What Ascenda
delivers
Ten specialisations across AI engineering, data infrastructure, delivery leadership, and compliance. Each anchored in real project history — not theoretical expertise.
AI & Search
Enterprise AI & RAG Solutions
Production-grade AI that answers from your data — not from guesswork.
End-to-end design and build of Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems. Architecture, LLM selection, vector store integration, prompt engineering, evaluation, and production deployment.
AI-Powered Search & Discovery
When your customers search like humans, your catalogue should answer like one.
Natural language product search replacing or augmenting keyword search. Integrates Typesense/OpenSearch with LLM-powered query understanding layers.
LLM Quality Assurance & Evaluation
You can't ship AI you can't measure. Ascenda builds the eval layer.
Structured LLM evaluation frameworks — automated test suites, relevance scoring, regression detection, prompt versioning. The equivalent of unit testing for AI behaviour.
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Data & Analytics
Document Intelligence & Data Processing
Turn your PDFs, manuals, and web content into structured, queryable knowledge.
Pipelines that ingest unstructured documents (PDFs, Word, HTML, scraped web) and transform them into clean, AI-ready data with change detection and versioned storage.
Data Warehouse & Analytics Consulting
20 years of enterprise DWH — from national postal infrastructure to European retail.
DWH strategy, architecture, and delivery. 11 years of freelance DWH consulting in Switzerland and Germany. Design and delivery — not advisory-only.
Delivery & Tooling
Agile Transformation & Product Leadership
Certified. Battle-tested. Five years transforming enterprise engineering at scale.
Agile coaching, Scrum facilitation, and Product Owner advisory. PSM II and PSPO II certified — top 15% globally. Applied at scale across multi-year enterprise engagements.
AI-Native Development & Tooling
Claude Code, MCP servers, and skill frameworks — the AI-first engineering stack.
Design and implementation of AI-native development environments: AI skill marketplaces, MCP server integrations, and AI-assisted CI/CD workflows — built and run by practitioners who use these tools daily.
SaaS Portal & Dashboard Development
Full-stack delivery from Python backend to Next.js frontend — production-ready.
End-to-end web application development for internal tools, client portals, and AI-powered dashboards. Modern Python backend with React/Next.js frontends, with CI/CD, auth, and monitoring from day one.
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Compliance & Infrastructure
Zero Trust Security & Cloud Infrastructure
No open ports. No VPN. Remote access the modern way.
Zero Trust network architecture using Cloudflare Access and Tunnels — securing internal services for remote teams without VPN complexity. Fully documented, infrastructure-as-code.
GDPR / EU AI Act Compliance Consulting
European compliance discipline applied to APAC AI deployments.
Advisory and implementation support for data privacy and AI governance. Ben's German background and 11 years of European enterprise work provide direct regulatory context that is rare in the HK/APAC market.
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