Blue Butterfly is a multi-tenant, deterministic-first, AI-optional platform — built by a company that runs roughly 80% on AI agents and 20% on humans, 24×7, under real governance. v1.1 shipped June 2026: trust layer live — JWT auth, role-based access, row-level security enforced at the database. We're not bolting AI onto a CRUD app. We're proving a new way to build and run a software business. We call the reusable model Chrysalis. Pet styling is the proving ground.
Real internal dashboards from the running platform — the agentic team holds itself to live OKRs (the same way it holds salons to theirs), a release tracker fed by git + CI, and a quorum that votes before anything ships. This is the control plane, live.
Agentic OKR scorecard · live-signal release tracker · the staff console + pet-parent portal it ships for.
The interesting part isn't the feature list — it's the stances. Here's how we think. (The specific gates, schemas and the secret sauce stay behind the curtain; this is the philosophy.)
The platform is fully functional with zero AI. Every number a salon trusts is computed deterministically and grounded in real data — no model in the money path. AI is opt-in, metered, and layered on top, so it can fail without taking the business down.
Tenants are isolated at the data layer with row-level security running under a non-privileged database role — so an app bug can't leak one salon's data into another's. The gate is the database itself, not developer discipline. Shipped in v1.1.
Features are built by coordinated AI workstreams, integrated by a tech-lead orchestrator, and gated by deterministic checks — readiness, deployment, drift. Then a multi-discipline quorum reviews the work and casts an explicit GO / GO-WITH-CONDITIONS / NO-GO vote before anything is promoted.
When complexity accretes around a vendor's API, we collapse it into a clean, first-party primitive we own instead of accreting glue. Providers (payments, accounting, comms, AI) sit behind ports, gated per sub-capability, so a swap is config, not a rewrite.
Everything we build locally is designed to migrate to managed cloud infrastructure as a config change, not a port — infrastructure-as-code, the same governance gates, the same isolation guarantees from a laptop to production.
The real experiment is the 80/20 model itself — codifying the agents, roles, skills and governance as portable assets, dogfooding them to build Blue Butterfly, then packaging the whole apparatus as Chrysalis by Blue Butterfly: a reusable way to stand up or transform any software-driven business. We proved it on ourselves before we sold it.
Agents do the heavy lifting; deterministic gates and a human-approved quorum keep it honest. No change reaches the trunk on vibes.
We didn't wander into AI. We've built it at scale for the world's biggest companies — and then chose to bring all of it home to a craft, and a community, we're crazy about. We were pulled into the pet-styling world by Kat's passion for dogs, and we're here to transform it — one real, educational, joyful experience at a time. It's really that simple.
25+ years in technology leadership. Formerly Principal Architect at McKinsey & Company, where she led generative-AI agentic-workflow teams for Fortune-500 enterprises and ran global pre-sales for McKinsey's GenAI practice — multi-cloud, multi-lingual, on-prem LLMs at scale. Named to Built In's Top 100 Most Influential Women in Tech; advisory board, UCCS Strategic AI.
26+ years across technology and business — a career spent building, scaling and operating real systems and real teams. The steady hand that turns big ideas into things that actually ship and run.
The exact gates, the data model, the governance internals, the agent roster — that's the moat, and it's not going on a marketing page. But the thinking behind it? We love talking about that. If you build platforms, care about multi-tenancy and AI governance done right, or just want to geek out and learn from each other — we'd genuinely love to meet you. We're also (quietly) looking for a few exceptional people who want to build something that matters.
