Federal agencies · SAM-registered · U.S. Army veteran
Federal AI applicability and acquisition readiness.
For agency CIOs, CDOs, and program offices working through OMB M-25-21 remediation, OMB M-25-22 acquisition requirements, NIST AI RMF implementation, and inventory documentation the IG and GAO can actually verify.
The receipts · federal
Federal
- Entity
- Sellhausen Consulting LLC
- SAM.gov
- Registered · UEI RQJEPZ47MK68
- SDVOSB
- Being prepared
- NAICS
- 541611 · 541512 · 541519
- Veteran
- U.S. Army · Service-disabled · Iraq deployment
The mandate landscape
What the federal buyer is operating inside.
The instruments that create the demand. Real statute, real regulation, real deadlines that have already passed or are about to.
NOW
OMB M-25-21
Required every federal agency to complete AI inventories by April 2026. Deadline passed. Most agencies are still not there.
NOW
OMB M-25-22
Directs federal agencies on AI acquisition. Procurement officers and vendors selling AI into federal buyers operate inside this memo from intake through delivery.
ONGOING
NIST AI RMF
Voluntary on paper, operational floor in practice. Cross-walked against M-25-21 reporting and most agency-level AI policy frameworks.
ACTIVE
OMB M-26-04
Establishes Unbiased AI Principles that federal LLM procurements must include contractually. Agency compliance deadline March 11, 2026. Two-year sunset.
Engagements
What we ship for the federal buyer.
One discipline, three scoped shapes. Each engagement produces audit-ready artifacts that a reviewer can verify, not a binder that describes itself.
- 01
30-day FFP
M-25-21 Compliance Sprint
AI inventory review, gap analysis, IG-ready deliverables. Built for agencies whose M-25-21 submission needs to survive the next review, not the next slide deck.
- 02
Under the micro-purchase threshold
AI System Inventory & Gap Assessment
Catalog every AI system. Map against OMB M-25-21 governance and OMB M-25-22 acquisition requirements. Produce the documentation an examiner can walk — input to outcome — without taking your word for it.
- 03
Engagement-scoped
AI Assurance Operating Model
From compliance binders to operational governance. Named accountability for every system, controls that function rather than describe themselves, monitoring that produces evidence instead of dashboards no one opens.
Why us
Twenty-five years building the muscle a federal buyer can verify.
One principal. Three roles. The instinct for where a federal AI program breaks before the IG finds it.
- 01
FDIC Bank Examiner
Examined 50+ financial institutions through the gap-finding instinct that maps directly to federal AI program review. Compliance findings folded into risk exams in practice — the same dynamic that breaks AI governance binders when the IG actually looks.
- 02
Senior AI PM, Large Enterprise AI Program
Shipped enterprise AI in a Fortune 50 regulated environment. Learned what production governance actually requires when a model decision affects a customer and someone has to answer for it — and where most big-org programs run on incentive structures that no longer demand the duty.
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Drill Sergeant · OC/T · Combat Veteran
U.S. Army. Drill Sergeant building foundational judgment; Observer/Controller/Trainer at a Combat Training Center running units through lanes and forcing AAR articulation. Iraq deployment. Service-disabled veteran. The discipline of articulating WHY a decision was the right one — the muscle the firm is built around.
Next step
Bring your AI program. We will tell you whether it survives the next review.
30 minutes. No deck. You describe the program. We tell you what is at risk and what to fix first.
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