kata is a five-layer delivery operating model from FXBITS. It carries AI engineering work from business intent to a live, measured product, with an audit trail your compliance team can stand behind.
the triple thirty — our target
The targets we commit to and measure against your own baseline over the 12-week pilot — not a claim about past clients.
kata · 型 · a form perfected through repetition
the problem
Speed was never the constraint; cost of change is. Ungoverned AI just adds drift, rework, and no trail you can put a price on.
Prefer to skim? Skip the ride →the model
We start from the business goal, not the prompt. Intent, constraints, and the KPIs you'll be measured on, captured as plain docs anyone can read.
Before code, the what-and-why is pinned as a versioned spec — a contract reviewed and merged like code, so scope can't quietly drift.
Agents build against the spec, tests first, with every step recorded. A human reviews the PR before anything lands.
In production, work runs inside guardrails: tool allowlists, personal data blocked before the LLM, full action logs, and feature flags to roll back fast.
One dashboard ties delivery back to the KPIs from L1. A weekly variance review keeps estimate-versus-actual honest.
out of the tunnel
Five layers, one trail. Here is what the model is worth.
the five layers, in full
Skip the ride if you want — here is every layer, what it does, and what it ships.
We start from the business goal, not the prompt. Intent, constraints, and the KPIs you'll be measured on, captured as plain docs anyone can read.
Before code, the what-and-why is pinned as a versioned spec — a contract reviewed and merged like code, so scope can't quietly drift.
Agents build against the spec, tests first, with every step recorded. A human reviews the PR before anything lands.
In production, work runs inside guardrails: tool allowlists, personal data blocked before the LLM, full action logs, and feature flags to roll back fast.
One dashboard ties delivery back to the KPIs from L1. A weekly variance review keeps estimate-versus-actual honest.
the form, in a word each
the outcome we target
The targets we commit to and measure against your own baseline over the 12-week pilot. Not a claim about past clients — a number we put on the contract and prove.
Non-negotiable baseline: 100% audit-pack coverage, 100% rollback-drill success.
Put these targets on your baseline →how it differs
A coding assistant speeds up typing. A generic process catches problems late. kata governs the whole workstream so the trail is built in, not bolted on.
| Raw AI coding assistant | Generic SDLC + AI | kata governed delivery | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit trail | None by default | Manual, after the fact | Generated every release |
| Scope drift | Unbounded | Caught in review | Pinned as a versioned spec |
| PII / data boundary | Up to the prompter | Policy on paper | Blocked before the LLM |
| Rollback | Ad hoc | Per release process | Feature-flagged, drilled |
| Tied to KPIs | No | Sometimes | Measured live vs baseline |
restraint
No vector store, no embeddings, no policy engine, no multi-agent. We add each only when a real pain shows up.
for teams that can’t get AI wrong
Fintech, health, energy, public sector: provenance, not promises. The audit trail is built in.
Claude in your cloud, in-region. Personal data blocked before the LLM.
Reference integrations ship in the kit, ready day one.
Opt-in M0–M4 ladder. Human review on every PR by default.
Generated, not authored. Near-zero cost per release.
built by FXBITS
kata is the delivery model FXBITS runs, a software partner that has shipped across healthcare, Industry 4.0, and SaaS for years. The proof of who we are lives on fxbits.io.
and Top IoT / medical-software developer, Romania
plus AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, ISTQB, SAFe, PRINCE2 certified
delivered across regulated and high-stakes sectors
“A software partner who thinks along with you and understands processes. This leads to a high quality of results and saves extra time and costs.”
proof
Watch one real feature travel all five layers: from a one-line request to a locked spec, a guarded build, and a measured outcome.
the engagement
Kit forked, L1 wired, baseline captured. Walk away with the kit either way.
One feature through all five layers, behind a flag.
3–5 features. The Triple Thirty, measured against baseline.
Deepen, broaden, or extend. Your call.
Diagnostic and pilot are separate fixed-price contracts.
Paid, fixed-price, walk-away-friendly. You keep the starter kit either way.
One email opens it. We have pre-filled the basics, so just add a line or two and hit send. Goes straight to the delivery team, and we reply within one business day.
Book the diagnosticPrefer to write yourself? Email office@fxbits.io. No newsletter, no sales sequence.
questions
A delivery operating model that turns AI work into predictable, auditable outcomes across five layers, from business intent to a live, measured product.
Every agent action is logged, every LLM call is scanned for sensitive data, and every release ships a generated audit pack.
Speed isn’t the constraint. This governs the whole workstream (clarification, alignment, guardrails, telemetry), not just code generation.
No. The starter kit is forked into your repo and is yours to keep. The contract is the structure, not our infrastructure.
AI coding assistants speed up the typing step inside the editor. kata governs the whole workstream around it: business intent, a versioned spec, guarded agentic execution, runtime guardrails, and outcome telemetry. Use an assistant for code; use kata to make AI delivery predictable and auditable. They are complementary, not alternatives.
kata is built by FXBITS, a software delivery partner based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, recognised by Clutch as a 2024 Growth Leader and a top IoT and medical-software developer. The team's certifications span AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, ISTQB, SAFe, PRINCE2, and ISO 9001:2015. See fxbits.io for the full track record.