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AI Coding Agent for Agencies & Dev Shops — Codowave

Codowave runs an autonomous AI engineer across every client repo, clearing backlog work so your agency protects margin without burning billable senior hours.

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Protect Agency Margin Across Every Client Repo

An agency lives and dies on the gap between what you bill and what work costs you. The work that erodes that gap is rarely the headline build — it's the trickle of small fixes, the test coverage clients expect, the dependency upgrades, the "quick" tickets that pull a senior off billable work to do something a careful junior could handle. Multiply that across ten client repos and the margin leak is real.

Codowave is an autonomous AI engineer that handles that trickle. It connects to each client's repo and tracker, picks the small well-defined work, writes the code, runs the tests, and opens a PR your team reviews before anything ships.

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The Agency Margin Problem

Dev shops carry a structural cost that product companies don't: context-switching across many codebases. Every client repo has its own conventions, its own test setup, its own backlog. A senior who jumps between three clients in a day loses time reloading each context before they write a line.

That switching cost is highest on the cheapest work. Spending a £900/day senior on a one-hour bug fix in a client repo they haven't touched in a month is exactly the kind of task that quietly burns margin. Codowave absorbs that category of work so your seniors stay on the high-value builds you actually win contracts for.


Built for Many Repos at Once

Agency realityHow Codowave fits
Ten-plus client repos, each differentPer-org isolated containers keep every client's code and run separate
Each repo has its own conventionsPattern memory learns each repo independently after ~10 PRs
Clients want their backlog movingBacklog-first: picks issues from the client's tracker, no prompts
You can't risk a client's prodWatch-only mode and a cost ceiling per run, on by default
Margin is the whole gameSmall, well-defined work shipped without senior billable time
Different trackers per clientConnects to Linear, Trello, or GitHub Issues

Because each client runs in its own isolated container with its own pattern memory, Codowave never blends one client's conventions into another's PR. The agent that's learned Client A's repo writes Client-A-shaped code there and nowhere else.


Review Stays With Your Team

Agencies sell trust, so nothing should reach a client without a human on it. Codowave's defaults assume exactly that.

  • Watch-only mode. For the first week on each repo, Codowave opens PRs but never auto-merges. Your engineer reviews like they'd review a junior's PR, with the test output and a written summary already attached.
  • Cost ceiling per run. A hard dollar cap per agent run keeps the BYOK Anthropic spend predictable per client, which matters when you're reconciling cost against a fixed-price engagement.
  • Scoped filters per client. You decide which labels and complexity levels Codowave touches in each repo — keep it on routine work and reserve sensitive areas for your seniors.

One Agent, Many Codebases

The mechanics are the same in every repo: a Planner decomposes the issue and flags affected files, a Coder implements it, a Reviewer scores the diff against that repo's learned conventions, and a Tester runs the suite. What differs is the memory — each client repo accumulates its own.

That's what makes Codowave practical at agency scale. You're not configuring one rigid template across mismatched codebases. You're running one agent that adapts to each repo it's given, the way a strong contractor adapts when they pick up a new client's codebase — except it gets to keep the context for next time.


Get Started

  1. Sign up at codowave.com/signup — free plan covers 3 issues, no card required.
  2. Connect one client repo and its tracker to start.
  3. Filter to routine labels and keep watch-only mode on.
  4. Review the first PRs, then roll Codowave out to more client repos.

Plans start at $20/mo and scale per developer — see pricing.

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