National Digital

Search National Digital's published pages - services, articles, case studies and pricing - for a topic or keyword. Returns up to 10 ranked results, each with an id, title, url, type and a short excerpt. Pass a result's id to fetch for the page's full text.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Words describing the topic, service or question."
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "Limit results to one kind of page: Pillar (a service area), Hub (a service), Leaf (an in-depth guide), CaseStudy (a client project) or Static (company pages such as /about/ and /services/).",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "Pillar",
        "Hub",
        "Leaf",
        "CaseStudy",
        "Static"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Results to return; default 8.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 10
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "type": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "excerpt": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "title",
          "url",
          "type",
          "excerpt"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "results"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Read one published National Digital page as clean Markdown, given an id from search (the page's site path, e.g. /platform-engineering/) or its full URL. Returns the page's text with its title, canonical url and last-modified date. Long pages are returned in parts; pass the returned nextOffset as offset to read the next part.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 500,
      "description": "A page id from search (its site path, e.g. /about/) or the page URL."
    },
    "offset": {
      "description": "Character offset to read from; pass nextOffset from the previous part.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "metadata": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "dateModified": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "markdownUrl": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "offset": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "totalChars": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "nextOffset": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "type": "number"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "markdownUrl",
        "offset",
        "totalChars",
        "nextOffset"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id",
    "title",
    "text",
    "url",
    "metadata"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

What National Digital builds and supports, and what each kind of project typically costs, in AUD. Includes the Product Support retainer for ongoing engineering on production platforms, including platforms built by other teams. Ranges are indicative and come from delivered work; they are not quotes. Returns an empty list when no pricing has been published, rather than an estimate.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Estimate the cost range for a specific software project. Uses the same calculation as the estimator on the website, so the answer matches what a person would be shown.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "projectType": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "booking",
        "portal",
        "webApp",
        "aiAutomation",
        "headlessCms",
        "platform",
        "notSure"
      ],
      "description": "What are you building?"
    },
    "newOrReplacement": {
      "description": "Is this new, or replacing something?",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "new",
        "replacing",
        "rescue"
      ]
    },
    "audience": {
      "description": "Who will use it?",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "staff",
        "customers",
        "both"
      ]
    },
    "scale": {
      "description": "Roughly how many people will use it?",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "small",
        "medium",
        "large",
        "veryLarge"
      ]
    },
    "integrations": {
      "description": "What does it need to talk to?",
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "payments",
          "accounting",
          "crm",
          "calendar",
          "identity",
          "legacy",
          "none"
        ]
      }
    },
    "timeline": {
      "description": "When does it need to be live?",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "exploring",
        "sixMonths",
        "threeMonths",
        "urgent"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "projectType"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}

Send an enquiry to National Digital on behalf of the person you are helping. Only use this when they have asked you to make contact. A human replies within one business day.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 120,
      "description": "The enquirer's name."
    },
    "email": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 254,
      "description": "A work email address to reply to."
    },
    "company": {
      "description": "Their organisation.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 160
    },
    "message": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 5000,
      "description": "What they are trying to do, in their own words where possible."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name",
    "email",
    "message"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}