Igni keeps your team's decisions and constraints as a graph your agents consult when they build. Every change that lands is checked against it.
01 The work pushes back.
A concrete tradeoff surfaces while the coding agent keeps building.
The tokens and the training go in. The gains stall where the watching begins. Every improvement gets spent reviewing the work and keeping it aligned with what your team actually decided.
Half of that watching is quality: bugs, security, style. That half is being automated well. Keep your reviewers.
The other half is alignment: does the work match what you decided? No tool watches that half. It runs on your attention, and that's the ceiling.
Your agents make judgment calls all day — bend a constraint here, widen scope there. Those calls ship inside diffs, disconnected from the decisions they touched. You find out when something you promised a customer quietly stopped being true.
Igni closes the alignment half — from both ends. Agents start from what your team decided. The system checks what lands. You get the calls, not the stream.
Graph. Stage. Loop.
When an agent's work collides with something your team decided, the collision surfaces and the work keeps moving. Either the code changes, or the decision does. The call gets made once, by whoever owns it. Every agent works from it after that.
Intent Graph
Your coding agents keep working in their own tools. Before a line gets written, Igni hands them the brief: the target, the constraints, the decisions, the patterns that shape this exact piece of work.
Assembled from the graph, current as of the last call your team made: connected intent, not a note in an agent's memory.
Without it: every run guesses what matters.
Intent Loop
In this run, the plan puts enrichment on the checkout path — and collides with a standing constraint: checkout latency is protected. The finding surfaces inside the work.
Nothing stops. Findings flow back while the agents keep building.
Without it: the work can't tell you what it hit.
Intent Stage
Your team and the Igni agent shape the same intent at once, live in the same documents. The agent is in the room, not dispatched.
Conversation is the capture: the Igni agent turns the call into a decision, connected where it belongs. New direction starts the same way, not only when something collides. Nobody writes it up after.
Nothing waits on a human except the moment a call becomes the record.
The work is never gated. The record always is.
Without it: judgment either blocks the work or arrives after it ships.
Intent Graph
Igni connects product goals to the features and code that realize them, so the call lands next to everything it affects.
Change intent or code, and Igni recomputes the work it touches, like a build system. Every implementation that hasn't shipped picks up the new call. And the calls don't pile up as your agents multiply: made once, they hold.
Without it: plans go stale the moment code learns something.
That's the loop: where your team shapes what gets built, and how you go fast without quality collapsing. Every pass starts further ahead, from everything you've shaped and settled.
A file can't say what it governs, who owns it, or what to recompute when it changes. That's the difference between notes and intent.
Run the Intent Audit on your own repo: five questions against your last thirty agent-shipped PRs. We ran it on ours first. It wasn't flattering.
Git for code. Igni for intent.
Read the full argument (9 min) →Point Igni at your codebase. In our runs, thirty minutes later you're looking at your own graph: about fifty nodes, built from real code structure.
Then comes the first session. The constraints that live in contracts, review comments, and your tech lead's head get written down and owned for the first time. Your agents consult them when they build.
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If this is becoming real inside your engineering team, we'd like to hear from you.
Igni is built by Ben Werther, founder of Platfora (acquired by Workday).
The teams that win with agents are the ones that can safely hand them more.