Public Sector

Trace the evidence before the system is challenged.

Archetype Core designs and modernizes governed data platforms, reliable pipelines, and traceable AI systems for federal agencies and government contractors.

The Standard

A working system is only part of the requirement.

AI-ready data foundations and secure system integration are part of the work. Archetype Core works across the data, system, and evidence layers so the resulting workflow is usable, controlled, and reconstructable later.

Data readiness

Is the data authoritative, understood, and traceable to its source?

System readiness

Can it be used securely and reliably, with the right controls, testing, and monitoring?

Evidence readiness

Could someone later reconstruct what the system saw, did, produced, and what a human ultimately decided?

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

Services

Architecture and engineering for consequential systems.

Engagements are shaped around the mission need, existing environment, security boundary, and evidence the team must retain. The Readiness Review is one way to begin, not the full extent of the work.

Data platform modernization

Legacy ingestion, Databricks and lakehouse architecture, PySpark pipelines, data quality controls, migration planning, and production reliability.

Governance and traceability

Access design, lineage, provenance, audit records, ownership, and controls that make data movement and system behavior reconstructable.

AI and retrieval systems

RAG and retrieval pipelines, model integration, citations, controlled access, evaluation, monitoring, and human decision handoffs.

A Clear Starting Engagement

AI and Data Readiness Review

For one defined AI or data use case, the review traces the evidence chain from authoritative source to human decision and shows where it stops being complete.

Two weeks

From kickoff

One defined use case

Confirmed at intake

$9,500

Fixed fee

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.

Proof

Reference systems that show the engineering.

Archetype Core maintains working reference systems to demonstrate how traceability is designed into retrieval and data pipelines, not added after the fact.

Inspectable RAG and ETL Reference Systems

The RAG system demonstrates 9,116 indexed chunks, 44 automated tests, citation-backed retrieval, and auditable interaction records. The ETL system demonstrates Databricks Delta Lake pipelines, data quality gates, record-level audit trails, and SHA-256 hashing of input records and prompts.

Retrieval

Grounded answers with source citations and recorded retrieval context.

Evidence

Model and retrieval metadata retained so system behavior can be examined later.

Architecture

AWS Bedrock, PostgreSQL, containerized services, and infrastructure-as-code.

Delivery Approach

Scope the work around the system that exists.

Archetype Core can support focused advisory work, architecture, implementation, or modernization. Each engagement keeps the operational boundary and evidence requirements visible from the start.

Define the boundary

Identify the mission outcome, authoritative sources, users, integrations, constraints, and the decision the work must support.

Build with evidence

Design lineage, access, testing, monitoring, and audit records into the architecture rather than adding them after delivery.

Leave a usable record

Document the architecture, decisions, operating controls, and remaining risks so the team can run and defend the system.

Background

Built with federal delivery realities in mind.

Modernizing a public-sector data or AI system?

Bring the mission need, the current environment, and the question the system must be able to answer later.

Discuss the Work