Agile discipline for work done with AI

Keep your vision on course.

Northstar brings the discipline of agile to building with AI. Whatever you’re making, it gives your agents a direction to follow, standards to meet, and a review that always ends with you.

The system

Three instruments, one direction

Northstar

the guiding focus

Where the work is going and how you navigate the process. Your goals, stories, and standards for everything you’re making live here and guide every step of the creative process.

Meridian

the operating intelligence

Runs the day to day. Meridian provides oversight, directing agents and the recurring work across everything on your plate. Meridian surfaces patterns, contradictions, and opportunities across your horizon, providing insights and reinforcement.

Imprint

your knowledge record

Everything worth keeping, from every tool you think in. Ideas, decisions, and insight are collected as you work across AI tools and searchable by meaning within those tools and Northstar. One memory, available everywhere.

The method

Four bearings, taken in order

BEARING 01

Develop the strategy

Scope, constraints, and phase gates live with the project. Every piece of work inherits them instead of rediscovering them.

BEARING 02

Write the stories

Acceptance criteria are the contract. Agents take them on before starting and are checked against them before anything is called done.

BEARING 03

Let the work run

Agents move across everything you have going, in parallel. You can watch any of it, live. Validation is built to ensure that the work meets your standards, and it’s all recorded.

BEARING 04

Hold the review

Completed work queues for you. Decisions are recorded with the context that made them right, and they stay recorded.