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Developer support that cuts ticket load without the guesswork.

Answer technical integration questions with version-aware citations, inspect safe diagnostics, and create escalation-ready reproductions.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$15,500
fixed-scope pilot
Enterprise / regulated launch
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
developer-support-agent
// collect environment
input: Question
step: retrieve version-matched evidence
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CTO, VP Developer Relations, Chief Customer Officer
The champion
Developer Support Director, DevRel leader, Support Engineering manager
Day-to-day users
External developers, solution engineers, support and DevRel teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Developers search docs, examples, changelogs, issues, and forum history; outdated snippets and missing environment details make support expensive.

Who feels it

External developers, solution engineers, support and DevRel teams

Trigger to act: API adoption is growing, developer tickets are complex, community response is slow, or docs cannot keep pace with releases.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$18,000
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 3,000 developer tickets/month × 20% safely resolved × $30 human handling cost = $18,000 monthly gross capacity, excluding faster activation value.

The outcome, plainly: Answer technical integration questions with version-aware citations, inspect safe diagnostics, and create escalation-ready reproductions.

Developer resolution
time to first useful answer
citation/version accuracy
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Permission-aware RAG copilot. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Collect environment
02
retrieve version-matched evidence
03
propose minimal fix
04
generate safe sample
05
validate against schema/tests
06
run approved diagnostics
07
draft reproduction
08
escalate to engineering
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Developer docs
API schema
SDK repositories
changelog
issue tracker
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateHumans review security-sensitive guidance, production changes, undocumented behavior, data-loss risk, and unresolved bugs; code is never executed in an unsafe shared environment.
Action · only after approval
escalate to engineering
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for complex grounded work; select by task-level evaluation; Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-5.4 mini or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume routing and drafting. PostgreSQL + pgvector or managed vector store; Policy rules and evaluator service.

Inputs
  • Question
  • code snippet
  • SDK/language/version
  • error and request IDs
  • docs
  • examples
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Humans review security-sensitive guidance, production changes, undocumented behavior, data-loss risk, and unresolved bugs; code is never executed in an unsafe shared environment.

What it will never do
No execution of untrusted code or secrets
no fabricated endpoint
no production change
no promise that generated code is secure or compatible without tests.
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Developer resolution
time to first useful answer
citation/version accuracy
escalation quality
sample test pass
recontact
unsafe-code rate
API activation
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
Intercom/ZendeskGleankapa.aiInkeepMendableStack Overflow for Teamscustom docs assistants
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Developer docsAPI schemaSDK repositorieschangelogissue trackercommunity/forumsupportsafe account diagnosticsstatus page
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$15,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$36,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$58,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000–35,000 grounded questions/month plus indexing and vector search.

$500–4,200
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,200/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Developer docs and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Humans review security-sensitive guidance, production changes, undocumented behavior, data-loss risk, and unresolved bugs; code is never executed in an unsafe shared environment. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: No execution of untrusted code or secrets; no fabricated endpoint; no production change; no promise that generated code is secure or compatible without tests..

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $500–4,200/month (10,000–35,000 grounded questions/month plus indexing and vector search), plus a $2,200/month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Intercom/Zendesk?

Tools like Intercom/Zendesk, Glean, kapa.ai are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it’s live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a enterprise / regulated launch. We baseline “Developer resolution” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope, the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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