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Enterprise · Google Cloud · Vertex AI

Google Cloud engineers who take AI to production.

Good Hood River helps enterprises implement borderless lakehouses and run AI agents in production on Google Cloud. We place vetted GCP and Vertex AI specialists on your team, or deploy a forward-deployed pod to build and run the work around the clock.

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Forward-deployed pods

A small, architect-led team that takes an AI use case from prototype to a production agent.

Agent design · evaluation · deployment

What we focus on

  1. Enterprise focused

    We work with enterprise teams and the systems they already run, from SAP and ERP to existing data platforms. Security reviews, least-privilege access and audit-ready infrastructure are part of the work, not an add-on.

  2. Borderless lakehouse implementation specialists

    We implement Google Cloud's borderless Lakehouse: open Apache Iceberg tables on Cloud Storage with one runtime catalog, so BigQuery, Spark, Flink and Trino work on the same data without copies.

    What is borderless Lakehouse? (opens Google Cloud documentation in a new tab)

  3. Agents in production

    We build, deploy and manage AI agents on Vertex AI, with evaluation sets, guardrails, monitoring and runbooks, so they keep working long after launch.

Services

One stack, done properly.

We work only on Google Cloud. That focus means our people know Vertex AI, BigQuery and GKE in depth, and we can staff the right specialist quickly.

GCP & Vertex AI specialists

Engineers who join your team and work in your backlog. We source and vet them, and we handle timesheets and invoicing so you manage the work, not the paperwork.

  • Vertex AI, Gemini and agent engineers
  • Data engineers on BigQuery, Lakehouse and Dataflow
  • Cloud and platform engineers

Forward-deployed pods

A small, architect-led team that embeds with you to take an AI use case from prototype to a production agent, with the infrastructure and operations it needs to stay up.

  • Agent design, evaluation and deployment
  • Landing zones and infrastructure as code
  • Monitoring, SLOs and handover

Managed cloud & data

A monthly retainer for teams that want a steady partner rather than a project. We run the platform, keep the reporting accurate and automate the repetitive work.

  • IT and cloud management
  • Data and reporting
  • AI and automation

How we deliver

Process-driven, so production stays boring.

Plenty of teams can build a demo. We put the engineering discipline around it that keeps an agent reliable after launch.

  • Google Cloud Well-Architected FrameworkSecurity, reliability, cost and performance reviewed against Google's own pillars before anything ships.
  • Google SRE principlesService-level objectives, error budgets and runbooks, so you know when something is wrong and what to do about it.
  • GCP infrastructure best practicesLanding zones, least-privilege IAM and everything defined as code and reviewed.
  • Agents built for productionEvaluation sets, guardrails and observability from day one, not after the first incident.

Follow-the-sun delivery

Architecture and client time in Oregon; engineering and operations in India. Work moves forward while you sleep.

A 24-hour day in Pacific time. Hood River covers 8 AM to 5 PM. The India team covers 8:30 PM to 5:30 AM, which is 9 AM to 6 PM in India.

Architecture, client sessions, reviewsBuild, testing, operations

Case studies

Where we've delivered.

AI on Google CloudWith Slalom

University of Oklahoma: AI transcript project

Delivered with Slalom, Google Cloud's Partner of the Year, applying AI to transcripts for the University of Oklahoma.

Managed servicesMonthly retainer

Fidelis: cloud, data and automation

An ongoing retainer covering IT and cloud management, data and reporting, and AI and automation.

About

Small firm, enterprise depth.

One team across two time zones

Architecture and client leadership sit in Hood River, Oregon. Our engineering and operations team in India builds and runs the work, so the work keeps moving around the clock.

Google Cloud onlySAP & ERP depthLakehouse & dataVertex AI & agents
  • Hood River, OregonArchitecture and client leadership
  • IndiaEngineering and operations

Contact

Have a Google Cloud project that needs to ship?

Tell us what you're building and where it's stuck. We'll reply within one business day with whether we're a fit and who we'd put on it.

Emailhello@goodhoodriver.com
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