Senior engineering, AI-accelerated
One senior engineer. A team of AI. Robust solutions to real business problems, in weeks.
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Public reference projects - the DBHQ approach in code:
- fca-handbook-assistant - regulated-grade AI on Azure: grounded, cited compliance Q&A over the FCA Handbook. Full-stack .NET reference implementation
- ai-landing-zone-starter - a secure Azure AI landing zone on Microsoft's official AVM module, with a decision log and a costed deploy and teardown
- devcontainer-devops - the whole DevOps toolchain in one container: Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure CLI, Kubernetes, Ansible, PowerShell, .NET and the coding agents. Built natively for Intel and Apple Silicon, rebuilt weekly, and every image ships an SBOM and signed build provenance you can verify
- spreadsheet-health-check - is the spreadsheet your business runs on a risk? 17 checks for key-person dependency, hidden errors, macros, external links and the point where it stops scaling. Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded. Every release is hashed and provenance-attested, so you can verify the exact bundle that scored your workbook. Run it free
- recall - hybrid BM25 + vector search over your notes and code, spoken to your coding agent over MCP. Local-first, so nothing leaves the machine, and honest about every degradation - if half the search is not working, it says so rather than quietly returning worse results
Built from real delivery work, given away. Add the DBHQ marketplace, then install any skill:
/plugin marketplace add dbhq-uk/marketplace
| Skill | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
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outlook-graph | Microsoft 365 mail and calendar from your agent: inbox, send, drafts, attachments, availability - plus PST archives extracted to markdown |
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trello | Boards, lists and cards end to end, plus a board digest, a due-date radar for what is slipping, and smart sorting |
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legwork | Decision research where every claim states how well it is supported - and a run that settles nothing says so |
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dovetail | Does your repository still agree with itself? Dead links, orphaned files, docs describing behaviour the code no longer has |
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verve | Strips AI tells from prose and puts a human voice back, in British English. Every figure, name and claim survives untouched |
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vela | Compiler-exact code search for .NET: definitions, references, callers, change impact. Roslyn-backed, so Razor and Blazor are indexed |
All six install from the marketplace in one command.
DBHQ is the engineering practice of Daniel Grimes - 26 years building software for organisations where failure was expensive, across defence, banking, insurance, energy, commodities, healthcare and identity. The model is simple: AI does the heavy lifting; a senior engineer decides what to ask, what to build and what ships. The result is delivery in weeks, at production grade - robust, reliable and built to last.
Need hands, not a hire? Fixed-price delivery and senior-engineer retainers, remote-first from the UK.
