The standard your data is measured against.
Data governance, AI governance, and software architecture consulting -- delivered by a senior architect, accelerated by autonomous AI agents, validated against your specific requirements.
Why Touchstone Data
Senior-architect expertise, agent-accelerated delivery, audit-grade results -- without the Big 4 price tag.
Senior Expertise, Direct Access
When you engage Touchstone Data, you work directly with Joshua Garza -- a software and data governance architect with deep, hands-on experience across data architecture, AI systems, platform engineering, and governance frameworks. No bait-and-switch. No junior staff. The person who sells the engagement is the person who delivers it.
Agent-Accelerated Delivery
We apply dark factory principles to our own consulting operations. Autonomous AI agent workflows generate, validate, and iterate on deliverables before they reach you. This means assessments in 2-6 weeks that other firms take 8-16 weeks to deliver -- with greater depth and consistency.
Systematic Validation, Not Spot-Checks
Every deliverable is tested against predefined scenarios that represent your specific requirements. Our scenario-based quality assurance process catches gaps and errors that traditional single-reviewer approaches miss. You receive audit-grade work, not first-draft guesses.
What We Do
Data Governance Consulting
Comprehensive data governance maturity assessments, roadmap development, and implementation support. Data classification, lineage mapping, policy development, and stewardship program design.
Learn moreAI Governance & Compliance
AI governance frameworks aligned with the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and emerging regulations. AI system inventory, risk classification, bias testing, and compliance gap analysis.
Learn moreSoftware Architecture Review
Technical assessments, technical debt quantification, and modernization roadmaps. Microservices decomposition, API design review, and cloud migration planning.
Learn moreData Quality & Observability
Data quality monitoring, observability pipelines, and automated validation frameworks. Tool-agnostic methodology compatible with Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, Soda, and dbt.
Learn moreFractional CTO
Part-time strategic technology leadership for growth-stage companies. Technology strategy, team advisory, vendor evaluation, and board-facing technical communication.
Learn moreDevOps & Platform Engineering
CI/CD pipeline assessment, infrastructure-as-code practices, observability stack evaluation, and developer experience audits using DORA metrics as the baseline.
Learn moreAgentic AI Development
Design and implementation of autonomous AI agent systems using dark factory principles. Scenario-based validation, Digital Twin environments, and production deployment with monitoring.
Learn moreData Strategy & Roadmap
Define a data strategy that connects business objectives to technical capabilities. Executive workshops, architecture vision, governance program design, and implementation roadmaps.
Learn moreBuilt on Proven Expertise
15+
years of hands-on experience in software engineering, data architecture, and governance
Enterprise
and mid-market clients across healthcare, financial services, technology, and energy
Regulatory
expertise in EU AI Act, HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR frameworks
Dark Factory
practitioner -- applying autonomous AI agent workflows to deliver faster and more rigorously
Ready to raise the standard?
Whether you need a data governance assessment, AI compliance readiness review, architecture modernization roadmap, or a fractional CTO to guide your technology strategy -- the first step is a conversation.
No pressure, no sales pitch. Just an honest conversation about your situation and whether Touchstone Data is the right fit.