Prompt-to-app builders stop at the prototype. Squadship runs the whole software delivery lifecycle — requirements your stakeholders sign, architecture defended in review, code as pull requests in your own Git, tests that try to break it — with your team in the loop at every gate. New builds, existing products, migrations: one squad, end to end, on your infrastructure.
Prompt-to-app builders are genuinely brilliant for weekend prototypes and demos. But the software your business runs on needs requirements, review, tests and an audit trail — a delivery process, not just a generator. That's a different product. This one.
| Prompt-to-app builders | Squadship | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | A prompt and a blank canvas | Your existing codebase — or a brief that becomes a signed PRD |
| Requirements | Whatever the prompt implied | A PRD your stakeholders sign, with a decision log behind every choice |
| Process | One-shot generation, then vibes | A real SDLC — define, design, build, QA, deploy — with human gates between stages |
| Your code | A hosted artifact in their cloud | Pull requests in your own Git repo, reviewed adversarially before merge |
| Testing | You click around and hope | Test suites, adversarial review, and the deployed product tested for real |
| Traceability | None | US-1 → PR: every requirement to its code, tests and release |
| Where it runs | Their cloud, their keys | Your servers, your LLM key — code never leaves your building |
| Built for | Solo makers and demos | Delivery teams, and software a business depends on |
And when that weekend prototype needs to become real software? Bring it here — taking over an existing codebase is what Squadship calls Tuesday.
Not one chatbot — a delivery team. Each teammate owns a discipline, leaves an audit trail, and hands off to the next. Your people review, decide and sign at every gate.
Reads your entire codebase — every flow, class and transformation — and answers questions with citations.
Runs the requirements room: writes the PRD from every document you bring, chases each open decision to an answer, and baselines the scope you sign.
Shapes the solution and its price, writes the engineering design the build is committed against, and designs each epic just in time — then defends it in review.
Turns the PRD — or your Figma — into clickable mockups and screen specs the build follows, reviewed before a line of code exists.
Writes the code, commits to your repo on item branches and opens the pull request himself — and only builds stories whose epic is declared Ready.
Reviews adversarially, writes and runs the test suites, and tests the deployed product itself — severity-ranked findings, straight onto the pull request.
Builds, self-heals compile and runtime errors, and deploys a running service you can click.
A real delivery lifecycle — not a prompt box. Humans stay in the loop at every decision; nothing ships that your team hasn't signed.
Three doors, one squad: a brief for a brand-new build, an existing product to take over, or a codebase to migrate.
Thinko writes the PRD from your documents; Arka shapes the solution and the engineering design; estimate, plan and proposal become one signed, scope-locked commitment.
The plan becomes a shared board. Assign items to teammates — human or AI. Devon codes only epics declared Ready and opens PRs; Qee reviews them adversarially.
Devii builds, self-heals and deploys to your environments; Qee tests the running product; dashboards, releases and the delivery report close the loop.
Squadship deploys on your servers, inside your network. That's not a tier — it's the product.
Repositories, documents and all generated work live on your infrastructure. Only task-relevant excerpts reach the AI model — under your own API key, your own provider relationship.
Bring your own model provider. You control the data terms, the spend and the model choice — the platform meters usage per project so you always know where it goes.
Licensed annually with a graceful expiry: at every license state your data remains readable and exportable. No lock-in by hostage.
Decision logs, signed baselines, traceable requirements, audit-ready activity — the paper trail enterprise delivery actually requires, written as the work happens.
The mechanics, disclosed up front — licensing, data flow, expiry. If a vendor won't answer these in writing, ask why.