A product spec is approved and needs to become working software — normally that means an engineer picking it up between other tasks, writing the code, writing or updating tests, opening a pull request, and waiting on a reviewer who's also juggling their own queue. Days pass between "approved" and "shipped," most of it waiting, not working.
Here's what that looks like running through ContextTogether's governed flow instead.
Intake. The spec goes in as a document. The flow extracts it into canonical knowledge — the requirements, the constraints, how it relates to the rest of the codebase's documented behavior — so nothing gets built against a stale or contradictory understanding of the system.
Checkpointed execution. The code gets written in reviewable, resumable steps, not one opaque leap from spec to finished pull request. Every checkpoint is recorded: what was built, in what order, and why.
Deterministic verification. Before a human ever looks at it, the code runs through automated tests and checks — nothing reaches review on the strength of a model's confidence alone.
Human approval gate. A reviewer signs off before anything merges — the one step that still needs a person, and the only one that does.
Retrieval. The spec, the checkpoints, the test results, the approval — all of it stays retrievable with receipts, so six months from now "why did we build it this way" has an answer.
The engineer's attention goes to the judgment calls, not the waiting.