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NEO

The independent control and evidence layer for AI-generated software change.

01 / what NEO is

What NEO is

AI now generates more change than teams can safely review. NEO is the independent layer that bounds what an agent may touch, proves what actually happened, and keeps a human in authority over what ships — making AI-generated change defensible and reversible.

02 / control surfaces

Six control surfaces

NEO gives AI-generated change a controlled surface area: bounded authority, independent evidence, and a human decision at the edge.

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Independent audit

A cold, context-isolated channel re-runs the evidence — not the builder's narrative — and recommends keep, remediate, or reject.

Connects to: Frozen acceptance criteria, Evidence custody, Rollback & human authority

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Evidence custody

Hashes, diffs, test output, residue checks, and decisions form a re-auditable record held independently of the agent that made the change.

Connects to: Independent audit, Protected execution, Rollback & human authority

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Rollback & human authority

Every change is reversible, and a human holds the final keep/iterate/reject decision. Authority is never delegated to agent confidence.

Connects to: Scope & path control, Independent audit, Evidence custody

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03 / how it works

Governed change moves through a fixed path

  1. authorize

    Authorize the change

    Intent, authority, paths, protected files, budget, and risk are approved before execution begins.

  2. execute

    Execute under policy

    The change runs inside the approved surface, with custody boundaries and snapshots preserved as it moves.

  3. review

    Review the evidence

    A separate review path produces findings, rerun output, diffs, and a re-auditable acceptance packet.

  4. decide

    Keep, iterate, or reject

    A human makes the final call. The decision can keep, remediate, reject, or roll back the change.

04 / principles

Principles

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Evidence over confidence

A convincing summary is not a result. What ships is judged by reproducible artifacts — tests, diffs, residue — not by how sure an agent sounds.

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Separation of powers

The party that writes a change never grades it. Building, judging, and auditing are different seats, so no one can move the bar to fit their own work.

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Bounded, reversible authority

Every change is scoped before it starts and reversible after it lands. Authority to accept stays with a human; nothing consequential ships on autopilot.

honest-maturity

Honest about maturity

We label what is proven and what is not. NEO is proven in founder-operated development today; commercial proof is earned through paid evidence, not claimed in advance.

05 / why independent

Why independent governance

Separation of powers

The party that writes a change never grades it. Builder, judge, and auditor are different seats.

Independent evidence custody

The acceptance record is held apart from the agent that made the change, so it can be re-audited later.

Human authority

A person makes the final keep/iterate/reject call; agent confidence is never evidence.

Portable policy

Scope, controls, and evidence travel across repositories, agents, and model providers, rather than living inside one platform.

These are the properties NEO is built to provide; whether teams will pay for independence over bundled controls is what our first paid evaluations are testing.

06 / the long view

As AI writes more of our software, the scarce thing is no longer code — it is acceptance you can defend.

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edge · start a governed audit

Start with a governed audit.

The first step is a bounded evaluation: an independent audit of one high-consequence change in a real repository, producing a re-auditable acceptance packet and a keep, remediate, reject, or rollback decision you can defend.

Early engagements run as hands-on, paid design partnerships - one supported stack, direct access to the people building NEO, and honest limitations stated up front.