What This Service Delivers

Five Steps, Each One Gated

  1. Discover Map the workflow, data sources, constraints, and the decisions that must stay with people.
  2. Specify Agree on written specifications with executable acceptance criteria, so “done” is testable.
  3. Build Ship small, reviewed changes; automation does the work and people approve each gate.
  4. Verify Tests, schema and contract validation, and conformance checks run in CI on every change.
  5. Deploy & Operate Documentation, runbooks, and monitoring. Every production lesson becomes an enforced check, not a wiki note.

Four Ways to Work With NGDA

NGDA engages as an independent contractor (1099). Clients get senior architecture and hands-on engineering in one engagement, without the overhead of a full-time hire or a large firm.

Fixed-scope project

Defined deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria at an agreed price.

Time & materials

Hourly or daily rate for evolving scope, embedded alongside the client's team.

Retainer

Reserved monthly hours for ongoing support, optimization, and on-call troubleshooting.

Architecture review

Short, fixed-fee assessment of an AI, data, or DevOps system with a prioritized findings report.

Discuss the Work

Bring the workflow, the constraints and the decisions that must stay with people; NGDA maps them first and specifies before building.