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    AI Tooling Strategy for a Software Consulting Firm

    Rafael Technology, LLC · New York · Technology · 3 weeks + ongoing

    Assessed a software consulting firm's development workflows, recommended and configured AI tools tuned to their stack, and trained the team on their actual codebase.

    Services utilized

    Scope of work

    AI Tool Configuration

    Team Training

    Internal Playbook

    Overview

    Recommended Claude Code, Codex, and CodeRabbit for automated code review configured for their PostgreSQL/Python stack. Pair-programmed on real projects, built an internal playbook. Monthly check-ins to stay current.

    Challenge

    Rafael Technology is a software consulting firm specializing in database design and data engineering. Developers were delivering solid work but timelines were stretching. Code reviews took longer. Manual testing ate into development time. Every developer had a different setup. No shared playbook. ~35% of development time went to work AI could accelerate.

    Approach

    Week 1, Assessment: Observed each developer's actual workflow for a half-day. Mapped where time was being spent: writing boilerplate, debugging, reviewing PRs, writing tests, documenting.

    Week 2, Tooling selection and configuration: Based on their stack (heavy SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, ETL pipelines), recommended and configured Claude Code for architecture decisions, Codex for daily coding, and CodeRabbit for automated code review. Configured each tool with project-specific context and prompt templates.

    Week 3, Hands-on enablement: Pair-programmed with each developer on their real client projects using the new tools. Built an internal playbook documenting when to use which tool, what prompts work best, and what to avoid.

    Ongoing: Monthly 1-hour check-in to evaluate new tools, update the playbook, and troubleshoot issues.

    Results

    Metric
    Before
    After
    Average feature delivery time
    5 days
    3 days
    Code review turnaround
    4–6 hours
    1–2 hours
    Test coverage
    40%
    75%
    Repetitive code work
    ~35% of dev time
    Under 10%
    Tool standardization across team
    None
    Full shared playbook

    "Novostra sat with each of our developers and worked on our actual client projects. Within two weeks, the whole team was shipping faster. The improvements stuck. Felt like an extension of our own team."

    Vladimir Rafalovich

    Vladimir Rafalovich

    Founder, Rafael Technology, LLC