David Judd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Your team’s agentic development, done right.
CodeLantern is a software engineering consultancy specializing in agentic development. We help organizations build effective agentic engineering teams through embedded expertise, a structured methodology, and our purpose-built CodeLantern Platform that accelerates adoption and delivery.
The Agentic Era Challenge
Building software that works, not software that worked once.
AI coding agents can write a lot of code, fast. But without methodology and institutional context, they generate code that looks right but doesn’t fit: wrong conventions, stale patterns, decisions nobody remembers making.
The teams getting real value from AI aren’t just using better tools. They have structured, accurate context their agents can actually consume, and a human-centered methodology that keeps experienced engineers in control of architecture, quality, and every decision that matters.
Challenges we solve
Sound familiar?
Whether you’re trying to modernize safely, keep a fast-moving codebase understandable, align a team around agentic work, or see the judgment behind delivery, we can help.
Our competitors moved, we need to keep pace
We need to modernize our systems with agentic development safely and predictably, so we can leapfrog the competition instead of spending years catching up.
Our developers and agents are guessing
Your agents confidently call methods that don’t exist, duplicate logic from three directories over, and ignore the auth pattern your team standardized on last year. The code compiles. It breaks in production.
Agent use is growing. The team isn’t aligned.
Developers are adopting agents individually, while product, engineering, and security lose a shared view of the work. Agentic delivery needs to stay legible on the board, process, and metrics your team already trusts.
Agentic spend is increasing, visibility is not.
As agentic work multiplies, leaders need issue-level context to see where effort accumulated and understand GitHub Copilot spend before they lose control of either.
How we help
Transform your engineering organization into an effective agentic software delivery team, quickly and safely.
We help your team adopt a structured methodology, add senior expertise where it matters, and use the CodeLantern Platform to accelerate adoption and delivery when it fits.
Structured methodology
A human-steered methodology connects intent, implementation, review, and reusable knowledge across the work.
See our approachEmbedded expertise
Senior CodeLantern engineers work alongside your team on real software, bringing judgment and hands-on delivery where it matters.
Explore our expertisePurpose-built Platform
The CodeLantern Platform codifies the methodology, helping teams adopt it quickly and making delivery visible.
Explore the PlatformHow we engage
Start with a Spark, or begin with an assessment.
Spark is our primary structured way to begin. Consulting gives us room to meet a project, team, or technical need on its own terms. You do not need to diagnose the fit before we talk. We can help you look at the work, constraints, team, and desired outcome, then recommend the most useful way to begin.
Recommended starting point
Four-week Spark
Put agentic development to work on real software
Work alongside senior CodeLantern engineers on meaningful production work. Over four weeks, we establish a structured workflow, ship software, capture reusable knowledge, and create a practical baseline for what comes next.
Explore SparkFlexible starting point
Agentic Assessment
Shape the engagement around the work
Start with a focused consulting assessment of your system, team, constraints, and goals. We use what we learn to shape the right engagement for the work, whether that means advisory support, a dedicated specialist, an embedded team, scoped delivery, or a Spark when that structured path fits.
Discuss your project
Who We Are
Built for AI, built on 20 years of experience.
CodeLantern was built for the agentic era by former ObjectSharp leaders and practitioners with two decades of experience helping organizations through major shifts in software delivery. Our team’s careers span Agile, DevOps, and Cloud-Native. Now we’re applying that experience to the agentic era.
Our lineage means deep real-world experience building mission-critical software for fintech, engineering, healthcare, and government: industries that demand the highest standards. Safety, transparency, traceability, and maintainability aren’t features. They’re the foundation.
Leadership
Nick Van Exan
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Jeff Zado
VP Sales and Partnerships
Peter van der Zouwe
VP Sales and Partnerships
Investors & Board
Michael J. Green
Investor and Board Member
Mike Wilson
Investor and Board Member
Start the conversation
Tell us what you are trying to build.
Share the initiative, repository, and team. We’ll help assess the work and recommend whether a four-week Spark or an Agentic Assessment is the right way to begin. You do not need to diagnose the fit before we talk.
- A conversation with a senior engineer
- A practical assessment grounded in your real work
- A candid recommendation on how to begin