AN INDEPENDENT AI LAB
What can webuild with AI?
We’re Terrain. We experiment with AI, build things we’re curious about, and share what we learn along the way.
Step inside the labSmall team.
Open questions.
How much of an engineering team can AI run? What makes it reliable? And what could we build if we got that right?
These are some of the questions keeping us busy. Terrain is where we test ideas, work through the difficult parts, and turn what we learn into software.
Meet the people behind the workAutonomous AI teams
Exploring how agents plan, build, review, and keep work moving.
Explore the experiment 02 / EXPERIMENTATIONLearning by building
Small experiments, observed failures, and lessons worth passing on.
Read our Lab Notes 03 / IN DEVELOPMENTSomething taking shape
A platform in stealth, built alongside our engineering experiments.
What we can shareBuilding a team
that can keep going
without a nudge.
Our early account of running an autonomous AI engineering team. What we tried, what broke, and the checks we built in response.
Read the field reportThings we’re
figuring out.
How we’re building an autonomous AI engineering team
An early account of the roles, checks, and handoffs behind the experiment. Including the parts that broke.
When instructions stopped being enough
Repeated failures taught us where a written rule needed an automated check behind it.
Keeping an AI team running between sessions
A session can end. Its responsibilities need somewhere durable to live.
SANDEEP & LINDSEY BARHANPURE
Partners in life.
Cofounders at Terrain.
Experience across Amazon, AWS, and Walmart. A shared curiosity about what we can build next.
A little about us