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What We Do overview
  • Our process

    Five steps from idea to a product that keeps improving.

  • Engagement models

    Spec & quote projects, an agile retainer or team augmentation.

  • Our tools

    The playbook, CMS and project tools we built and use every day.

Who We Help overview
  • Company

    A boutique digital agency in Cedar Grove, NJ, since 2001.

  • What We Believe

    What we believe and how it shapes the way we work.

  • Team

    Meet the designers, developers and strategists.

  • Testimonials

    What our clients say about working with us.

  • Insights

    Ideas on software, AI and agents from our team.

Design-Led, AI-First /// Est. 2001

Make your engineering team AI-first — safely.

Your developers are already using AI. We give them the standards, guardrails and specialist review agents that make AI-written code safe to ship — with our proprietary playbook for Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Enterprise.

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The playbook

AI makes developers faster. It also makes mistakes faster.

Ad-hoc prompting gives you code nobody fully reviewed, secrets pasted into chats, pushes straight to production and a different “AI process” on every team. The fix isn’t banning the tools. It’s giving every developer the same standards, guardrails and review, built into the tools themselves.

  • Specialist sub-agents

    Reviewers for security, code quality, accessibility, databases, performance and more, each checking changes in its own area.

  • Built-in skills

    Ready workflows for repository onboarding, adversarial review, browser QA and deploy verification.

  • Stack packs

    Standards for Laravel, WordPress, Python and AI, and React, added to each project that uses them.

What’s in
the playbook

The same setup our own engineers work in every day — packaged for your teams and your repositories. It plugs into Claude Code and Codex, and into your GitHub Enterprise workflow, so the rules travel with the code.

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  1. 01

    Standards the agents follow

    Shared engineering rules plus a per-project profile — launch status, deploy branches, compliance scope, architecture — so the AI works the way your team works, in every repository.

  2. 02

    Specialist reviewer agents

    Advisory reviewers for security, code quality, accessibility, API design, database, performance, SEO, DevOps and more. They review changes and report findings; your engineers decide.

  3. 03

    Guardrails that block risk

    Hooks that stop the dangerous things before they happen: pushing to deployment branches, editing secrets and credentials, committing without being asked, scattering stray files through the repo.

  4. 04

    An audit trail of AI work

    Every tool call is recorded, reviewer verdicts are kept, and a daily development log is written for the team — so you can see what the AI did and why.

  5. 05

    Stack packs and workflow skills

    Rules and reviewers tuned for Laravel, WordPress, Python/AI and React, plus repeatable skills for onboarding a repo, adversarial review, capturing incidents and verifying deploys.

How we roll it out

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  1. We Assess

    We look at how your teams use AI today: tools, repositories, branching, review and risk. Then we tailor the playbook to your needs and the way you do business.

  2. We Install

    We onboard your repositories to the playbook: project profiles, standards, reviewer agents and guardrails, wired into your GitHub Enterprise workflow.

  3. We Train

    Hands-on sessions with your developers on real work — how to direct agents, when to trust them, and how the reviewers and guardrails keep them honest.

  4. We Pair & Hand Off

    We work alongside your team on live tickets until the new way of working sticks — then your leads own the standards and keep evolving them.

Built for the tools your developers already use.

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Pete, CEO and founder of NP Group

Pete CEO & Founder

We don’t teach a playbook we don’t use.

Every engagement we run — including the CMS behind this website — is built inside the same standards, reviewers and guardrails we install for clients. We’ve also trained in-house development teams at the enterprises we build for.