Secure AI Systems Engineering
The build phase. We deploy ARKONA into your environment and integrate it with the systems you already run — with the audit trail, tenancy boundaries and provenance built in from the first commit rather than retrofitted once someone asks for them.
Auditability Is An Architecture Decision, Not A Feature
Most AI platforms were built to demo and hardened afterwards. Multi-tenancy becomes a row-level filter bolted onto a single-tenant schema; the audit trail becomes application logs someone hopes will be enough. Neither survives the first serious review, and neither can be fixed cheaply once data is in the system.
A SaaS product with row-level filters added later is one query bug away from cross-tenant disclosure. ARKONA was multi-tenant from commit zero.
Application logs record what the code did. Evidence records what was authorised, by whom, under which citation, and survives subpoena.
If you cannot say which models touched the data and where they ran, you cannot answer a supply-chain question. US-only, by policy and by config.
A working deployment integrated with your stack — cite-cap provenance on every AI decision, tenancy enforced at the data layer, US-only model routing, and an audit trail designed as evidence. Plus the runbook your team operates it with.
Six Steps · Fixed Scope
Time-boxed and fixed-price. Every step produces an artifact you keep, whether or not you continue to the next rung.
- 01Architect
Integration design against your real systems and your real constraints, not a reference diagram.
- 02Provision
Environment, tenancy boundaries, and model routing — US-only, per policy.
- 03Integrate
Connect the systems that matter first. Value before completeness.
- 04Instrument
Cite-cap provenance and the evidence-grade audit trail, wired as the system is built.
- 05Validate
Tested against the governance findings that motivated the build in the first place.
- 06Transfer
Runbook, training, and an operating cadence — or we keep running it on retainer.
Fractional CAIO
Built and shipped. A retainer is how it stays current after we leave.
Start With A Briefing
One email. One sentence about where your AI initiative stalled — or what your board asked that you could not answer. We respond inside two business days with a Briefing scope and a calendar window.