
Building AI for Environments Where Trust Matters.
Accentus AI is an applied artificial intelligence and systems engineering company focused on evidence-governed intelligence.
We help government agencies, regulated industries, and enterprises turn complex authoritative information into secure, searchable, connected intelligence that can be used by people and artificial intelligence without sacrificing source integrity, security, provenance, or accountability.
Our work combines document intelligence, artificial intelligence, data engineering, search, knowledge systems, secure cloud architecture, workflow automation, cybersecurity, and governance into mission-focused operating environments.
We are technology-agnostic by design.
As AI technologies improve, Accentus can incorporate better tools while preserving the evidence, security, integration, and accountability architecture on which the customer relies.
The Future of AI Won’t Be Decided by the Largest Model.
It will be decided by whether organizations can trust, verify, and stand behind what AI helps them do. That requires answering questions every consequential decision eventually faces.
We don’t ask organizations to simply trust what AI says. We design the information, evidence, security, and accountability architecture around it.
- 01What information did the AI use?
- 02Was it allowed to use it?
- 03Can the conclusion be supported?
- 04Has the information changed?
- 05What did the machine infer?
- 06What did the source actually say?
- 07Who reviewed it?
- 08Who remains accountable?
What We Bring Together
Technology-Agnostic by Design
We do not lead with a model or vendor. We evaluate technology by:
Make AI More Useful by Making Its Use More Defensible.
We want organizations to benefit from increasingly powerful AI without losing control of the information, evidence, and accountability on which important decisions depend.
THE TEAM IS THE TRACK RECORD.
Evidence-governed intelligence needs three disciplines working as one: mission requirements and accountability, grounded AI engineering, and secure infrastructure. Our principals have each done that work in demanding environments — AT&T Federal’s GSA EIS portfolio, the World Bank Group, and Leidos. Every engagement is led by the people named here, not a bench of unnamed resources.
Connal P. Brown
Co-Founder & Chief AI Strategist · AI Product & Program Lead
Turns mission requirements into governed AI programs that can be scoped, delivered, and defended.
Evidence-governed AI fails or succeeds long before a model is chosen — in how requirements, accountability, and evidence are defined. Connal brings 15+ years of technology, analytics, federal IT, and program leadership to exactly that work. As Senior Project Manager supporting AT&T Federal’s GSA Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) portfolio (2019–2026), he managed data-intensive pricing and contract workflows, analyzed SOWs and solicitation requirements, reconciled large datasets for government submissions, and bridged federal stakeholders with technical teams — contributing to $300M+ in federal task-order activity and earning recognition as an AT&T Federal Lead Performer for 2025–2026. As Program Director at Soothsayer Analytics (2016–2019), he directed predictive analytics and decision-support programs from requirements discovery through delivery.
- Requirements and workflow design that defines who is accountable, what evidence each output needs, and where humans approve
- Federal acquisition fluency — SOWs, CLIN structures, evaluation criteria, and contract-grade data validation
- AI governance aligned to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and NVIDIA Inception ecosystem solution strategy
Jason Achonu
Co-Founder & AI / Data Science Lead
Has already built the core patterns of evidence-governed AI — grounded retrieval, document extraction, and hallucination control — inside the World Bank Group.
Jason brings 7+ years of AI and data science in a high-stakes financial institution. As a Data Scientist at IFC (World Bank Group), he built an enterprise question-answering and summarization system that connected Azure OpenAI GPT-4 to proprietary documents through LangChain, embeddings, and vector search — so investment teams received answers grounded in their own records. He implemented LLM-agent financial spreading with Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract and break down statement line items for due diligence, built a multi-agent GPT-4 policy-generation system in which a critic agent challenged outputs to reduce hallucinations, applied structured LLM outputs to map ESG report statements to UN SDGs, and engineered Databricks/PySpark Medallion pipelines that move raw data to analysis-ready form.
- Retrieval and grounding design that ties every answer back to a governed source
- Document intelligence and structured extraction for complex, regulated records
- Verification patterns — critic agents and structured outputs — that reduce unsupported claims
Kairine Mbayi
Cloud & DevSecOps Lead
Builds the secure, access-controlled, auditable infrastructure that sensitive AI systems have to run on.
An AI system is only as trustworthy as the environment around it. Kairine brings 8+ years of securing and operating mission-critical cloud deployments. As an AWS/Azure DevOps and DevSecOps Engineer at Leidos (2019–2023), she automated infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation — reducing provisioning time and cost by 35% — built CI/CD pipelines, eliminated single points of failure across availability zones, implemented SLOs and error budgets, and secured Kubernetes workloads with Istio and Calico network policies. In her current DevSecOps role she integrates security testing into CI/CD, enforces IAM and role-based access control, leads incident response, supports system security plan (SSP) and PTA documentation, and reduced average response time by 80% through Ansible automation.
- Least-privilege access control and secure deployment for sensitive data and AI workloads
- Security embedded in the pipeline — scanning, compliance checks, and monitoring from day one
- Documentation and controls that support security reviews and authorization
Corporate Credentials
- UEI
- CEX5HNW2J5A5
- CAGE
- 20FD7
- Status
- SAM Registered · Small Business
- Certification
- DC CBE Certified
- Carahsoft
- Partner ID 50683
- Programs
- NVIDIA Inception · AWS Partner · Microsoft Partner
- Location
- Washington, DC
Searching for an evidence-governed AI, records intelligence, or secure AI integration partner? These are the codes to search or cite for Accentus AI in each procurement system.
- Federal (SAM.gov, FPDS, agency RFQs)
- NAICS 541512 · 541511 · 541519 — PSC DA01 · DJ01 · R617
- DC, Maryland, Virginia & other state/local portals (NIGP)
- 918-29 · 918-71 · 920-64 · 920-41 · 920-30
- Universities & enterprise buyers (UNSPSC)
- 81111500 · 81111900 · 81112000
- Records & document intelligence work
- PSC R617 — NIGP 918-44 · 920-24 · 920-51
Codes for Federal, State, Local & Education Buyers
NAICS Codes
Federal · State · LocalSAM.gov registration and set-aside size standards.
- 541512Computer Systems Design ServicesPrimary
- 541511Custom Computer Programming Services
- 541513Computer Facilities Management Services
- 541519Other Computer Related Services
- 518210Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting & Related Services
- 541611Administrative Management & General Management Consulting Services
- 541618Other Management Consulting Services
- 541690Other Scientific & Technical Consulting Services
- 541715R&D in the Physical, Engineering & Life Sciences (except Nanotech & Biotech)
- 541990All Other Professional, Scientific & Technical Services
- 611420Computer Training
- 611430Professional & Management Development Training
PSC Codes
FederalCurrent PSC Manual codes (replace legacy D3xx IT codes).
- DA01IT & Telecom – Business Application / Application Development Support Services (Labor)
- DD01IT & Telecom – Service Delivery Support: ITSM, Operations Center, Project/PM
- DF01IT & Telecom – IT Management Support Services (Labor)
- DH01IT & Telecom – Platform Support Services: Database, Mainframe, Middleware (Labor)
- DJ01IT & Telecom – Security & Compliance Support Services (Labor)
- R617Support – Administrative: Electronic Records Management Services
- R408Support – Professional: Program Management/Support
- R425Support – Professional: Engineering/Technical
- R499Support – Professional: Other
- B544Special Studies/Analysis – Technology
- AJ12General Science & Technology R&D – Applied Research
- U012Education/Training – Information Technology/Telecommunications Training
NIGP Codes
State · Local · EducationDC OCP, Maryland eMMA, Virginia eVA, and most SLED portals.
- 918-29Computer Software Consulting
- 918-71IT Consulting (Not Otherwise Classified)
- 918-44E-Mail Archiving & Records Management Consulting
- 918-75Management Consulting
- 918-82Scientific & Technical Consulting
- 918-90Strategic Planning & Consulting
- 920-24Data Conversion Services
- 920-30Image Processing & Conversion Services
- 920-40Programming Services, Computer, incl. Mobile Applications
- 920-41Retrieval Services, Information
- 920-45Software Maintenance & Support Services, Updates & Data Hosting
- 920-51Redaction, De-identification Services, Automated
- 920-64System Implementation & Engineering Services
- 920-75Technical Writing & Documentation, IT Services
- 924-40Instructor-Led Classroom Training, Technical
UNSPSC Codes
SLED · EnterpriseUsed by some state, university, and enterprise procurement systems.
- 81111500Software or Hardware Engineering
- 81111700Management Information Systems (MIS)
- 81111800System & System Component Administration Services
- 81111900Information Retrieval Systems
- 81112000Data Services
- 81112200Software Maintenance & Support
- 80101500Business & Corporate Management Consultation Services
- 86132000Management Education & Training Services