a line of it, and the specification becomes a running application screen that keeps updating as the requirements change. A platform band runs underneath both.
See the proof

Anyone can build it fast. We build it properly, and you can check.

A lot of fast, disposable software is about to get built. Ours leaves one record, from the spec you approve to the action your software takes, and you can read it.

  1. 01

    The spec

    You approve it. It governs the build.

  2. 02

    The build

    Gated, tested, and recorded as it goes.

  3. 03

    The platform

    One identity and audit layer under everything.

  4. 04

    In use

    Every action shows what it read, and when.

One record, spec to action
  • Open source

    The platform is being opened. Read it, run it, keep it.

  • Not charged for

    You pay for the software the factory builds and for keeping it right.

  • Runs where you need it

    Our cloud, your cloud, or a server on your premises.

How we build, in detail
The factory in one picture

What you say goes in. Software that keeps up comes out.

Three things, and they stack.

What you need enters Outline from the left. Outline builds living software above it and draws on the platform below it. The living software also runs on the platform, and leaves on the right as your software, kept current. The platformYour data, documents and judgmentData platformKnowledge platformOutlineInterview, spec, build. In days.Living softwareApps and agents that decide and actWhat you needbuildsdraws onruns onYour software,kept current

Living software

The apps and agents your business runs on. They work from your live data and your experts’ judgment, so they decide and act rather than just report. Kept right as the business changes. This is what you buy.

Outline

Outline interviews you, writes the spec, and the factory behind it builds the software in days. You pay for what it produces.

The platform

Your data, your documents and your experts’ judgment, on one identity, tenancy and audit layer that every application inherits. Assessed against SOC 2 criteria. Being opened as open source, not charged for, runs anywhere.

How it works, in detail
How it works

Describe it. Run it. Change it.

  1. 01

    Describe

    Brief Outline the way you’d brief a colleague. It asks the questions a good analyst would, checks them against your data, and writes a spec you read in plain English and approve.

  2. 02

    Build

    The factory builds from the spec. Not a prototype: a working application over your live data, through gates we record, on a platform with an audit trail. Days, not months.

  3. 03

    Change

    When the business moves, describe the change and the software follows. Patches, model upgrades and schema changes are handled for you. Keeping it right is part of what you pay for.

Every build adds to a kit of parts the factory reuses. The tenth application is faster than the first.

Track record

Twenty-three years of data infrastructure. Rebuilt AI-first. Now a factory.

Connecting businesses to their own data since 2003, building AI systems since 2022. In late 2025 we rebuilt our own product with AI: eighteen months the first time, two weeks the second. So we built the thing that builds software.

The story behind the rebuild
23
Years in data infrastructure
300+
Companies since 2003
4
Years building AI systems
AI-first
Since 2025

Tell us what you need.

Half an hour, no slides. Bring the thing you wish your software did.