Requests pile up
The queue grows every month while the team stays the same size.
About
We own the work between your request and your merge.
AgentCTO is by TinyCheque. We run AI agents with a custom setup around them, and take $5 from your prepaid balance for each user story that meets the criteria you approved.
Minimum 100 user stories a month, $500 paid in full before work begins. No seats to buy, no hiring, no notice periods.
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By TinyCheque.
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Paid per completed story.
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A named person on every account.
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Founders one email away.
Why we exist
The tools got very good. The pipeline around them did not.
Writing code got cheaper. Knowing what to build, checking it works, and standing behind it did not.
Tools need an owner
Somebody still writes the PRD, steers the agent and runs QA.
Nobody sold the whole thing
You could buy seats or hire people. You could not buy the finished pull request.
What we believe
Four things we will not bend on.
Each one costs us something. That is how you know they are real.
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Agree before you build
No code until you approve the PRD. Building the wrong thing quickly is still waste.
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Charge for outcomes
You pay for completed stories and not for hours or seats. A slow day is our problem.
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Your team has the last word
We raise pull requests. Your engineers decide what merges.
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Say what we do not have
No logo wall yet, and no customer quotes yet. We will not fake them.
The people you will hear from
Sudhir Goenka
Co-founder & CFO
Sushant Pingale
Chief Product Officer
Picture a roadmap that moves while your team stays the same size
Your product has more requests than your team can ship.
The list grows every month. The small asks sink to the bottom, and customers stop bothering to send them, because they have learned that nothing changes.
AgentCTO exists to change that pattern without asking you to hire, reorganize or buy another seat. You send a request in plain English. We write the plan, your team approves it, and we aim to raise a tested pull request within three business days. The people you have keep doing the work only they can do.
Over a few months, the change is easy to see.
The edge cases get built, because each one is a small, priced story rather than a line that never makes the sprint. The empty states get written. The validation messages stop being a todo list. Your roadmap starts to match what your customers actually asked for.
This page tells you who we are, what we believe, how the company runs day to day, and what you should ask before you trust us with your work. It gives you the facts you need to decide.
Four rules we will not bend, even when they cost us
- AgentCTO is by TinyCheque. We run AI agents with a custom setup around them, and we charge only for user stories that meet the criteria you approved. Four rules sit underneath that. Each one costs us something, and that is how you can tell they are real.
- The first rule is to agree before we build. No code is written until you approve the PRD. Building the wrong thing quickly is still waste, and it is the most expensive waste there is. A PRD takes a little time up front, and it saves the rework that follows when nobody agreed what done looks like.
- The second rule is to charge for outcomes. You pay $5 for each completed user story, from a minimum of 100 a month, prepaid. You do not pay for hours, and you do not pay for seats. If a day goes badly for us, that is our problem to solve, and it does not use your balance.
- The third rule is that your team has the last word. We raise pull requests. Your engineers read them, ask questions and decide what merges. We are not in the room when your code ships, and we do not want to be. That is the point of working in your repository.
- The fourth rule is to say what we do not have. We have no logo wall yet and no customer quotes yet. We are onboarding our founding cohort, and we will not fake either. An honest gap is easier to trust than a polished claim, and you deserve to know exactly where we stand before you pay.
- Taken together, the rules make the relationship simple. You know what you agreed, what you are paying for and who decides. Nothing about the work is hidden behind a seat count or an hourly rate.
Agree before you build:
no code until you approve the PRD.
Charge for outcomes:
$5 per completed user story, prepaid.
Your team has the last word:
your engineers decide what merges.
Say what we do not have:
no quotes and no logo wall yet.
How we run the company, one request at a time
Every request follows the same pattern, so the people on your account can work with confidence. Here is how the company is set up around that pattern, from your first email to your merge.
You get a named account manager.
That is a real person who tracks every request through to the merge, at zero extra cost. They are the person you message when a PRD needs a second look or a pull request needs a clearer explanation. Founders are one email away too, when a question needs more weight.
Agents aim to write the PRD the same business day you raise a request.
The PRD lists the user stories, edge cases and acceptance criteria, along with the count and the cost. Agents build the UI, frontend, backend and tests at the same time, using the patterns already in your repository. Nobody waits for the API before starting the screens, because the work runs in parallel.
Our team runs manual QA.
A person clicks through the feature against the criteria you approved, before the pull request is raised. That step exists because automated tests check what they were written to check, and a person notices the error message that makes no sense or the flow that technically works but feels wrong.
The setup we use around the agents is called the harness.
It is the set of rules that makes agents read first, agree first, test as part of the job, and hand over work a person has checked. The harness is what let us ship our own products, and it is what we now run for your repository.
Our founding cohort is capped at a small number of accounts each month.
That cap is deliberate. It means every account gets a dedicated account manager from day one, and it means we do not take on more work than we can run properly. If you ask to join, you will hear from a person about where you fit.
A named account manager at zero extra cost.
A written PRD the same business day you raise a request.
Parallel building, so the work does not wait in line.
Manual QA by a person before your team sees the change.
Founders one email away when a question needs more weight.
A partner you can check before you trust
- A new company asks for trust, and trust should be earned in the open. We would rather you check us than believe us. There are three things to look at first.
- Look at the seven products built using AgentCTO. They include 60db.ai, Qcall.ai, Vrid.ai, Niyam.ai, Autoposting.ai, Firstsales.io and Communicate.so. Each one is live, and each one has its own website you can open today. These are live products, not demos, and the same process you would get is behind them.
- Look at the PRD from your first request. Does it catch the edge cases your own team would have missed? You see that document before you approve anything, so you can judge the thinking before any code is written.
- Look at the pull request. Run the tests on your own machine. Review the diff the way your engineers review any change. If it would not pass review, it has not earned the merge, and your team is the one who decides.
- What you will not find on this page is a wall of testimonials. We do not have them yet, and we would rather say so than borrow someone else's words. That honesty is part of the deal, and it will stay part of it as we grow.
Why we charge per story, and how that stacks up against other routes
There are three common ways to add engineering capacity.
Each one answers the question of who is accountable for the outcome in a different way. Here is an honest view of how they differ.
Hiring makes your own people accountable.
They work in your company, to your standards, and they carry the pager. That is the strongest form of accountability, and it is the right choice when you need people in the room every day. The cost is time, and the cost of a full pod runs well beyond the salaries alone.
Agencies make the firm accountable, through the contract.
How good that is depends on the contract, the handover and how much of the work you can see while it happens. Ask what you can read, when you can read it and what you keep at the end. If those answers are vague, the accountability is vague too.
Coding tools leave accountability with you.
The tool writes code, but someone on your team must write the request, steer the agent, make the design calls and run the checks. That work is real, and it usually lands on your most senior people. The tool is cheap. The process around it is where the money goes.
Our route makes us accountable for the process up to the pull request.
We own the PRD, the build, the tests and the manual QA. Your team owns the merge. The trade-off is that you give up direct control of each step, so the scope you approve and the review you run matter a great deal.
The common question is what you pay for.
With us, you pay $5 for each completed user story, from a minimum of 100 a month, prepaid in full before work begins. The PRD shows the count before anything is built. You are not paying for time spent, and you are not paying for a seat that sits idle when the queue is short.
Hiring:
your people are accountable, and the ramp is slow.
Agencies:
accountability depends on the contract and the handover.
Coding tools:
your team stays accountable for the process around the tool.
AgentCTO:
we own the process to the pull request, and your team owns the merge.
Is a new company safe to trust with your code?
This is the right question to ask. Trust for a company like ours should come from specific answers, in writing, and from checking the work. These are the questions we hear most often.
Who is behind AgentCTO?
AgentCTO is by TinyCheque. Our founders are one email away, and a named account manager is part of every account. Ask us in writing which legal entity you would contract with, and read the agreement before you prepay. Do not rely on a brand name or a page layout to settle that question.
Are you an established firm?
We are onboarding our founding cohort, which means the company is early and the accounts are few. That is why we are careful about who we take on. It is also why you will get a person, not a queue, when you need help.
What happens to my code?
Your code lives in your repository, and work arrives as pull requests you review. What happens to copies of your code while work is in progress is a question we answer with you in writing before you start. Ask it in your first email.
Why should we trust a team that builds its own products?
Because the products are live and you can open them. Building our own products with the same setup is how we learned what works. It is also a standard we keep. If the setup does not produce a good product for us, it will not produce one for you.
What if we do not fit?
Some teams do not. You need a repository, a backlog and someone who can review pull requests. Without that, the work will not go well, and we would rather say so now than sell you a plan that fails. A short honest no is better for both of us than a long unhappy yes.
A worked example, from one email to one merge
- This example is made up. It shows how one small request could move through the process on this page. It is not a record of a real customer. The story count and the price match the sample figures used elsewhere on the site.
- Step one. A team lead writes to us. The invites screen goes blank when nobody has been invited yet. They want a short message in its place, with a button that opens the invite form. They describe it the way they would tell a colleague, in a few plain lines.
- Step two. Our aim is a written PRD on the same business day. This one describes how the invites page works today, what the blank state should show and the copy for it. It lists one user story, with its acceptance criteria. The cost line says one story, which is $5. Nothing has been built yet.
- Step three. The team lead notices that the PRD does not say where the button should go, so they ask. The answer goes into the PRD, and they read it again. Approval is the gate. Until that approval, nothing is built and nothing changes in the repository.
- Step four. After approval, the pull request should arrive within three business days. It includes a test that checks the message appears when the list is empty. A person on our team clicks through the invites page against the criteria before the pull request is raised. An engineer on the team reads the diff and decides whether it merges.
- Step five. The pull request meets the criteria, so the story counts as completed, and $5 comes off the prepaid balance. The engineer decides when it merges. If a criterion had not been met, the story would not be complete, and it would not draw from the balance.
What each step asks of you
This part is written from your side of the table.
It covers the four things you will touch most often.
The prepaid balance.
You fund at least 100 user stories a month, which is $500, paid in full. Each completed story uses $5 of that balance. A PRD with eight stories uses $40 once all eight are complete. Keep a simple running total, the same way you would track any other budget line.
The PRD.
Each request gets a written PRD. Read the story list, the edge cases and the acceptance criteria before you approve. Approve only what you want built. Your approval is the step that starts the build, so treat it as a real decision and not a formality.
The pull request.
Each completed story arrives as a pull request in your repository, with its tests included. Your engineers review it with the habits they already have. They read the diff and decide what merges.
Manual QA.
Before a pull request is raised, a person on our team clicks through the feature against the criteria you approved. That check sits in front of your review. It does not replace it. Your engineers still read the change, because the final call is theirs.
Put the four together and the sequence is simple.
You approve the scope. We build, test and check by hand. Your team reads the change and decides. Keep a short written trail of who approved each PRD and who merged each pull request, so the record is easy to find later.
What we ask from your side of the work
A good working relationship needs a few things from you.
Our terms list them. We repeat them here so nothing comes as a surprise later.
Give us the repository access the work needs, and check that you have the right to give it.
Name someone who can review and decide on pull requests.
Without that person, pull requests wait and nothing merges. Think about who that is before you send the first request.
Do not send production credentials unless we have agreed how they will be handled.
Keep real customer data out of the repositories in scope, and do not send database dumps in a request. Use made-up test data where you can. Ask us first if you are unsure what is safe to share.
Read each PRD before you approve it, and review each pull request before you merge.
Your team makes the final call on every merge. That part stays with you.
What to check and ask before you buy
- Buying a service is a bigger step than it looks. Walk in with a list. These are the checks we suggest, and the answers should reach you in writing where it matters.
- Start with what you already have. Do you have a repository your team works in every day? Do you have a backlog with real items in it? Is there at least one person who can read a pull request and say yes or no? If any answer is no, the work will be harder than the price suggests.
- Then ask about access and data. Which parts of the repository would our agents and team read? Which access would the work need, and who on your side grants it? If your fixtures, seed files or logs hold personal data, read the data processing page and ask for a data processing agreement. Ask which AI model providers would process your work. Our agents and team read repositories, and those providers may process them too.
- Then ask about money, in writing. How many stories would you need in a typical month? What happens to stories you do not use, and how refunds work for them? We confirm those answers in writing, and the written answer is the one that applies to you. Get it before you pay.
- Then ask about the contract. Ask which legal entity you would contract with. Read the agreement or written order before you prepay. If it differs from the terms on this site, the signed agreement or written order wins.
- Finally, ask who will answer your questions during the work, and what that person can decide on their own.
Does your repository have people who read pull requests?
Which access would the work need, and who grants it?
Does any personal data sit in fixtures, seeds or logs?
Which AI model providers would process your work?
What happens to unused stories, in writing?
Which legal entity would you contract with?
Who this is not for
We would rather lose a sale than sell you the wrong plan.
This page is not for every team. These are the cases where we think the fit is poor.
If you have no repository, no backlog and nobody who reviews pull requests, the process has nothing to work with. Work that has nowhere to land will not improve by being cheaper.
If you want a service to decide what merges, this is the wrong shape.
Your team keeps the final call on every merge. If nobody on your side wants that job, the work will sit waiting for a reviewer.
If you only have a handful of stories a month, the minimum still applies.
The minimum is 100 user stories, which is $500, paid in full. Work out your real monthly count before you commit, and get the answer on unused stories in writing first.
If your next feature depends on product decisions nobody on your team has made, a PRD cannot make those decisions for you. A PRD can point at gaps. It cannot close them. Some teams find that useful. Others need to settle the product first, and that is a fair reason to wait.
If you are unsure whether you fit, write to us and ask.
We will tell you plainly if we think the answer is no.
Honest limits, stated before you find them
Every service has limits.
These are ours, written down so you can weigh them before you buy.
We work in your repository, in the stacks listed on this site.
Old code is welcome, but the work follows the patterns it already has. If the code is messy, the first pull requests may show that mess clearly. Use that as information about your codebase.
We do not own the merge.
You give up direct control of each step. That is why the scope you approve and the review you run matter so much. A pull request still needs a reader on your side.
We do not have customer quotes or a logo wall yet.
The best evidence we can offer right now is the seven live products on our work page and the output of your own first request. We cannot yet point you to a long list of past customers, and we will not invent one.
Manual QA is done by a person, and a person can miss things.
The check is against the criteria you approved. It does not replace the tests in your own pipeline, and it does not replace your review. Keep both in place.
The three business days count from your approval, not from the day you wrote to us.
If approval takes longer on your side, the pull request arrives later, and that is expected.
Objections you may still have, answered plainly
"What if the agents build the wrong thing?" They build what you approved, and only that.
The PRD is the gate. If it describes the wrong thing, fix the PRD before you approve it. Hoping the code turns out right is not a plan.
"What if the code is fine, but nobody on my team has time to review it?" Then the pull request waits. That is the honest answer. We do not review your code for you, and a merge is always your decision. Plan the reviewer time before you send the first request.
"What if a story is half done?" A story counts as completed only when its pull request meets the acceptance criteria you approved. A story that has not met them has not been completed, so it does not draw from your balance.
"Could a per-story price be gamed by splitting work into more stories?" The count sits on the PRD, before anything is built, and you approve it. You can question any story on the list before you approve, and you can ask us why it is there.
"We do not want a vendor reading our code." That is a reasonable position, and you should settle it before you send a request. Our agents and our team read the repositories in scope, and AI model providers may process them. If that is not acceptable to you, the honest answer is not to start. Ask for the data processing agreement first, so both sides know the terms.
"Why not write the feature myself?" You may be right.
A small change can be faster to write yourself. A PRD is for work your team wants to hand off and track as stories. If you would rather keep a task in your own hands, keep it there.
Meet the people behind the work, one email away
AgentCTO is a company doing one thing carefully.
We take the features your roadmap has carried, write them down properly, build them with agents and check them with people, and hand you a pull request your team can merge.
If you want to know more before you send a request, use the email button on this page.
A person reads it. Tell us what you want built, the stack you run, and who on your side approves PRDs and reviews pull requests. That is enough for us to reply with something useful.
Sudhir Goenka is co-founder and CFO.
Sushant Pingale is Chief Product Officer. Our founders read the emails that come in.
Ask the questions that matter to you in that first email.
Ask about ownership, access, cost, timing and what happens if you stop. Those answers belong in writing, and we would rather give you accurate answers slowly than fast answers that change later.
When you are ready, send the first request.
We aim to send the PRD the same business day, and the pull request follows within three business days of your approval. Your team reviews it the way it reviews everything else, and decides what merges.
Questions, answered plainly.
Can’t find yours? Write to a founder.
1How is this different from Claude Code or Codex?
Those are tools, and they need an owner. Someone on your team still writes the PRD, steers the agent, makes design calls and runs QA. We do all of that and hand you a tested pull request.
2Is this right for us?
It fits if you have a repo, a backlog, and someone who can review pull requests. It does not fit if nobody on your side can review code, because your team makes the final call on every merge.
3What if I need help along the way?
You get a named account manager. That is a real person who tracks every request through to the merge, at zero extra cost. Founders are one email away too.
Send the feature your roadmap has carried for a quarter.
We open the PRD the same business day. Three business days after you approve it, a pull request is in your repo. Judge us on the merge.
Minimum 100 user stories a month, $500 prepaid. No mail app? Write to udit@tinycheque.com.