arf.io / Consulting
Foundry · Consulting Practice

Get your people
out of the coggery.

We work with small and mid-sized businesses to put AI agents to work on the repetitive, deterministic, low-leverage tasks so your humans can do what humans do best — strategy, judgment, relationships, and the irreducibly creative work that pays the bills. Every engagement is anchored in Human-in-the-Loop, audited decisions, and a clear answer to the question "Why did the agent do that?"

Why Hire Us

Augmentation, not replacement.
Visibility, not faith.

Most AI consulting promises productivity, then hands you a Slack channel where opaque agents do unaudited things. We deliver the opposite: every agent action is governed by declarative policy, every decision is recorded in a cryptographic provenance chain, and every workflow is designed so a human can intervene at exactly the moments that matter.

We are the team that built ARF — the agent watchdog. We use it in every client engagement. The infrastructure we ship is the infrastructure we run on.

Engagements range from one-week diagnostic sprints to multi-quarter platform builds. We do not bill by deck. We do not staff junior consultants. The people who scope the work are the people who do the work.

Operating Principles
  • Humans decide. Agents draft. No agent commits, deploys, sends, or signs without a documented human approval.
  • Audited by default. Every engagement ships with an ARF-backed proof chain. You leave with the audit trail.
  • Honest scoping. If AI is the wrong tool, we say so. If you need a script, we ship a script.
  • Knowledge transfer. Your team runs the system after we leave. Lock-in is not the business model.
Practice Areas

Eight things
we are very good at.

01 · Process Engineering

Find the coggery. Replace it.

We map the work your people actually do — every form filled, ticket triaged, report compiled, customer onboarded — and identify which steps are deterministic enough for an agent to handle and which are irreducibly human. The output is a workflow design with explicit handoff points, governance policies, and KPIs you can audit.

02 · Custom Software Development

Production-grade software, AI-augmented.

For companies that need a real piece of software and don't know how to start. We deliver production-quality systems built with AI-augmented engineering practices: spec-first, test-driven, provenance-tracked. You see exactly what was written, why, and which decisions came from humans versus agents. Compliance-ready from day one.

03 · Reverse Engineering

Software & embedded. Decoded.

Closed-source binary you depend on with no documentation? Vendor disappeared? Acquisition target with no source? We perform deep reverse engineering on software stacks and embedded firmware, producing accurate behavioral models, interface specifications, and — when needed — clean-room reimplementations. Every finding is documented and reproducible.

04 · Vulnerability Research

Critical bugs found, mitigated, documented.

Authorized vulnerability identification on systems you own or have written permission to test. We focus on critical-severity findings — anything that could result in code execution, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, or supply chain compromise — and ship reproducible proofs alongside concrete remediation steps. Always within scope. Always under NDA.

05 · ARF Workflow Implementation

ARF in your stack. Wired into your work.

Deploy ARF as the governance layer for your existing AI tooling. We integrate with your runners (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, local models), wire it into your CI/CD, configure the policy that matches your risk profile, train your team on the TUI and MCP surface, and stand up your provenance archive. You leave with a working watchdog and a runbook for operating it.

06 · Industry-Specific Consulting

Specialized verticals. Real domain depth.

We bring deep operational experience in regulated and specialized verticals: legal services, healthcare adjacency, financial operations, manufacturing telemetry, education technology, and creative production. Engagements are scoped to your actual compliance environment, not a generic playbook.

07 · Event Ops & Customer Service

Run a real event. Run real support.

Event operations and management — pre-production logistics, day-of incident response, post-event analysis — with AI agents handling the deterministic coordination layer and humans owning the relationships. Customer service and support: tier-1 triage automated and audited, tier-2 escalation routed to humans with full conversation context.

08 · Go-To-Market & Revenue

Pipeline systems. Built to scale.

GTM and revenue operations: lead qualification, sequenced outreach, deal-stage hygiene, and renewal forecasting. Agents handle the high-volume, low-context work. Account executives focus on the conversations that close deals. Every agent action records to the same CRM the humans use — no parallel system of record, no data drift.

Our Anchor Question

"Why did the agent
do that?"

Every system we ship can answer that question for any action it took. Not as an afterthought. Not as a compliance feature. As the central capability the entire system is built around.

An agent acted. Why? Show the prompt that triggered it. Show the governance policy that allowed it. Show the tool call it made. Show the response it received. Show the human approval (if any) that authorized it. Show the cryptographic chain that proves none of this can be tampered with.

Every engagement ends with an answer to that question for every meaningful agent action your business now depends on. That is what differentiates us. That is what the work is.

Engagement Shapes

Four ways
to start working together.

1w

Diagnostic Sprint

One week, deep dive on one workflow. We map it, identify the AI augmentation surface, deliver a written plan. Fixed price.

4w

Pilot Build

Four weeks to a working AI-augmented pilot of one workflow, ARF-governed, audit-ready. End-of-engagement training included.

Q

Quarterly Platform

A full quarter building a platform: multiple workflows, central governance, team enablement, runbook handoff.

Retainer

Ongoing support after a platform build. Monthly capacity for new workflows, incident response, and policy evolution.

Start

Let's talk about
what your people could be doing instead.

Tell us what's eating your team's time. We will tell you whether an AI augmentation makes sense, what it would look like, and what it would not solve. No deck. No pitch. A real conversation.

Send Us a Brief Email trust@arf.io