HUMAN
Where a human belongs in an AI build loop.
Keep a human wherever an action cannot be undone: charging cards, sending mail to a list, deleting records, granting access. Humanized Code is that checkpoint on demand — a senior engineer reviews the release for $50 and returns written findings plus a fixed quote inside 48 hours, priced per pass rather than monthly.
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Put the human at the irreversible edges
Reviewing every change an assistant makes defeats the point of using one. The useful rule is narrower: a human reads anything that cannot be taken back. Money leaving an account. Email going to your whole list. Rows being deleted. Permissions being granted. A price changing. Everything else — layout, copy, a new page, an internal report — the model can own outright, because the worst case is you fix it on Tuesday.
This is not a compromise position. It is how teams with real engineers already work; they just call it "the parts of the diff I actually read."
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A cadence that does not slow you down
Trigger the review off events, not the calendar. A pass before any release that touches money, authentication or customer data. A fresh pass when you add a third-party service, change hosts, or let the assistant restructure something large. Weeks where you shipped copy changes and a new landing page do not need one.
Pricing follows the same logic. Each pass stands alone at $50 with a fixed quote attached, so a quiet month costs nothing and a heavy one costs what it should. Teams that ship weekly typically end up buying three or four a year, all clustered around the releases that mattered.
$50 FLAT — FINDINGS + A FIXED QUOTE IN 48 HOURS
$50
Flat initial review
48h
Written findings + fixed quote
START THE REVIEW
- Is this a retainer?
- No. Each pass is bought on its own when a release crosses a boundary worth checking. Nothing renews and nothing is owed between reviews.
- Can you review a single pull request rather than the whole repo?
- Yes, and for teams already shipping that is the common shape — the diff, plus enough of the surrounding code to judge it in context.
- We're a small team with engineers, not a solo founder. Does that change anything?
- Only the tone of the findings. Your team gets file and line references and the reasoning; we skip the explanations of what a stack trace is.
- How do the findings arrive?
- A written report by email, with file and line references so your team can raise each item as a ticket in whatever tracker you use. We stay read-only on your side; nothing gets filed into your systems by us.