Work
Advice that is independent of the sale.
We operate upstream of the platform decision — assessments, architecture, and artifacts organizations need before spend is committed.
What we do
Modernization advisory
Current-state assessment, sequencing, and a written recommendation that can survive procurement, audit, and board review. We do not resell the platforms we evaluate.
Systems architecture
Target architecture across cloud, integration, identity, and data. Designed for the environment you actually operate — including GovCloud, air-gapped, and clinical systems of record.
Governance, risk, and compliance
GRC for IT and AI: who owns the decision, what residual risk an official can accept, and evidence an auditor can read. The team has performed security-officer and security-engineer functions on authorization packages.
Security and compliance posture
Architecture traced to NIST RMF and zero-trust as a baseline, then to the sector framework the engagement requires — FedRAMP-aware, HIPAA-aware, FFIEC-aware, FERPA-aware.
Procurement artifacts
IGCE inputs, RFP evaluation criteria, SOW language, and decision records formatted for contracting offices and capital committees.
Fractional / interim CTO
Senior technical leadership for a defined window: strategy, architecture, vendor oversight, and decision support without a full-time hire.
How engagements run
Work is principal-led. Scope is written before we start. Deliverables are documents, architecture, and decision records — not a standing workshop series. Platform access to AIM is available where a structured assessment is the right instrument; consulting is scoped separately.
We also apply the same engineering discipline, at a smaller footprint, for growing businesses that need websites, automation, and operational systems. ARC is the public-site sprint. Business automation covers intake, scheduling, CRM, and the rest of the back office.