We don't help you adopt AI —
we help you govern it.
Senior-led AI governance, risk and control advisory for regulated and mission-critical systems. Every engagement is delivered by the principal. No junior staff, no hand-offs, no discovery theater.
Most organizations cannot answer the first question a reviewer asks.
Not is the model accurate — that question comes later, and someone else usually owns it. The first question is simpler and harder: where does AI touch a determination you are accountable for, and who signed off?
Pilots produce demos. Vendors produce claims. Neither produces a record. When an oversight body, a contracting officer, or a resident asks how a decision was reached, the answer has to already exist in writing — assembled before it was needed, not after.
That record is what ArcPoint builds. We call it the AI Control Layer.
Four states. Each one is a question you should be able to answer today.
Every engagement below moves an organization from the failure state on the left to the record on the right. Nothing else is the point.
The AI Control Layer is what you get. The Weftline Framework is how it is produced.
Weftline builds on the NIST AI RMF and adds two things the baseline leaves to the practitioner: IEEE 7000 ethical value elicitation, and structured bias testing. Five movements — Strategic Intent, Decision Authority, Operational Integration, Workforce Enablement, Technical Infrastructure — with AI Influence Mapping running through all five to surface where controls are absent.
See how an engagement runs →Two buyers, two obligations, one control layer.
Every AI deployment needs a values-alignment record before it goes live.
The requirement is per-deployment and indefinite. The policy behind it is binding under D.C. Code and carries sanctions. And the support structure built to help agencies meet it expires at the end of 2026.
- Values alignment verified before deployment — MO 2024-028 §III
- Human accountability for every determination — §III.C
- OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy conformance
- CTO approval before funds are obligated — IT Procurement Policy §4.2
- Responsible AI training — employees and contractors
Your contract already carries AI obligations. And a subcontracting line to fill.
If any part of your scope touches AI, you have already signed clauses you may not be resourced to satisfy. One subcontract can close the compliance gap and the small-business requirement at the same time.
- Certified SBE — satisfies § 2-218.46(a)(2)(A), not the fallback
- 100% self-performed by the principal — no pass-through
- Proposal-ready AI governance sections on 48-hour notice, at no cost
- Federal: NIST AI RMF, OMB M-25-21/22, CMMC-adjacent programs
- Unclassified scope posture — no CUI required
An audit record, not an assurance.
A governance firm should be judged the way it asks its clients to be judged: on documentation that survived someone else's review.
Work sample — available on request
An independent AI Values Alignment Assessment of DC Compass (OCTO / Esri / Azure OpenAI), a live District AI deployment. Conducted entirely from public sources against MO 2024-028, the OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy, and standard clauses E.1–E.4. Twenty scored findings, every citation verified, principal-signed.
Why it was self-directed
Because a client should not have to take a methodology on faith. The assessment shows the intake instrument, the findings register, the scoring, and the full deliverable set applied to a real system — before anyone signs anything.
Request the work sample →Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Defined deliverables.
Fixed fee is risk transfer — overrun risk sits with ArcPoint, not with your program. Three of the most common entry points below; the full ladder runs deeper.
AI Governance Gap Assessment
An organization-wide diagnostic: where AI influences decisions, where oversight is missing, and what to fix in what order. The standard front door when the answer to "what do we even have?" is a shrug.
Details →DC AI Values Alignment Assessment
The full published obligation set for one deployment — the six §III values plus conformance testing against the OCTO AI/ML Governance Policy and clauses E.1–E.4. Assessing one instrument of three is not an assessment.
Details →AI Strategy Session
One working hour with the principal and a one-page memo. Flat fee, any lane. The lowest-friction way to find out whether there is a real engagement here — for either of us.
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