The Problem Everyone Ignores
You know the feeling. You have a clear idea in your head. You describe it. Someone builds it. And what comes back is… close. But not right. Not what you meant.
This happens at every scale. A developer misreads a ticket. A team ships the wrong feature. An entire product drifts from its original vision. The gap between what you meant and what got built is where quality goes to die.
Most tools attack this from the wrong end. They try to make building faster. But speed without direction just means you arrive at the wrong destination sooner.
What If the System Could Think With You?
mill doesn’t start with code. It starts with intent.
Before a single line is written, mill helps you articulate exactly what you want — asking the questions you’d forget to ask yourself. It challenges your assumptions. It finds the gaps in your thinking. And only when your intent is crystal-clear does it begin to build.
Then it builds in verified steps. Each step is tested against your specification. No drift. No “creative interpretation.” Just your intent, realized precisely.
A System That Gets Sharper
Here’s the twist: mill learns.
Every time you ship, mill observes. It notices patterns in your codebase. It discovers domain terms you use but never defined. It flags decisions that should be documented. All of these observations flow into a learning inbox that you review and curate.
The result? Each cycle starts from a deeper understanding. The specs get better. The implementations get more accurate. The conversations get shorter because mill already knows your world.
mill doesn’t replace your judgment. It amplifies it. You drive direction. mill handles precision.
Who Is mill For?
mill is for people who care about craft. Developers who know that “it works” is not the same as “it’s right.” Teams that want to ship with confidence, not just velocity.
If you’ve ever:
- Rewritten a feature because the requirements were ambiguous
- Merged a PR that broke something nobody tested
- Lost architectural decisions to the fog of Slack threads
- Wished your AI assistant understood your project, not just your prompt
…then mill was built for you.
The Philosophy
mill is built on a simple belief: humans should drive direction, and systems should handle precision.
You decide what to build and why. mill ensures that what gets built matches what you decided. Not through process overhead or bureaucratic checklists — through intelligent structure that works with how you think.
Five principles guide everything:
- Specs drive execution — no ambiguity, no guessing
- Contracts over conversation — verification, not vibes
- Bounded iterations — work in slices, prove after each
- Skills + CLI — AI for intelligence, structure for reliability
- Humans drive direction — always
Ready to see what that looks like in practice? Let’s talk principles.