The BASH toolkit for partners

The partner track is the reference we hold our own delivery to. It assumes you are a senior practitioner — you can read an architecture diagram, reason about failure modes, and weigh a trade-off without a vendor telling you the answer. The through-line across every guide is the BASH doctrine: deterministic, auditable foundations first; AI as an overlay, never as the load-bearing wall. If a step can be a script, it’s a script; the model is spent where judgment is genuinely needed.

Start with [[The BASH engagement method]] for how we run the work, and [[The deterministic-first doctrine]] for why we build the way we do. Then go deep on your specialty.

The BASH practice

• The BASH engagement method advanced — The BASH engagement method and the people-first principles behind it — discovery, target-state architecture, phased delivery, and knowledge transfer

• The deterministic-first doctrine advanced — The engineering doctrine behind BASH — deterministic auditable automation as the substrate, AI as an overlay off the critical path of any fact

• Running an AI-native consulting practice advanced — How BASH runs an AI-native consulting practice on governed prompts, instruction files, a VS Code prompt orchestrator, and CI build gates

• Easy but hard: qualifying as a BASH partner advanced — Qualify as a BASH consultant by building, not claiming — an open path that starts with a fork and ends with a business tool shipped in public

AI & automation

• Production AI: RAG, agents, guardrails, and evals advanced — A technical reference for production RAG, tool-use agents, guardrails, and evals when shipping LLM systems for small-business back-office work

• Building a native Claude context framework advanced — Turn a repository into a governed AI context framework — instruction files, skills, subagents, commands, and hooks that make AI output repeatable

Cloud

• Cloud landing zones and infrastructure as code advanced — A partner reference for cloud landing zones and infrastructure as code across AWS, Azure, and GCP — accounts, identity, networking, and guardrails

ERP

• ERP implementation architecture advanced — A senior reference on ERP implementation architecture for SMB manufacturers and distributors — data model, master data, migration, and cutover discipline

Finance & accounting

• Record-to-report automation and controls advanced — A controls-engineering reference for record-to-report automation — close orchestration, reconciliation tooling, consolidation, and COSO-mapped controls

Data & BI

• The modern data stack, end to end advanced — A reference architecture for a right-sized modern data stack — ELT ingestion, cloud warehouse choice, dbt transformation, semantic layer, and BI delivery

Software & integration

• Integration architecture: APIs, events, legacy advanced — A partner reference for integration architecture — API design, event-driven messaging, the outbox pattern, data sync, OAuth2, and legacy modernization

Security & managed IT

• Security architecture for small business advanced — A partner reference for small-business security architecture — identity as the perimeter, pragmatic zero trust, layered defense, and CIS and NIST mapping

Partnering with BASH

BASH consultants are expected to be among the most advanced IT professionals in the room, and to teach as well as they build. If you work at this level and want to deliver enterprise-grade systems to the small and medium businesses that rarely get access to them, start a conversation.