AI is no longer a tool — it’s becoming the engineer. That’s the vision driving Ascendion Inc. as it rolls out agentic AI to automate software development from idea to execution.

With its Ascendion AVA+ platform, the IT service management company aims to redefine how applications are built, shifting from manual coding to intelligent systems that generate user stories, road maps and even full applications on demand. Companies who do not invest in AI risk getting left behind, according to Arun Varadarajan (pictured), chief commercial officer of Ascendion.

“Now is the time for adoption,” he said. “The moment you get headlong into this journey, you will find that AI has progressed so much that it can do a whole range of things that you thought impossible earlier. Look at the large language models, how they have transformed. You’ve got a mix of experts, you’ve got a whole range of new capabilities within the model that makes them far more effective and even far more cost-effective.”

Varadarajan spoke with theCUBE Research’s Scott Hebner at the AI Agent Builder Summit 2025 event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the rise of AI-powered engineering and Ascendion’s offerings. (* Disclosure below.)

Ascendion is embracing agentic AI

We are entering a world where AI writes the applications, according to Varadarajan. Previously, cost has been a significant barrier to smaller companies, but he sees more accessibility on the horizon.

“The cost of compute is coming down, the cost of storage is coming down and the cost of GPUs are coming down,” Varadarajan said. “There’s more edge compute capabilities. So, everything is just heading in one direction — that AI is going to be easily consumable … if you wait too long, you may just end up getting blockbusted away.”

Ascendion AVA+ is an agentic AI-powered production line for software. Varadarajan demonstrated how to use the platform, starting with a landing page of studios for different types of workers, from product managers to developers to data engineers. The entire system is powered by a team of agents they call Agentic Pods.

“It takes us less than a day to build an agent in our platform,” Varadarajan explained. “Then we train the agent on the client’s context. For example, I have a workflow where, if the client says, ‘Here is how I want to see the report. Here is where I need to get the data from for the report’ …  and feed it into my workflow … it will analyze what your reporting needs are. It will create the data model on its own.”

Inside the platform, users can get real-time analytics and snapshots of applications across their organizations. At a business’s request, agents will create a product road map and feature list, then generate user stories. They can also perform a SWOT analysis to test the company’s security as needed.

“We are heading to a state where software will write software,” Varadajan said. “In the not too distant future … I can actually tell the machine, ‘I want to build this kind of a portal, or this kind of a web application, or this kind of a mobile application, with these capabilities, that looks a little bit like what Starbucks does and looks a little bit like what McDonald’s does. And I like these designs, I don’t like these designs. And go build it for me.’”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AI Agent Builder Summit 2025:

(* Disclosure: Ascendion Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Ascendion nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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