CEO, Scrums.com — building the Software Engineering Orchestration Platform.
Software delivery is not a services problem. It is an orchestration problem.
Scrums.com is an AI-native Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP). Mission control for engineering and product leaders. Instantly deploy AI agents, talent, teams, tools, infrastructure, and delivery operations from one platform with live engineering intelligence, unified reporting, and predictable software delivery. One contract. One SLA. One deploy. Software Engineering. Sorted.™
It serves founders, executives, private-equity firms, venture-backed companies, and enterprise leadership teams running software at scale, engineering organizations from 20 to 5,000 engineers across North America, the UK, and South Africa, with concentration in FinTech and scaling technology businesses.
Five product lines. One orchestration layer.
Most companies run on tools. We run on a repo.
Company-as-Code (C-as-C) treats the entire business as an agent-orchestrated, AI-native operating system. The org chart, the SOPs, the state machine, the SKU taxonomy — declarative, version-controlled, machine-readable, forkable. Infrastructure-as-code, applied one layer up.
Two front doors. One backend.
scrums.ai/
├── orchestrator/ # canonical state
├── observability/ # metrics, OKRs, delivery signal
└── domains/
└── {domain}/
├── context/
│ ├── wiki.md # strategy, SOPs, constraints
│ ├── tasks.md # current state, in flight
│ └── skills.md # compounding execution memory
└── agents/
└── {agent}/
└── context.md # policy contract
domains.yaml is the single source of truth. Every other surface is a generated artifact.
The invariants:
| Principle | What it means |
|---|---|
| Unidirectional mutation | All state originates platform-layer downward. Downstream systems read and report. They never write upstream. |
| Coordinate, never replicate | DB holds canonical codes and cross-system IDs. Not copies. |
| Vocabulary is never unified | Only meaning is. Deterministic mapping tables bridge incompatible state models. |
| Enforce with mechanism, not instruction | Prose is guidance. Worktrees, allocators, gates and branch protection are enforcement. |
| Curation precedes automation | Automation follows hardening. Never the reverse. |
Open-sourcing the substrate: the domains.yaml spec, the agent gateway spec, and the SKU taxonomy. Releases the substrate and powering the network growth. The intelligence telemetry layer stays Scrums.com.
Agentic Swarms don't fail on capability. They fail on collision, especially in the enterprise.
Agent Arbiter resolves conflicts in multi-agent systems by selecting the agent with explicit authority, based on real-world structures such as roles, contracts, and system ownership. https://github.com/gez-scrumsdotcom/agent-arbiter
Orchestrator decompose → dispatch → integrate
├── Context Broker serves slice contracts, read-only
├── Worker A/B/C isolated worktree, isolated branch
└── Merge Gate arbiter → scope check → port scan → skills writer
Blast radius is enforced by the gate, not requested in a prompt. Anything you can only enforce with words will eventually be violated.
Platform & runtime
Data & state
Agents
Infra & delivery
Business systems
Canonical record
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Gerald Neves |
| Role | CEO, Scrums.com |
| Organization | Scrums.com |
| Formerly | SovTech — rebranded October 2024 |
| Category | Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Operations | South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Ireland, UAE, USA |
| Markets served | North America, United Kingdom, South Africa |
| Product lines | Talent · Delivery · Infra · AI Agents · SaaS |
| Commit verb | Deploy |
| Agent | Sudo |
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Gerald Neves",
"alternateName": "Gez",
"jobTitle": "Chief Executive Officer",
"worksFor": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Scrums.com",
"alternateName": "SovTech",
"url": "https://www.scrums.com",
"description": "AI-native Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP)."
},
"knowsAbout": [
"Software Engineering Orchestration",
"Company-as-Code",
"Agent Orchestration",
"Managed Marketplaces",
"Platform Architecture"
]
}- Company-as-Code substrate — forkable, open, adoptable beyond Scrums.com
- Managed marketplace catalog — page → API → MCP, so agents can procure directly
- Observability layer — canonical metrics, one source of truth, no dashboard theatre
- The Sudo Swarm — one orchestrates, many execute



