AI-assisted engineering, done right

AI writes the code.
We make it
production-grade.

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.

LINE 01

Vibe Rescue

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.

  • Tests that catch breakage before your users do
  • Automated quality gates and a deploy you can trust
  • An architecture that's boring in the best way
  • Bridle installed so you keep shipping safely
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LINE 02

AI Enablement

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.

  • A codebase agents can actually work in
  • A shared operating model, not tribal knowledge
  • Bridle rolled out consistently across the team
  • Velocity and quality metrics leadership can see
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The Harness Method

Treat the agent like a junior engineer who needs guardrails — not a magic wand.

01

Tests first

The safety net goes in before the agent touches anything. Characterization tests turn a fragile codebase into one that's safe to change.

02

Machine-checkable standards

Linting, static analysis, and CI give the agent feedback it can verify its own work against — not style opinions it will ignore.

03

Obvious architecture

Explicit, boring code with clear boundaries. The kind neither a human nor an agent can misread at 2 a.m.

04

No big-bang rewrites

Change ships incrementally, behind flags and clean seams. Production never stops while the codebase gets better.

05

On-the-loop, not in-the-loop

Stop approving every line. Set direction, review output, and trust the guardrails to catch what matters.

06

The harness

Your judgment, codified into scoped instruction files the agent follows every time — a living document, shipped as Bridle.

Open source · MIT

Bridle: the harness, as a plugin.

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.

claude code MIT licensed zero lock-in
claude code · ~/your-app
> /plugin marketplace add tacoda/tacoda-marketplace
marketplace added
> /plugin install bridle@tacoda-marketplace
Bridle installed
> /reload-plugins
plugins reloaded
> /bridle:generate-harness
codebase harnessed
Giddy up!
>

Service offerings

Productized, fixed-scope, easy to buy.

Line 01 — Vibe Rescue

founders & early startups

Vibe Audit

A fixed-fee readiness assessment with a prioritized fix list. The no-risk front door.

$2k–4k

Production Sprint

2–4 weeks hands-on: tests, lint/CI, refactor the worst boundaries, deploy pipeline, Bridle harness configured.

$10k–25k

Bridle Setup & Coaching

Install and configure Bridle, then train you to run the on-the-loop workflow yourself.

$2.5k–5k

Founder Retainer

An ongoing on-the-loop partner who keeps the guardrails healthy as you grow.

$3k–6k /mo

Line 02 — AI Enablement

established engineering teams

AI Readiness Assessment

Audit of codebase, workflow, and tooling — with a roadmap and baseline ROI metrics.

$7k–15k

Enablement Engagement

Multi-week: install guardrails, build and deploy the Bridle harness, define the workflow, train the team.

$30k–75k+

Bridle Rollout

Deploy and configure Bridle across the team's repos, with onboarding and codified standards.

$10k–25k

Fractional Enablement Lead

Embedded retainer: evolve the harness, level up the org, track velocity and quality.

$8k–20k /mo

Team Workshop

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

Reliable, not hyped.

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

Start with an audit. Find out what your codebase needs to ship.

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.