The limiting factor—how to design an AI software factory for speed | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO)
Sep 25, 2026 · 19:31
Geoff Charles, CPO of Ramp, argues that building faster with AI is not about coding faster but about finding and removing bottlenecks across the whole product development process. Using an F1 racing analogy—pit stops fell from 67 seconds to 1.8—he shows how Ramp automated each stage: a customer insight agent to surface pain, an agent called Glass to define specs and prototypes, its Inspect coding agent (75% of PRs, 1,000 from non-engineers), ReviewBuddy handling 93% of code reviews, the Testo QA agent that caught 425 bugs in 30 days, and Gadget answering 85% of PM questions. He argues PMs evolve into three tracks—technical factory-builder, tastemaker, and GM—and urges leaders to obsess over the factory, not just the product, using constraints to pick one dimension to be world-class in.
