Codalio
From idea to a working app

Secure, robust, and yours to keep.

  • Describe what you want in plain English. No waiting on a developer.
  • Checked before it ships, so you are not debugging in front of customers.
  • A plan you can actually read. Then the software is built to match it.
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Built in Canada — including as part of the TELUS Sovereign AI Accelerator delivered with L-SPARK.

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How it works

Describe it. See the plan. Get an app you keep.

Three steps. You stay in control — from the first sentence to code in your GitHub.

01Step

Describe what you want

Plain English is enough. Codalio asks the questions that turn your idea into a plan you can actually read.

02Step

See the plan

Pages, logins, data, and what ships first — written down before anything is built, so you know what you are paying for.

03Step

Get an app you keep

Working software in your GitHub. You, or anyone you choose, can extend it later with Codalio or the tools you prefer. No lock-in.

Prompt to code 2:00

Describe what you want. Watch it become a plan, a working app, and code you keep.

Code to PRD 1:47

Point Codalio at a repo and get the spec back — then rebuild from a blueprint you control.

Pricing

Plans that grow with you

Start free. You get a set of builds to try the product. Upgrade to $25/month when you're ready to keep going. Cancel anytime.

Free

Try the factory on your first idea

$0/month
  • 5 daily credits - Up to 30/month
  • No credit rollover
  • Limited editing and scoping
  • 1 active project
  • Basic market sizing
  • Basic app UI prototype
  • PRD PDF export with watermark
  • Community support only
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Pro

For founders and builders shipping real products

$25/month
  • 125 monthly credits - Rollover to the next month
  • 5 bonus daily credits - Up to 100/month
  • Full estimation, user stories, tasks, and market sizing
  • Export PRD in multiple formats
  • Cursor and Windsurf instructions (md files)
  • Full user interface (UI) prototyping
  • Up to 5 active projects
  • Versioning feature
  • Managed deployment (starting at $50/mo), or deploy to the cloud of your choice — AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and more
  • Up to 2 collaborators
  • Email and live chat support
Choose Pro

Premium

For growing teams (includes 5 seats, add more as you scale)

$100/month
  • All features of the Pro plan
  • 500 monthly credits - Rollover to the next month
  • 5 bonus daily credits (up to 150/month)
  • Managed deployment included
  • Up to 5 collaborators
  • Priority support
Choose Premium

Enterprise

For scale-up engineering teams and regulated enterprises

Custom
  • Unlimited collaborators
  • SSO
  • Custom agentic workflows
  • Private model deployment
  • Governance and audit trails
  • White-glove onboarding
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Proof, not promises

Built with Codalio — here's the proof

Production apps and real customer work: what happens when an agentic pipeline runs from structured spec to merge-ready code you own.

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LandLogic

An agentic land-acquisition workflow — mapped to the engineer’s process, not a generic AI sequence

LandLogic provides standardized zoning, planning, and property data behind the workflow; Codalio orchestrates that intelligence across the customer’s engineering process. Together we mapped where LandLogic is called, which regulatory checks run, and where engineers sign off — from acquisition through future planning and development.

  • Each decision point, intelligence call, and engineer sign-off defined before build
  • Zoning, Official Plan, conservation, servicing, and nearby development locked into requirements
  • Working v1 fast — every step traceable to an approved requirement
  • Final land-use decisions stay with the engineer, not the model

“One of our customers needed an agentic pre-acquisition workflow for a complex land decision. The decisions made before a property is purchased can shape what can ultimately be planned, approved and built, so the workflow had to reflect the client’s actual engineering process. We didn’t want a generic AI sequence. Codalio started by mapping that process in detail. Together, we defined each decision point, the LandLogic intelligence required to support it, the regulatory checks that needed to occur, and where an engineer would review and sign off. That included zoning and permitted uses, Official Plan land use, conservation and environmental constraints, servicing infrastructure, and nearby development activity. Getting those details right before development made a major difference. In a workflow this complex, a missing requirement can produce a confident answer to the wrong question. By resolving those gaps upfront, Codalio was able to move quickly to a working v1 while keeping every step traceable to an approved requirement and every final decision in the hands of the engineer.”

— Arash Shahi, Founder & CEO, LandLogic

L-SPARK

A non-technical operator went further in 10 minutes than in three days on a prompt-to-code tool

Built in collaboration with L-SPARK while Codalio was part of the TELUS Sovereign AI Accelerator.

  • Days 1–3, on a different prompt-to-code tool: a thin HTML mockup and a large frontier-model bill.
  • Minute 10, on Codalio: an all-green, ranked PRD and an executable plan.
  • Same idea. Buildable, for a fraction of the model spend.

“Within 10 minutes, I had an all-green ranked PRD… night and day difference between what I was able to mock up. That genuinely probably saved me directly money.”

— Stewart Leckie, Director, Military, Defence and Dual-Use Technologies, L-SPARK

EudaiMotors

A hardware founder shipped software without an in-house engineering team

There was an industry-standard estimate for this build; we came in materially under it on both time and cost.

  • No software team in-house — the product is self-powered rail vehicles plus a network operating system
  • Customers still planned on whiteboards; they needed something to show, not another slide
  • Codalio turned that vision into a customer-facing MVP covering the full solution

“The key value was the simplicity in defining your scope… well-worded and visual.”

— Ryan, EudaiMotors (via NORCAT ecosystem)

What founders say

After they've shipped — not before we pitch them

“A land acquisition decision can shape what gets planned and built for years. Codalio started by mapping the entire decision workflow to figure out where LandLogic intelligence is needed, what each step must evaluate, and where an engineer makes the final call. That upfront clarity is what helped us move quickly from concept to a working agentic workflow built around the client’s real process.”

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Arash Shahi

Founder & CEO, LandLogic

“Codalio's AI platform totally got my vision and helped me build a clear plan for my app. As a non-technical founder, that peace of mind is huge. We built our solution way faster and saved cash and valuable time.”

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Julien Gagnier

Founder & CEO, Tablise

“Codalio is the accelerator every technical founder needs. It handles the heavy lifting, allowing for a tight feedback loop and rapid progress, while their team provides the expert partnership to bring it all together. A truly invaluable combination.”

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Jordan Brooks

CEO at GreenPaths

Same product idea. Four builds. No senior team.

How complete is the app you actually get?

Same full-stack SaaS brief — 25 capabilities, 111 features. Codalio ran without a CTO, tech lead, or senior developers. April 2026.

Full methodology

100%

Complete product on Codalio

Every feature a paying customer would expect — without a CTO, tech lead, or senior developers

~50%

Prompt-only tools left half unbuilt

Same app idea, no senior team — whole areas never shipped. A written plan plus 16 days of a senior developer raised Claude Code to 89%, still not complete.

$7.96

Cost of a finished product

Complete build at $7.96 vs. $25–$49 for incomplete prompt-only runs that still needed a senior developer

Shipped completeHalf-doneNever built

In an April 2026 test, Codalio built 111 of 111 features for $7.96; two prompt-only coding-agent runs of the same brief finished 49–51% at $25–$49.

Common Questions

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Codalio is a spec-first AI software factory that takes you from idea to production: a Product Requirements Document (PRD), technical specification, architecture, and production-grade code you own. It is built for requirements-to-code and agentic engineering — not prompt-to-demo vibe coding.

A software factory is a system that turns requirements into working, deployable software through a repeatable, governed pipeline instead of hand-crafted one-off builds. The term began as Microsoft's 2004 pattern for producing families of applications from shared, reusable assets; in 2026 it means an AI-run version of the whole software development lifecycle — planning, building, testing, review and release — where agents do the work and humans set the intent and govern the output. What separates one factory from another is what the agents build against. Autonomous factories run on signals from the codebase and improve themselves each cycle; a spec-first factory runs on a living specification — PRD, technical spec, data model — so the business intent, not the last commit, is the instruction set. Codalio is a spec-first AI software factory: you describe the product, it engineers the PRD and technical spec, then runs agents against that blueprint to produce production-grade code you own. software factory

Devin, Cursor, and Claude Code are coding agents and editors that start at the code. Codalio starts at the requirement: it engineers a PRD, technical spec, and architecture, then runs agentic delivery against that living blueprint so what ships is production-grade and handoff-ready. For a side-by-side with Cognition's agent command center, see Codalio vs Devin Desktop. The map of app builders, coding agents, and software factories is on the alternatives hub.

No — Codalio augments the team you have. It turns builders into 10x engineers by giving them industrial, spec-first leverage — you set direction, review, and decide while the factory executes against the blueprint.

Yes. Describe your vision in plain language and Codalio guides you to a complete PRD and technical spec, then production-ready code you own — so founders can ship end-to-end without waiting on a full engineering team to get started, with a clean path for engineers to take further.

Yes. Codalio Enterprise runs the same spec-first factory on your terms: custom workflows, your choice of models, including locally hosted ones, and your hosting. Every line traces to a requirement, a test and a compliance check, and our team scopes the setup with you.

Vibe coding optimizes for fast on-screen output from prompts — great for demos, weak for durable products. Spec-first development anchors AI agents to a living Product Requirements Document (PRD) and technical specification (spec) so what ships matches business intent. Codalio is built for requirements-to-code, not prompt-to-code.

Prompt-to-app builders assume you already know exactly what to build. Codalio engineers the requirements first — PRD, data model, technical spec, architecture — then generates full-stack code you own. The spec is the instruction set, not a one-off prompt.

You receive a complete blueprint — PRD, technical spec, data model, and flows — plus production-ready code and infrastructure you can own, extend, and deploy. Everything stays connected as your product evolves.

Codalio manages and augments the whole software development lifecycle (SDLC) rather than replacing it. Engineers work in the same PRD, technical spec, architecture, and agentic context from the first day, so they can extend and scale the project with full continuity — no reverse-engineering a prompt history.

Yes. You have full ownership of the code Codalio generates. Once it’s delivered, it’s yours to modify, distribute, or use however you see fit.

Our generated code uses our open-source core, Rhino. You can find an overview of the tech stack here: https://www.rhino-project.org/docs/reference/tech_stack

A wide range — web applications, backend systems, APIs, automation tools, and more — from your first ship all the way to scale.

Yes. Codalio offers a Kubernetes cluster on its cloud infrastructure that gives you the scalability and robustness you need without hiring cloud and DevOps engineers.

You can deploy the code on your preferred hosting platform — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or any other provider of your choice.

Yes. Codalio offers dedicated support to help you get the most out of the platform, including code-related questions, troubleshooting, and guidance.

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