Arvad AI, co-founded by Oluwaseun Akintola and Damilola Adekoya, has launched what it calls an autonomous engineering partner: a tool meant to take a software product from a rough idea to a working, deployed application, rather than just generating code. The launch was announced on 29 October in a partner announcement published on TechCabal.
Its pitch targets a problem many teams now know well. AI assistants can write thousands of lines of code in seconds, but what follows is often days of debugging and rewriting, leaving technical debt that builds up faster than teams can clear it. Arvad calls this the "prompt-and-pray" cycle.
What Arvad does
Instead of starting with code, Arvad starts with context, according to the announcement. A user describes the product in plain language, Arvad refines the idea with them, writes product requirement documents in Google Docs and maps out the architecture before any code is written. Its website describes the rest of the flow: naming the project, marking the features that matter, generating code in the user's chosen stack, then breaking the plan into tasks with dependencies and a launch date.
Arvad then builds, tests and deploys inside the same workspace. The site lists frameworks it generates for, including Next.js, React, FastAPI and Django, and says it can connect the apps a team already uses and set up a database when one is needed. It positions itself as a replacement for several tools teams juggle today, naming Copilot, Jira, Playwright and Vercel among them.
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- Memory across sessions: Arvad says it learns how a team writes code and remembers decisions from earlier sessions, so later work keeps to the same security rules and business logic. The company calls this adaptive learning.
- Quality by default: each build targets 85% to 95% test coverage, with security scans that enforce OWASP standards from the start, the company says.
- Paperwork handled: Arvad says it writes documentation, tests and CI/CD pipelines on its own, leaving engineers to focus on core logic and architecture.
These are the company's claims; independent tests of the product have not yet been published. Arvad's website shows plans running from Free to Enterprise, priced in monthly credits, and the company is offering enterprise teams a free one-month trial.
"We are moving past the era where AI is just a better keyboard," Akintola said in the announcement. "It does not just write code; it understands the architectural DNA of a project."
