Prelatent

Your coding agents are making structural decisions faster than you can review them.

Prelatent measures architectural drift in AI-assisted codebases and gives you the scan, the language, and the guardrails to govern it, without needing to be in the code daily.

Hub concentration, measured
The Problem

Velocity is up. Confidence is down.

You enabled agent adoption to move faster. The new failure mode is architecture nobody explicitly designed, and nobody on the team can name yet.

Your system still looks healthy

It still ships. Tests still pass. Dashboards still look green. Your team reports velocity is up. But underneath, structural load can concentrate into a shrinking number of modules, and confidence in the codebase is quietly falling.

What you can't see from the dashboard

  • Hidden hub concentration
  • Weakened subsystem boundaries
  • Rising change risk
  • Overloaded core modules
  • Codebases that look modular until they stop evolving gracefully

Linters catch bugs. Static analysis catches vulnerabilities. Code review catches local mistakes. None of them are built to govern structural drift inside the agent loop.

The Insight
Drift cometh before the collapse.

Architectural failure does not begin when delivery metrics collapse.

It begins earlier, when structural load concentrates into fewer and fewer modules.

Prelatent's Architectural Coherence Index (ACI) measures this drift directly from the dependency graph.

Are our coding agents making the system harder to evolve?

ACI is designed to answer the question you feel in board meetings and 1:1s before anyone can prove it on a slide.

ACI

A structural fitness function for AI-assisted codebases.

ACI detects architectural drift, converts the finding into enforceable governance rules, and proves whether the intervention cooled the system.

Detect

See the structure as it really is

ACI scans the dependency graph and produces a structural fitness report: hub concentration maps, modularity analysis, cycle detection, temporal drift velocity, and boundary erosion signals.

The output is a forensic brief, not a dashboard.

Enforce

Turn findings into guardrails

Each finding converts to governance rules your agents can follow: CLAUDE.md instructions, MCP server constraints, Cursor rules, pre-merge CI gates, and architecture review triggers.

The rules live where the agents work, not in a portal.

Prove

Close the loop

ACI reruns after intervention to measure whether the system cooled. Before-and-after drift metrics, cooling-loop validation, and longitudinal trajectory tracking close the loop.

Between diagnosis and governance.

How It Works

From scan to guardrail.

1

Scan the repo

Run ACI through a CLI or GitHub-connected workflow. ACI builds a dependency graph and computes structural coherence metrics.

2

See the cracking pylons

ACI identifies overloaded modules carrying disproportionate architectural load.

3

Generate governance rules

ACI recommends enforceable constraints installable into agent instructions, MCP configurations, Cursor rules, or CI gates.

4

Install guardrails

The rules operate at agent execution cadence, not human review cadence.

5

Measure cooling

ACI reruns after intervention and shows whether structural risk moved in the right direction.

Who It Is For

Built for CEOs and technical co-founders running agent-enabled teams.

Prelatent is for CEOs and technical co-founders at companies where agent adoption just spiked and the architecture is moving faster than anyone can audit. If you shipped velocity and are not sure what you shipped it into, this is for you.

Common triggers

  • Cursor or agents rolled out company-wide
  • Velocity up, confidence down, and you can't name why
  • One senior engineer carrying agent output you can't evaluate
  • Technical leadership hiring lagging behind adoption
  • Board or investors asking about AI risk in the codebase
  • Major refactor or platform bet delayed "until we understand the system"
  • You need a fractional CTO outcome: scan plus ongoing governance, not another dashboard

What they say

We turned on agents and shipped more, but I don't know what we're building into the system.

My engineer says it's fine. My gut says we're one bad quarter away from a rewrite.

I need someone to tell me what's actually happening structurally, not another tool for the team to ignore.

Why Existing Tools Miss It

The failure mode is structural, not syntactic.

Static Analysis

Finds existing bugs, not structural architectural drift.

Code Intelligence

Helps human understanding, not automated governance.

Agent Platforms

Generate code faster, not more coherently.

Prelatent ACI

Govern drift inside the agent loop with measurement.

ACI is purpose-built to measure and govern AI-era architectural drift inside the agent loop, where no other tool operates.
Design Partner Program

Name what agents are doing to your architecture before the board asks.

We are recruiting design partners who are already using coding agents seriously and want to understand whether their architecture is drifting, including companies where technical leadership is still scaling to meet agent adoption. You do not need a CTO in the room to apply.

Design partners receive

  • Private ACI scan
  • Cracking pylons map
  • Structural drift brief
  • Recommended governance rules
  • Follow-up cooling-loop analysis
  • Early access to benchmark comparisons

Why it matters

The ACI scan is a free public artifact: you arrive pre-sold on the problem before we talk.

Design partners get the private scan, the structural brief, and a path to ongoing governance in one conversation.

The first ten shape the methodology. The next hundred buy it.

Get the ACI scan, apply as a design partner