The motion: *Architect, Then Ship.*The shift: Cursor and Claude Code force-multiplied developers. They did not force-multiply the architects and tech leaders above them. The bottleneck moved. Catio's Design and Execute capabilities close that gap. The Loop today: The Loop can now run end-to-end: Understand → Decide → Design → Execute → Compound.

See these references for a summary overview:

• Product 1-pager
• Adoption Walkthrough Brochure
• Demo Video - Design → Execute

What Design → Execute is

The four capabilities of Design → Execute

The three core actions (A / B / C)

Every interaction with Design → Execute reduces to three core actions:

• A) Generate a design (for a feature)
• B) Use a design for execution (implement against it)
• C) Review execution vs. design (exception-based review)

A and B can be triggered from either plane. C lives in Catio. Designs always live and are governed in the Architecture IDE across their complete lifecycle, as much as they are episodically also used and referenced in the Coding IDEs.

How to read the two workflows

You can adopt Design → Execute in two ways, depending on how much you want to change your current SDLC up front:

• Workflow A · Drop-In: the least-impact adoption. Patches each Jira ticket so every shipped change has a Catio system-aligned spec. No upfront PRD-process change. No exception-based review process change yet. Value in week one.