Running software development where AI agents do the engineering — governed by shared guidelines and automated checks, so the work stays fast and trustworthy. That is Missing Bulb's specialty. Around it, we do software, management, and AI consulting.
We don't advise on AI-assisted development from the sidelines. We run our own projects this way, every day.
Our open-source corpus of working guidelines, skills, and automated conformance checks for AI coding agents. It decides how an agent names things, structures commits, ties work to issues, and what a change must pass before it lands. Every rule is public — you can read exactly how we keep agent-written software honest.
Missing Bulb's own repositories — this website among them — are built and maintained by AI agents working under Claudinite's rules, with automated checks gating every merge.
The same practice, applied to your team: where agents fit in your development lifecycle, the guardrails that keep their output reviewable, and the process changes that make the speed real.
You work directly with the people doing the work. No layers, no handoffs, no slide decks standing in for software.
Engagements are scoped to deliver something running early — a working system you can react to, not a long discovery phase.
We agree on the outcome and the boundaries up front. When the scope is done, the engagement is done.
Our public work is on GitHub — not as a trophy shelf, but so you can read the code and judge the craft before you ever talk to us. A few that show the range:
Guidelines, skills, and automated checks for AI coding agents. Shows: the AI Software Management practice itself, as running code.
A Chrome extension that turns any webpage describing an event into a Google Calendar event. Shows: shipping real browser-extension product work.
Community-generated tl;dr descriptions for any link on the web. Shows: building a community web product end to end.
A website to help you find an Edinburgh Fringe show. Shows: a focused, useful site shipped fast.
Everything else we build is public too — browse the rest in the missingbulb GitHub organization.
Missing Bulb is run by Ariel Raunstien, a software engineer and consultant with a career spanning engineering and startup work — his profile has the detail. Missing Bulb itself is new; the working practice behind it is not.
Tell us what you're building and where AI fits — or where you'd like it to. We'll reply with how we'd approach it.