About Codifide
Codifide Inc. is a software company and research practice that builds tools and governance frameworks for AI-assisted software development. The name and tagline are registered marks: Codifide®, Confidence in Code®, and the Codifide logo. See Trademarks.
What Codifide has published
- Codifide Direttore: a governance framework for AI-assisted development, with a free, MIT-licensed harness you can install (quickstart).
- The Codifide Programming Language: an open-source (MIT) language for agent-to-agent contracts and dispatch, currently v4.0.
- Essays and field notes on loop engineering, AI security threats, intent integrity, and organizational memory. Start at Research.
- Codifide Gregario: a private commercial product in development. It is not generally available.
Earlier projects that are no longer offered are listed in the archive on the homepage.
Who is behind it
Codifide was founded by Douglas Jones, an engineering leader and software architect. He spent 14 years in customer-facing software consulting, then moved into enterprise engineering leadership, where he built and scaled clinical analytics platforms serving millions of patients across hundreds of healthcare organizations and led teams through platform modernizations involving regulated data and compliance requirements. Codifide Direttore grew out of that production experience. More is on his page, and he spoke about AI-native engineering in a July 2026 webinar, described on the speaking page.
How the case studies are written
The case studies and essays on this site are generalized. The healthcare case study says it directly: it has been intentionally generalized to protect employer, customer, security, and proprietary information, so it describes engineering patterns and lessons rather than internal implementation details. Figures in the essays are the author’s account of particular projects, not measured results of the framework.
Contact
Write to info@codifide.com, or see Work with Codifide.
Informational only. Not legal, medical, regulatory, security, or compliance advice. Provided as is, without warranty. See Notices.