Engine

Engine is a sophisticated AI software engineer designed to function as an autonomous member of professional development teams. Positioned as a high-performer that surpasses benchmarks set by tools like Codex and Claude Code, Engine's primary goal is to accelerate the software development lifecycle. It seamlessly integrates into your existing workflows, transforming backlog issues into shipped code with minimal human intervention. By handling a significant portion of coding tasks, Engine frees up human engineers to focus on complex architectural challenges and high-level problem-solving, thereby boosting team productivity and velocity.

This AI agent is not just a code generator; it's a proactive problem-solver. It can independently pick up tasks, understand the requirements, write the necessary code, and submit it for review. This allows teams to make continuous progress on their backlog, day or night, ensuring that development momentum is never lost.

How to use Engine

Getting started with Engine is designed to be a straightforward, three-step process that feels like onboarding a new remote developer:

1. Connect & Integrate: In just a few seconds, you can connect Engine to your development ecosystem. This involves authorizing access to your code repositories on platforms like GitHub or GitLab, and your project management tools such as Linear, Trello, or Jira.
2. Assign Tasks or Activate Autopilot: Once integrated, Engine can start working. You can manually assign specific issues or tickets from your backlog to Engine. Alternatively, you can enable 'Autopilot' mode, which empowers the AI agent to proactively select and work on unassigned issues from your backlog, prioritizing them based on predefined criteria. It can also be tasked with reviewing existing pull requests submitted by human team members.
3. Review & Merge: After completing the coding work for a task, Engine submits a standard pull request (PR) to your repository. Your team can then review the AI-generated code just as they would with any other contribution. You can approve and merge the PR, or provide feedback and request changes, which Engine will then address in a subsequent commit.

Core Features of Engine

• Autonomous Code Generation: Takes issues and feature requests directly from your backlog, writes the implementation code, and submits complete pull requests for review.
• AI-Powered Code Review: Acts as a dedicated code reviewer. It can be assigned to existing pull requests to provide suggestions, identify potential bugs, enforce coding standards, or make direct changes to improve code quality.
• Backlog Automation: Capable of completing over 50% of typical software issues, significantly reducing your backlog and accelerating development cycles.
• Seamless Workflow Integration: Natively connects with essential developer tools including GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Trello, and more, fitting directly into your team's established processes without disruption.
• Autopilot Mode: A set-and-forget feature that allows the AI agent to continuously and automatically work on your backlog issues 24/7, ensuring constant progress.
• Flexible LLM Support: Built to be compatible with any frontier Large Language Model (LLM), ensuring it remains at the cutting edge of AI capabilities and performance.
• Collaborative Agent: Functions like a remote team member, capable of understanding and responding to feedback on its pull requests.

Use Cases for Engine

Engine is versatile and can be applied to various scenarios within the software development process:

• Accelerating Feature Development: Assign new feature tickets from Linear or Trello directly to Engine. It can generate the boilerplate and initial implementation, allowing human engineers to focus on the core logic and final refinements.
• Automated Bug Squashing: Automatically assign bug reports to Engine as they are created. It will analyze the issue, write the fix, and submit a PR, freeing up developers from time-consuming debugging.
• Clearing Technical Debt: Utilize Autopilot mode to systematically work through a backlog of low-priority bugs, refactoring tasks, and minor improvements that often get neglected.
• Enhancing Code Quality and Consistency: Use Engine as a mandatory CI/CD step to review all incoming PRs, ensuring they adhere to project standards and best practices before they are merged.

Advantages of Engine

• Increased Velocity: Ship features and fixes faster by offloading a significant volume of coding tasks to a reliable AI agent.
• Reduced Backlog: Make continuous, around-the-clock progress on your issue tracker, preventing tasks from piling up.
• Improved Developer Focus: Allow your senior engineers to delegate routine coding and bug fixing, enabling them to concentrate on high-impact architectural and strategic work.
• Frictionless Integration: No need to overhaul your existing toolchain or workflows; Engine adapts to your current setup.
• Scalable Workforce: Instantly add a productive 'engineer' to your team without the traditional overhead of hiring, onboarding, and management.

Pricing and Plans

Engine offers flexible pricing to suit individuals and teams of all sizes:

• Intern Plan: $0.00/month. This free plan is perfect for individual engineers or those just getting started. It includes 180 credits per month and allows for 1 task to be processed at a time, with access to all standard workflow integrations.
• Staff Plan: Custom Pricing. This plan is tailored for professional teams and businesses requiring higher throughput and enhanced features. It includes everything in the Intern plan plus effectively unlimited usage (100+ tasks per month), parallel processing (2+ tasks at a time), self-hosted Engine VMs for enhanced security, support for private models, and dedicated 24/7 support via Slack. Interested parties should contact sales for a custom quote.