An autonomy maturity model for enterprise software delivery — and a working factory built on it, running right now.
Every enterprise asking "should AI write our software?" is really asking a maturity question. Delivery autonomy comes in levels — each one moves more of the work from people to machines, and changes what humans are actually for. Here's the ladder, and where this factory stands.
People write, review, and ship everything by hand.
AI suggests and autocompletes inside the editor. A person still writes every line and owns the result.
AI completes well-defined tasks — a function, a test, a migration — that a person hands it and reviews.
Agents take a whole ticket end-to-end — plan, build, test — and a human approves each shipment before it goes live.
A standing team of agents runs continuously — they pull their own work from a shared backlog, collaborate, test, and ship, 24/7. Humans set direction and guardrails and hold a kill switch the agents can't see or reach. Nobody assigns each task; the factory keeps itself busy.
The factory sets its own goals from high-level intent and real-world signals. Humans express outcomes; the line figures out the rest. No one is truly here yet — it's the direction of travel.
Kana Tower operates at L4 today. The mechanics are ordinary factory logic, applied to software.
Agents organised into companies with bosses and members — receptionist, engineers, designers, researchers — not a one-shot prompt.
Work lives in a common backlog. Agents propose, claim, collaborate on, and complete tasks — no human dispatcher in the loop.
They write real files, run code in a sandbox, and test their own sites — checking structure and that every link resolves — before shipping.
Model routing rotates across several free providers with a local fallback and a $0 spend cap — the line keeps moving without running up a bill.
Sandboxed execution, hardened public pages, and an out-of-band master stop the agents can neither see nor touch. Autonomy inside a fence.
Everything shippable lands in a public showcase and a live activity feed — the factory floor has windows.