8th Light

Human-centered product concepts tailored for emerging markets.

Data pipelines that provide true observability.

Fueled by over 20 years of experience, 8th Light designs, builds, tests and deploys technical solutions for what's next.

The company describes automating the Jira-to-PR workflow with AI agents, increasing PRs fourfold while maintaining safety, quality, and human oversight.

The page asks whether teams can operate agents and shares notes from LangChain Interrupt with Lyft, Toyota, and Box.

Kevin Buchanan is a Principal Engineer at 8th Light and a Beacon Award recipient. He helps clients adopt AI in practical ways and has spent 12 years at 8th Light.

The post was updated in several places to clarify how Event (async) invocation throttling behaves, following a correction on Twitter from Tim Wagner.

The company’s consultants work on ambitious projects.

The company is headquartered in Chicago and has more than 140 team members with expertise from London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin.

The company offers custom software and says it has done so since 2006. Its agentic products are built on twenty years of platform engineering.

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