We're building SP Foundation—one shared system for how we build, ship, and run our products. It holds our standards (security, quality, accessibility, reliability, privacy, responsible AI) and SP Accelerators: ready-made building blocks that make hitting those standards the fast way, not the slow way. Teams still own their outcomes—they just stop rebuilding the same basics.
Security and compliance should be built in, not checked at the end. Accessibility should be the default. Reliable releases, useful monitoring, solid quality, responsible AI—that should just be how we work.
Standards Need Working Parts
A standard tells you what good looks like. It doesn't help you get there faster. That's what SP Accelerators are for: pipelines, scaffolds, design components, test patterns, monitoring setups, security controls, data integrations, AI agents, workflows. You pick one up, and the right practices come with it.
SP Foundation
Shared standards, guardrails, services, and supported Accelerators for trustworthy delivery.
SP Accelerators →
Pipelines, scaffolds, components, controls, workflows—the pieces teams pick up and use.
The Model
Leadership Ambition
Grow organizational capability and create more customer value.
SP Foundation
Standards, guardrails, services, and reusable Accelerators teams adopt in daily work.
Product Outcomes
Less time rebuilding basics. More time solving customer problems.
Teams still answer for their customer outcomes—the Foundation just makes delivering them less painful.
Current State
12 active Accelerators
Shipped and supported across Delivery, Quality, Security, and AI.
~40% faster deploys
Teams on ECS Accelerator vs. legacy deployment patterns.
3 environments → 1
V1, V2, V3 consolidating to single governed AWS foundation.
Timeline
Q1–Q2 2026
Foundation launch. Core Accelerators shipped. V3 infrastructure live.
Q3–Q4 2026
V2 downsized. Full team adoption. Data Accelerators ship.
Q1 2027
Legacy off. Optimized run rate. Foundation is default.
Ownership
Core Platform Team owns SP Foundation: standards, Accelerators, AWS infrastructure, and adoption support. Product teams own their outcomes—Foundation provides the shared capabilities.
Foundation
Core Platform Team
Accelerators
Each Accelerator has a named owner in the catalog.
AWS Migration
Core Platform Team, reporting monthly to Finance.
Adoption Support
Core Platform Team
Success Metrics
Compliance: Built in
SOC 2, GDPR, WCAG controls embedded in Accelerators.
Reduced duplication
Teams stop rebuilding shared infrastructure and patterns.
Faster onboarding
New projects start with Foundation defaults, not from scratch.
The right way to build should also be the easiest way to build.