The Digital Reformation Company's Development Process
A Journey Towards Digital Purity
The Digital Reformation Company’s Development Process: A Journey Towards Digital Purity
The Digital Reformation Company is proud to present its new application, serving as the public face and lead intake for the company. This application supports our newsletter, sign-up, and contact intake form, and is a testament to our commitment to digital purity. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the development process behind this application, highlighting key strengths and learnings.
Development Process Summary
Our development process was divided into four phases: Strategic Architecture Foundation, Foundation Implementation, Advanced Features & Testing, and Strategic Architecture Review.
Phase 1: Strategic Architecture Foundation
We began by creating a comprehensive Product Requirements Document (PRD) with 15 functional requirements and 13 non-functional requirements. This document established our Digital Purity principles and set a target load time of under 3 seconds. We then structured our development into strategic epics, including EPIC-001: Strategic Architecture Review and EPIC-002: Persistence Foundation, with clear success criteria. Our technology stack was validated to ensure compliance with Digital Purity principles, using the Eta-HTMX-Lit architecture (Astro 5.11.0, HTMX 2.0.6, Lit 3.3.0, Eta 3.5.0).
Phase 2: Foundation Implementation
In this phase, we built a comprehensive component library with 20+ production-ready components (Story 1.1) and implemented a responsive layout system with Tailwind CSS (Story 1.2). We also created contact forms with HTMX integration (Story 1.4) and configured our Digital Ocean infrastructure with SSL and domain management (Story 1.8).
Phase 3: Advanced Features & Testing
We implemented a comprehensive testing framework with 206+ tests using Vitest, achieving full coverage. Our theme system was built with advanced CSS custom properties and dynamic switching, and we optimized our performance to achieve a load time of 1.5 seconds (50% better than our 3-second target).
Phase 4: Strategic Architecture Review
In this final phase, we conducted a 3-session architecture deep dive, selecting SQLite as our persistence architecture and aligning our business and technical priorities. We designed EPIC-002 with 5 detailed user stories for database implementation and ensured that all technical decisions aligned with our business goals.
Key Strengths & Learnings
Agent Coordination Excellence and Test-Driven Development Success
Our development process was characterized by exceptional agent coordination, where specialized AI agents worked together with clear roles, structured communication, and comprehensive documentation. We used a framework designed to enhance software development through an Agile AI-Driven Development (AAiDD) approach, which we’ll explore in more detail in a future post. Our Test-Driven Development approach ensured quality and performance standards were maintained throughout the rapid development cycle.
Digital Purity Achievement and Strategic Decision Making
We maintained Digital Purity principles throughout development, with zero third-party dependencies and self-hosted solutions. Our architecture-first approach ensured that all technical decisions aligned with our business goals, and we mitigated risks with comprehensive rollback procedures, error state planning, and security measures. We also designed our application for scalability, with a multi-region support foundation for El Salvador expansion.
Process Innovation
Our development process was characterized by a modified agile flow, combining traditional agile with agentic coordination. We thoroughly documented every decision, session, and deliverable, and ensured that each story delivered measurable business value while maintaining system integrity.
If you’re unfamiliar with some of the terms used in this post, feel free to get in touch and we can explore how they might apply to your journey towards digital reformation.
Note: This is the v0.8 version of our site, and we’re still refining and updating our application. We’re excited to share our progress with you and look forward to your feedback.