About this site and how the bench is built

The bench is built the way it argues that organisations should build.

How it is built

Work starts as stories on a board. Agents do the analysis, design, coding, testing and review, each in a defined role with a limited set of tools. The code lives in a repository, and a human-reviewed merge is the only way anything lands. The decision log and the manual-configuration runbook are kept in step with the work. The delivery pipeline is itself an agentic capability, so it runs under the controls the bench demonstrates.

What this site is, and is not

The bench is a reference implementation. It is not a product and not a client system. This site makes no claim about client outcomes, adoption or production use.

What this site collects

Nothing beyond the ordinary logs kept by the host. There are no cookies, no scripts, no analytics, no forms and no requests to other hosts. The fonts are served from this site: Playfair Display and DM Sans, both under the SIL Open Font Licence 1.1.

Language and accessibility

The text is in British English. Every page has one main heading, a skip link and visible keyboard focus. Text keeps a contrast ratio of at least 4.5 to 1, and the layout adapts to narrow screens and enlarged text. If something on this site is hard to use, say so through the contact page on ardinois.com.