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A hill of tea rows at dawn, planted in the whorl of a thumbprint, with mist in the valleys beyond.

Go fast.
Stay deep.

AI is writing more of your software. Depth makes sure your team still understands it.

Meet Depth

The quiet problem

AI broke the loop that used to teach us our own code.

Writing software used to be how engineers came to understand it. Now code arrives faster than understanding forms, and the gap shows up at 2 a.m., or the week the one person who knew a system resigns. It has a name: comprehension debt.

27%
of merged code was written by AI in early 2026, and rising every quarter.
DX, 500+ organisations
50 vs 67
comprehension scores for engineers coding with AI versus by hand.
Anthropic randomised trial, 2026
65%
of popular open-source projects would stall if two or fewer people left.
Avelino et al., 2016
The real program isn't the code. It's the theory in the programmers' heads.
After Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building, 1985

What we believe

We're not anti-AI.
We're anti-hollow.

Speed is borrowed. Understanding is owned.

AI can lend you velocity. Only your people can hold the reasons a system works, and those reasons are what you need on the day it doesn't.

Explain, don't just generate.

Engineers who asked AI to explain, not only to write, kept their understanding. We make that habit automatic.

Minds are not monitoring data.

What someone knows belongs to them first. Everything we build is private by default.

Two minutes, not two days.

Learning has to fit inside the work. If it feels like school or surveillance, we've built it wrong.

Our first product

Depthby Acadable

Know how much of your software your people actually understand.

After each merged change, Depth asks the engineer two quick questions written from that same code, then maps where your team is deep, and where nobody knows how things work.

Test coverage tells you the code works. Comprehension coverage tells you someone can fix it.

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Understanding map

Payments platform

Comprehension coverage

67%+16

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The same hill of tea rows in the evening, the whorl of its thumbprint lit low and gold.

Building with AI?

Keep your team deep.

Depth is our first product. Everything we build follows one rule: AI makes you faster without making you shallower.

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