The operating system for builder organizations

Become a builder organization.

Canvas is the software that lets every department build production-ready software — right in the browser. Your people build, management keeps full control. Two things, one platform.

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The idea

What is a builder organization?

An organization where not just developers, but every department builds its own software. Once AI makes building cheap, the bottleneck is no longer the code — it's the organization itself: Who's allowed to build? How does it stay secure? How do you keep the overview?

Tuesday, 10:17

The Controller

Builds a contribution-margin analysis in two hours that had three days blocked on the calendar. He stops waiting on BI — he writes the tool himself.

Sunday, 22:03

The Head of Sales

Writes a quoting tool over the weekend that fits her process exactly. No backlog, no ticket. By Monday morning it's live.

Wednesday, 08:45

The HR Manager

Automates the onboarding process herself — instead of waiting weeks for an agency that doesn't know the company anyway.

Problems get solved where they occur — by the people who understand them best. That's the real AI lever: proximity to the problem.

The dilemma

Simplicity for your people. Control for your company.

Anyone who wants to unlock this potential runs into an apparent contradiction — one most companies can't resolve.

On one hand: maximum simplicity

Your employees want to build, not spend days setting up a dev environment, configuring servers or wiring up AI tooling. If it isn't ready out of the box, nobody builds anything — and the potential fizzles out before it becomes visible.

On the other: don't lose control

Your standards, security requirements, compliance rules and cost budgets still apply — especially when dozens of employees write software in parallel. Without guardrails, you get shadow IT with a logo: a sprawl of island solutions no one maintains, reviews or understands.

Most companies manage only one of the two. They either let sprawl happen — or they lock everything down. Canvas is built so you get both at the same time.

Canvas is the software for it

One platform that solves both

Canvas makes production-ready software development easy for your builders — and gives your company full control over all of it. Two promises that belong together.

For Builders

Production-ready software, easily built

Your people build in the browser — with a harness, coding agents and a domain model that understands your organization. Production-ready out of the box, with no DevOps headaches.

How we help builders For Companies

Full control over all of it

Guardrails, a delivery cockpit, user management and isolated servers — security steered, not hoped for. Run hundreds of builders centrally without making IT the bottleneck.

How we help companies
Own infrastructure vs. Canvas

The same path — twice

From building to a running product. Flip the switch and see what Canvas adds. The difference isn't the AI — it's everything around it.

Risk Included

Build

Claude Code alone — no agent net, no quality or security check.

Browser-based · Claude Code / Private LLM, agents review along.

Included

Git

Self-hosted or cloud (GitHub) — maintained by you.

Versioned automatically, no setup.

Half-built Included

CI/CD

Pipeline not finished yet — no central quality management.

Build & deploy integrated, checks on every change.

Risk Isolated

Deployment

Self-operated, no tenant isolation.

Infrastructure as Code · isolated sandboxes (dev/staging/prod).

HARNESSCoding agents review every change — security · quality · tests · architecture · performance.
GUARDRAILSPolicy-as-code, active while building and in CI/CD — quality · scalability · security.
MANAGEMENTDelivery cockpit: who builds what · duplicate work · on-/offboarding · oversight (break-glass).
Self-built, hundreds of builders work without a net — quality and security are left to chance. Switch to "With Canvas". CORE DIFFERENCE  Canvas puts three layers underneath the whole process and is optimized to manage hundreds of builders and take as much work off their hands as possible.
Pricing

A fixed base, the rest usage-based

No setup fee, no lock-in, cancel monthly. Transparent in three components.

Canvas base fee

€1,000 / month *

Complete platform: harness, guardrails engine, domain-model tool, deployment, support.

* tier for up to 100 employees. Tiered by company size: up to 50 · 100 · 200 · 500 · 1,000 employees.

AI coding models

usage-based

The AI models your builders write code with — billed by token usage.

Server usage

usage-based

The servers your finished software runs on — RAM, vCPU, storage.

IN THE BASE FEE Harness (Forgejo, CI/CD, coding agents) · guardrails engine · deployment platform · support.

AI coding models

token usage
Item€ / M tokens
Input tokens€5.00
Output tokens€25.00
Cache writes (5 min / 1 h)€6.25 / 10.00
Cache hits & refreshes€0.50
Typical builder
≈ €50 – 300 / month
Guideline — depending on intensity & caching.

Server usage

deployment of the finished apps
ResourcePrice
Memory (RAM)€0.012 / GB·h
Compute (vCPU)€0.016 / vCPU·h
SSD storage€0.15 / GB·month
Backups, monitoring, logsincluded
Typical range
≈ €40 – 800 / month
Guideline — depending on number and size of apps.

Example (up-to-100 tier): 10 builders with moderate usage + 3 running apps + base fee → approx. €2,000 – 2,800 / month. All servers in Germany, GDPR-compliant.

Alternative

The harness as a one-time on-prem license

If you want to run the harness permanently without Canvas: the full harness technology for local installation — Forgejo setup, CI/CD pipelines, coding agents and the guardrails engine. Development with domain models stays Canvas-exclusive.

€85,000one-off, no recurring fees

Your code is yours — exportable at any time, deployable on your own servers. No lock-in, no hidden catch.

Build or Die — The path to a builder organization
Build or Die

The book behind Canvas

What is a builder organization? Why does the organization itself become the bottleneck once AI makes building cheap? And how do you build a company in which building is the default mode — not the exception?

„Build or Die" describes the shift from the classic ticket factory to the builder organization. It's not a tool book — it's the design sketch for a new kind of company in an era where building is cheap, coordination is expensive, and learning becomes the real competitive advantage.

Canvas is the software that makes this operating system operational.

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