
Self-Healing Support Ladder
The roadmap toward self-healing software, honest by design: a support agent resolves customer issues, escalates unresolved defects to QA agents that reproduce and document them, and hands verified defects to development agents that draft the fix — with a human approving every change that ships. Being built tier by tier on our own products, security-first.
Self-Healing Support Ladder is a proprietary framework from Educated Guess Ventures. The tiered autonomy model toward self-healing software: Support Agent → QA Agent → Development Agent, with human approval gates between tiers.
Self-Healing Support Ladder
The Ladder
Support Agent
Resolves customer issues and escalates unresolved defects.
- ◇ HUMAN APPROVAL
QA Agent
Reproduces and documents verified defects.
- ◇ HUMAN APPROVAL
Development Agent
Drafts the fix and submits for human review before shipping.
- Framework
- Self-Healing Support Ladder
- Origin
- Studio platforms — built tier by tier
- In use since
- Roadmap · pilots open
- Stages
- Support Agent · Human Approval Gate · QA Agent · Human Approval Gate · Development Agent
- What it does
- The tiered autonomy model toward self-healing software: Support Agent → QA Agent → Development Agent, with human approval gates between tiers.
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