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AI-native software factory for engineering teams

Every developer, a 10x engineer.

Codalio turns a requirement into a PRD, a spec, an architecture and a tested, reviewed, merge-ready codebase — running the models your team already trusts. Build enterprise-class applications with the team you have.

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Free plan, no credit card. Code you own. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenHands.

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One platform for engineering teams — from first idea to production code

Engineering teams ship with a 10x factor on the models and CLIs they already trust. Founders take an idea to a product they own. Product owners describe the vision in plain English and inherit a blueprint any future team can take further.

Build enterprise-class applications faster — with a 10x factor instead of ten more hires.

Your models, your CLIs, your repo

Run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI or OpenHands against a locked spec — with tests, review and compliance on every station.

Code and architecture you can trust

Generate maintainable code rooted in best practices for architecture, compliance, and scalability — no black boxes.

Inherit the full context

The PRD, technical spec, architecture, and agentic context travel with the project, so engineers extend and scale it without starting over.

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Proof, not promises

They built their solutions using Codalio — here's the proof

Real pilots and a measured build: what you get when the pipeline runs from requirement to merge-ready code — 10x engineers shipping code you own, not a slide deck.

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Same product idea. Four builds. No senior team.

How complete is the app you actually get?

We asked four pipelines to build the same meal-planning product — 25 capabilities, 111 things a customer would expect to work. Codalio ran without a CTO, tech lead, or senior developers. Prompt-only tools did not. April 2026.

How we ran it — and why it scales

100%

Complete product on Codalio

Every feature a paying customer would expect — without a CTO, tech lead, or senior developers

~50%

Prompt-only tools left half unbuilt

Same app idea, no senior team — whole areas never shipped. A written plan plus 10–15 hours of a senior developer raised Claude Code to 89%, still not complete.

$7.96

Cost of a finished product

Complete build at $7.96 vs. $25–$49 for incomplete prompt-only runs that still needed a senior developer

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Pilot · TELUS × L-SPARK Sovereign AI Accelerator

A non-technical operator went further than three days of vibe-coding

  • Days 1–3, on a different prompt-to-code tool: a thin HTML mockup and a large frontier-model bill.
  • Minute 10, on Codalio: an all-green, ranked PRD and an executable plan.
  • Same idea. Buildable, for a fraction of the model spend.

“Within 10 minutes, I had an all-green ranked PRD… night and day difference between what I was able to mock up. That genuinely probably saved me directly money.”

— Stuart, Director — AI, Dual-Use & Defense, L-SPARK

Customer pilot · Eduai Motors

A hardware founder shipped software without an in-house engineering team

  • No software team in-house — the product is self-powered rail vehicles plus a network operating system
  • Customers still planned on whiteboards; they needed something to show, not another slide
  • Codalio turned that vision into a customer-facing MVP covering the full solution

“The key value was the simplicity in defining your scope… well-worded and visual. What we have for MVP is very rough, but it's something to show our customers — the full system solution they need.”

— Ryan, Eduai Motors (via NORCAT ecosystem)

What founders say

After they've shipped — not before we pitch them

"Codalio's AI platform totally got my vision and helped me build a clear plan for my app. As a non-technical founder, that peace of mind is huge. We built our solution way faster and saved cash and valuable time."

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Julien Gagnier

Founder & CEO, Tablise

"We were stuck—unable to hire a team to build the solution we needed for our seed round. Codalio was our lifeline. Their AI platform allowed us to build a robust app quickly, which directly led to us securing our investment."

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Peyvand Mellati

CEO at QEA Tech

"Codalio is the accelerator every technical founder needs. It handles the heavy lifting, allowing for a tight feedback loop and rapid progress, while their team provides the expert partnership to bring it all together. A truly invaluable combination."

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Jordan Brooks

CEO at GreenPaths

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Vibe-coding fixed

Serious apps demand agentic engineering

An agentic engineering platform designed for everyone.

AI made generating code easy. The hard part is generating the right product — one that scales and stays coherent as you add new functionality. Codalio starts by turning your intent into a Product Requirements Document (PRD) — the what and why — and a technical specification (spec) — the how — then builds against them across the whole software development lifecycle (SDLC). Agents work from shared context, not a prompt loop that forgets what it built yesterday.

Spec before code

Your intent becomes a structured PRD and technical spec, so what ships is shaped like your business — not a lucky guess from a one-line prompt.

One source of truth

Your PRD, technical spec, data model, and architecture stay linked as the product evolves — no drift between what you meant and what got built.

Handoff-ready for 10x engineers

Codalio manages and augments the whole SDLC. Your builders inherit the PRD, technical spec, architecture, and agentic context — so they review, decide, and ship at the scale of a full team, without reverse-engineering a prompt history.

Read: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Spec-driven development

Today: use Codalio, three steps, and your application is running.

1

Capture your vision

Describe what you want to build. Codalio asks the clarifying questions that turn a fuzzy idea into structured requirements.

2

Lock the blueprint

Get your PRD, technical spec, data model, and architecture in one place. That living source of truth guides every station that follows.

3

Ship production-ready software

Generate a scalable codebase on Codalio’s open-source Rhino foundation. Deploy it, own it, extend it — with full context for your engineers.

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Agentic engineering pipeline

Inside step three: nine stations, configured automatically.

Every station runs the model your team already trusts — through Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI or OpenHands — against the locked spec, so what comes out the other end is tested, reviewed and compliant, not just generated.

  1. Plan

    Architecture & implementation plan vs. your existing systems

  2. Develop

    Proven patterns + AI for the code that differentiates you

  3. Write Tests

    Coverage built from spec acceptance criteria

  4. Run Tests

    Full suite executed, results captured

  5. Debug

    Failures diagnosed & fixed in-loop

  6. Review

    Quality, security & architecture checks

  7. Compliance

    Validated against your regulatory rules & standards

  8. Commit

    PR opens with full end-to-end traceability

  9. Merge

    Your engineer reviews, approves & ships

See it work

Two directions. One coherent loop.

Start from an idea or from code that already exists — either way the PRD keeps everything in sync. Watch each direction below.

Start from an idea

Prompt → PRD → UI Prototype → Code → Deploy → Scale

Describe what you want in plain language. Codalio writes the spec, builds a clickable prototype, generates production code on your own GitHub, deploys it, and gives you a foundation built to scale.

Start from code

Code → PRD

Point Codalio at a repository — a vibe-coded prototype, an agency handover, a legacy project — and it reverse-engineers the code into a PRD you control, then rebuilds from the corrected blueprint.

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For engineering managers

Level up your junior developers without the technical debt.

Every large engineering organisation has junior and mid-level developers who want to operate like seniors, and managers asked to deliver more with no extra budget while cleaning up vibe-coded debt.

Codalio gives every developer the spec-first, test-first, review-first pipeline a senior engineer would enforce, so juniors ship at senior standards from day one and managers get the speed without the cleanup.

We turn every developer on your team into a 10x engineer.

Start with one repo, free

Vibe-coding fixed

Spec before code. One source of truth. Handoff-ready output. The pipeline that stops vibe-coded debt from landing in your backlog.

  • Spec locked before a line of code
  • Tests written and run before review
  • Compliance and review stations before merge

Open-source PRD plugin · MCP

Open source, in your editor, on MCP.

Codalio Blueprint (open source)

A free plugin that turns a rough idea into a written PRD inside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini or Antigravity. No account needed.

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Install

/plugin marketplace add codalio/codalio-blueprint

/plugin install codalio-blueprint@codalio-blueprint

Cursor path: Settings → Plugins → search Codalio

Plugin for your agent

In a new project, run /prd-builder and describe what you want. The plugin writes the PRD in your editor — then continue in Codalio when you're ready to run the full pipeline. Details on /blueprint.

Coming with Codalio Studio

Codalio MCP

Connect Codalio to your agents over MCP: drag in a PRD, generate tickets, run the pipeline from the tools you already use.

Coming soon

Codalio Studio — the desktop software factory.

Run the whole pipeline on your own machine and inside your own network. Studio orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI and OpenHands locally, takes a PRD, creates the tickets, and runs plan, code, tests and review without your code leaving the premises. Built for teams that can't ship source to someone else's cloud.

Internal preview September 2026. No spam, one email when it's ready.

Why Codalio

Everything you need to build, deploy, and scale

Engineering-facing pipeline first — then the founder and product tools that feed it.

For engineering teams

Code you own

Full ownership of generated source. Export to your GitHub — no lock-in.

GitHub & PR flow

Stations open pull requests with end-to-end traceability for your team to review and merge.

Tests, review & compliance

Write tests, run them, review, and compliance-check before commit — against the locked spec.

Architecture output

Technical spec, data model, and architecture shipped with the code so engineers inherit context.

Your models & CLIs

Run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, or OpenHands — the models your team already trusts.

Refinements & versioning

Refine your PRD and spec on the go, with version control synced across both.

For founders and product owners

PRD generator

Intent becomes a complete requirements document in minutes.

Detailed technical spec

Flows, journeys, stories and tasks — ready for Jira or Linear.

Budget & timeline estimation

Clear estimates that set stakeholder expectations.

UI prototyping

Real UI code and previews, not just wireframes.

Data model creation

A robust, scalable data model generated with the blueprint.

Shared workspace

One source of truth for owners and engineers.

DevOps & hosting

One-click staging and production deploy.

The 10x shift

1x → 10x

We turn your engineers into 10x engineers — and your founders into their first engineer.

Without Codalio

1x

Velocity without a durable spec — prompts that don’t survive the next feature.

With Codalio

10x

Spec-first agentic leverage — you decide; the factory executes against the blueprint.

Judgment over speed

AI has commoditized coding speed. Judgment is what’s scarce — and what Codalio multiplies.

Full-team leverage

You set direction, review, and decide. The factory plans, builds, tests, and ships around you.

One → team of twenty

One engineer shipping at the scale that used to take a full squad — without losing the quality bar.

Multiply the team you have

Every developer gets industrial leverage. The judgment stays with your engineers.

See how enterprises run the same playbook

From the blog

Vibe coding, agentic engineering, and spec-first builds

Featured · Proof

Can You Ship a Complete App Without a Senior Engineering Team? We Measured It.

Four pipelines, one product idea, no senior team on Codalio’s run. What actually shipped — and what still needed a CTO.

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The Token Casino: Why "Fix It Again" Costs More Than You Think

PRD & scope

The AI RFP Writer That Turns Requirements Into PRDs, Scope, and Real Estimates

Vibe coding

The $607 Replit Bill Was a Spec Problem, Not a Pricing Problem

Spec-first

Vibe Coding Ships Prototypes. Spec-Driven Ships Products.

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Start free. Upgrade when the pipeline pays for itself.

Start free, then upgrade as your product and your team grow.

Free Plan

For builders exploring Codalio

$0/month
  • 5 daily credits - Up to 30/month
  • No credit rollover
  • Limited editing and scoping
  • 1 active project
  • Basic market sizing
  • Basic app UI prototype
  • PRD PDF export with watermark
  • Community support only
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Pro Plan

For individual creators who want more power and polish

$10/month
  • 50 monthly credits - Rollover to the next month
  • 5 bonus daily credits - Up to 50/month
  • Full estimation, user stories, tasks, and market sizing
  • Export PRD in multiple formats
  • Cursor and Windsurf instructions (md files)
  • Full user interface (UI) prototyping
  • Deploy on Heroku ($50/mo) - Fixed cost
  • Up to 2 collaborators
  • Email support
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Plus Plan

For freelancers and small teams shipping real products

$20/month
  • All features of the Pro plan
  • 100 monthly credits - Rollover to the next month
  • 5 bonus daily credits - Up to 100/month
  • Up to 5 active projects
  • Versioning feature
  • Up to 2 collaborators
  • Email and live chat support
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Premium Plan

For growing teams that need more power and collaborators

$100/month
  • All features of the Plus plan
  • 500 monthly credits - Rollover to the next month
  • 5 bonus daily credits (up to 150/month)
  • Deploy on Heroku (Included)
  • Up to 5 collaborators
  • Priority support
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Larger team or governed delivery?

Need more seats, SSO, or a governed, spec-driven delivery process across a bigger team? Let’s scope the right setup together.

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Common Questions

Still deciding? Start on the free plan — no credit card — and see the pipeline on your own repo.

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