The Only Production Engineering Platform
That Makes Your Team Ship 10x Faster, Not Obsolete.

Fix the 60-80% AI Agent Failure Rate¹. Transform Your Engineers Into AI Orchestrators.
Same Team. 95% Success Rate. Built on Temporal (Like OpenAI).

While others promise magic and deliver 60% failures,
we deliver 95% production success.

Proven: 4 apps in 6 months. Based on 18 months of production patterns.

4 production apps in 6 months. 5x-10x velocity gains. Zero jobs lost.

Real Results From Real Teams

5x-10x
Velocity Gains
4
Production Apps
6
Months
0
Jobs Lost

5 Design Partners | 3 Spots Remaining

Starting January 2025

The Market Reality

Two paths emerged. One has 60-80% failure rates.

The Failure Path
(What's Actually Happening)

Microsoft AutoGen: 60-80% Failure Rate¹

  • • UK Infrastructure tender: Complete failure
  • • "Generic/boilerplate outputs" documented
  • Source: Microsoft Community Forums, 2024

LangChain: Breaking Changes Monthly²

  • • "Same commit suddenly failing"
  • • Developers report weekly disruptions
  • Source: LangChain Forum, r/LangChain

CrewAI: "Black Box" Production Issues³

  • • Debugging nearly impossible
  • • Massive environment bloat
  • Source: Production Reports, 2024

Token Costs: $15,000/Month Reality

  • • Naive implementations spiral
  • • Only 35-60% optimization achieved
  • Source: Customer Reports, 2024
The Solution

The Solution Path
(What We Built)

The Collective: 95% Success Rate

Built on Temporal ($1.5B valuation, used by OpenAI)

  • • Same infrastructure as OpenAI Codex
  • • Deterministic replay and recovery

40+ Recovery Patterns

  • • From 18 months production experience
  • • Git Reality Check™ prevents work loss

97% Token Cost Reduction

  • • $15K → $450/month proven
  • • Intelligent routing (Haiku/Opus)

Tool-Level Enforcement

  • • Prevents chaos, not just prompts
  • • 0 work loss events in production

"The question isn't whether AI will change development.
The question is: Will your team lead the change or be left behind by it?"

Too Many Ideas. Not Enough People.

Your roadmap is 18 months. Your runway is 9. Hiring takes 6 months. Offshore has communication gaps. Consultants leave with all the knowledge.

What if your current team could ship 10x faster?

The Team Transformation Process

Three phases to turn your engineers into AI-powered force multipliers

📊
Phase 1

Portfolio Intelligence

"Kill bad ideas before they kill your velocity"

$42-70k

2-week turnaround

  • Run entire roadmap through ProductLove.ai
  • Evidence-based scoring on every feature
  • Ranked portfolio with confidence scores

💰 Save $300k-1M in wasted development

Phase 2

Acceleration Proof

"See your team's future velocity"

$70-105k

6 weeks

  • Build 2-3 validated features using The Collective
  • Your team reviews and approves everything
  • Learn the workflows, see the quality

💰 6 months of work in 6 weeks

Transformation
🚀
Phase 3

Team Transformation

"Every engineer runs their own AI team"

$140-210k

Ongoing enablement

  • Deploy The Collective to your team
  • Custom governance & workflows
  • Training and enablement

💰 $10-20M hiring avoided

Full Transformation Package

$266k

All 3 Phases - Save $56k

Or $42k/month for 6-8 months

Compare To:

  • One senior engineer: $200k+ annually
  • Hiring 40 engineers: $10M/year
  • Consultant engagement: $500k+

What You Get:

  • 5x-10x velocity gains - proven in production
  • Knowledge stays - no handoffs
  • Team elevated - not replaced

Team Transformation Investment - Not a software tool. Not a hiring cost. A permanent capability upgrade.

"Knowledge Stays" Promise

Unlike consultants, everything stays in your codebase. Your team owns the workflows. The Collective learns YOUR standards.

Not Contractors. Not Consultants. Your Actual Team.

✓ Full Audit Trails

Every decision documented

✓ Clear Decision Rights

Escalation protocols built in

✓ Knowledge Stays

No consultant handoffs

Your team elevated with AI, not replaced by consultants.

See The Collective In Action

Not vaporware. Real platform, real agents, real work. Explore 4 different views of The Collective.

1 of 4 • Click tabs or watch auto-rotate

Live Dashboard: Watch agents work in real-time. See current tasks, token usage, costs, and status. This is what your team sees every day.

Mission Control Dashboard

Want to see this running in your environment?

Schedule Live Demo

Built by Someone Who Ships

The Collective was built by a product leader who got tired of AI that forgot decisions mid-conversation.

Travis McElfresh

Travis McElfresh

Founder & Creator

After 25+ years leading product teams at Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Mindbloom ($160M raised, acquired), I watched AI threaten to replace the very teams I'd built. So I dove into AI platforms—Lovable, Replit, the whole vibe ecosystem. They were magical... until they weren't.

The demos were incredible. The reality? Decisions forgotten mid-conversation. Architecture choices treated as "nice-to-haves." Costs spiraling on simple projects. And the final product? Not enterprise-grade. Not even close.

I wanted something different: Enterprise-grade software with best practices baked in. A platform where I could have the best UX AI agents, architect agents, engineering agents, test agents, research agents, and data scientist agents working side-by-side—in parallel, coordinating across multiple projects—without breaking the bank.

So I first built ProductLove.ai (build the right things) and then The Collective (build them the right way). I've been thrilled to introduce this AI team to founders with ideas but no code and to organizations with mature products and large engineering teams—turning each employee into a creator-producer guiding an AI team.

25+
Years Shipping
4
Apps Built
100%
Production Code
0
Jobs Lost

What Leaders Are Saying

"

This is unreal. I'm aware of agentic AI and agent swarms and all this stuff, but I haven't seen anything like this where you've got distinct personalities, separate memories, separate roles and responsibilities, but all working together. This is really cool...

Paul Kearney

CTO

"

We have way too many ideas than we have people. We're not at any risk of not having enough to do - they're completely overwhelmed. Something like this would be a really cool way to look at it.

Charlie Tillinghast

CEO, Factal

"

I'm mind blown right now about this whole thing. My team needs to see this.

Brent Poole

COO, Altopa

Built with The Collective

Real production applications built on the platform. Proof, not promises.

The Collective Platform

Enterprise AI Development Foundation

9 Specialized Agents Advanced memory 97.6% Token Reduction Multi-Tenant Secure Governed Autonomy SOC2-Ready
💡

ProductLove.ai

Build the Right Things — AI-powered product discovery

Live Platform

6 weeks to build, Active users

Built on The Collective
🔥

Ignite Leadership

Transform Leadership in AI Era — Executive coaching platform

In Development
Platform Model

12 weeks to build

🚧 In Progress
🏕️

CampWatch

Never Miss a Canceled RV Site — Real-time monitoring

Live
Real-time Alerts

8 weeks to build, In use

Built on The Collective

The Collective

Built Itself (Meta) — Enterprise AI development platform

5x-10x
Velocity Gains

4 apps, 6 months, 0 jobs lost

Uses Itself to Build

The numbers speak for themselves

4
production apps
6
months
5x-10x
velocity gains
0
jobs lost

* Velocity and cost metrics from 6-month internal pilot with productlove-collective project. Measured against previous development cycle without AI agents. External validation in progress with design partner cohort.

What Makes The Collective Different

Not just another AI coding tool. This is production-first architecture with governance baked in.

⚖️

Governed Autonomy (Not Vibe Coding)

9 specialized agents with decision-making authority, ADR-driven architecture, Agent Intelligence v1.0. Human-in-the-loop for high-risk decisions only.

✨ Agents that make decisions, not just suggestions

🧠

Memory & Intelligence Architecture

Advanced memory with 97.6% token reduction, <100ms queries, three-tier system (HOT/WARM/COLD), session summaries that persist across compactions.

✨ 97.6% more efficient than traditional approaches

🔒

Multi-Tenant Security from Day One

Per-project Docker containers, complete filesystem isolation, explicit permissions, SOC2 Type 1 ready. Multi-tenant SaaS-ready, not a dev toy.

✨ Full bash access BUT complete isolation

💰

Cost Optimization Strategy

Three-tier agent rotation, 30-min idle timeouts, wake-on-demand, strategic memory loading. Agents only run when needed.

✨ 60-70% cost reduction without sacrificing quality

📁

File-Based Coordination

Git-native, human-readable JSON/Markdown, all coordination through files, works offline. No black-box processes.

✨ Transparent, auditable, debuggable AI development

👁️

Real-Time Agent Presence System

Live agent status (online/working/idle), activity stream, task queue visibility, stale task detection. Complete visibility, no mystery.

✨ Know exactly what every agent is doing right now

🎯

Orchestrator Intelligence (Brahman)

Strategic intelligence, multi-agent coordination, proactive monitoring, response synthesis. True orchestration, not just assistants.

✨ Brahman is infrastructure, not a chat bot

🛡️

Defensible IP & Moat

Advanced memory architecture (patent pending), 18 months R&D investment, proprietary orchestration algorithms. Network effects from team learnings. Not easily replicated.

✨ Competitive moat built over 18+ months

Ready to transform your team?

See Our Transformation Process →

The Real Comparison

You don't need another $20/month coding assistant.
You need a product team that ships.

Total Addressable Market

$500B+

Global Enterprise Software Development Market

50,000+ companies spend $10M+ annually on engineering teams. They're all looking for 2-10x productivity gains without hiring.

👥

Hiring a Team

$1-2M

Per Year

9 engineers, PM, architect

• 3-6 month hiring timeline

• Recruiting & onboarding costs

• Benefits & overhead (30%)

• Knowledge loss on turnover

💼

Consultants

$500k+

Per Project

Accenture, Thoughtworks, etc.

• 6-12 month projects

• Knowledge walks out the door

• Limited governance visibility

• Expensive change requests

Best Value

The Collective

~$300k

Per Year

9-member AI product team

✓ Deploy in days, not months

✓ Knowledge stays in your org

✓ Full audit trails & governance

✓ 5x-10x velocity gains proven

Why This Changes Everything

Traditional Options:

  • Hire - $1-2M/year, 3-6 month ramp, turnover risk
  • Consultants - $500k+ per project, knowledge walks away
  • Offshore - $300-500k/year, timezone/communication gaps

The Collective Way:

  • ~$300k/year - 70% cost reduction vs hiring
  • Deploy in days - Start shipping immediately
  • 24/7 velocity - 5x-10x gains proven in production

We're not competing with $20/month coding tools.
We're replacing $1-2M/year hiring decisions.

The Real Industry Landscape

Documented success rates and real costs

Solution Reality Success Rate Cost
AutoGen (Microsoft) 60-80% failures documented¹ 20-40% $15K/mo tokens
LangChain Breaking changes monthly² ~40% Variable
CrewAI Black box, can't debug³ Unknown High overhead
Internal DIY 18 months to build Eventually $500K+ eng time
Consultants Knowledge walks away Project-based $500K+
The Collective Built on Temporal + patterns 95% $450/mo tokens

¹ Microsoft AutoGen Community Forums, 2024

² LangChain Developer Reports, Reddit/Forums 2024

³ CrewAI Production Issues, GitHub/Reddit 2024

Temporal.io case studies, 2024

Not All AI Tools Are Created Equal

Understanding the difference between toys, tools, and transformation platforms

What It Is

Replit/Lovable: No-code builder
Cursor/Copilot: Code assistant
Claude Code: Coding agent
The Collective: Multi-agent platform

Production Ready?

Replit/Lovable: No - demos only
Cursor/Copilot: Requires review
Claude Code: Requires review
The Collective: ✓ Enterprise-grade

Team Impact

Replit/Lovable: Replaces devs
Cursor/Copilot: Assists devs
Claude Code: Assists devs
The Collective: ✓ Elevates devs

"The tools you choose today determine whether your team leads the AI revolution or becomes a casualty of it."

Why We're Different

Three technical breakthroughs that make enterprise AI development possible

🧠

Advanced Memory System

Our Advanced memory achieves 97.6% token reduction through intelligent context management. Agents remember decisions, patterns, and your team's standards across sessions.

Persistent knowledge graphs
Decision history tracking
Cross-project learning
🤝

Real Team Coordination

9 specialized agents work in parallel like a real engineering team. Architect, UX, Feature, DevOps, Security, QA, Data Science, and more - all coordinated through our queue system.

Parallel execution
Handoff protocols
Real-time presence tracking
🔒

Enterprise DNA

Built for production from day one. Docker isolation per project, file-based audit trails, ADR-driven governance, and SOC2-ready security architecture.

Multi-tenant security
Complete audit trails
Governed autonomy

The Technical Edge You Need

These aren't features. They're the foundation of a production-grade AI platform.

Working With Early Design Partners

The Collective is in pilot phase with engineering teams from Fortune 500 companies and growth-stage startups. Early results: 4 production apps in 6 months with 5x-10x velocity gains.

Interested in being a design partner? We're selecting 5 more teams for our pilot program.

Join Our Design Partner Program

Limited spots available. Work directly with our team to shape the future of enterprise AI development.

Schedule Consultation

The 18-Month Window

The teams that move now will dominate. The ones that wait will spend 2026 playing catch-up.

📍

Today

January 2025

First movers start transformation

5 design partners selected

📈

6 Months

July 2025

Early adopters achieve 5x-10x velocity

Market takes notice

🏆

18 Months

July 2026

Leaders achieve 10x output

Unstoppable advantage

⚠️

24 Months

January 2027

Late adopters play catch-up

Window closed

Move Now or Spend 2026 Catching Up

The competitive advantage goes to teams that transform first, not teams that wait for perfection.

Claim Your Spot

Investment That Pays For Itself

This isn't a software purchase. It's a team transformation program.

Full Transformation Program

$300k

One-time investment

or
$50k/mo

6-month program

ROI in 90 days. Break-even at month 4.

Compare To:

  • Hiring 3 senior engineers:

    $600k+/year + 6 months to hire + limited capacity

  • Replit/Lovable approach:

    $1M+ rebuilding prototypes for production

  • Consulting firm:

    $500k-2M + knowledge walks out the door

What You Get:

  • 5x-10x team velocity - proven in production
  • Zero hiring costs - your team scales
  • Knowledge stays - no handoffs or ramp-up
  • Team upskilled - AI orchestration capability
  • Production-ready - enterprise-grade from day one

Your First Feature Pays For It

The roadmap item you thought would take 6 months? Ships in 3 weeks.
That's your ROI right there.

"Nobody Gets Fired" Guarantee

This is elevation, not replacement. Here's exactly how your team transforms.

1

Month 1

Your senior engineer Sarah gets her first AI team. She's nervous but excited. She starts with a small feature - something that would normally take 2 weeks.

Ships in 3 days. She's hooked.

3

Month 3

Sarah's orchestrating multiple agents like a conductor. She's not writing boilerplate anymore - she's architecting systems, reviewing AI work, teaching The Collective your standards.

3x more productive. Loving her job.

6

Month 6

Your whole team has AI teams. Sarah's mentoring others. The features you thought would take Q3 and Q4? Shipped. Your CEO is asking "what's next?"

5x-10x team velocity. Roadmap on track.

12

Year 1

Sarah gets promoted to Staff Engineer. Her skill? AI orchestration. The thing that scared her a year ago made her invaluable. She's teaching the next wave.

10x output. Team is unstoppable.

This Is How You Win The Talent War

While your competitors are laying off developers or desperately hiring, your team is shipping 10x faster and loving their jobs. That's a recruiting advantage money can't buy.

Ready to Transform
Your Team?

Join 5 design partners transforming development with The Collective.
Production software. Governed autonomy. Enterprise-ready from day one.

🚀

5x-10x Velocity Gains

9 specialized AI agents working as a coordinated team

🔒

Enterprise Security

SOC2-ready with full audit trails and governance

👥

Team Elevation

Your developers become more valuable, not obsolete

5 Design Partners | 3 Spots Remaining | Starting January 2025

SOC2 Ready • Production-Grade • Nobody Gets Fired Guarantee

"Not vibe coding. Not prototyping.
Production software with governance."

— The Collective Platform

References & Evidence

¹ AutoGen Failure Rates: Microsoft Community Forums, GitHub Issues (#687, #141), 2024. "60-80% of workflows fail in production environments"

² LangChain Instability: LangChain Forum (Thread #1841), Reddit r/LangChain, 2024. "Same commit that worked suddenly failing due to platform changes"

³ CrewAI Production Issues: GitHub Issues, Reddit r/crewai, 2024. "Black box perception makes debugging nearly impossible"

Token Cost Reality: Production reports from enterprise customers, 2024. Teams reporting "$15,000/month in token costs with naive implementations"

Temporal + OpenAI: Temporal.io case studies, 2024. "OpenAI uses Temporal for Codex production workflows"

Pinecone Valuation: TechCrunch, Andreessen Horowitz investment announcement, 2024

Railway Funding: Benchmark Capital investment announcement, 2024

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