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Review gates on everything
Every change AI touches is reviewed by a senior developer before it merges. Not skimmed. Read.
AI-first development
Software built with AI, by people who can tell when it's wrong.
We build web applications and websites with AI in the loop from the first commit to the last. The output is faster and cheaper than the old way. The quality is the same, because a senior developer signs off every line.
What it means
AI-first is a way of working, not a feature on the invoice
Every developer at Your Ikigai builds with AI in the loop, from the first commit to the last. Not because it's fashionable, but because a senior developer with good tooling ships a lot more than a senior developer without it, and we would rather pass that on than pocket it.
The part most agencies leave out is the judgement. AI is confident when it's wrong. It will invent an API, skip the edge case, and write a test that passes because it tests nothing. Knowing where that happens, and building a process that catches it every time, is the actual skill. That is what you are paying for.
So the rule is simple: AI drafts, a senior developer decides. Nothing ships without a human who understands it putting their name to it.
How we keep it honest
Six rules that don't bend
Written down, followed on every project, and the reason our output looks like a senior wrote it. Because one did.
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Tests first, then code
We write the test before the prompt. If the AI can't make it pass honestly, the code doesn't go in.
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Flat tooling cost, included
Our developers work on a fixed subscription per person. It is in your plan, it never appears as a metered line, and it never surprises anyone.
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AI features built to be cheap to run
When your product uses a model, we decide what genuinely needs a call, what to work out once and store, and what to cache. Most of the saving lives here.
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Humans own the architecture
AI is very good at filling in a well-drawn shape. Drawing the shape stays with people who'll maintain it.
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Your code stays yours
Client code is never used to train anything, and we'll tell you exactly which providers processed it.
Cost discipline
Keeping the model bill boring is part of the craft
There are two AI bills and people mix them up. The first is the tooling our developers use to build. That is a flat subscription we pay per developer, it is included in your plan, and it is never a metered line on your invoice.
The second is the one that actually gets out of hand: the AI inside the product we build for you. It is easy to make a feature call a model on every request when it could have worked the answer out once and stored it. We design for that from the start. What genuinely needs a model call, what can be computed once and kept, what can be cached and reused, and which model each job actually needs. That is where the saving is, and it is the bit we have done enough times to have opinions about.
- Developer tooling is a flat cost, included in your plan
- AI features designed to store and reuse, not re-query
- The cheapest model that can honestly do each job
- No runaway agents, ever
two bills, one of them boring
Good questions
What people ask about AI-first work
The answers your CTO will want before your CFO does.
Not by quality, which is the point. Everything is reviewed, tested and written to the same standard whether a person or a model produced the first draft. You will see it in the pace, though.
Claude Code for agentic work, plus the usual editor assistants, run inside review and test gates we control. We choose per task and we will happily walk you through the setup on a call.
Only to the providers we name in your agreement, only as needed for the work, and never for training. If your security team wants a list of sub-processors, we have one ready.
Ready when you are
Want your next build done AI-first, and done properly?
From our clients
What our clients say
Incredible, it has changed our company for the better and we will be working with Your Ikigai long into the future.
Ikigai has been such a huge support and integral part of our journey, they've supported junior developers onboarding, supported us architecturally and designed a market leading brand. They've really helped accelerate our business.
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