LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 29, 2026--
Artificial intelligence startup, DesignVerse, today unveiled the Enterprise Context Layer, a new software architecture that enables artificial intelligence to generate software using an organization's own architecture, engineering standards, business rules and institutional knowledge rather than relying solely on generic internet-trained models, as the company rolled out its Enterprise AI Platform for US customers.
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The announcement coincides with Ai4 Las Vegas which opens next week, one of North America's largest enterprise AI conferences, where DesignVerse is introducing both the Enterprise Context Layer and its Enterprise AI Platform to US enterprise buyers for the first time.
The launch also marks the general availability of the company's Visual Studio Code extension, enabling developers to access company-specific AI directly within their existing development environments.
The move comes as enterprises move from AI experimentation into production deployments and increasingly question whether first-generation AI coding assistants can deliver the productivity gains and return on investment originally promised.
Andrei Manolache, CEO and co-founder of DesignVerse, said: "The first wave of enterprise AI was about building smarter models. The next wave is about giving those models a real understanding of the organization they're working for.”
While large language models (LLM) have dramatically accelerated code generation, many businesses are discovering that governance, legacy and outdated architectures and business-specific engineering knowledge remain significant barriers to enterprise scale AI adoption.
Already deployed in highly regulated and mission-critical environments, including an upgrade to EUROCONTROL 's air traffic management systems which control the skies over Europe, DesignVerse has demonstrated how enterprise AI can generate software using organization-specific knowledge rather than relying primarily on prompts and public internet-trained models - and doing so up to five times faster than traditional software development processes, while reducing effort spent on testing and QA.
The platform has already demonstrated significant commercial benefits. In one enterprise deployment, DesignVerse reduced software development costs by approximately 60 per cent compared with generalist AI models, while improving architectural consistency across applications.
The savings were driven by transforming how software is delivered, eliminating much of the effort which traditionally slows enterprise software delivery.
By reducing costly inefficiencies like QA rework, refactoring, coordination overhead, delivery delays, and technical debt, teams can cut delivery time from six months to just 1.5 months, reduce delivery costs by around 50%, and nearly double their delivery capacity without increasing engineering headcount. These improvements aren't one-time savings. They compound over time, creating lasting operational and financial advantages.
Manolache added: “ The actual cost in enterprise software was never in how fast code gets written — it's in the QA, rework and validation needed to make that code trustworthy. When AI already understands how an organization builds software, that layer of inefficiency disappears. That's the shift we've begun."
Unlike conventional AI coding assistants, DesignVerse builds a company-specific Enterprise Context Layer by transforming an organization's codebases, architecture, engineering standards, documentation, APIs and business rules into structured intelligence before a large language model generates code.
Rather than asking an LLM to work out how an organization operates, DesignVerse provides that understanding first, producing software that reflects the company's own engineering practices rather than generic internet knowledge.
Designed for complex enterprise environments, the Enterprise AI Platform can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, adapts to existing enterprise architectures and is now generally available through a dedicated Visual Studio Code extension, enabling developers to work directly inside their existing environment without changing established workflows.
Enterprise software has spent the last four decades capturing knowledge for people. DesignVerse extends that knowledge to AI, enabling software to be generated from each company’s unique architecture, standards, and business logic, rather than a one-size-fits-all model. We believe every company’s engineering environment is distinct, so AI has to learn their way of building software, not impose a generic one.
The US launch marks the next phase of DesignVerse’s international growth strategy, as the company builds its commercial presence across North America and targets enterprise software teams in financial services, aviation, government, defense, critical infrastructure and other sectors where governance, data sovereignty, security, consistency and measurable return on investment are mission‑critical.
The Enterprise AI Platform includes:
Andrei Manolache, CEO of DesignVerse
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces hit two of Russia’s biggest oil refineries overnight in its latest long-range strikes, officials said Wednesday, as Kyiv deepened its economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and missile strikes using domestically developed weapons have battered Russian oil facilities for months. The operation has brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin more than four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.
The overnight attacks started fires at a Lukoil refinery in Russia’s Perm region, more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from Ukraine, and a refinery in Ryazan, about 400 kilometers (180 miles) from the border, Ukraine’s Security Service and General Staff said in separate statements.
The refineries have a combined annual production capacity of around 220 million barrels of oil, according to Ukraine, and make a vital contribution to Russia's military effort and its government revenue.
It was not immediately possible to independently verify the claims. Ryazan Gov. Pavel Malkov said only that six people were taken to hospital after a drone attack. He said drone debris caused fires at unidentified “industrial sites.”
Russian online retailer Wildberries, a major supplier likened to Amazon that Ukraine has targeted in recent days, said it evacuated employees from a facility in Ryazan but provided no further details.
Russia has sophisticated air defenses but its vast territory is hard to comprehensively cover.
The attacks came hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington on Tuesday for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump to push for more vital American help for Ukraine’s fight against its much bigger enemy.
“Russia must feel that every day of this war will only come at a higher cost for it. We need to weaken the aggressor and keep up the pressure to bring an end to this war closer,” Zelenskyy said on social media.
Ukraine’s recent high-profile successes against Russia have impressed Washington and helped restore U.S. goodwill after Trump’s reluctance at the start of his second term to keep supporting Kyiv. That stance had raised the specter of Ukraine and Europe having to stand up to Russian aggression alone.
Zelenskyy said he had a “good meeting” with the American president, and Trump described the meeting as a “Great Honor.” The talks took place behind closed doors.
“Many things were discussed. The meeting went very well!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Zelenskyy said he also had a meeting in Washington with representatives of both parties in the U.S. Senate, with more than 60 senators in attendance, as Ukraine pushes for more sanctions on Russia. He also met with representatives of Lockheed Martin, days after he welcomed a delegation from Raytheon to Kyiv.
The U.S. weapons manufacturers are a crucial source of sophisticated weaponry, such as Patriot air defense systems, that Ukraine hopes to make itself. Trump said earlier this month he would grant Ukraine licenses to manufacture the Patriots it needs to counter Russia’s ballistic missiles.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine is discussing joint production and technology exchange with both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Ukraine is ready to share its cutting-edge — and battle-tested — drone technology. Its swift technical innovation has paid dividends as it helps pin down Russia’s bigger army on the front line and denies it supplies by hitting rear areas.
That has impressed countries around the world. Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, said during a visit to Ukraine earlier this week: “From reconnaissance and logistics to precision strikes, Ukraine has shown the world how unmanned systems can give smaller forces a decisive edge.”
Prospects for a settlement to stop the fighting appear dim, despite a yearlong diplomatic push by the Trump administration.
But U.S. officials also agreed that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s main envoys, would make a trip to Kyiv sometime in the future, according to a person familiar with the talks who was granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting.
Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi, the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine's military, said in a social media post on Wednesday that he had held his first phone conversation with Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of U.S. European Command.
“I outlined my vision of Ukraine’s victory and the capabilities required to achieve it,” said Drapatyi, who was appointed last week as part of a government reshuffle.
“At this stage of the war, we must strengthen operations across multiple domains, prevent enemy infiltration into our defensive lines, and expand both long-range and medium-range precision strikes against the enemy,” he added.
Ukrainian units also have struck 201 Russian vessels over the past three weeks in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, which border both countries, a senior military official said.
The tally doesn’t include vessels hit by Ukraine’s Security Service and other military groups, a Ukrainian military commander who could be identified only by his call sign Magyar, in keeping with the rules of the Ukrainian military, said late Tuesday.
Ukrainian forces also struck a naval base used Russia’s Black Sea, according to the General Staff.
It reported other strikes on a radar station in Russia’s Bryansk region on the border and on a drone launch site and a road bridge in the occupied part of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported Wednesday that its air defenses shot down 295 Ukrainian drones overnight above a number of Russian regions and occupied Crimea.
Russian glide bombs struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv and 17 other places in the region of the same name over the previous 24 hours, wounding 11 people, the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said.
Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, is joined by from left: Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a meeting of bipartisan leaders of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol with from left: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., following a meeting of bipartisan leaders of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands with a bipartisan group of Senators in the Capitol building, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is joined by from left: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Katie Boyd Britt, R-Ala., Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a meeting of bipartisan leaders of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
