Services
Three lines of hands-on technical work.
Paettern provides technical services under the Paettern brand.
Engagements are scoped around the shape of the work, not by bench size or hours on a staffing plan.
Consulting
Proposal & capture technical support
Technical consulting for small federal contractors pursuing software-intensive work.
- Translating vague customer asks into defensible technical approaches.
- Technical-volume writing, architecture and staffing plans, phased delivery, risk posture.
- Proof-of-concept implementations when a working demo is worth more than prose.
- Post-award, often extends into expert support during delivery.
Engineering
Mission-critical software engineering
Production systems for customers with regulatory, retention, or uptime constraints that rule out typical SaaS.
- Backend services, frontends, event-driven pipelines with durable audit trails.
- Self-hosted or on-prem deployments on infrastructure the customer owns.
- Observability and LLM-specific tracing when AI is in the loop.
- Long engagements; systems delivered to be owned, not rented.
Advisory
AI readiness & advisory
Independent advisory for organizations evaluating generative-AI adoption without the usual vendor incentives.
- AI readiness assessments and governance / policy review.
- Pilot scoping — what's worth trying, what isn't, and why.
- Evaluator design for systems already in production.
- Second-opinion review on in-flight AI build decisions.
Use cases
Where services engagements land.
Three common shapes of engagement for federal and regulated contractors.
Software-intensive pursuits
Primes carrying the domain but light on modern software architecture — engagements that need defensible technical volumes, not boilerplate.
Regulated delivery
Programs with CMMC, FedRAMP, ITAR, or records-schedule boundaries where delivery needs engineers comfortable with the constraint, not working around it.
AI pilot scoping
Organizations being pitched AI projects by vendors and wanting an independent technical read before signing — or a second opinion on a pilot already underway.
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