Audit-Ready AI and Data Infrastructure

AI-ready is not audit-ready.

Archetype Core designs and modernizes governed data platforms for federal and regulated environments, specializing in Databricks, Unity Catalog, production data engineering, and traceable AI.

Databricks Partner

Building governed, reliable data and AI systems on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Solutions

Focused engagements for governed data and AI systems.

Archetype Core is a specialized consulting firm. We focus on four areas where architecture, governance, and evidence need to work together.

AI & Data Readiness Review

Trace one defined use case across data, system, and evidence readiness before committing to a larger build.

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Governed Databricks Foundation

Design or strengthen Databricks and Unity Catalog foundations for controlled, production-ready data and AI workloads.

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Data Platform Modernization

Assess dependencies, modernize pipelines and transformations, validate results, and establish a controlled path to the target platform.

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Governed AI & RAG

Build retrieval-based AI around authoritative sources, citations, provenance, evaluation, access controls, and traceable decision handoffs.

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Insights

Architecture decisions, explained.

Practical analysis on modernizing data platforms, governing AI systems, and keeping technical decisions traceable.

Clear thinking for leaders and technical teams making consequential data and AI decisions.

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The Standard

Three questions every engagement keeps visible.

Across reviews, modernization, Databricks, and AI work, three questions matter: Can the data be trusted? Can the system be controlled? Can the organization reconstruct what happened later?

Data readiness

Can you establish where critical data came from, how it changed, who owns it, and whether it can be trusted?

System readiness

Are pipelines, permissions, configurations, dependencies, and AI components controlled well enough to operate reliably?

Evidence readiness

Can you reconstruct what happened from authoritative source through system behavior and human decision?

Source → data / retrieval → AI / agent → output → human action → decision
The evidence has to survive each handoff.

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AI and Data Readiness Review

The AI & Data Readiness Review is a focused two-week architecture engagement for organizations preparing to modernize data platforms, introduce AI, or strengthen governance around an existing system.

Two weeks

From kickoff

One defined use case

Confirmed at intake

$9,500

Fixed fee

  • Data + Decision Traceability Map for the selected use case
  • Prioritized findings tied to evidence, mission, and operational risk
  • Scoped recommendation for remediation or a pilot when the evidence supports it
  • One-hour readout with your team

Standard engagement covers one bounded use case confirmed during a short intake. Delivery starts at kickoff once required access and materials are available. Work outside the confirmed boundary is scoped separately.

This is an advisory engagement, not a penetration test, compliance certification, formal audit, or authorization decision.

Capabilities Behind the Work

Senior architecture and engineering, not just assessment.

The Readiness Review is one entry point, not a prerequisite. Archetype Core also supports directly scoped architecture, implementation, modernization, governance, and traceable AI work when the need is already defined.

Data foundations

Legacy ingestion, data pipelines, schema and quality controls, lineage, and AI-ready data architecture.

AI and retrieval systems

RAG, retrieval pipelines, model integration, citations, controlled access, and traceable AI workflows.

Evidence infrastructure

Audit records, decision traceability, monitoring, provenance, and the controls needed to reconstruct system behavior later.

Who We Serve

Built for consequential data and AI systems.

Archetype Core focuses on teams operating data and AI systems where provenance, access, reliability, and defensibility matter.

Federal agencies

Modernizing mission data platforms, strengthening governance, or introducing AI into environments where reliability and traceability matter.

Government contractors

Supporting federal programs that need specialized Databricks, data architecture, governance, data engineering, or audit-ready AI capability.

Regulated teams

Building consequential data and AI systems where provenance, access, reliability, and defensibility matter.

See the engineering behind the standard.

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Public Sector

Trace the evidence before the system is challenged.

For federal agencies and government contractors, the question is not only whether an AI or data workflow works. It is whether the team can later show what data it used, what happened in the system, what it produced, and what a person ultimately decided.

Federal

Registered and ready to contract.

Archetype Core is a SAM.gov-registered small, woman-owned business built for federal and regulated teams that need audit-ready AI and data infrastructure.

SAM.gov registered

Lungu Holdings, LLC DBA Archetype Core. UEI WBQJP6JPZFA3. CAGE 20R49. NAICS 541512 (primary), 541511, 541519, and 518210.

Federal delivery background

Nearly six years building and operating federal data systems on USCIS programs across identity, verification, and analytics. Previous DHS Public Trust, favorably adjudicated December 2024.

Certifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), and Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900).

About

Founded by a practitioner. Built as a company.

Build it so it holds up later.

Whether you are modernizing a data platform, migrating to Databricks, strengthening governance, or moving an AI use case toward production, Archetype Core can help design the architecture behind it.

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