Software consulting in Oklahoma City — built for defense, energy, and regulated industry
Veteran-owned, SDVOSB-certified engineers based in the central US. We ship custom software, AI integrations, and legacy modernizations for OKC, Tulsa, DFW, Wichita, and NWA clients.
OKC teams keep getting two bad options: a coastal firm that overcharges, or an offshore shop that disappears at cutover
The pattern is familiar across Oklahoma City. A defense sustainment shop near Tinker needs a depot-data pipeline modernized. An upstream operator needs SCADA telemetry pulled into a usable analytics layer. A regional insurer wants Guidewire and a stack of legacy VB6 talking to modern claims tooling. Leadership calls a coastal name-brand firm, gets a $2M discovery deck and a team of consultants who have never seen a real PI&E system. Or they go offshore, get cheap hours, and end up with code that works in demo and falls over in production. Neither option leaves the client with a team that can run the system afterward.
- Coastal firms quote at coastal rates but staff with juniors after kickoff, and partners disappear once the SOW is signed
- Offshore vendors deliver code that passes acceptance tests but breaks at integration with mainframe extracts, AS/400, or on-prem AD
- Generic AI pilots get bolted onto Salesforce or Zendesk with no thought to PHI, ITAR, or export-controlled data boundaries
- Modernization projects stall because nobody on the consulting team will actually fly to OKC to sit with the people running the legacy system
How we engage with OKC clients without the coastal consultancy overhead
- STEP-01
On-site discovery in OKC
We meet at your facility — Tinker, Will Rogers, downtown energy HQs, or Devon Tower-adjacent firms. Two engineers, one week. We map systems, talk to the people running them, and leave with a written assessment, not a pitch deck.
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Scoped pilot, fixed price
First engagement is typically 4–8 weeks, fixed fee. One painful workflow — claims intake, well-data ingestion, depot maintenance reporting, FAA NOTAM parsing — gets rebuilt end-to-end. You see working software, not slideware, by week three.
- STEP-03
Production cutover with your team
We deploy into your environment — Azure Gov, AWS GovCloud, on-prem VMware, whatever you already run. Your engineers pair with ours through cutover. CI/CD in GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, IaC in Terraform, runbooks written in plain English.
- STEP-04
Handoff or sustained augmentation
Two paths: full handoff with documentation and training, or staff augmentation where senior engineers stay embedded under your tech lead. No lock-in, no minimum headcount, no offshore handoff after the SOW signs.
# infra/envs/gov-prod/main.tf
terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6"
backend "azurerm" {
environment = "usgovernment"
resource_group_name = "tfstate-gov"
storage_account_name = "voostacktfgov"
container_name = "itar-scoped"
key = "okc-client/prod.tfstate"
}
}
provider "azurerm" {
environment = "usgovernment"
features {}
}
module "app" {
source = "../../modules/app-service"
name = "okc-claims-api"
location = "usgovvirginia"
resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.app.name
# US persons only — enforced upstream in IAM
allowed_subnets = var.us_egress_subnets
data_classification = "CUI//SP-EXPT"
log_retention_days = 365
ai_endpoint = module.azure_openai_private.endpoint
ai_network = "private-link-only"
}Sample Terraform skeleton we deploy for an OKC client running a regulated workload in Azure Government — tenant-isolated, with separate state for ITAR-scoped resources.
Field FAQ.
→ Are you actually based in Oklahoma City, or is this a satellite landing page?
We have engineering staff in the OKC metro and travel on-site routinely for clients across Oklahoma, North Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas. We are a US-based, veteran-owned firm — not an offshore body shop with a local mailing address. For Tinker-adjacent and FAA work, an in-person presence matters, and we treat it as table stakes rather than a premium add-on.
→ Can you support cleared work or ITAR-touching projects?
Yes. We have engineers who hold active clearances and we operate under ITAR-aware processes — US persons only on covered data, segmented dev environments, and deployments into Azure Government or AWS GovCloud as required. We will not push controlled technical data into commercial SaaS or general-purpose LLM endpoints. For prime-contract work we operate as an SDVOSB sub or prime depending on vehicle.
→ How does your pricing compare to coastal consultancies for OKC clients?
Senior engineer blended rates from us typically run 30–45% below comparable East Coast or Bay Area firms, without the offshore handoff. The reason is structural — lower overhead, no layered partner-and-principal billing pyramid, and engineers who live in the central US. For a six-month modernization, that usually translates to a meaningful budget difference while keeping the same caliber of staff on the work.
→ What kinds of OKC-area projects have you taken on?
Typical engagements include depot-maintenance data pipelines for defense sustainment, FAA-adjacent aviation software modernization, SCADA and well-telemetry integration for upstream and midstream operators, claims and policy automation for regional insurers, and EHR-adjacent integrations for healthcare systems. The common thread is older systems — often a mix of mainframe extracts, SQL Server, and bespoke .NET — that need to talk to modern cloud services without a full rewrite.
→ Do you do AI integration, and how do you handle sensitive data?
We integrate Claude, GPT, and open-weight models into real workflows — document triage, claims summarization, technical-manual search, code-assist for internal teams. For sensitive data we use private deployments: Azure OpenAI in a tenant you control, Bedrock in GovCloud, or on-prem inference for the most restrictive cases. We do not pipe controlled or PHI data through public endpoints, and we write down exactly what crosses which boundary.
→ Can you work as a sub on an existing federal contract?
Yes. As an SDVOSB we count toward small-business and veteran goals on prime subcontracting plans, and we are comfortable on FFP, T&M, and IDIQ task orders. We have worked under primes on sustainment-adjacent IT modernization and can flow down DFARS 252.204-7012 and CMMC-aligned controls. Reach out with the vehicle and scope and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
→ What does staff augmentation look like with your engineers?
Senior engineers — typically 8+ years, US-based, often with prior defense or regulated-industry experience — embed under your tech lead. They attend your standups, commit to your repos, and follow your review process. We bill weekly, you can rotate people off with two weeks notice, and we do not lock you into minimum durations. The goal is your team gets faster, not more dependent on us.
→ How quickly can you start an engagement in OKC?
For discovery work, usually within 1–2 weeks of a signed NDA and SOW. For build engagements, 2–4 weeks depending on environment access and clearance requirements. Cleared work or GovCloud onboarding can extend that. We do not over-commit start dates — if a team is not actually free, we say so rather than booking and then backfilling with juniors after the kickoff.
→ Why should an OKC company hire a consultancy at all instead of just hiring engineers?
Sometimes you should just hire. We will tell you that if it is true. Consulting makes sense when you need a specific outcome shipped on a timeline, when the work is concentrated and then tapers, or when your team needs senior engineers paired alongside them to level up on a new stack. For steady-state product work, direct hires are almost always cheaper long-term.
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Service catalog
Custom builds, AI integration, modernization, and senior staff augmentation.
REL-02Case studies
How we have shipped for defense, energy, and regulated-industry clients.
REL-03Fixed-fee packages
Scoped discovery and pilot engagements with clear deliverables and timelines.
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