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Three days of code. Six weeks of compliance. That ratio is the bug.

GreatCTO turns Claude Code into an SDLC pipeline. Specialist reviewer agents attach automatically when your repo touches voice, fintech, healthcare, robotics, drug discovery, six other regulated industries. Threat models in 45 minutes instead of 40 hours. Named human gates so the auditor gets a tidy evidence package, not a panicked Slack thread.

~55%
MVP cost reduction (1 PM + 2 eng vs 1 PM + 4 eng)
40–50%
wall-clock time reduction
10×
per-feature ship time (3 days → 3 hours)
10
compliance packs (voice, fintech, healthcare, …)
The pattern

If you run engineering at an AI startup heading into a regulated industry, you already know this script.

Your engineering team ships a feature in three days. The compliance setup around it — scope analysis, threat model, paperwork, legal review — takes six weeks and ~$42K in fees.

Most of that six weeks is mechanical: reading a 200-page regulation, mapping it to your stack, drafting a first-pass threat model, wiring evidence collection.

An LLM reads 200 pages of regulation faster than any human can think about it. The judgment calls, regulator relationships, audit defense — those stay human. The reading and templating do not need to.

What you get

A pipeline you wire once, then run every feature through.

30+ archetypes auto-detected

CLI reads your repo, picks ai-system / fintech / healthcare / robotics / commerce / browser-extension / …, scaffolds PROJECT.md.

10 compliance packs

voice · fintech · clinical · drug-discovery · robotics · lending · HR-AI · climate · em-fintech · api-platform. Each adds reviewer agents + human gates + EVAL suites + threat model template.

Named human gates

gate:plan, gate:ship, gate:api-contract, gate:bias-audit, gate:hara-signoff — wired into CI before product exists. Auditors love this.

Memory feedback loop

Per-project + per-org memory captures decisions, prevents specialist agents from re-litigating the same trade-off across sessions.

Multi-LLM backend

Runs on Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex CLI, Aider. You pay your own LLM API. No GreatCTO billing.

MIT-licensed, runs locally

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Drop GreatCTO into any repo.

$ npx great-cto init
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