Building with Claude in Teams

🍕 18:00 – 18:30 · Gathering, Pizza & Drinks
📣 18:30 – 18:45 · Welcome + Latest Claude Updates · Organizers
💻 18:45 – 19:15 · Everyone Builds with Claude. Only R&D Ships. So I Can Sleep at Night by Shahar Polak
👾 19:15 – 19:45 · Open Slot
🍻 19:45 – 20:00 · Drinks & Geek Out

Everyone Builds with Claude. Only R&D Ships. So I Can Sleep at Night
Claude changed who gets to build software.
At Imagen, that no longer means just R&D. Product, Operations, Support, and other teams can experiment, connect tools, and build working AI-powered solutions on their own.
We decided not to fight that.
Instead, we moved the boundary.
Everyone can build. Only R&D ships to production.
To make that possible, we built a harness that separates fast experimentation from production-grade software. It runs as a service on Kubernetes, with CI/CD, version control, and a shared execution layer. Every capability is packaged as a skill that combines scripts, connectors, instructions, and rules.
That means people can move fast without needing to understand the infrastructure underneath. And when something proves useful enough to become a real product or internal tool, R&D can review it, harden it, and ship it through the same system.
In this talk, I’ll walk through the architecture, break down a real skill, and share where we added guardrails, where we deliberately didn’t, and what we learned from letting the whole company build with Claude.
The takeaway is simple:
Don’t stop people from building. Build them a safe path to production.
by Shahar Polak