Built. First public release coming.
You do the thinking. The AI does the typing. You still get to check the work.
Whether you started in something like Lovable or wrote it yourself, software gets past what you can hold in your head and past what your AI can see at once. Then every change is a gamble. Archimatrix is where the thinking lives — next to your AI coding tools, so you can say what you want properly, and check what came back without reading the code.
We're not accepting sign-ups yet, and there's nothing to buy.
Four things, over and over, for as long as the thing lives
It's what you're already trying to do every time you sit down with an AI and a codebase that matters, done in one place instead of ten. There's nothing to adopt.
Figure out what you actually want
Get it out of your head and ready for prime time, before you burn tokens getting your own thinking straight. Most bad AI output is a good answer to a question nobody finished asking.
Get your AI to do it properly
Hand it what it needs to get the job right, and the guardrails to stay inside — not your whole codebase, and not a prompt typed from memory at eleven at night.
Make sure it actually did
"Done" is a claim. Check the work against what you asked for, item by item, before it becomes something you have to live with.
Pull it back when it's drifted
Things move anyway. Find out what changed, and if something's gone wrong — whether it's the code or the plan — catch it while it's still cheap to fix.
Then again, until it's done, and each lap starts from everything the last one settled.
Every video we've got planned
Two different things live on this list. The first few are our take on the problem, with no software on screen. Everything after that shows the software running. There are no dates on this page.
Part one
Our take on the problem.
These are about why AI-built software gets away from you. There's no product in them, so this is the place to work out whether we actually understand the problem — before you spend any time on whether our software is right for you. If the problem fits, the rest of this list is our answer to it.
Start here · why this keeps happening
Five, in order · videos only
Ideally watch these in order, as each one sets up the next. But if one of them is the exact thing bothering you today, start there.
Part two
The software, on screen and in your hands
From here on, every video shows the software running, and the feature it shows is switched on for you the day the video goes out. You don't have to do anything — the video tells you what you've got.
Every one of these already exists as working software.
The software is built and deployed, it runs, and we use it ourselves every day. Nothing below is waiting to be built.
The plumbing is in, and we're going round checking for dripping taps. So we're not promising bug-free and we're not promising perfect. We make each part available when we're satisfied it's good enough to use.
So when you read a status below, it's telling you where the video is, not whether the software exists. The software exists.
Where you probably are right now
Start from a codebase that got away from you
01 · Figure out what you actually want
Before you prompt for anything
02 · Get your AI to do it properly
Your own tools · your own machine
03 · Make sure it actually did
"Done" is a claim, not a fact
04 · Pull it back when it's drifted
Every codebase drifts. The question is when you find out.
The bits that make it easy
The depth you never have to touch
The whole thing, once, end to end
One longer film · all four, no cuts
Working with other people
Teams, handover and who changed what
The first public release
A technical preview first. The commercial version comes later.
The first public release is a technical preview: working software, free, made available module by module, each module with a video showing you how to use what you've just been given. It's a preview because the polish isn't finished, not because the software isn't.
Sign-ups open the day the first of those videos goes up. Until then, there's nothing to join.
A commercial version follows, and some of it will be paid. That's what pays for this to keep being built. We're not going to say today where that line falls, because we don't know yet, and we'd rather say nothing than promise you something we have to take back.
Whatever you have on the day paid plans arrive, you keep — free, for good. Including the parts that become paid features for everyone who turns up after you. That's the only promise on this page, and it's the reason to be in before that day.
You'll be able to move up to a paid plan if you want more. You'll just never have to, to keep what you already had.
That's the whole thing. No email form, no waitlist, no account.