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Building evaluation infrastructure for agents across the entire SDLC. Our Global Head of Delivery, Glyn Darkin, addressed this challenge in his session at PlatformCon. When agents run across the full SDLC, from planning → coding → reviewing → deployment, each agent's output feeds the next agent's input. Evaluating agents individually misses how the pipeline performs as a whole. Evaluation becomes a platform engineering challenge. The session covers: → What to measure at each stage of the agentic SDLC → How to connect evaluation signals across the pipeline → How to build evaluation into your platform as a core capability Watch the full recording below

Every engineering org is investing in AI. But delivery speed, deployment frequency, and stability haven't moved for most teams. Why? AI doesn't fix your delivery system. It amplifies it. Mature platforms accelerate. AI magnifies the dysfunctions of others: manual processes, fragmented tooling, and governance bottlenecks just produce more work. We benchmarked this gap in our new report: The State of the Route to Live 2026. Inside the report: → Why AI isn't delivering the ROI you expected → A benchmark model for engineering performance in the AI era → The AI Maturity Framework: Amplifier → Orchestrator → 5 priorities for the next 12–18 months

We asked engineering leaders why faster code hasn't sped up delivery. Four years of our Route-to-Live data gave us the answer. Writing code makes up 20% of the software lifecycle, and AI has sped that part up. The other 80% (testing, security, compliance and release) tends to run at the same pace it always has. We broke down what that means for your time-to-market in our latest blog post.

PlatformCon's most popular workshop this year covered platform readiness for agentic workflows. "The Platform Engineering Work Behind an Agentic SDLC" hosted by Justin Wilkin, Global Head of Engineering and AI, and Michael Powers, Director of Presales at ClearRoute. The session covers three things: ✅ The architectural foundations an agentic SDLC actually requires ✅ The delivery pipeline changes needed to support AI-driven workflows ✅ The operating model shifts that separate teams who are ready from teams who are still adapting If your platform wasn't built with agentic workflows in mind, this session maps out the work required to get there.

What a day at PlatformCon Live Day London! Great energy on the floor, strong turnout, and some of the best conversations we've had with the platform engineering community all year. ClearRoute was proud to be a sponsor and even prouder to be part of the discussions happening in the room. We also launched the Route to Live report to the audience on the day. The workshop recording is now up for anyone who wants to catch up. The most popular workshop of PlatformCon this year was "The Platform Engineering Work Behind an Agentic SDLC" - hosted by Justin Wilkin and Michael Powers.

Enterprise delivery shouldn't be trapped. Not in bottlenecks, silos, handoffs. We break the blockers and restore momentum. Let’s set delivery free. Join us at Platform Con Sydney on 28th October.