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One senior engineer. A team of AI. Robust solutions to real business problems, in weeks.
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Public, regulated-grade 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
- 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.
