Bristol-Jones Group Consulting · LLC

A senior consulting firm · Est. 2026

Healthcare operations. Logistics & supply chain. Senior program management.

Bristol-Jones Group helps healthcare and federal organizations run complex programs, streamline supply chains, and put working systems in the hands of front-line staff. We bring senior program leadership and a full-stack software practice to every engagement — strategy and delivery, under one roof.

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Core practice areas
Healthcare ops · Supply chain · Program management
Programs delivered this week
6
From kickoff to working system
Days, not quarters

Practice areas

Where the firm goes deep

Three disciplines anchor everything we do. They show up together more often than apart — a federal healthcare program is, almost by definition, a supply-chain program run under senior management.

01

Healthcare Operations

Deep working knowledge of how care is procured, priced, and delivered inside the Department of Veterans Affairs and the broader federal health enterprise.

  • VA mandatory-contract hierarchy — AbilityOne, UNICOR, VA FSS, GSA MAS, open market
  • HCPC vendor & cost catalog work for prosthetics and sensory aids
  • Front-line clinical and acquisition staff workflow design
  • Plain-English search interfaces over complex contract data

Recent: FLAG (VA acquisition gateway) · VA Prosthetics Procurement Assistant.

02

Logistics & Supply Chain

End-to-end supply-chain work — from federal procurement data ingestion and vendor selection through marketplace dispatch and last-mile fulfillment alerts.

  • Federal procurement data: SAM.gov, GSA Advantage / eLibrary, USAspending, VA FSS
  • Contract-vehicle and vendor selection in the VA-mandated priority order
  • Two-sided marketplaces with bidding, dispatch, and split-payment flows
  • Real-time multi-channel alerting (in-app, email, SMS, web push) with dedup & receipts

Recent: HandyBid (services dispatch) · SALEDAR (geo-targeted alerts) · Shinny (real-time fan-out).

03

Senior Program Management

Hands-on program leadership for complex, multi-stakeholder efforts. Discovery, scoping, milestone planning, vendor and systems integration, delivery, and operational handoff — owned by one accountable lead.

  • Multi-vendor and multi-system program integration
  • Federal stakeholder coordination — clinical, acquisition, IT, leadership
  • Risk, milestone, and dependency management across parallel workstreams
  • Working-prototype-first delivery rhythm — proof before slides

Recent: program leadership across all six engagements delivered this week.

Delivery capabilities

How we get the work done

Strategy without delivery is a slide deck. Beneath every practice area sits a full-stack engineering, AI, and operations toolkit — the means by which programs actually ship.

Product engineering

React, Next.js, Vite, TypeScript on the front; Flask, Node, and serverless on the back. Postgres, SQLite, Prisma. We pick the smallest stack that gets the job done in production.

AI & LLM integration

Production Claude-powered applications: tool-use loops, prompt caching, retrieval, evaluation. We treat LLM features like any other system — observable, testable, and accountable for cost.

Payments & marketplaces

Stripe Connect, Express accounts, split payouts, platform fees, webhook signature verification. Two-sided marketplaces with bidding, dispatch, and reviews — built and hardened for App Store / Play Store review.

Data & procurement systems

Ingest pipelines for federal data (SAM.gov, GSA, USAspending, VA FSS), full-text search with SQLite FTS5 and Postgres, structured spreadsheet intake, and search interfaces non-technical staff can actually use.

Real-time & alerts

Multi-channel notifications across in-app, email (Resend, SendGrid), SMS (Twilio), and web push (VAPID). Deduped, rate-limited, and observable — with the receipts in a notifications table.

Production hardening

CSRF, rate limiting, account lockout, signed tokens, HSTS, CSP, structured logging, healthchecks, migrations, error pages. We don't ship demos — we ship software your operations team can run.

Selected work · Past seven days

Recent projects

A sample of work delivered in the last week — each one a working prototype or production-ready application, built end-to-end by the firm.

  1. Federal · AI May 2026

    FLAG — Front Line Acquisition Gateway

    A plain-English contract search tool for VA front-line acquisition staff. Ask "who do I buy insulin pens from on FSS?" and get the right vehicle, vendor, and price ceiling — in the VA's mandated priority order.

    • Next.js 15 (App Router) + TypeScript + SQLite with FTS5 full-text search
    • Claude (Sonnet 4.6) with a single search_contracts tool, 5-hop tool loop, ephemeral prompt caching
    • Ingest stubs for SAM.gov, GSA Advantage / eLibrary, USAspending, and VA FSS
    • 17 seeded contracts spanning pharma, med/surg, dental, lab, IT, cyber, OS4, AbilityOne, UNICOR
    Next.jsTypeScriptSQLite / FTS5Claude APIbetter-sqlite3
  2. Healthcare · Federal May 2026

    VA Prosthetics Procurement Assistant

    A vendor & HCPC-code catalog application that turns a 173 KB XLSX of mandatory prosthetics contracts into a searchable, tabbed interface for procurement officers.

    • Self-contained single-page application — no build step, no external dependencies
    • USWDS-inspired palette (VA blue / gold), accessible tabbed catalog
    • Direct parsing of the May 2026 mandatory contract spreadsheet (HCPC vendor & cost)
    • Designed for kiosked workstations and low-bandwidth VA environments
    HTMLCSSJavaScriptUSWDS-aligned design
  3. Marketplace · Payments May 2026

    HandyBid — Home services marketplace

    A production-hardened, two-sided marketplace for home services. Homeowners post jobs; contractors bid; payments flow through Stripe Connect with an 8% platform fee.

    • Flask + SQLAlchemy + Alembic migrations; SQLite in dev, Postgres in prod
    • Stripe Connect Express accounts, separate charges and transfers, signed webhooks
    • CSRF, Flask-Limiter rate limits, account lockout, signed verification & reset tokens
    • Talisman security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame, Referrer-Policy), healthcheck, structured logs
    • Account deletion flow built to Apple App Store requirements
    Python · FlaskPostgresStripe ConnectAlembicgunicorn
  4. AR · 3D · Consumer May 2026

    GardenAR — Plan your garden in 3D

    A garden-planning prototype that takes plot dimensions, constraints, and a plant catalog, then proposes a layout and renders it as a walkable 3D preview with a growth-stage slider.

    • Vite + React + TypeScript + Three.js, deploying to Cloudflare Pages
    • 15-species plant catalog with spacing, sun, and antagonist constraints
    • Greedy bin-pack layout solver with constraint propagation
    • Top-down 2D plan canvas and AR-style 3D preview
    • Native ARKit / ARCore plane-detection path on the mobile roadmap
    ViteReactTypeScriptThree.jsCloudflare Pages
  5. Marketplace · Alerts May 2026

    SALEDAR — Yard sale marketplace & alerts

    A geo-aware marketplace for yard and garage sales. Hosts pay a flat listing fee; buyers browse by ZIP + radius or subscribe to instant, daily, or weekly alerts via SMS and email.

    • Next.js 15 + Prisma + Postgres, Stripe Checkout for listing payments
    • Twilio SMS and Resend email with category filters and one-click unsubscribe
    • Cron dispatcher with per-subscriber dedup against past sends
    • ZIP → lat/lng geocoding via zippopotam.us, deployed to Vercel
    Next.js 15PrismaPostgresStripeTwilioResend
  6. Community · Real-time May 2026

    Shinny — Pickup hockey alerts

    A community app that pings local skaters and goalies the moment a pickup game gets posted at one of their rinks. Open feed, RSVP flow, and a notification dispatcher that knows the difference between a skater spot and a goalie spot.

    • Next.js 16 App Router + Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Row-Level Security)
    • Magic-link auth, email via Resend, web push via VAPID
    • Subscription model: rink + skill range + position-of-opening
    • Per-channel fan-out with notifications-table dedup
    • Deployed on Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext
    Next.js 16SupabaseResendVAPID web pushCloudflare Workers

Approach

How we engage

  1. 1 · Discovery

    A short, focused conversation. We surface what the product really has to do, who it serves, and what "done" looks like — then we write it down so everyone can agree on it.

  2. 2 · Working prototype

    A real, runnable version of the core flow — usually within days. Not a wireframe, not a slide deck. A thing you can click, log into, and show a stakeholder.

  3. 3 · Hardening

    Auth, payments, rate limits, migrations, structured logs, error handling, security headers, account deletion. The unglamorous work that separates a demo from a product.

  4. 4 · Ship & transition

    Deploy to the platform that fits — Vercel, Cloudflare, Render, or your own infrastructure. Handoff with documentation your team will actually use, plus a clear support window if you want one.

Get in touch

Have something to build?

Bristol-Jones Group takes a small number of engagements at a time. If you have a problem worth solving in software, we'd like to hear about it.

Email hello@bristoljones.group
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