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Mochlion

Idea to Build Specification

We don't build your software. We make it buildable.

Mochlion turns what your organization knows into an approved, AI-ready Build Specification. Your own development team, or a practitioner you hire, builds from it with any AI code generation tool. You own it, host it and run it.

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Founding price $2,100 through March 31, 2027 or the first 50 specs; price after: $3,500. As many subject-matter experts as you need, included.

Automate chaos and you get chaos, faster. Mochlion exists to help prevent that.

The shift

Software just got cheap enough to build your own.

In the AI era, software is faster and cheaper to build than it used to be. Increasingly, it makes economic sense for businesses to write their own applications, businesses that could never have afforded custom software before.

But writing your own code brings back a problem as old as software itself: getting what the business knows into the heads of the people building it.

The developers

Many understand code, not the business. Few enjoy sitting with people for hours pulling requirements out of them, and it shows in what gets written down.

The business

They know how the work really gets done, including every exception. But their eyes glaze over the moment the conversation turns technical, and the details that matter never come up.

And in most organizations, nobody holds the whole picture. Leadership knows the outcome, operations knows the workflow, finance knows the controls, IT knows the systems. The result is the same everywhere: good requirements are rarely written before serious money is spent on development. The gaps and contradictions surface mid-build, when they're most expensive to fix. AI doesn't solve that. It just builds the wrong thing sooner.

“That's what I asked for, but not what I wanted.” Mochlion works in that gap, between the business and the build.

What Mochlion does

One owner with an idea, or twenty experts across five departments. Same process.

Asks the right person

Guided AI interviews go to the expert who actually knows each part of the work, on their own time. Nobody has to sit through every meeting.

Finds what doesn't add up

Answers are compared across everyone. Gaps, assumptions and contradictions surface before a line of code is written, and each one goes to the person who can settle it.

Hands over a spec AI can build from

An approved Build Specification your people can read and sign, plus a build package for AI code generation tools and an MCP connection they can query directly.

An example

Two experts. Two different answers. Both sure they're right.

Operations

“Project managers can approve purchases below $50,000.”

Finance

“Anything above $25,000 requires regional approval.”

Conflict found

Operations and Finance gave different approval limits. The governing rule has to be settled before this requirement can be approved.

In a meeting, nobody notices. In a requirements document, both sentences sit on different pages. In Mochlion, the conflict is flagged, routed to the people with the authority to settle it, and the project can't reach Build Ready until they do.

The path

Idea to handoff, in seven steps.

  1. 01

    Idea

  2. 02

    Discover

  3. 03

    Converge

  4. 04

    Specify

  5. 05

    Validate

  6. 06

    Build Ready

  7. 07

    Handoff

What happens at each step

Where we stop

Handoff is our finish line. The application is yours.

Mochlion does

  • Discovery with every expert
  • Gaps and contradictions flagged for settling
  • An approved Build Specification
  • An AI-ready build package
  • A formal handoff to whoever builds it

Mochlion does not

  • Write your production code
  • Deploy or host your application
  • Run it, monitor it or patch it
  • Staff your help desk
  • Keep you on a managed-services contract

Every application someone builds has to be deployed, secured, patched, supported and one day retired. That work belongs with the people who will live with the application, so before a project is Build Ready, Mochlion makes sure someone has agreed to own each part of it.

For practitioners and consultants

You build it for your client. We make sure it's the right thing.

Developers, business technologists, consultants and partner firms use Mochlion to turn a client's idea into a spec they can build from, and keep the client relationship.

For practitioners

For enterprises

Your own team builds it. No one in the middle.

If you have your own development organization, you are your own practitioner. Your experts feed Mochlion, and your developers build from the specification.

For enterprises

We don't need to own a thousand applications. We want a thousand built right.

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