Senior-led means
exactly what it says.
ArcPoint Consulting is a solo, senior-led AI governance, risk and control practice in Washington, DC. Every engagement is delivered by the principal. There is no bench, no staffing ramp, and no junior consultant learning your program on your budget.
Jermaine Leonard, AIGP
Twenty-eight years governing regulated, mission-critical production systems — and the audit record to show what that produced.
From 1997 to 2025, Senior Principal Engineer at Hughes Network Systems (EchoStar), responsible for regulated production infrastructure spanning more than 30,000 remote sites at 99.9% uptime, including an 80% reduction in provisioning time through zero-touch orchestration. Across that tenure: eleven consecutive SOC 2 and PCI audit cycles carried with zero findings.
That is the relevant background for AI governance, and it is a deliberate claim. The hard part of governing AI is not the model — it is producing a control record that survives an outside reviewer, in a live system, under real operating pressure, without stopping the work. That is a discipline built over decades in regulated operations, not a framework certification earned in a weekend.
- AIGP — IAPP AI Governance Professional, and a member in good standing of the IAPP
- CDP Certified AI Consultant
- DC Certified Business Enterprise — LBE · SBE · DBE · DZE · ROB · EIE, certified through August 2029
- Washington, DC resident — with a direct stake in how the District governs AI
Five positions, held consistently.
Governance-first architecture
Governance built in before deployment, not retrofitted after an incident. Retrofitting is more expensive and produces a weaker record, because the decisions that needed documenting were made months ago by people who have moved on.
Decision accountability focus
We address how decisions are made, influenced, and defended — not only how a model performs. Model performance is a vendor's problem. Determinations are yours.
Operational AI risk expertise
AI behavior in real environments, under real constraints, with real consequences — assessed by someone who has carried production systems through outside audits rather than only read about them.
Senior-led engagements
Every engagement led by the principal. No junior staff, no hand-offs, no billable-hour padding. Fixed fee where scope allows, so overrun risk sits with ArcPoint.
Vendor-neutral
No referral fees, no reseller relationships, no platform partnerships. Our findings serve your interests, and there is nothing to disclose because there is nothing to disclose.
Skeptical of hype, by policy
Nothing in the fee structure rewards telling you to adopt more AI. Often the finding that matters most is that a control, an owner, or a written procedure is missing — not that a tool is.
Registered and able to receive award today.
Ready to execute: NDA · W-9 · CBE number. Basic Business License and Clean Hands current.
Professional references available on request, including a named reference to the regulated-systems and audit record described here.
| Legal entity | ArcPoint Consulting, LLC |
|---|---|
| Location | Washington, DC 20020 |
| UEI | JE2DLNX4BVQ3 |
| CAGE | 20CH5 |
| D-U-N-S | 144965471 |
| DC CBE | LSDZRE17604082029Certified 2026-08-10, valid to 2029-08-10 |
| NAICS | 541611 · 541618 · 541690 541512 · 611430 |
| Registrations | SAM.gov · OCP eSourcing |
| Scope posture | Unclassified only — no CUI |