Developer Seeking Consultancy Team
- Darrin Southern
- 11 hours ago
- 2 min read
In cycling, an 'Echelon' is a diagonal, staggered line of riders formed during crosswinds.
By riding slightly behind and to the side of the cyclist in front of them, riders maximise their aerodynamic shelter to save energy and increase output.
The Future of Coding is the Team
I first reached out to the Community with a similar blog post in 2020 due to the lockdowns. Six years on, I find myself once again: a Senior Developer seeking a Consultancy Team.
Developing and crafting Claris FileMaker solutions has transitioned from the realm of the 'one developer shop' to the formation of professional development teams orchestrating Agents, whose collective skills are sharpened by each individual's speciality.
Claris Development Consultancy Team
It's time for me to be back as part of a Claris-focused Development Consultancy.
Adding my skills and experience to provide our clients - and our team - with my best practices for development and productivity, along with AI, UX & UI skills, crafted from just over 40 years of working in Graphic Design and Software Design industries.
With Agents taking the bulk of the Development load, we're able to focus on the Consultancy. The problem-solving. To deliver what is actually needed.
Yes, I'm based in Melbourne, Australia. If you're in APAC, great. For some overseas teams that means a timezone conversation which can include extended support and coverage across timezones and across the globe.
Remote teams operating across multiple time zones are increasingly becoming standard 'best' practice.
How CadenceUX Is Answering the Agentic Question
There's been a persistent question in our community: how do you make AI Agents perform reliably inside a Claris development context?
Lately, the CadenceUX blog has been covering 'FileMaker Agentic Development' including 'The Agency of AI Development' and 'Context Engineering'.
To support Claris FileMaker development with Agents, I've created a structured Skills ecosystem inside Claude Desktop. This includes a reference Skill for 'Script and Calculation' with local and live Claris documentation fetches.
Soliant's Wim Decorte has mentioned this Skill in his most recent blog post: CadenceUX’s claris-filemaker-pro-skill is a skill in the pure sense, and a good one.
What it fixes is what the model knows: it stops your model from hallucinating a function signature or inventing an error code. That is real value.
Takeaway
Whether your team is three people or thirty, the principle is the same. We ride stronger in formation.
If you're expanding your Claris team and need a Senior Developer and Consultant who brings both technical depth and design sensibility, let's chat . . .
Darrin Southern
