Capabilities
Seven practices. One standard of delivery.
One team across engineering, data, Ai, cloud, and security, working to a written specification and verified at every step.
Software engineering & modernization
We build new applications and modernize legacy systems in planned, tested increments.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Critical services often run on systems that are hard to change and harder to staff. Waiting raises the cost. Rushing puts the service at risk.
How we help
- Build applications & APIs
- Web applications, back-end services, and APIs, built in the languages and frameworks your teams already support.
- Modernize legacy systems
- Phased migration off mainframe and monolithic systems, with parity testing to confirm nothing is lost.
- Integrate systems
- Data exchanges and messaging that connect your systems, so information moves without re-entry.
- Improve code health
- Refactoring, automated tests, and dependency upgrades that lower maintenance cost and release risk.
Outcomes we design for
- Legacy systems retired on schedule, without service interruption
- Software your own team can run and extend
- Lower maintenance cost and safer releases
Example engagements
- Rebuild a COBOL batch process as a modern service, verified against production-scale data.
- Upgrade an end-of-life framework across a large codebase without a feature freeze.
- Replace spreadsheet casework with a secure case-management application and API.
Technologies & standards
Digital services & web platforms
Public websites, self-service portals, and design systems that are fast, accessible, and easy to use.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
People judge an organization by its digital front door. Slow pages, broken forms, and inaccessible content erode trust and can fall short of Section 508.
How we help
- Build websites & portals
- Public sites, portals, and content platforms built for peak demand, with publishing tools your staff can run.
- Create design systems
- Shared component libraries that keep large digital estates consistent, including USWDS implementations.
- Meet accessibility standards
- Audits, remediation, and conformance reports against WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508, checked automatically in every release.
- Improve speed & search
- Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, and edge delivery that keep services fast everywhere.
Outcomes we design for
- Services people complete on the first attempt
- Accessibility conformance you can document
- Pages that stay fast as content grows
Example engagements
- Rebuild an agency website with a documented accessibility conformance report.
- Launch a fast, accessible website with online booking for a small business.
- Turn a paper application process into an accessible online service.
Technologies & standards
Data engineering & advanced analytics
We build the data foundation first, then analytics your reviewers can trace and reproduce.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Data sits in separate systems with conflicting definitions. Reports take weeks, and decisions rest on figures no one can fully explain.
How we help
- Build data pipelines
- Automated pipelines that bring source data into one governed platform, with quality checks and lineage at every step.
- Apply advanced analytics
- Forecasting, segmentation, and controlled experiments, documented so results can be reviewed and reproduced.
- Inform decisions
- Dashboards and automated reporting built around the questions leaders ask most.
- Govern & migrate data
- Database migrations, master data, and access policies that keep sensitive data controlled and audit-ready.
Outcomes we design for
- One governed source for the figures leadership relies on
- Forecasts you can explain to oversight bodies
- Recurring reports that run themselves
Example engagements
- Consolidate program data from several legacy systems into one governed warehouse.
- Build demand, budget, or caseload forecasts with reviewable methods.
- Automate a compliance report that takes weeks of manual effort.
Technologies & standards
Applied Ai & intelligent automation
We put Ai and automation into production, with human review wherever judgment matters.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Ai pilots are easy to start and hard to put into production. Without evaluation and clear accountability, they stall in risk review or ship before they are ready.
How we help
- Deploy assistants & agents
- Task-specific assistants and agents that act in your systems, with a person approving every consequential decision.
- Answer from your documents
- Search and question answering over your own documents, with a citation for every answer.
- Process documents at volume
- Classification, extraction, and summarization for forms, contracts, and records, with uncertain results routed to people.
- Evaluate & govern Ai
- Test suites, red-teaming, and monitoring aligned to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, with a clear record of who reviews what.
Outcomes we design for
- Ai that does defined work under human oversight
- Answers that trace back to their sources
- Governance documentation your risk team can review
Example engagements
- Deploy an internal assistant that answers policy questions with citations.
- Automate quoting, scheduling, and follow-up for a small business, with staff approving each step.
- Stand up an Ai evaluation harness and governance documentation before launch.
Technologies & standards
Cloud, DevSecOps & infrastructure
Cloud migrations and automated delivery pipelines on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and the edge.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Hand-built cloud environments drift. Releases become high-risk events, costs climb without explanation, and security reviews arrive too late to shape the design.
How we help
- Define infrastructure as code
- Every environment defined in version-controlled files, so it can be reviewed, rebuilt identically, and audited change by change.
- Automate testing & release
- CI/CD pipelines that test, scan, and deploy each change automatically, with security built into every step.
- Run containers & platforms
- Kubernetes, serverless, and edge platforms sized to the workload and to the team that will run them.
- Manage resilience & cost
- Monitoring, rehearsed incident runbooks, and cost optimization that keep systems healthy and spending predictable.
Outcomes we design for
- Environments you can rebuild on demand
- Releases that are routine and reversible
- Cloud spending you can explain line by line
Example engagements
- Migrate on-premises workloads to a cloud landing zone defined in Terraform.
- Build a delivery pipeline with security scanning and signed releases.
- Reduce cloud spend through right-sizing, without reducing capability.
Technologies & standards
Cybersecurity & compliance engineering
We build security into the system and keep the evidence to prove it.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Security reviews that arrive just before launch find problems when they are most expensive to fix. Compliance then becomes a scramble to reconstruct evidence.
How we help
- Review & remediate code
- Manual and automated code review, with findings ranked by risk and the fixes delivered, not just a report.
- Design the security architecture
- Threat modeling and zero-trust design, so a stolen password alone opens nothing.
- Secure the supply chain
- Software bills of materials, dependency management, and hardened build pipelines.
- Engineer compliance evidence
- Control implementation and system security plan support, documented in OSCAL where your assessors use it.
Outcomes we design for
- Fewer vulnerabilities reaching production
- Audit-ready evidence mapped to your frameworks
- A clearer path to an Authority to Operate (ATO)
Example engagements
- Review and remediate an application before an authorization or audit milestone.
- Produce threat models and security architecture documentation for a new system.
- Prepare a growing company for its first SOC 2 audit or customer security review.
Technologies & standards
Technology strategy & advisory
Independent, plain-language advice on what to keep, what to fix, and what to retire.
Discuss your requirementThe challenge
Major technology decisions are often made on vendor claims, partial assessments, and roadmaps without costs. The consequences surface years later, when they are hardest to reverse.
How we help
- Assess acquisitions & vendors
- Independent assessments of codebases, architecture, and engineering practice for acquisitions and vendor selection.
- Set strategy & roadmaps
- Modernization roadmaps, build-versus-buy analyses, and architecture reviews, with costed options and clear trade-offs.
- Research & analyze
- Structured research on technologies, markets, and policy, written for decision-makers.
- Document critical systems
- Architecture documentation, decision records, runbooks, and training that outlast the engagement.
Outcomes we design for
- A clear baseline of what you run and what it costs
- Options compared on cost, risk, and time to value
- A roadmap your engineers can start on tomorrow
Example engagements
- Assess an acquisition target's codebase and practices within a fixed two-week window.
- Deliver a costed modernization roadmap for a portfolio of legacy applications.
- Document a critical system before key staff move on.
Technologies & standards
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