Quarterback by Velora
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A Velora product · reliability runtime for AI coding agents

Intent Verified Result

Your coding agent can write the code. Quarterback makes sure it understands the job, finishes the job, and proves that it did.

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Sits on top of Claude Code / Cursor / Codex / Gemini Install once. Keep your agent. Keep your IDE.
66%
of developers say AI gives solutions that are almost right, but not quite — requiring manual correction every time.
4.4%
of professional developers say AI handles complex tasks well. The remaining 95.6% do not.
46%
actively distrust AI accuracy — up from 33% last year. Trust in AI output is declining, not growing.

Source: Stack Overflow 2025 AI Developer Survey — 65,000+ professional developers surveyed.

You stopped writing the code. Now you manage the agent.

The bottleneck is no longer generation quality. It is the supervision it takes to turn an AI attempt into an accepted engineering result.

Today
One feature. Ten turns of you.
prompt
prompt
correction
prompt
explanation
correction
test
fix
prompt
fix
With Quarterback
One feature. One decision from you.
intent
verified result

The work in between — specifying the task, supplying repository context, re-explaining past decisions, noticing the agent misunderstood, checking every part was finished, catching the unrelated change, running the tests, describing the repair, verifying the repair, deciding it is actually done — is the work we automate.

The intent–execution gap

It compiles. The tests pass. The diff looks fine. It is still wrong.

Valid code generation is not an accepted outcome. These are the failures a human currently has to catch by reading.

The backend field exists, but the frontend never sends it.
A new authentication path quietly bypasses onboarding.
One requirement in the request is silently omitted.
Tests validate the implementation instead of the requirement.
An unrelated subsystem gets modified along the way.
A project invariant is violated with no test to catch it.
A historical architectural decision is accidentally reversed.
The agent reports done, having reviewed only its own interpretation.
Data point 45.2% of developers say debugging AI-generated code takes more time than writing it themselves — Stack Overflow 2025 AI Developer Survey.
North-star metric

Human interventions per accepted task

Accepted is the load-bearing word. A system that stops asking questions while shipping bad results has not improved. We count every human message that corrects, clarifies, redirects or verifies the work — and drive that number down without giving up acceptance.

Coding agent alone
7.4
With Quarterback
2.1
As verification learns
1.4
At maturity
0.8
These are our targets, not measured results. The first cohort is being instrumented now. We will publish real before/after numbers — with the intervention definition, the task set and the methodology — and not a figure before then.
Measured alongside it
First-pass acceptance rate
Did we understand the job before writing any code?
Verification catch rate
Failures caught before they reached a human.
Escaped regression rate
The number that keeps autonomy honest.
Time per accepted task
End-to-end, not time-to-first-diff.
Rework loops per task
How many attempts it took to get there.
Tokens per accepted task
Efficiency, deliberately last on the list.
The runtime

A control loop around the agent you already use

Assign, observe, inspect, correct, test, inspect again, approve. You run that loop by hand today. We run it for you and hand back a result with evidence attached.

01
Intent compiler
Your request becomes an explicit task contract: goal, required behavior, constraints, acceptance criteria and a verification plan. Ambiguity is resolved before a line is written, not after the diff lands.
02
Context retrieval
Repository, history, prior decisions, session state, team knowledge, invariants. We do not maximize context volume — we maximize context relevance, and give the agent only what this task needs.
03
Execution and observability
The contract goes to Claude, Codex, Cursor or whatever you run next year. We watch actions, diffs, tests and cost as the work happens.
04
Independent verification
The implementation is checked against the original contract — by a different model, with different context and a different strategy. Deterministic evidence first, judgment second.
05
Automatic repair
A failed criterion becomes a precise repair package and goes straight back to the agent. You are interrupted only when real judgment is required.
06
Memory
Accepted outcomes, failures and repairs become project knowledge — stored with evidence, source, scope, confidence and freshness, and surfaced only when a future task needs them.

Not a prompt enhancer. An intent compiler.

A compiler does not make its input prettier. It turns a human-friendly representation into a machine-executable one with explicit semantics. The expensive model gets a smaller, clearer, better-grounded unit of work.

You write
> Add Google login and make it work like normal signup.
The agent receives
TASK CONTRACT
Goal
Implement Google OAuth login.
Required behavior
Existing email/password authentication remains unchanged.
First-time Google users enter the existing onboarding flow.
Existing users with a verified matching email follow current account-linking rules.
Existing session behavior remains intact.
Relevant project knowledge
auth provider location · user creation path · onboarding state logic
current session model · historical auth decisions
Constraints
Reuse the current authentication architecture.
Do not introduce a second auth framework.
Do not modify unrelated session behavior.
Acceptance criteria
[ ] Google authentication succeeds
[ ] New OAuth users enter onboarding
[ ] Existing authentication continues to work
[ ] Account-linking behavior matches policy
[ ] Relevant tests pass
[ ] No unrelated code is changed
Verification plan
Run existing auth tests · run onboarding tests · exercise the OAuth callback
Inspect modified files · validate each acceptance criterion individually

The builder does not grade its own work.

An agent that reports completion has told you what it believes, not what is true. Verification is a separate layer with its own model, its own context and its own evidence.

The loop we refuse to ship
Builder: “I interpreted the task this way.”
Builder: “I implemented my interpretation.”
Builder: “I reviewed my work and confirm my interpretation was implemented.”
Deterministic evidence first

Cheap, fast and not up for debate. We exhaust this before spending a token on judgment.

compilation · type checking · linting
existing tests · generated targeted tests
API and schema checks · migration validation
browser and UI tests · runtime assertions
security rules · dependency checks
git diff inspection · changed-file scope
Judgment second

The genuinely semantic questions a test suite cannot answer for you.

Did the implementation satisfy requirement #3?
Did behavior change outside the requested scope?
Does it violate an architectural rule?
Are the tests meaningful, or tailored to the implementation?
Was an acceptance criterion silently skipped?

When it fails, it repairs itself first.

A failed criterion is not a reason to interrupt you. It is a reason to write a precise instruction and send it back.

Verification failed.
Criterion
New Google users must enter onboarding.
Observed
OAuth callback creates the user and redirects directly to dashboard.
Evidence
src/auth/googleCallback.ts:87
integration test: oauth-new-user-onboarding
Required repair
Route newly created OAuth users through the existing onboarding state transition.
→ sent to the coding agent automatically
We interrupt you when

The goal is not zero humans. It is human attention spent only where human judgment adds value.

Two or more legitimate interpretations remain.
Business logic is genuinely missing.
A destructive action needs approval.
Verification cannot establish correctness.
Your project policy requires human review.

Your own before and after

Every run is instrumented, so the product can tell you what it actually did for you. Not a dashboard you have to visit — one command.

terminal Sample output · shape, not data
$ qb report
Last 30 days
Accepted AI tasks                     [measured]
Human interventions / task             [measured]
First-pass acceptance                  [measured]
Verification failures caught           [measured]
Auto-repaired failures                 [measured]
Escaped regressions                   [measured]
Engineer time saved                   [measured]
Tokens per accepted task              [measured]

We do not compete with the model. We orchestrate it.

Every time a base model gets better, this layer gets more valuable: implementations succeed more often, repair loops shrink, verification gets cheaper. Your engineering history should not belong to whichever vendor you happened to pick this year.

Claude Codex Cursor Gemini whatever ships next
Quarterback RUNTIME
Company intent Project memory Verification history Engineering policy Failure patterns Accepted implementations
Correctness before cost
Correctness, then human attention, then time, then tokens. Inference gets cheaper every year. Senior engineering attention does not.
Local-first by default
The client runs on your machine, the integration is open, and you decide explicitly what ever leaves it.
No new IDE
Install once, keep the workflow you have. If it does not measurably reduce your supervision, uninstall it.
Private beta · first cohort

We are recruiting 10–20 developers.

You use Claude Code, Cursor or Codex daily on a non-trivial repository. You delegate real multi-file work. You can tell the difference between a task that compiles and a task that is actually done.

We measure your baseline first, then run the same work through the runtime, and show you the delta on your own tasks. Anonymized metrics only, and we publish nothing without your say-so.

Local-first. Your source stays on your machine during the beta.

Quarterback · the reliability layer for AI-written software · a Velora product
Intent Verified Result