IgniteTech Details AI-Run Development That Fixes, Tests and Ships Bug Reports

IgniteTech detailed AI-run software development that takes a customer's bug report, finds and fixes the cause, tests the fix, deploys the update and tells the customer it is done, the company said in a Newswire announcement on November 4, 2026. CEO Eric Vaughan presented the approach that day at the Financial Times Future of AI Summit in London.

How IgniteTech's AI Handles a Bug Report

Before writing a fix, the system interviews the person who reported the problem until it understands it, then reproduces the problem itself. A fix goes live only after passing automated tests, and the system then repeats the customer's original steps on the live product to confirm it works before notifying them. Feature requests follow the same path.

Every product has a blueprint of its purpose and direction, and each request is checked against that blueprint before anything is built. Requests that fit become features for every customer, and those that do not fit go to a person to decide. People still control logins and access, payments, deleting data and anything sent outside the company.

"The guardrails are the product," Vaughan said. "Anyone can let AI write code. The hard part is the harness that decides what gets built, proves it works and keeps the product true to what it is for." IgniteTech said the approach is still in an early phase, does not always build a feature as the requester intended, and makes mistakes. "The difference is that this gets better every week," Vaughan said.

Khoros Platforms Get the Approach First

Khoros will bring the approach to its Aurora AI and Iris AI platforms first, so community and social media customers can report a problem or ask for a feature and see it built into the shared product. IgniteTech acquired Khoros in May 2025 to enhance AI capabilities across its digital customer engagement platforms, according to akta.pro company records. The same records list annual recurring revenue of $37.6 million as of December 2025 and a remote workforce spanning 32+ countries.

Two internal IgniteTech systems, KnowledgeWell, an internal knowledge base, and Anvil, an account management system for one of the company's largest product programs, already fix and improve themselves this way. Vaughan wrote both himself in under two months. In early September, while he spent four days on a Texas jury with his phone off, Anvil shipped four releases and seventeen changes requested by five colleagues.

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