AI-assisted engineering, done right
Huckleberry turns AI-built code into tested, trustworthy, shippable software — and sets you up to keep shipping with agents long after we're gone.
From the author of Bridle — the open-source Claude Code plugin
that puts the harness in your repo. MIT-licensed. Free, forever.
There's a gap nobody warns you about: AI gets you to a working demo astonishingly fast, but not to something you can sell, scale, hire around, or sleep next to. The last mile — from it works to it ships — is a discipline, not a prompt.
For founders & early startups
You built it with AI and it works. Now every change feels like defusing a bomb — nothing tests the agent's work, and the architecture is whatever shipped quickest. We get you across the line.
For established engineering teams
You bought the AI tools. You didn't get the 10×. Output quality swings wildly, your seniors don't trust it and juniors over-trust it, and leadership sees no ROI. We make your team and codebase agent-ready.
The Harness Method
The safety net goes in before the agent touches anything. Characterization tests turn a fragile codebase into one that's safe to change.
Linting, static analysis, and CI give the agent feedback it can verify its own work against — not style opinions it will ignore.
Explicit, boring code with clear boundaries. The kind neither a human nor an agent can misread at 2 a.m.
Change ships incrementally, behind flags and clean seams. Production never stops while the codebase gets better.
Stop approving every line. Set direction, review output, and trust the guardrails to catch what matters.
Your judgment, codified into scoped instruction files the agent follows every time — a living document, shipped as Bridle.
Open source · MIT
A Claude Code plugin that scaffolds and maintains the harness in your repository — installing the guardrails, mapping agent context, and keeping the whole thing enforced as your codebase grows.
Free and open by design. The tool earns the trust; the work earns the engagement. If the free version gets your codebase this far, you already know who to call when you want it done right, fast, and across the whole team.
Service offerings
A fixed-fee readiness assessment with a prioritized fix list. The no-risk front door.
$2k–4k
2–4 weeks hands-on: tests, lint/CI, refactor the worst boundaries, deploy pipeline, Bridle harness configured.
$10k–25k
Install and configure Bridle, then train you to run the on-the-loop workflow yourself.
$2.5k–5k
An ongoing on-the-loop partner who keeps the guardrails healthy as you grow.
$3k–6k /mo
Audit of codebase, workflow, and tooling — with a roadmap and baseline ROI metrics.
$7k–15k
Multi-week: install guardrails, build and deploy the Bridle harness, define the workflow, train the team.
$30k–75k+
Deploy and configure Bridle across the team's repos, with onboarding and codified standards.
$10k–25k
Embedded retainer: evolve the harness, level up the org, track velocity and quality.
$8k–20k /mo
1–2 day hands-on training on the operating model and Bridle.
$6k–12k
Estimates are starting points for US engagements. Final scope and price are set after an audit.
Why Huckleberry
Most consultants either dismiss AI coding or oversell it. Huckleberry does neither — we make it reliable.
The method behind every engagement was proven on a real production codebase across hundreds of commits: a legacy monolith with no tests turned into a well-structured app with automated quality gates and an agent that ships production code with minimal supervision.
Then it was packaged into Bridle — the same open-source tool your team can already use today. You're not buying a slide deck. You're buying the system, installed.
Start here
A fixed-fee, honest read on what's risky, what's missing, and what to fix first — for an AI-built MVP or a mature team codebase.