The full software development lifecycle,
run with AI.
The Alchemy SDLC™ takes business intent through requirements, build, test, and acceptance — traceable end to end, with humans holding the judgment seats. Alchemist AI Pro™ is where it starts.
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Five stages.
One traceable chain.
Alchemist AI Pro™ is the front door. The Alchemy SDLC™ is the whole building — requirements, build, test, acceptance, and evolution, all connected by one traceable spec.
Requirements
Socratic elicitation and elaboration take raw intent through 8 guided stages to development-ready SDD specs.
Build
Multi-agent orchestration executes 748 tasks against the spec — proven on our own CRM rebuild, not a demo.
Test
229 test cases are pre-written straight from acceptance criteria, before a human ever opens the app.
Acceptance & Final Mile
61.8 human hours validated what would take 11,912 traditional dev hours to build and check by hand.
Closed Loop
Specs stay synced with running code automatically, so the next iteration starts from truth, not memory.
* Note: The numbers shown above represent an example application build. Specific task counts and validation hours will vary by project.
Read the research behind the lifecycle
From Prompt to Production
Why AI software delivery needs a full SDLC.
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Leapfrogging the Pyramid
How the Alchemy SDLC™ lets newcomers deliver senior-level outcomes on day one.
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The Pendulum Swing
Why enterprises are rethinking the COTS platform, and what makes leaving one survivable.
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Procurement-ready.
No competition required.
Alchemist AI Pro™ has been assessed as Awardable through the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace - a repository of post-competition, readily awardable AI/ML, digital, and data analytics solutions.
Awardable status means Alchemist AI Pro™ has already cleared a structured government-facing assessment. Government customers can procure directly through the marketplace, significantly reducing acquisition lead time without a full competitive procurement.
Post-Competition
Alchemist AI Pro™ has completed the CDAO assessment process - agencies can award directly without running a new competition.
Reduced Acquisition Time
Skip the lengthy RFP cycle. Awardable status lets contracting officers move faster with a solution that has already been evaluated.
AI/ML · Data Analytics
Listed under the AI/ML and data analytics solution categories - directly aligned to DoD's data and AI adoption priorities.
Requirements engineering is broken
The gap between what business stakeholders envision and what developers actually build costs enterprises millions. Verbose AI tools make it worse, not better.
- Conversational AI generates verbose, ambiguous requirements that bloat token costs across every agent in your pipeline
- Legacy documentation sits in PDFs and Wikis, invisible to modern AI tooling
- Requirements artifacts go stale the moment development begins, creating permanent documentation debt
- Semantic drift causes "Account" to mean three different things across product, engineering, and marketing
Token Consumption per Requirement
In a multi-agent orchestration pipeline, tight SDD specs save token costs at every agent invocation - multiplying savings across your entire build.
The Emotional Journey of AI-Assisted Development
It all turns out the same without a well-conceived harness for the AI to follow the SDLC that humans have refined over 50 years.
“A well-conceived harness lets AI follow the SDLC that humans have refined over 50 years, and skips the dread entirely.”
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Built from the ground up to solve problems that heavy "factory" platforms and general LLMs can't touch.
Token Margin Arbitrage
SDD spec-driven development compresses requirements by up to 90% vs. conversational alternatives. In a multi-agent orchestration pipeline this saving multiplies - every agent invocation costs less, making fixed-price enterprise contracts viable where competitors can't offer them.
Living Specifications
Alchemist AI Pro™'s closed-loop GitHub integration tracks what was actually built, not just planned. When reality diverges from spec, Alchemist AI Pro™ back-propagates the truth into your next iteration, eliminating documentation debt entirely.
Brownfield Intelligence
Ingest legacy PDFs, outdated Wikis, old test scripts, and historical architecture docs. Critical constraints from legacy systems are automatically propagated into new SDD specs, ensuring modernization doesn't regress functionality.
Concept → Design → Evolution
The Alchemy SDLC™ Platform designs, builds, and deploys your app. Alchemist AI Pro™ is the design phase of that platform, turning business intent into precise, buildable specifications the platform then builds and ships.
Ideate & Ingest
Upload PDFs, Word docs, legacy Wikis, or paste raw ideas. Connect your Domain Knowledge Library. An AI avatar runs Socratic dialogue to refine and de-duplicate your feature thinking.
Specify & Structure
Features are converted into unambiguous SDD-formatted requirements, architectural diagrams, and an incremental implementation plan — version-controlled and ready for agentic consumption.
Orchestrate & Build
Your SDD specs are ingested by the Alchemy SDLC™ Platform. Specialized AI agents coordinate to write code, run tests, and iterate — all driven by the structured spec context.
Deploy & Evolve
Deploy from a single platform. Alchemist AI Pro™'s GitHub integration tracks real-world changes and back-propagates them into your living spec, so Version 2.0 starts from truth, not theory.
Learn the lifecycle,
stage by stage.
Every stage of the Alchemy SDLC™ — requirements, build, test, acceptance, and evolution — is walked through on video, so your team can see the harness at work before they run it themselves.
How we stack up against
the alternatives
| Capability | Alchemist AI Pro™ | Leading Competition | Claude Code | Kiro.dev |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDD-formatted specifications | Native | Agent-debated | Prompt-dependent | Native |
| Token efficiency | Exceptionally high | Low (verbose debates) | Low (conversational bloat) | ~ Moderate |
| Legacy / brownfield ingestion | Document & Wiki | ~ Code-level only | Limited context | ~ MCP-based |
| Closed-loop GitHub evolution | Built-in | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Managed build & deploy pipeline | Yes (Alchemy SDLC™ Platform) | Yes | No | No |
| Socratic AI dialogue / avatar | Live AI avatar | ~ Text-based Refinery | No | No |
| Cross-functional collateral | Marketing, branding, reports | Engineering only | Code only | Code only |
Works with any SDD-compatible tool
Alchemist AI Pro™ exports structured SDD specification packages compatible with any spec-driven development workflow. Use our managed Alchemy SDLC™ Platform for a fully integrated experience, or bring your own tooling.
- Managed Alchemy SDLC™ Platform
- Compatible with Kiro.dev, GitHub Spec Kit, and other SDD tools
- JIRA CSV, Git-ready ZIP, and API export
Beyond The Code
Ontological Governance
Manage "Golden Words," a controlled lexicon enforced across every artifact. Ensure "Account" means the same thing in ideation, SDD specs, marketing, and your database schema.
Cross-Functional Collateral
Leverage deep project context to autonomously generate competitive analyses, branding strategies, video scripts, and executive summaries - turning Alchemist AI Pro™ into a full product launch command center.
Journeys of the Final Mile
Business Analyst Kris Brooks is documenting his own hands-on path through the Alchemy SDLC™ — real challenges, unfamiliar tools, and no pretending to have all the answers up front.
Simple, transparent credits.
Buy credits only when you need them. No subscription required. Enterprise teams needing the full Alchemy SDLC™ Platform build and deploy should contact us directly.
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Enterprise Alchemy SDLC™ Platform
Need the full pipeline? The Alchemy SDLC™ Platform includes managed build, multi-agent execution, and deployment infrastructure — custom-quoted for enterprise teams.
Your next sprint starts
with a perfect brief
Stop writing requirements by hand. Stop paying for token-bloated AI loops. Start shipping with clarity.