NM Collab — Niels van der Linden & Michael Halligan

Stop “Vibe Coding.”
Start Engineering
with AI-First Discipline.

We don’t just provide development capacity. We build your product while implementing the elite, agentic workflow your team needs to 10x their long-term velocity.

Trusted by forward-thinking teams to bridge the gap between legacy dev and agentic automation.

The “Efficiency Gap”

Small teams are stuck between two worlds.

Traditional Dev

Too slow, manual deployments, high overhead. Hard to scale, harder to change.

Unstructured AI

Fast but “hallucinatory,” leading to technical debt and brittle codebases that collapse under real load.

You don’t need more developers. You need a better environment to enable the developers (and AIs) you already have.

Our Core Offering

Execution and infrastructure, delivered together.

NOW

Feature Shipping

We embed with your team to clear your backlog, shipping high-quality features in TypeScript/Python using modern agentic workflows.

  • Backlog clearance with measurable outcomes
  • TypeScript & Python across the full stack
  • Co-pilot execution — with you, not in a black box
EVER

The AI-Ready Foundation

While we build, we install a “Master Template” repository designed for the agentic age.

  • Local-first dev containers and mocks so AI can test its own work
  • Automated guardrails: pre-commit hooks and security scanners that catch AI errors before Git
  • Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry observability to give your AI eyes on production

The Agentic Stack

The specific tools that make agentic engineering reliable.

MCP Integration

Custom Model Context Protocol servers to connect your AI to Linear, GitHub, and Docs. One unified context, zero switching cost.

Unified Language

Pulumi (IaC) and TypeScript across the entire stack eliminates AI context-switching. Infrastructure and application code live together.

Schema-First

gRPC and Protobufs ensure the contract between your frontend and backend is unbreakable. AI can’t break what it can’t misinterpret.

The “Pencil-First” Roadmap

A roadmap designed to pivot as we learn and as AI evolves.

1

Deep Dive Discovery

We learn your business goals, technical debt, and the real constraints your team operates under. Nothing gets built until we understand the why.

2

The Rolling 90-Day Plan

A roadmap written in pencil. Designed to pivot as we learn and as AI evolves. Priorities shift; the structure holds.

3

Co-Pilot Execution

We build features with you, not in a black box. Every decision is visible; every tradeoff is explained.

4

The Master Handover

You inherit the product and the elite workflow we used to build it. The infrastructure keeps working long after we’re gone.

Why “AI-First” is Different

Not just a new tool. A fundamentally different operating model.

Traditional Consultancy
AI-First Product Engineering
Manual QA & Testing
AI-Driven E2E (Playwright / Autify)
Fragmented Tech Stack
Unified Mono-repo & TypeScript
Human-in-the-loop Deploy
Zero-Touch CI/CD
Documentation is an afterthought
LLM-Friendly Markdown as a First-Class Citizen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do we lose control of our code?

No. We reinforce your standards. Every decision is documented, every pattern is explained. The codebase becomes more yours, not less. When the engagement ends, you own the product and the workflow that produced it.

Why Pulumi instead of Terraform?

Better AI alignment. Pulumi uses real programming languages (TypeScript, Python) that AI models understand deeply. Terraform’s HCL is a proprietary DSL that creates AI context-switching. With Pulumi, your infrastructure and application code share the same language, tooling, and mental model.

What happens when the engagement ends?

You keep the elite infrastructure and the “AI-ready” culture. The Master Template repository, the CI/CD pipelines, the observability setup, the documentation standards — all of it stays with your team. We’ve built the last foundation you’ll ever need.

Ready to build the last foundation your team will ever need?

Let’s discuss your product roadmap. We’ll propose a first thin slice within 48 hours after the call, including scope, risks, and a timeline.

Let’s discuss your product roadmap