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Requirements stay fuzzy until something breaks.
Astro is an AI app builder that works like a real engineering team.
From the first idea to the shipped app.
Most tools ship a demo. Astro ships a product.
Built by the team behind 50+ MVPs, 7+ exits, and $150M+ raised for founders.
The platform we wish we'd had for the last 50 MVPs.
Preview access rolls out in waves. Waitlist members get early updates and first invites.
Built for semi-technical founders. Day one through past v1.
Built for semi-technical founders. Day one through past v1.
AI can write code. It still skips engineering.
Whether you're starting fresh or hardening what you've built, the failure modes are the same.
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Architecture gets guessed on the fly.
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Asking AI to fix one bug introduces two others.
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Context disappears between prompts.
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The codebase you ship is the codebase you can't extend.
Every stage ends in something you can review before the next step begins.
Where this goes: from idea to a production app in 4 stages.The first version covers the Foundation and the staging to production path. Planning and generation come next.
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Requirements
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Planning and Architecture
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Design
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Validation and Approval
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Requirements
What's in, what's out, who it's for. Astro produces the spec. You review.
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Planning and Architecture
Delivery sequencing, system design, integrations, security. Astro designs. You approve.
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Design
Screen inventory, components, accessibility, Sierra theme. Astro produces a complete UI plan. You review.
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Validation and Approval
Consistency checks. Final human sign-off before anything ships.
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Requirements
What's in, what's out, who it's for. Astro produces the spec. You review.
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Planning and Architecture
Delivery sequencing, system design, integrations, security. Astro designs. You approve.
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Design
Screen inventory, components, accessibility, Sierra theme. Astro produces a complete UI plan. You review.
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Validation and Approval
Consistency checks. Final human sign-off before anything ships.
Setup is on us.
When you approve, Astro provisions the repo, configures CI/CD, sets up environments, and prepares the deployment runbook. You don't lift a finger.
Greenfield
Start a new project. Astro decides architecture before generating a single line.
Recovery
Coming later: bring an existing codebase into Astro and start from whichever gate fits.
Mandatory human approval before anything ships. Optional checkpoints between stages let you redirect early.
Each stage produces an artifact you can read, change, or reject before the next stage starts.
Built now, not just planned.
Astro is rolling out to design partners now, starting with the Foundation. In the first version, every project starts fresh on top of it.
Astro is built by the team behind these numbers.
50+
MVPs we've shipped
7+
Client exits we've supported
$150M+
Raised by founders we built with
What exists today
Auth, MFA, and social login on day one
Role-based permissions so your whole team stays in control
Stripe billing and subscriptions ready to charge
Internationalization built in. Ship in any language.
Web and mobile from one codebase
Sierra UI, the complete design system, included
These are the things that usually break later. Astro ships them already wired.
The process model is explicit and reviewable, not a black box.
Join the waitlist for the platform that takes your app from first idea to production.
We're onboarding semi-technical founders in waves. Waitlist members get the first invites and product updates.
Rolling out in stages.
Lifecycle capabilities ship in focused phases. Stability before expansion.
First version, rolling out to design partners
- The Foundation: auth, billing, MFA, RBAC, internationalization, web and mobile
- Bring your own agent: keep building with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar
- Staging and production environments for every project
- A health check on each staging deploy, then promotion to production with your approval
Coming next
- Requirements to plan, generated from your idea
- Plumbing and screens generated from your spec, with AI finishing the parts that make it yours
- Production monitoring that feeds errors back, with fixes staged for your approval
- Built-in QA and regression workflows
Roadmap principle: stability before expansion.
Roadmap direction reflects current priorities and may evolve with preview feedback.
Built for semi-technical founders who want production software the right way.
If you can read code, you can drive Astro. You stay in control. Astro carries the load.
Strong fit if you are
- You can read code. You don't write it daily.
- You're starting fresh, or ready to rebuild something fragile on a solid foundation.
- You want production architecture before your first line of generated code.
- You want engineering rigor without hiring a full team.
- You want a codebase an engineer could inherit later without a full rebuild.
Not optimized for
- Teams that want unlimited generation without review gates
- Pure hobby projects with no plan to ship to real users
- Engineering teams with dedicated architects already on staff
- Projects that don't need to grow past v1
Common concerns, directly answered
Straight answers for teams evaluating whether Astro fits a real production workflow.
Q1
How is this different from other AI app builders?
Most tools optimize for first prompt to first demo. Astro optimizes for first idea to shipped product you can grow past 1,000 users. Same input. Different ceiling. In the full loop, every stage produces a reviewable artifact you can approve, refine, or reject.
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Do I need to write code to use Astro?
No. In the full loop, Astro generates production code on a structured pipeline and you review and approve at every stage: requirements, architecture, tasks, implementation. In the first version, you keep your own coding agent and approve every promotion to production. If you can read code well enough to know what an architecture decision means, you can drive Astro.
Q3
Will I be locked in?
No. Astro builds on standard JS/TS stacks (Expo and NestJS) on a real codebase you own. If you ever leave the platform, the code keeps working. No proprietary syntax, no DSL.
Q4
Can I bring an existing app into Astro?
Not in the first version. The first version is greenfield: every project starts fresh on the Foundation, and you keep building with your own coding agent. Bringing an existing codebase in, starting from whichever gate fits, comes in a later phase.
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Is this available now or just roadmap?
Astro is rolling out to design partners in stages. The first version gives you the Foundation (auth, billing, MFA, RBAC, internationalization, web and mobile), works with the coding agent you already use, and adds staging and production with promotion after your approval. Planning, generation, production monitoring and QA workflows ship next.
Join early. Build the app that ships to production.
Access rolls out in waves, and waitlist members get the first invites. The first version is bring your own agent: keep the coding agent you already use, and Astro runs the foundation, staging and production underneath.
Preview access rolls out in waves.
Waitlist members get first invites and product updates. No commitment. Unsubscribe anytime.