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Talk to the person who'll actually build it.
Every Ignite Synergy engagement is led directly by our founder — not handed to a bench of junior consultants. One conversation is usually enough to know whether we can help and what it would cost.
James Ferreira
Founder, CEO & Chief Technology Strategist
James founded Ignite Synergy to help organizations put agentic AI to work — safely, and at speeds the industry is still learning to believe. Using the agentic methods he refined at Google, his team runs development cycles at 400X traditional speed, compressing roadmaps that once took quarters into days.
The proof is Asendar™, the firm's flagship platform: an intelligent companion for mental health and human performance, built for a federal victim-services program and engineered to HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 control families. James is the inventor on its two patent families — including the patent-pending Agent Authorization Layer, which makes every AI agent action on protected data consent-scoped, logged, and instantly revocable. It's his answer to the question every executive should be asking: what is an AI agent actually allowed to do?
Two decades of receipts
Corporate & Enterprise
Agentic Transformation Strategist, Google (2019–2026)
Led enterprise customers through the shift to agentic AI — the same methods Ignite Synergy now runs at 400X speed.
2× Stratosphere Award winner
Google's highest sales honor — earned twice, for turning technology strategy into closed business outcomes.
3× O'Reilly author & Google Developer Expert
Three published O'Reilly books, speaker at Google I/O and Cloud Next — trusted to teach this material at the industry's biggest stages.
Developer education reaching millions
Creator of the #1 App Maker YouTube channel, used by more than four million developers.
Public Sector & Regulated
CIO, New Mexico Office of the Attorney General
Moved a state law-enforcement agency to the cloud years before it was fashionable — saving over $1M.
Contributor to President Obama's 2010 cloud report
Helped shape the federal government's first roadmap for cloud computing in the public sector.
Public Sector Customer Engineering lead, Google
Years of experience navigating government procurement, compliance, and mission constraints at cloud scale.
Federal-grade compliance, shipped
Built Asendar™ for a federal victim-services program — engineered to HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 control families.
An unconventional path
Dyslexic, self-taught, and sixteen years an auto mechanic before Google. Twenty-five years of Zen practice, 100-mile ultramarathons, and a Top Fuel drag racing championship at 300+ mph. That history shapes his latest book, We: Finding Yourself at the Dawn of the Post-Knowledge Age— on what humans are for when AI holds the knowledge. It's the question his consulting practice answers in the field every day.
Bring us the problem.
Whether you're a growing business or a government agency, the first conversation is free — and worth having.
james@ignitesynergy.com