What we've learned building with AI in federal programs.
Essays, field notes, Ground Truth papers, and company news on human-centered AI, modernization, and delivery in federal programs and regulated organizations.
The Emerging Shape of Knowledge Work
EssayThe AI Bubble vs. The AI Leap: A View From the Trenches
The Great Compression
How AI is re-engineering the software delivery value chain: the blur between phases, what happens to Agile, and the demo-driven culture.
Challenges and Opportunities in the Federal Marketplace
What small firms face, what reform has changed, and why incremental change may not be enough.
Reimagining Federal Acquisition
Anonymous competitions, verified performance records, and prototype-first evaluation. An aspirational, and achievable, picture.
Scorecards before strategies
An AI strategy without a readiness assessment is an aspirational document. Includes our one-workflow readiness scorecard.
AI governance is becoming the new cybersecurity
Security went from afterthought to mandatory. AI governance is heading down the same path.
AI won't fix a broken process. It exposes it.
Before you automate a workflow, ask whether you would be proud of it automated.
The imagination tax
AI adoption stalls when leaders can't picture what's possible. Prototypes lower the cost of imagining.
From projects to products
AI systems keep changing after launch, which pushes federal modernization toward continuous product delivery.
Alignment before velocity
The most successful programs create alignment first. AI will accelerate delivery, or accelerate chaos.
Rewiring the Role
If AI can write the status report, draft the epics, and maintain the RAID log, what is a coordination role responsible for? Paper 2 in the Ground Truth series.
Rewriting the Build
AI in software development is amplification, not revolution. Paper 1 in the Ground Truth series walks the full lifecycle, from product and design through QA and operations.
The four types of AI users
Critics, Observers, Power Users, and Experts. Where you sit today matters less than which direction you're moving.
10× more productive than three months ago
A personal AI stack, the guardrails that keep it responsible in regulated work, and why it takes deeper thinking up front.
Kollabio named No. 22 on the Inc. Regionals 2025: Mid-Atlantic list
The company's first appearance on the regional list, on two-year revenue growth of 293%.
Kollabio certified a Great Place To Work for the second year in a row
Certification is based on anonymous employee feedback on trust, respect, camaraderie, and satisfaction.
Kollabio ranks No. 1404 on the 2024 Inc. 5000
Inc.'s annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, ranked on 2020–2023 revenue growth.
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