Engineering capacity is no longer the constraint. The constraint is whether your team is shipping with the discipline that makes AI useful instead of dangerous. Armakuni PODs are 12-week fixed engagements where we embed AK Way practices into your team and leave the IP behind.
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Most enterprises plug AI into the same engineering practices that produced the technical debt they're trying to escape. The result: more code, more incidents, more outages. AK Way PODs ship the practices first, the AI second.
Median deploy frequency from baseline to exit across recent POD engagements. DORA-tracked, sprint-by-sprint.
PODs run for 12 weeks. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed handover. No staff-augmentation drift.
Code, runbooks, observability dashboards, AK Way playbook. Everything stays with your team when the POD leaves.
AK Way PODs ship the five engineering practices that make AI agents safe to deploy: Quality Gates, Clean Architecture, Observability, Boundary Controls, DORA Metrics. Your team learns them by working alongside ours.
The POD is infrastructure you keep. AK Way playbook, observability dashboards, IaC, runbooks, post-mortem templates, on-call rotation. Deployed into your repos under your governance. When the engagement ends, your team has the practices, the tools, and the muscle memory.
AK Way is the methodology that determines whether AI makes your team genuinely faster or just generate more code for your team to debug. PODs ship the practices first, then add AI on top.
AI agents generate code at speed. Without test-first gating, that speed produces untested artifacts your team inherits as risk. Every AI-generated function must pass a test contract before it reaches a branch. The test exists before the code does.
Your legacy systems weren't designed for agents to operate on. Clean architecture maps the environment so agents operate within defined scopes. Your team stops discovering surprise dependencies in production.
Agents that operate without traces are agents your team can't debug. Observability instruments every action across every agent in the pipeline. When something breaks, the trace shows exactly what happened.
Ungoverned agents with production access are the single biggest risk in agentic delivery. Boundary controls enforce bounded authority, audit trails, and human approval gates.
Without measurement, you can't tell improvement from activity. DORA metrics baseline your team's delivery performance on day one and track it continuously. PODs are accountable to the numbers.
The POD wires AWS primitives you are already paying for into a single governed flow. No new runtime. No new vendor. The IP transfer happens because your engineers learn by building alongside ours.
Runs every code-author, test-author, and review agent. Scoped per task, logged per invocation.
IDE-resident AI pair-programmer wired to your codebase, your patterns, your security policies.
Long-running task agent for refactors, migrations, and bulk-edit work. Step Functions orchestrated.
PII filters, secret detection, prompt-injection blocking on every model call. Policy, not prayer.
Every agent decision and tool call streamed to one log group. Query the chain of custody in seconds.
Least-privilege per agent, SCPs at the OU level, Control Tower baseline everywhere.
The entire team is great at understanding what I'm looking for and at communicating challenges so we can work out a good solution. If I provide a technical requirement, I know it will get done. I'm not seeing any loose ends. That's a wonderful relief for me knowing that I can trust you guys to get the job done well. It's due to Armakuni's competence that Rob and I are looking forward to Phase 2.
Here's what it built.
Armakuni was a game-changer for Comic Relief; they built us a new donation platform, on time and on budget while also helping us break the GBP 100 million mark for the first time.
HSBC adopted cloud-native delivery through the AK Way. Automated pipelines, continuous testing, and engineering discipline applied at global-bank scale.
JPMorgan Chase is one of five of the world's largest financial institutions Armakuni has delivered AWS engineering work for. Proof the AK Way holds at systemically important scale.
Red Bull is part of Armakuni's media and entertainment portfolio. Proof the AK Way extends beyond financial services into global consumer brands.
Ryno's internal team had already tried and failed to reach production quality on AI call analysis. Armakuni's PoC was production-ready in under two weeks of a four-week window.
Santander transformed its engineering teams through "The Engineering Way." Everything as code, automated testing, and a high-velocity cloud-native delivery force built on the AK Way.
45% increase in on-time vehicle deliveries, replacing a reactive model where delays were only discovered after they'd already cost the customer.
Median outcomes across recent POD engagements where teams ran the AK Way practices and the orchestration layer was deployed in their AWS account.
A POD-deployed agentic build system that lives in your repos. Q Developer for IDE-resident pairing, Kiro for long-running refactors, Bedrock for code-review automation. Every PR carries an audit trail.
Output: a working AI build system inside your AWS account, with your engineers operating it.
A second-agent review layer. Every AI-authored diff passes a Bedrock-powered architectural review for OWASP Agentic Top 10 compliance, then routes to a human reviewer with the analysis attached.
Output: 2.74x fewer CVEs in AI-authored code than human-only review catches.
Half-day hands-on workshop where your engineers build a Q Developer agent against your real codebase, instrument it with AK Way observability, and ship it through the quality gates. Walk away with a working pattern and the AK Way playbook.
Half-day workshop on the OWASP Agentic Top 10 applied to product engineering. Bring an existing AI feature you've shipped or are planning to ship. Walk away with a security review and a remediation plan.
Thirty-year COBOL cores, monthly regulator cycles, and an AI roadmap the CTO already signed. The orchestration layer keeps every AI action audit-ready for the PRA, FCA, and SEC.
PHI cannot leave the account. Guardrails and SCPs keep every Bedrock call inside HIPAA boundaries. Evolve has modernized claims, scheduling, and EHR-adjacent systems without a single cross-account spill.
Peak-season refactors where a bad deploy costs a weekend of revenue. Canary gates inside Step Functions hold agents to the same release calendar your SREs already run.
Systems where a bad change takes a production line offline. Inspector and Config drift checks run before any Evolve agent touches a service that talks to the shop floor.
Billing stacks that cannot go dark. Evolve targets the adjacencies first, strangles the core last, and keeps the whole carrier graph visible in CloudWatch the entire time.
Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations earned C-Suite trust on a regulated edtech platform with the AK Way governance documented for the regulator.
Read use case →Gavel modernised a live video auction platform with microservices migration and multi-gateway payments shipping in production.
Read use case →One of the largest US payment technology and prepaid solutions companies rebuilt a GLBA- and HIPAA-compliant document platform with policy-as-code on every AWS service.
Read use case →One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S. turned a high-speed application-integration challenge into a success story with AK Way speed and partnership.
Read use case →SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands shipped governed agentic modernization with the orchestration layer transferred to their team on exit.
Read use case →Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations, the identity platform, One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S., SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands. Specific numbers. Named stakeholders.
All case studies →BFSI, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, telco. Constraints by industry. Response by orchestration.
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Engineering essays, AK Way deep-dives, AWS Premier Partner specializations.
Read insights →Active AWS competencies and service-delivery designations behind modernization work.
Two-week scoped Discovery: we baseline your DORA metrics, audit the engineering practices, and propose the POD shape. Fixed fee. The output is a 12-week POD plan with measurable targets.
Your first conversation is with the solution architect who would run the engagement.