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Lightning Build FAQ
Is it right for us
Can Lightning Build help our team deliver software well with AI agents?
Yes. Your team gets a way of working built for delivery with AI agents and automation. Lightning Build is Mantle's method, training and certification for it. It rebuilds your rituals, working documents, roles and cadence for the pace agents allow.
Will our people know their role once AI agents join the team?
Yes. Your people get roles defined for a team where agents and people work side by side. Lightning Build redefines your product, business analysis, engineering and site reliability roles for agent-assisted delivery.
Is Lightning Build a fit if our teams run an agile method today?
Yes. Lightning Build is built to take teams beyond established agile methods, to delivery where agents and automation are standard infrastructure. Your rituals, artifacts, roles and cadence are rebuilt for that pace.
How it works
Can Lightning Build make our standups and planning fit the pace of AI agents?
Yes. Your rituals keep up with the pace agents allow. Lightning Build reworks standups, planning, retros and demos for mixed agent and human teams. Stories, decision records and test plans are written so agents can read and write them. And delivery stability is measured, not assumed.
Can we measure delivery stability as we add AI agents?
Yes. You track stability rather than assume it. Delivery metrics are instrumented: lead time, deploy frequency, change failure rate and time to restore.
Will changes be checked before they ship?
Yes. Delivery is eval-driven. Changes are checked by an AI evaluator alongside fixed test assertions, and AI-assisted decisions can be traced and replayed.
Can our delivery cadence speed up to match what agents ship?
Yes. Cadence follows output. When agent-assisted engineering ships in a working day what used to take far longer, Lightning Build moves the cadence to daily.
Your systems and data
Can Forge take on the product documents in our delivery chain?
Yes. Forge, Mantle's product management and delivery tool, automates the product, product-owner and business-analysis document chain, freeing your people for the work people do best.
Will the agents in our delivery loop run under one identity and audit trail?
Yes. Mantle Conduit governs the agents in your delivery loop, with one identity, one audit trail and one policy plane.
Can we bring a Spark MVP straight into Lightning Build delivery?
Yes. A Spark MVP enters Lightning Build with its evaluation harness and architecture record intact, so delivery picks up where the prototype left off.
Getting started
Can we certify our people and teams in Lightning Build?
Yes. Lightning Build includes certification for individual practitioners and for whole teams, with a curriculum, a capstone and a recertification cycle. Mantle Counsel can pair-coach your team through its first delivery cycle.
Can we talk to your team about Lightning Build?
Yes. Use the form on our contact page, and our team will be in touch.
Pricing and support
Can we get a price for Lightning Build that fits our scope?
Yes. Pricing depends on scope. Use the contact form and our team will be in touch.