# AI consulting and development in Washington, DC > The federal government and the contractors, associations and law firms arranged around it, a cybersecurity concentration in Northern Virginia, and a biotech corridor up the Maryland side answering to the same agencies. If your work touches any of that, the assessor will ask for the authorisation boundary and the decision trail, and the system has to be built with the answer. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/ai-development-washington-dc Serving: Washington, Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, Reston, Tysons, Silver Spring Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Washington. --- ## Why Washington work is our work The agent your team piloted on agency data is stuck short of production, because nobody has time to show an assessor where its data goes. Our senior engineers, the ones you meet, build agents bounded by the permissions of the person they act for, retrieval that cites its source and a decision trail written as they run. Around DC that's contractors in Reston and Tysons, K Street associations and Bethesda biotech companies. ## AI consulting in Washington AI consulting in Washington starts with what a government contract or a regulator allows. Dulles corridor contractors, K Street associations and Dupont Circle think tanks need clear limits on data and on automated decisions, so we set those first and recommend use cases that fit inside them. [AI consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/ai-consulting-phoenix) ## Work a buyer here would recognise The SmartCert study is for anyone whose assessor or members ask where a document went and who handled it on the way. Its system replaced emailed attachments with a traceable exchange of certificates and quality documents between manufacturers, distributors and their customers. ## The authorisation boundary decides the architecture In DC, nothing reaches an agency's users without an authority to operate. FedRAMP, run by GSA from 1800 F Street, NIST SP 800-53 and, for defence contractors along the Dulles corridor, CMMC all ask the same three things. Where is the boundary, what crosses it, and who approved the crossing? A contractor in Reston or Tysons can't deliver until an assessor has those answers in writing. ## Questions ### Can you build inside a FedRAMP or CMMC environment? We build inside authorised boundaries and design so the evidence an assessor wants is produced by the platform: least privilege, an event trail on every change, grants that resolve at read time. The authorisation itself is yours and your assessor's, and we do not claim it on your behalf. What we do is make the package easy to assemble. ### Do you have an office in Washington? The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build. ## What ai consulting and development covers ### Agents that hold state A task that runs for three days, calls six systems and waits twice on a person cannot live in a request handler. We build agents on a durable runtime, so a deploy in the middle of a run does not lose the run, and a retry does not send the same email twice. ### Retrieval that cites what it used An answer nobody can trace is an answer nobody can defend. Retrieval is built so every response carries the documents behind it. ### Evaluation, before and after Without a score, every prompt change is a matter of opinion. We put deterministic scorers and model-based judges in front of the thing so a change ships with a number attached rather than with a feeling. ### Human approval where it belongs Some actions should stop and wait for a person. That gate is part of the system rather than a policy document, so an agent that wants to issue a refund pauses, the approval is recorded, and the run picks up where it left off. ### Cost you can see Model spend, retrieval infrastructure and the review time a system still needs are the numbers that decide whether it stays live after the first quarter. They get instrumented at build time, not discovered on an invoice. ### Governed data access An agent reads through the same grants a person would. On Databricks that is Unity Catalog, so a model that tries to reach a table it has no grant for fails the way any principal fails, rather than because the prompt asked it nicely. ## Working with us from Arizona Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough. Most delivery is remote or hybrid. We travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.