Bootstrap any UK public sector project in a week.
A small embedded Forward Deploy Engineering team uses real agentic AI to produce the principles, requirements, risk and stakeholder pack that unlocks the next decision. Fixed price, fixed scope, board-ready by Friday.
Live site: https://tractorjuice.github.io/arckit-fde/
£25K intensive (one week) or £35K spread (one day a week for five weeks). Four documents that unlock decisions.
- Principles. Decision rules that connect policy intent, service outcomes, technology constraints and delivery trade-offs.
- Requirements. A structured set that separates user, policy, data, security, integration and operational needs.
- Risk. A board-readable view covering delivery, security, data, supplier, assurance and public trust exposure.
- Stakeholders. A practical model showing influence, duties, decisions, evidence needs and likely objections.
No open-ended discovery. No per-week retainer. No off-site delivery centre. One or two senior architects, embedded with your delivery team, with ArcKit, the enterprise architecture governance harness, running on Claude Code so the structural work is automated and the week is spent on judgement.
A tight cadence from embed to board-ready outputs.
- Day 0, Embed. Confirm scope, decision horizon, known constraints and stakeholders. Provision access and share internal context.
- Days 1 to 2, Evidence capture. Review existing material, interview decision makers, map obligations.
- Day 3, Synthesis. Draft the four artefacts inside ArcKit.
- Day 4, Challenge. Run a structured review with sponsors, architecture and delivery leads.
- Day 5, Readout. Hand over the pack, unresolved decisions and recommended next actions or follow-on scope.
Deploy ArcKit FDE before the programme becomes expensive to change:
- New service or platform. Establish a governing architecture position before delivery teams split into workstreams.
- Procurement or supplier reset. Turn unclear intent into requirements and risks that can shape market engagement.
- Assurance concern. Create the missing evidence base when boards, auditors or technical authorities need clarity quickly.
Most programmes use the bootstrap sprint to unlock a single decision: a gate, a procurement, an assurance review, a board paper. The work after that is where forward deploy engineering earns its name.
ArcKit FDE can stay embedded to keep the architecture position alive as evidence changes:
- Design and decisions. ADRs, high-level design, traceability matrices and conformance reviews.
- Procurement and vendor. SOW, evaluation frameworks, scoring, G-Cloud and DOS clarification, build versus buy support.
- Assurance and AI. Service Standard readiness, Secure by Design, DPIA, ATRS records, AI Playbook compliance.
- Team enablement. Standing up your team to run ArcKit, Claude Code and the governance cadence after we leave.
Follow-on engagements are scoped and priced on the work involved, not on time billed.
Evidence is shaped around the assurance routes public teams already use:
- HM Treasury Green Book. Options, benefits, costs, risks and business-case evidence.
- HM Treasury Orange Book. Risk ownership, controls, assurance questions and escalation.
- GOV.UK Service Standard. User needs, security, privacy, open standards, reliability and whole-service thinking.
- Technology Code of Practice (TCoP). Technology, data, cloud, security, sustainability and procurement criteria.
- Government Functional Standard GovS 005 Digital. Accountable management of digital, data and technology.
ArcKit FDE is not a compliance certificate. It is a structured evidence base, kept current by an embedded architect, that helps teams prepare for scrutiny.
Real ArcKit outputs from UK public sector test programmes:
- NHS Appointment Booking. End-to-end architecture pack for an NHS-grade booking service.
- HMRC Tax Assistant. Conversational AI architecture with NCSC, Service Standard and TCoP evidence.
- Cabinet Office GenAI Platform. Cross-government GenAI platform shaped around AI Playbook, ATRS, Secure by Design.
- Scottish Courts GenAI Strategy. AI strategy with devolved-government policy, data and assurance considerations.
See all 19 example projects on arckit.org/use-cases.
Visit https://tractorjuice.github.io/arckit-fde/ to check availability and start a scoping conversation.
ArcKit is the enterprise architecture governance harness for AI coding assistants. The harness runs alongside the FDE so that discovery, evidence and traceability work that traditionally needs a large consultancy bench is compressed into focused sprints.
Source for the static GitHub Pages site at https://tractorjuice.github.io/arckit-fde/. Hand-written HTML and CSS, no build step.
index.html. Single-page site.samples/governance-pack.html. Representative outputs from a first-sprint pack.styles.css. All site styling.assets/. Logo and hero image.llms.txt,sitemap.xml,robots.txt. Discovery metadata.
Preview locally with python3 -m http.server 8000 then visit http://localhost:8000/. GitHub Pages publishes from main on push.