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1MPACTFIRST

AI, with someone accountable for it.

Agencies are adopting AI faster than they can verify it. We work on both sides of that. We independently validate the AI systems agencies buy, we work alongside those systems once they're in, and we use AI across our own delivery so the work moves faster and costs less. Every one of those rests on the same rule: a named person on our team is accountable for the result.

Our AI-augmented toolkit

Built by consultants, for consulting work.

We have our own proprietary, AI-augmented toolkit for the parts of an engagement that consume time without adding judgment. It runs across our business transformation, technology and IV&V work. The toolkit does the first draft; our consultants do the thinking, check every output against its source, and sign what goes to the client. The result is the same standard of work, delivered faster, with more of the engagement spent on judgment and less on transcription.

Business transformation

  • Turning interviews, observation sessions and workshops into current-state process maps.
  • Drafting future-state process flows and the diagrams behind them.
  • Analyzing process and workload data for staffing and operating models.
  • Drafting change management and training materials from the new process design.

Technology consulting

  • Taking meeting recordings through minutes, takeaways, high-level requirements, use cases and functional requirements.
  • Keeping requirements traceable from source to specification.
  • Researching and summarizing the market for application landscape analyses and platform selection.
  • Drafting and cross-checking procurement and solicitation documents.

Independent verification and validation

  • Reviewing vendor deliverables against the requirements and the plan, faster and more completely.
  • Tracing requirements to test evidence, and spotting defect and risk trends early.

How we keep your data secure

Your approval comes first.

We use AI on your data only with your written approval, and only for the tasks you approve.

Enterprise tools only.

Client data goes only into enterprise AI tools that do not train on it, never into consumer AI accounts.

A person is accountable.

A named member of our team reviews and owns every AI-assisted deliverable.

When the AI is yours

Independent verification of the AI systems agencies buy.

IV&V has always asked whether a system does what was promised, and whether the risks are visible while there's still time to act. We bring the same discipline to AI, working from the frameworks agencies are measured against.

Around the system, we do the rest of the work: procurement due diligence on the vendor's claims before the contract is signed, and adoption and governance once the system is in, so it's used the way it was approved.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

AI RMF 1.0

Is the system governed, mapped, measured and managed, with clear accountability, a defined intended use, tested performance and risks treated over time?

NIST Generative AI Profile

NIST AI 600-1

For generative AI, the twelve risks NIST identifies, including confabulation, information integrity, data privacy and harmful bias.

OMB federal AI guidance

M-25-21

The federal minimum practices for high-impact AI: pre-deployment testing, impact assessments and ongoing monitoring. It binds federal agencies, and it is a sound benchmark for any state or municipal program.

The credentials behind it

Our team holds the credentials that test this work.

Buying or building AI?

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