Senior software consulting for DFW — veteran-owned, regulated-grade, Central Time.

We run engineering out of the US with team members covering Central Time, including DFW. That means standups at 9 Central, code review by lunch, and on-site days in Las Colinas, Plano, downtown Dallas, or Fort Worth when the work calls for it. We do not subcontract DFW engagements to offshore shops — every engineer on your account is a senior US-based hire on our payroll.

For commercial clients in Dallas it mostly means two things. First, supplier diversity credit — many financial services and healthcare buyers in DFW have Tier 1 diverse-spend targets and SDVOSB qualifies. Second, it is a signal about how we run: veteran-owned shops tend to ship on time, document the work, and survive audits. For federal and prime subcontracting work out of Fort Worth, it opens set-aside vehicles directly.

Yes. We hold SDVOSB status and run engineering practices compatible with CMMC and NIST 800-171 controls — separated environments, US-person staffing, audit logging, and signed software supply chain. We have shaped subcontract scopes for primes operating out of Fort Worth and Arlington, typically on application modernization, secure DevSecOps pipelines, and Claude/GPT integration into internal tooling.

Two models. Fixed-scope discovery (two to four weeks, flat fee) to produce the risk map and a slice in production. After that, monthly retainer per engineer — typically two to five engineers depending on scope — with a 30-day off-ramp. We do not do unbounded T&M with junior bench filler. If we cannot staff with senior engineers, we tell you and walk away from the deal.

Yes, and rip-and-replace is usually the wrong answer. We typically build a modern integration and experience layer around Guidewire PolicyCenter or ClaimCenter — event streams via Kafka or EventBridge, a TypeScript or Go API gateway, and React or mobile front ends. The core stays. Underwriters, adjusters, and agents get modern workflows, and we stand up AI-assisted intake or document extraction where the ROI is obvious.

We integrate Claude, GPT-4 class models, and open-weight models behind a RAG layer that respects your existing entitlements. For healthcare systems that means PHI stays inside your VPC with a BAA-covered model provider. For financial services it means PII redaction at the prompt boundary and full audit trails on every model call. The pattern is boring on purpose: vector store, retrieval, guardrails, eval harness, human-in-the-loop where stakes are high.

Discovery typically starts within two weeks of a signed SOW. For staff augmentation we can usually place a senior engineer onto your repo and Jira within seven to ten business days, assuming background checks and access provisioning move on your side. For federal or CMMC-scoped work, expect three to five weeks given clearance verification and environment standup. We will quote real dates, not aspirational ones.

Both, because they are the same problem. The engineering choices — how you log, how you authenticate, how you deploy, how you handle secrets — determine 70 percent of a SOC 2 Type II outcome. We bring the CI baseline, IaC patterns, and runbooks that auditors recognize, and we work alongside your existing auditor or vCISO. We do not issue the report; we make sure you pass it.

Series B startups in Deep Ellum and Frisco through enterprises with revenue in the hundreds of millions, plus federal sub work for primes in Fort Worth. The sweet spot is companies with real engineering teams that need senior reinforcement on a hard problem — modernization, a regulated launch, AI integration — rather than companies looking to outsource the entire function. We are reinforcements, not a replacement IT department.