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Introducing Karman: Mission Control for AI-Native Engineering Teams

AI coding agents are now capable enough to write features, open PRs, and trigger deploys. The missing piece isn't better agents — it's a control plane that keeps humans in the loop. Today we're sharing what we've been building.

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Contextual Labs
March 25, 2026
6 min read
Engineering

Why your AI agents need a mission briefing, not just a prompt

A prompt tells an agent what to do. A briefing tells it where it is, what changed, who owns what, and what failure looks like. The difference is everything.

March 20, 2026
5 min read
Product

Context is the missing layer in AI-assisted development

Most software sees inputs but not intent. Processes tasks but not history. Automates steps but not judgment. Here's how we think about closing that gap.

March 15, 2026
4 min read
Culture

Why we named our product after the edge of space

The Kármán line is the boundary where Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. For us, it's a metaphor for the point where a mission escapes the gravity of manual oversight.

March 10, 2026
3 min read
Use Case

Running Claude Code and Cursor on the same codebase — without chaos

Three agents, one repo, two engineers. How a small team in Singapore used Karman to keep parallel AI missions from colliding, and what we learned from watching them work.

March 5, 2026
7 min read
Engineering

The state machine at the heart of every Karman mission

Every mission in Karman follows a canonical lifecycle: Opened → Worktree → Agent → Tests → PR → Deploy → Verified. Here's why we modelled it as a formal state machine.

February 28, 2026
6 min read
Culture

Building for AI-native teams from Singapore

Southeast Asia's engineering teams are moving fast with AI tooling. Here's what we're seeing on the ground, and why we chose Singapore as our home base.

February 20, 2026
4 min read