AI-native software engineering
A desktop development environment where specialist agents plan, write, review, security-check and test each change, and an engineer decides what is applied.
For software engineers and engineering teams
We Engineer the IntelligenceBehind Intelligent Software
Codira is an artificial intelligence research and development company advancing how intelligent systems collaborate, execute and verify complex work. Our orchestration architecture powers a growing portfolio of professional applications built for precision, accountability and human control.
A model can answer a prompt.Professional work needs a system around it.
Large language models write fluently and reason across a remarkable range of subjects. What they produce, though, is a likely answer, and a likely answer is not the same thing as finished work. A code change has to compile and leave the rest of the system intact; a press release has to rest on facts the company can stand behind; a legal analysis has to quote the record exactly.
The distance between a plausible answer and dependable work is where Codira concentrates its engineering. We break work into defined steps, give each step to a specialist, check the results with rules that are written in code rather than left to probability, and return the decision to the person who is accountable for it.
A single assistant
- 1Prompt
- 2Model
- 3Answer
Codira
- 1Request
- 2Plan
- 3Specialists
- 4Rules in code
- 5Review
- 6A person decides
- Record
Our technology.An architecture for accountable AI work.
Codira builds on foundation models from third-party providers, and we say so plainly. Our own work is the architecture above them: the orchestration that plans and sequences a task, the specialist agents that carry it out, the deterministic controls that check it, and the approval layer that keeps a person in charge of the outcome.
Because those layers are independent of any one model, the products can use different providers for different tasks, and the safeguards stay in place when the models change.
Explore the TechnologyOrchestration
Work is decomposed into tasks, sequenced by their dependencies, and carried forward with the state and context each step needs.
Specialist Agents
Planning, drafting, review, security and verification are separate roles, so no single model is asked to do everything at once.
Deterministic Verification
Rules in code test what the agents produce against defined requirements, and stop work that fails them.
Human Oversight
Agents propose. Consequential actions wait for a person with the authority to take them, and the decision is recorded.
Engineering accountability.Some things shouldn't be left to probability.
Language models are probabilistic by design, and in professional work that is both their strength and their risk. Codira pairs every model with deterministic controls: validation rules, execution constraints and approval gates, written in code, that the model cannot talk its way past and the interface cannot hide.
These controls verify work against requirements we can state precisely. They do not make a model’s output true, and we never describe a passed check as a guarantee of accuracy. What they do is make failures visible, traceable and stoppable before they reach a customer, a client or a court.
A code change refers only to files and symbols that exist, or it's flagged before anyone applies it.
A figure in a press release appears in the brief or its sources, or it blocks approval.
A quotation in a legal answer appears word for word in a cited record, or the answer is caught before it's shown.
An agent can propose an action, but it can't publish, send, apply or accept one.
AI where judgment and language help.Rules where accuracy is required.
Human oversight.People hold the authority. The record shows it.
In each Codira product, agents prepare and propose while people approve, apply, accept or reject. Every proposal, every failed check and every decision is kept, so a reviewer can see what the system suggested, what a rule caught and who decided.
Professional judgment stays with the professional.
Matter activity · Count IIAudit trail
One foundation.Multiple professions.
The same principles carry across every product: work is divided among specialists, checked by rules, and decided by people. What changes is the profession's own knowledge, its safeguards and the way its people work.
Software engineering
Corporate communications
Legal intelligence
Specialists
- Planner
- Implementer
- Reviewer
- Security
- QA
- Verifier
- and others
- Strategist
- Research
- Writer
- Editor
- Verification
- Compliance
- Pleading
- Elements
- Evidence
- Timeline
- Contradiction
- Gap
- and others
Rules in code
- No unexpected deletions
- No missing symbols
- No placeholder code
- Design system respected
- Every figure has a source
- Every quote is approved
- Quotations match the record
- Dates and figures are cited
- No citation outside the case
Who decides
The engineer applies or rejects each change
A person with permission approves, pays and sends
Only an attorney's acceptance enters the record
What is kept
A checkpoint for every applied change
Versions, approvals and an audit trail
A log of every acceptance and rejection
Software engineering
Specialists
- Planner
- Implementer
- Reviewer
- Security
- QA
- Verifier
- and others
Rules in code
- No unexpected deletions
- No missing symbols
- No placeholder code
- Design system respected
Who decides
The engineer applies or rejects each change
What is kept
A checkpoint for every applied change
Corporate communications
Specialists
- Strategist
- Research
- Writer
- Editor
- Verification
- Compliance
Rules in code
- Every figure has a source
- Every quote is approved
Who decides
A person with permission approves, pays and sends
What is kept
Versions, approvals and an audit trail
Legal intelligence
Specialists
- Pleading
- Elements
- Evidence
- Timeline
- Contradiction
- Gap
- and others
Rules in code
- Quotations match the record
- Dates and figures are cited
- No citation outside the case
Who decides
Only an attorney's acceptance enters the record
What is kept
A log of every acceptance and rejection
Our products.Built for the people accountable for the work.
Each product has its own site, its own customers and its own sign-in. Codira, Inc. builds and stands behind all three.
Public relations and communications
A communications platform where agents draft and check releases, rules in code block unsupported figures and unapproved quotes, and a person approves what goes out.
For communications teams and agencies · Formerly Uplevll
Legal intelligence
A legal workspace for cases, evidence and drafting, where AI proposes, code checks every quotation and figure against the record, and attorneys decide.
For attorneys and litigation teams · Formerly DocketIQ
Research and innovation.The questions behind the products.
Our products raise questions that go beyond any one of them: how specialists should divide and hand off work, which requirements can be checked by rule, how context survives a long task, and where a person's judgment has to remain part of the work.
We publish our technical work as it is ready and keep a clear line between what our products do today and what is still being investigated.
Areas of investigation
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Deterministic AI governance
- Verification and validation
- Agent specialization
- Context and state management
- Human-AI interaction
- Model interoperability
- Domain-specific intelligence
- AI-assisted professional work
- Reliable autonomous execution
Publications will appear in Research as they are approved. Experimental work is labelled as research, never as a product capability.
Intellectual property.Original invention, protected as we go.
Codira has filed nine provisional patent applications relating to the technology described on this site. A provisional application secures a filing date while an invention is developed further; it is not an issued patent, and we won’t describe it as one.
The applications themselves are confidential. We will publish more about our intellectual property as it can be shared, and never more than is accurate.
About Our Intellectual PropertyLeadership and company.Accountable people, building accountable systems.
Codira's mission is to advance intelligent systems that improve professional work while preserving reliability, accountability and human control. The people below are responsible for that work.
Bryan Ferre
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
James K. Farrelly
President and Chief Operating Officer
Robert Clawson
Managing Director, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
KJ Jones
Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
Insights.Research, engineering and company news.
Technical perspectives, research announcements, product news and press releases from Codira, Inc., each linked to the product or research area it concerns.
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