AI that survives a public records request and a procurement review
Public agencies carry a transparency obligation no private buyer faces: the reasoning behind a decision may become a public document, and the system that produced it may be challenged in an appeal.
The pressure
What is forcing the pace in government and public sector
- Service backlogs in benefits, permitting and licensing keep growing while hiring cycles run months long.
- Constituents expect the responsiveness of a consumer app from a fifteen-year-old case management system.
- Federal and state AI directives require inventories, impact assessments and named accountability on a fixed timeline.
The constraint
What the work has to satisfy
- Public records and FOIA laws mean prompts, outputs and approvals may be disclosable — they must be retained and retrievable.
- Due process applies to benefit and eligibility determinations: a constituent is entitled to an explanation and an appeal path a human can defend.
- Procurement rules govern how systems are acquired, how data is used, and what the agency owns at the end of the engagement.
- Accessibility (Section 508 / WCAG) and records retention schedules apply to any constituent-facing interface.
- Security authorization frameworks (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, CJIS where applicable) constrain where workloads may run.
Where we start
The workflows that pay first
High volume, high variance, and far enough from the consequential decision that automation is defensible.
Benefits and eligibility case support
Document assembly and completeness checks that shorten the queue while the determination stays with an adjudicator.
Constituent contact centers
Multilingual self-service on high-volume program questions with logged, retrievable transcripts.
Permitting and licensing intake
Structured intake, deficiency detection and status transparency for applicants.
Records, FOIA and redaction support
Responsive-document identification and redaction proposals reviewed by records staff before release.
How the practices apply
Our five practices, read for government and public sector
- Navigate
- Build the AI inventory and impact assessments your directive requires, and use them to pick the first funded workload.
- Deploy
- Deliver inside authorized environments, with agency ownership of the system and its documentation at handover.
- Amplify
- Provide cleared and clearable talent that can work within procurement vehicles and agency change processes.
- Measure
- Backlog, time-to-determination and cost per case — the numbers a legislature actually asks about.
- Sustain
- Retention, disclosure readiness and a documented appeal path for every automated step.
Proof
Government and public sector engagements
Situation, approach, what we built, and the constraint the solution had to satisfy.
Roles we deploy
Who shows up
- Solutions Architect
- Program Manager
- AI Governance Analyst
- Records and Information Manager
Next step
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