🔄Adapt's New Code Workflow: Build Wide, Demo Early

Build wide, demo early — a new code workflow

Adapt has introduced a new workflow that flips the traditional model on its head: instead of writing an RFC, splitting it into issues, building each issue, and merging them in one go, developers now build wide, commit save points as they go, and demo features before anyone reads a line of code. This approach makes product validation faster by having the whole feature working early enough to show stakeholders. The key change is that while design still comes first, building happens broadly across components rather than in isolation. Code reviews remain unchanged but are more efficient due to smaller, focused PRs that flow through quickly, unlike heavy backend PRs which carry architectural risks and sit longer. This new method also emphasizes the importance of real dependencies when stacking work and ensures cleanup tasks ship last. The workflow includes grilling the plan until it has clear decisions, committing specs before coding begins, and managing splits based on what the code reveals during building. At Adapt, agents with business context from previous projects comment on reviews to ensure alignment.