Ordova
Async Digital Ltd Cardiff, UK
The system the studio runs on: software agents that review the code, enforce the conventions, check the copy, and watch for drift. The last call, whether to trust what they produce, stays human.
This page was drafted with AI for the director, Rob Nash. Its Welsh version is a machine translation, not reviewed by a first-language Welsh speaker.
The problem it addresses
AI agents can write code, copy and documentation faster than one person can read it line by line. The risk is not that the work is slow. It is that work nobody checked starts to look finished, and gets trusted because it looks finished.
Ordova exists so that a small studio can use that speed without giving up the checking.
What it is
Ordova has three parts:
- A methodology that sets out how the work is done and what it is held to.
- An enforcement layer that holds the work to it. The rules are enforced by the system, not left to anyone remembering them.
- A permanent record of what was done and decided, so the next piece of work starts from what is true rather than from memory.
Discipline over throughput
The system is held to one principle above speed:
Let nothing be destroyed that cannot be recovered. Let nothing be claimed that was not verified. Let the record outlive the session, and the law outlive the day’s convenience.
In practice, a check only counts once it has been seen to catch the fault it exists for. A rule that has never been seen to fail tells you nothing.
Where it stands
Ordova is built and run in production at Async Digital Ltd. It is private and still evolving. There is nothing to download, and it is not for sale.
Ordova also appears in the portfolio.