Not a company story.
A people one.
Enact, the spec governance platform for AI coding teams, was built by people who lived the problem - product managers and engineers who were tired of context getting lost between a customer call and a shipped feature. We're a small team building in the open about what we're learning, not a company with a polished origin story to sell.
“Running an AI consulting and development company for 6 years taught me one thing — the code is rarely the hard part. It's the planning. Every project started with the same chaos: scattered requirements, unclear priorities, and context that lived in someone's head. We built Enact because that problem has a fix. Because great engineers deserve better than half-written specs.”
“My last startup raised a seed round. We had the team, the runway, the ambition. What we didn't have was a clean line between what the PM decided and what engineering built. Every sprint felt like a game of telephone. By the time a decision reached the engineers, half the context was already lost. That gap doesn't just slow you down — it compounds until it breaks the team.”
Where we've been
May 2026
Started building the product that would become Enact, after years of watching AI-generated code ship the wrong thing correctly.
June 2026
Published our first research on why spec-driven development breaks down once a team — not a single developer — is behind the coding agent.
July 2026
Named the product to Enact to match what it actually does: turning intent into a plan every coding agent can be trusted to follow.
What we believe
Context beats cleverness
A well-grounded spec written in plain language outperforms a clever prompt every time. Agents don't need more instructions — they need the right context.
Approval before automation
Nothing goes to a coding agent without product and engineering agreeing on scope first. Speed that skips agreement isn't speed, it's rework waiting to happen.
Plans are living, not disposable
A spec isn't a one-time document. It should stay attached to the work as code, tickets, and decisions change around it.
Small teams shouldn't need a PM function
You shouldn't need a dedicated product organization to write a spec an engineer — or an agent — can actually build from.