Case study · AI development workshop
OPMS
One day on-site, the whole team shipping differently by Monday.
How a Perth software company went from curious about AI to running parallel agents against their production codebase, in a single day.
The Vertical AI workshop was a turning point for us. By the day after the session, we were already realising significant velocity gains. Since then, the impact has spread well beyond engineering — QA, support, and even management have all reshaped the way they work. It's hard to overstate how much it has changed our day-to-day.
The company
OPMS
A West Perth software company building production systems for the offshore energy sector. Multiple repos, multiple services, and a backlog that keeps growing. CEO Tiiu Tiisaar wanted to see AI-native development on their real codebase, not a demo deck.
01 · The situation
Curious about AI, sceptical about the hype
The team had seen the demos. They'd tried ChatGPT for code suggestions. None of that closed the gap between "AI can write a todo app" and "AI can ship our next feature" against a multi-repo production codebase with architectural constraints, Jira tickets, and deadlines.
They needed someone to open the production repo with their engineering team and show them how it works.
02 · The workshop
One day, their codebase, their tickets
Two of our team sat down with two of their senior engineers in West Perth and worked against the production repo all day. We connected their tools, documented their architecture gotchas, built custom workflows for their stack, and shipped real work.
By the end of the day, the team had three things they could keep using: an AI development setup tuned to their codebase, a Monday-morning playbook, and a live demo. The demo reviewed three pull requests across three repositories at once and caught issues their existing process had missed.
Connected to their world
Cross-repo PR review
Three deliverables
03 · The shift
It spread beyond engineering
The engineers started shipping faster the next day. Within weeks, QA had changed their process, support had changed theirs, and management was using AI for planning and documentation. One workshop reshaped how the company works.
Backlog items that had been sitting for months, the ones the team knew needed doing but couldn't carve out time for, started shipping.
04 · Who ran this
Vertical AI
We're an AI automation agency in Perth, Western Australia. We run AI development workshops for software teams on-site, against your production codebase, with your tools and your tickets.
Every workshop starts with your stack, your architecture, and the bottlenecks the team already knows about. If your engineering team is where OPMS was, curious but not sure where to start, book a workshop and we'll show you what it looks like for your codebase.
FAQ
Common questions
Questions we hear from engineering leaders and CTOs. Book a workshop if you don't see yours here.
We spend a day on-site with your engineering team, working against your production codebase. By the end of the day the team has shipped real work using AI-native workflows and has a playbook for Monday morning.
No. We start from zero and build up. By the end of the day your engineers are running parallel AI agents across feature branches and reviewing PRs autonomously.
Three deliverables: a workshop report with findings and strategic recommendations, a workflows and tools guide written for your stack, and a prompt library tuned to your codebase conventions.
Yes. We work against your production repo on workshop day, connecting to Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub, Figma, your CI pipeline, and the rest of the stack you already use.
Most teams ship faster the day after the workshop. Within weeks the impact spreads beyond engineering: QA, support, and management start reshaping their workflows too.
No. Vertical AI is Perth-based, but workshops can run on-site anywhere in Australia or remotely. We work with software teams across Australia and internationally.
Your team has the same backlog
If your engineers are spending more time on process than shipping, we should talk.