AI Architecture & Engineering, with a clear purpose.
AI Architecture & Engineering is design and hardening work, not testing. It covers agents that act on your behalf, models you host on your own hardware or inside a sealed network, and AI services you rent from a cloud provider. It also covers the pipeline that ships your AI features and the AI built into your own security tools. Each service produces a design or a set of applied changes with evidence, not a list of vulnerabilities; when you want the finished system attacked, our AI Security Testing core does that. We scope in writing, then review your architecture, code, and configuration by hand alongside your engineers, recording every decision and exact change with its owner named. We then confirm each change was made and package the evidence your customers, auditors, and contracts ask for. It is built for data that cannot leave: CUI, ITAR and EAR technical data, PHI, and the models, code, and trade secrets that are the product.
A GOOD FIT WHEN
For CTOs, platform leads, and compliance owners building or operating AI on regulated data: defense contractors handling CUI, exporters with ITAR or EAR technical data, covered entities with PHI, and companies whose models, code, and prompts are the product. Engage before a design is committed, before a rented AI service goes live, or when a customer or assessor asks how the AI system is secured.
THE WORK BEHIND THE SERVICE
What we do. What you can use.
01
Scope the system and the data it holds
We start with the architecture you have or intend: agents, models, serving stack, rented AI services, pipelines, and their data class. We agree in writing which focused services apply, the environments and accounts we may read, and who holds write access. We name the rules that govern the design: the defense requirements for CUI, the export rules for ITAR and EAR, or health-data privacy.
02
Design and harden setting by setting
The principal who scoped the work does the review and the design. We read your code, infrastructure definitions, and live configuration by hand, draw the data-flow and trust diagram, and write each control as a specific change: the role, the policy, the setting. Your engineers apply the changes with us on a call or from the written instruction; we never take standing administrative access.
03
Validate changes and package evidence
You receive the design set, the change list with the exact change for each item, and a mapping of every control to the standard your contract names. After the changes land we confirm each with evidence, such as before-and-after output or screenshots, and file it in the compliance package your customers and auditors expect. Design work is readiness; an independent assessor performs the assessment.
Trust boundaries, tool permissions, approval points, and one identity per agent, designed for systems that act on your behalf.
Inventory of agents, orchestrators, tools, memory stores, and models, with every point where untrusted content enters the reasoning loop
Threat model of goal hijacking, tool misuse, memory poisoning, and cascading failures between agents, mapped to recognized agent-risk categories
Agent identity design: one identity per agent, acting as itself or as the user per tool, short-lived credentials, and hardened connections to outside tools
Model and weight integrity, inference server hardening, GPU host isolation, segmentation, and access control for on-premises, private cloud, and air-gapped deployments.
Data classification per workload and the rules that govern it: defense contractor, export-control, or health-data requirements
Model intake: approved publishers only, unsafe file formats blocked, fingerprint and signature verification before load, and a registry that records provenance
Model server hardening: a strict gateway allowlist, scoped authentication, lowest-privilege service, unused interfaces turned off, and encrypted internal traffic
Identity and keys, private networking, guardrails, data use and retention, and logging for the AI services you rent from a cloud provider, setting by setting.
Identity and keys: managed identities and scoped roles instead of static keys, regular key rotation, and customer-managed encryption keys where required
Private networking with public access disabled, so the service is reachable only from your own network
Guardrail configuration: content, prompt-injection, and sensitive-information filters tuned to each data class
Design-time requirements, AI-specific threat modeling, and automated and manual gates placed in the delivery pipeline you already run, each leaving an artifact.
Gap assessment of the current lifecycle against recognized secure AI development and AI risk-management practices
Design-time AI security requirements attached to intake, with misuse and abuse cases written per feature
Threat models on prompt, retrieval, tool, and memory flows, mapped to recognized AI and agent risk catalogs, converted to acceptance criteria
AI models and agents integrated into your security monitoring, automation, and analyst workflows with least-privilege identity, human gates on write actions, and every action logged.
Use-case register tiered as read-only, read-only with analyst review, or write, with controls per tier
Analyst role and agent identity design: least-privilege roles in your identity system, scoped agent identities, and a tool allowlist
Data-handling settings per product: data sharing, prompt evaluation location, training terms, and government cloud fit, confirmed against current documentation