How we work

Specified. Verified. Delivered.

Built for organizations where a missed requirement has real consequences. Delivery is predictable, auditable, and yours to keep.

01Method

Six stages. No surprises.

The same six stages on every engagement, whether a two-week assessment or a multi-year program.

  1. Specify

    Your objectives become a written specification: scope, acceptance criteria, constraints, and the standards you answer to. Nothing is built until it is agreed.

    • Specification
    • Acceptance criteria
    • Risk register
  2. Architect

    We design the system and record every significant decision, with the options considered and the trade-offs, so your team inherits the reasoning.

    • Architecture & data design
    • Decision records
    • Threat model
  3. Build

    Engineers direct Ai agents against the specification in short, reviewed increments. You see working software every week.

    • Weekly working software
    • Source in your repositories
    • Requirement traceability
  4. Verify

    Automated tests, security scans, and accessibility audits run on every change, catching defects when they are cheapest to fix.

    • Automated test suites
    • Security & dependency scans
    • Accessibility conformance report
  5. Deliver

    We deploy into your environment and hand over everything: code, infrastructure definitions, runbooks, and training. No black box, no lock-in.

    • Production deployment
    • Runbooks & documentation
    • Knowledge transfer
  6. Sustain

    Optional ongoing support: monitoring, maintenance, enhancements, and on-call engineering under a defined service level.

    • Maintenance & enhancements
    • Incident response
    • Quarterly roadmap reviews

02Ai governance

Ai at the core. People accountable.

Ai is how we shorten timelines without cutting corners. Six commitments govern how we use it, and every statement of work includes them.

  1. Accountable people

    A RigSpec engineer reviews and approves every deliverable. Ai drafts; people decide.

  2. Your data, your controls

    When your program requires it, we work entirely within your environments, repositories, and access policies.

  3. No training on your data

    We use enterprise model providers under terms that prohibit training on customer data.

  4. Disclosed, not hidden

    Every statement of work describes where and how Ai is used on your program.

  5. Verified like any other code

    Ai-generated work passes the same tests, scans, and reviews as every other change.

  6. Logged and traceable

    Every Ai-assisted change is recorded in version control with the engineer who approved it.

03Quality & security

Practices that hold on every engagement

Not line items on a rate card. This is how every RigSpec system is built, whatever its size.

  • Everything in version control

    Code, infrastructure, configuration, and documentation. Every change attributable and reversible.

  • Review on every change

    Automated checks and human review before anything merges.

  • Tests as acceptance criteria

    Requirements written as automated tests wherever possible, run on every change.

  • Continuous security scanning

    Static analysis plus dependency, secret, and container scanning in every pipeline.

  • Least-privilege access

    Scoped, time-bound access to client systems, protected by multi-factor authentication.

  • Accessibility by default

    Automated accessibility checks in the pipeline, plus manual keyboard and screen-reader testing.

04Assurance

Built to the standards you’re audited against

Security, accessibility, and secure-development practices are specified at the start and evidenced throughout, so your assessors have what they need the day the system ships.

  • NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5Security and privacy controls
  • NIST CSF 2.0Cybersecurity outcomes and profiles
  • NIST SP 800-171Protecting controlled unclassified information
  • NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF)Secure software development practices
  • NIST AI RMF 1.0Ai risk management and trustworthiness
  • FedRAMPCloud architecture and documentation aligned to baselines
  • CMMCCybersecurity practices for the defense industrial base
  • Section 508 · WCAG 2.2 AAAccessibility of digital services
  • OWASP ASVSApplication security verification
  • SOC 2Control design for the trust services criteria
  • HIPAA Security RuleSafeguards for electronic health information
  • FERPAPrivacy of education records

Alignment describes how RigSpec designs, builds, and documents systems to support your obligations. It is not a claim that RigSpec holds a certification, authorization, or attestation under any framework listed.

05Engagement

Structured the way you buy

Clear scope, pricing, and accountability, in contract structures your procurement team already uses.

2–4 weeks · Fixed fee

Rapid assessment

A focused, time-boxed review of a system, codebase, dataset, or Ai opportunity.

  • Findings, risks, and priorities
  • Costed options and a roadmap
  • Executive and technical readouts

Firm fixed price

Fixed-scope delivery

Defined deliverables, acceptance criteria, and price. Best when the requirement is well understood.

  • Milestone-based delivery
  • Acceptance against the specification
  • Documented handover at each milestone

Monthly retainer

Dedicated capacity

A standing RigSpec team embedded in your roadmap, scaled up or down each quarter.

  • A named engineering lead
  • Weekly delivery cadence
  • Flexible scope within the retainer

Prime and partner programs

Teaming & subcontracting

Specialized engineering, data, and Ai capability for prime contractors and systems integrators.

  • Teaming agreements and subcontracts
  • Solution and proposal support
  • Surge capacity for active programs

Time-and-materials and labor-hour structures are available where scope is still evolving.

06Procurement

For contracting officers and prime partners

What you need to evaluate, classify, and engage RigSpec, here and in a one-page capability statement.

Company
RigSpec Technologies
Location
United States
NAICS
  • 541511Custom Computer Programming Services
  • 541512Computer Systems Design Services
  • 541519Other Computer Related Services
  • 518210Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
  • 541690Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
Contract types
Firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, labor-hour, and monthly retainer
Teaming
Prime, subcontract, and teaming agreements

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