AI Transformation

AI built with your team, owned by you

Forward-Deployed Engineers build your MCP-powered agency memory layer for AI agents — with your data, in your environment. On ibl.ai you own all the code and the data, run it model-agnostic across any LLM, and pay with no per-seat pricing — so you can deploy anywhere, from your own cloud to a fully air-gapped network. No need to choose build vs. buy — you get both.

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Agentic development: from your data to a department app, in five moves
On the ibl.ai cloudStart at $0, usage-based from thereFree tier with renewable monthly credits, no credit card. Move to your own infrastructure anytime, nothing to rebuild.Hosted deploymentSee pricing
On your infrastructureRun it in your own environmentYour cloud, on-premise or air-gapped, under your control. Backend and infrastructure under a perpetual license.Full code license

Prefer to build together? Our AI Transformation team builds agents and apps with yours, on your systems.

Forward-deployed, not outsourced

A systems integrator bills hours and leaves a document. Vendor professional services configure a product you rent. Our engineers leave you owning the stack they built.

What you keep when it endsibl.ai forward-deployed engineersThe full codebase, the data, the MCP servers and the agentsA systems integrator or vendor PSA deliverable document and a subscription
Where the work runsibl.ai forward-deployed engineersYour cloud, on-premise or air-gappedA systems integrator or vendor PSThe vendor's cloud, under the vendor's terms
Which modelsibl.ai forward-deployed engineersAny LLM, switched at willA systems integrator or vendor PSThe one the product ships with
Pricing shapeibl.ai forward-deployed engineersA pilot, then a flat engagement; no per-seat feesA systems integrator or vendor PSHourly rates plus per-seat licenses
Who operates it afteribl.ai forward-deployed engineersYour team, enabled by oursA systems integrator or vendor PSThe vendor, on retainer

MCP Architecture Guide for Government

How to connect your agency systems (HRIS, LMS, case management, citizen services) to AI agents — with federal security and NIST 800-53 compliance.

Read the Guide

Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDEs)

Build your agency "memory layer" for AI agents — powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — with your data, in your environment.

What This Is

ibl.ai's Forward-Deployed Engineers embed with your team to connect HRIS, LMS, case management, ERP, identity, storage, and regulatory systems into a secure, policy-aware memory layer built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). That memory becomes the backbone for AI agents — workforce coaches, program assistants, and citizen-service tools — running privately in your infrastructure.

This is professional services, billed by the hour (ultra-competitive rates), with clear milestones and artifacts you own.

How does an AI transformation engagement run?

1. Data Layer — Your Root Systems

Start here: where do your users, content, and records already live?

List every system that holds something an agent will need to read. This inventory is the foundation — bring in as many root systems as you want, and each one gets its own connector in the next step.

2. Connectors — The Ontology Layer

Put a thin layer on top over MCP — not a complex integration project

Our open-source Ontology builds these connectors — databases (PeopleSoft, Oracle, Snowflake) and REST systems (Canvas, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday) alike — and handles the toolbox, schema mapping, and sync. Add as many as you have systems.

3. MCP Broker

Many MCP servers → one unified interface to the outside world

The broker authenticates each request, checks RBAC (deny-by-default), routes the tool call to the right MCP server, filters the response, and logs it. This is what AI Data Unification delivers end to end.

4. Skills — Plain-English Instructions per System

Markdown skill files written by domain experts, not engineers

Each system gets many skills: “advance an admissions application,” “onboard a new employee,” “advance a sales deal,” “open an IT ticket,” “check a claim status.” Bring in as many skills per system as the work requires.

5. Agents

Skills + prompts + instructions + memory

Add as many agents as you want. Each one bundles a set of skills, an instruction prompt, and persistent memory, and inherits the same role-scoped access enforced by the broker.

6. Harness — Runs in Your Infrastructure

Your servers, sandboxed — data privacy, code security, no vendor lock-in

Each agent runs in its own sandbox with isolated execution, resource limits, endpoint allowlisting, credential injection, and audit logging — the same security model as the rest of the platform.

7. Web Layer

Edit and ship without waiting on an engineer or a deployment

The web layer exposes editing and running of skills, agents, and data sources directly in the browser, governed by the same roles and permissions as every layer below it.

8. Applications — One per Department

A dedicated app per team, embeddable anywhere (LTI & more)

This is what we use Agentic Vibe for: describe the app and assemble it from your existing agents and skills. Bring in as many applications at this layer as you want.

Watch the walkthroughThe agentic-development video on ibl.ai/architecture#agentic-development shows these moves end to end, from your root systems to a department app, on infrastructure you own.

How do we work with your team, from platform delivery to production agents?

The five steps at a glance

Deployment, delivery, development, integration and partnership: five steps from the first conversation to production agents, each ending in a checkpoint your stakeholders can see. The diagram below walks them in order.

Step 1 — Deployment

Platform Delivery

Choose the deployment model that fits your organization

ibl.ai-Hosted

We manage the infrastructure

  • → Fastest time to launch
  • → No infrastructure overhead for your IT team
  • → Fully managed updates and maintenance
  • → Ideal for organizations that want speed

Customer-Hosted

Deployed in your environment

  • → Full GitHub repository — the complete platform code
  • → Pre-built Docker images — ready to deploy
  • → Your security perimeter, your control
  • → Ideal for regulated industries and data sovereignty
Both options deliver the same platform — a runtime for creating, managing, deploying, and using AI agents across web, mobile, API, and MCP
Platform is live — agents are accessible from day one
Step 2 — Delivery

How Delivery Works

A three-phase process from code handoff to production

1

We deliver the platform

  • Full GitHub repository — the complete multitenant platform code
  • Pre-built Docker images — ready to deploy, tested, and versioned
2

Joint development environment

  • We work alongside your team in a dev/staging environment
  • Agent configuration, system integration, testing, and training happen here together
3

Production — your way

  • Your team can promote to production independently, on your schedule and through your processes
  • Or we manage production for you — we run production environments for many leading organizations
  • Access to your production data is never a prerequisite — the choice is yours
  • ibl.ai-hosted deployments include full production management by our team
Platform deployed — begin building and connecting agents
Step 3 — Development

Agent Development

Self-serve, collaborative, or both — your team and ours build together

Self-Serve

Your teams build independently

  • → Create agents through the platform UI or API
  • → Connect to your data sources directly
  • → Leverage institutional knowledge your team already has
  • → Full API coverage — programmatic agent management

Collaborative

We work with you to build agents

  • → Build agents connected to specific data sources
  • → Develop MCP servers and custom data integrations
  • → Configure SSO and enterprise deployment standards
  • → Build software that makes agents more capable
Agents live and working — visible results from day one
Step 4 — Integration

Enterprise Integration

Connect to the tools and systems your organization already uses

Single Sign-On

SAML / OIDC

Data Sources

Your existing databases and APIs

MCP Servers

Custom data integrations

Existing Tools

LMS, CRM, SIS, and more

The platform adapts to your stack — your workflows don't need to change to support agents
Integrated and operational — continuous improvement begins
Step 5 — Partnership

Ongoing Collaboration

A continuous partnership — not a one-time deployment

Building specific agents

We develop purpose-built agents for your use cases, connected to your data and tuned for your workflows.

Extending platform capabilities

We build new features and integrations that make your agents more powerful — additional data sources, richer tooling, new interfaces.

Ongoing communication

Dedicated channels for collaboration, support, and strategic alignment as your needs evolve.

Best Practices

What Makes This Successful

1

Lead with tangible results

Start with concrete agents that can be demonstrated from day one. Stakeholders see working agents immediately — not a black box for months.

2

Start with specific use cases

Define concrete agents early. If the project definition is too broad without specific agents to show, stakeholder buy-in stalls while time goes into invisible infrastructure work.

3

Adapt to the existing stack

The platform integrates with your current tools and data sources. Your teams don't need to change their workflows to accommodate agents.

4

Empower your engineers

Your team has the institutional knowledge. When your engineers can build agents programmatically and connect them to internal data sources, the value compounds.

Getting Started

Proposed Next Steps

Pilot program

Deploy the platform on your infrastructure with a focused use case

Architectural deep-dive

Walk through the platform architecture with your technical teams

Integration mapping

Assess your existing systems and architect the agent layer

Hands-on workshop

Your teams learn to build and deploy agents on the platform

Step 1, Deployment: choose how the platform is delivered

ibl.ai-hosted: we manage the infrastructure. Fastest time to launch, no infrastructure overhead for your IT team, fully managed updates and maintenance; ideal for organizations that want speed.

Customer-hosted: deployed in your environment. Full GitHub repository with the complete platform code, pre-built Docker images ready to deploy, your security perimeter and your control; ideal for regulated industries and data sovereignty.

Both options deliver the same platform: a runtime for creating, managing, deploying and using AI agents across web, mobile, API and MCP. Platform is live, and agents are accessible from day one.

Step 2, Delivery: three phases from code handoff to production

1. We deliver the platform: the full GitHub repository, the complete multitenant platform code, and pre-built Docker images, tested and versioned.

2. Joint development environment: we work alongside your team in a dev or staging environment, where agent configuration, system integration, testing and training happen together.

3. Production, your way: your team can promote to production independently, on your schedule and through your processes, or we manage production for you, as we run production environments for many leading organizations. Access to your production data is never a prerequisite; ibl.ai-hosted deployments include full production management by our team.

Step 3, Development: self-serve, collaborative, or both

Self-serve: your teams build independently. Create agents through the platform UI or API, connect to your data sources directly, leverage the institutional knowledge your team already has, with full API coverage for programmatic agent management.

Collaborative: we work with you to build agents connected to specific data sources, develop MCP servers and custom data integrations, configure SSO and enterprise deployment standards, and build software that makes agents more capable. Agents are live and working, with visible results from day one.

Step 4, Integration: connect the tools and systems your organization already uses

Single sign-on over SAML or OIDC. Data sources: your existing databases and APIs. MCP servers: custom data integrations. Existing tools: CRM, HRIS, ERP, ticketing, LMS, SIS and more.

The platform adapts to your stack; your workflows do not need to change to support agents. Integrated and operational, continuous improvement begins.

Step 5, Partnership: a continuous partnership, not a one-time deployment

Building specific agents: we develop purpose-built agents for your use cases, connected to your data and tuned for your workflows.

Extending platform capabilities: we build new features and integrations that make your agents more powerful, with additional data sources, richer tooling and new interfaces.

Ongoing communication: dedicated channels for collaboration, support and strategic alignment as your needs evolve.

What makes this successful

Lead with tangible results: start with concrete agents that can be demonstrated from day one, so stakeholders see working agents immediately, not a black box for months.

Start with specific use cases: define concrete agents early. If the project definition is too broad without specific agents to show, stakeholder buy-in stalls while time goes into invisible infrastructure work.

Adapt to the existing stack: the platform integrates with your current tools and data sources, so your teams do not need to change their workflows to accommodate agents.

Empower your engineers: your team has the institutional knowledge. When your engineers can build agents programmatically and connect them to internal data sources, the value compounds.

Proposed next stepsA pilot program that deploys the platform on your infrastructure with a focused use case. An architectural deep-dive that walks through the platform architecture with your technical teams. Integration mapping that assesses your existing systems and architects the agent layer. A hands-on workshop where your teams learn to build and deploy agents on the platform.

Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard — originally developed by Anthropic — that defines how AI models connect to external data sources, tools, and services. MCP provides a universal interface between AI agents and your agency systems, replacing brittle custom integrations with standardized, secure connectors.

Think of MCP as USB-C for AI: one protocol, every system. Instead of building a custom integration for each HRIS, LMS, or case management system, MCP gives agents a single, consistent way to read data, call tools, and respect permissions across your entire agency stack.

Why MCP Matters for Government Agencies

Agency IT teams maintain dozens of systems — USA Staffing, DCPDS, Cornerstone for Government, ServiceNow, and more. Traditional integration approaches require point-to-point connectors that break with every vendor update. MCP eliminates this fragility by providing a protocol-level contract between AI agents and data sources.

With MCP, your agency gets portable agents that work across any LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, or air-gapped local models), interchangeable connectors that can be swapped without rewriting agent logic, and built-in security boundaries where every data access goes through policy-aware middleware with federal-grade controls.

MCP Architecture at ibl.ai

Every ibl.ai deployment uses MCP as the core integration protocol. Our Forward-Deployed Engineers build MCP servers for each agency system — HRIS, LMS, case management, ERP, identity providers, and document stores. These MCP servers expose structured tools and resources that agents can discover and invoke at runtime.

The result is a composable agent architecture: a workforce coaching agent can query personnel records from DCPDS, fetch training completions from FedVTE, check certification expirations, and retrieve regulatory guidance — all through MCP — without any custom glue code between systems.

MCP Servers We Build

HRIS MCP Server (USA Staffing, DCPDS, Workday Government)

Exposes personnel records, position classifications, clearance levels, service history, and performance ratings as MCP resources.

Agents can query real-time workforce data without direct database access. Field-level classification controls and need-to-know enforcement determine who sees what based on role and clearance.

LMS MCP Server (Cornerstone for Government, Percipio, FedVTE, AgLearn)

Provides training catalogs, completion records, mandatory training status, certification tracking, and competency assessments as MCP tools.

Agents can retrieve specific training materials, check compliance deadlines, and access agency-level analytics — all scoped to the requesting user's permissions and clearance level.

Case Management MCP Server (ServiceNow Gov, Salesforce Government Cloud)Connects citizen service requests, program cases, inter-agency referrals, and compliance tracking. Agents can look up case status, pull program eligibility data, and surface performance metrics for mission reporting.
Identity & Directory MCP Server (PIV/CAC via Entra ID, Okta for Government)Provides role resolution, clearance verification, group memberships, and authentication context. MCP-level RBAC ensures agents only access data appropriate for the authenticated user's role and clearance — analyst, program manager, contracting officer, or agency CISO.
Document & Storage MCP Server (GovCloud S3, DISA Storage, SharePoint Gov)

Indexes agency documents — directives, regulations, standard operating procedures, policy memoranda — and makes them retrievable via semantic search through MCP.

Agents can cite specific documents with page-level provenance rather than generating answers from training data alone. Classification-aware retrieval ensures CUI/FOUO handling.

Custom MCP ServersWe build MCP servers for any system with an API or database: ERP/Finance (SAP S/4HANA Public Sector, Oracle Federal Financials), grants management, procurement systems, GIS platforms, and more. If your agency has it, we can connect it.

MCP Security and Governance

Protocol-Level Access Control

Every MCP request carries authentication context — who is asking, what role and clearance they hold, and what need-to-know has been established. Our MCP middleware enforces field-level permissions before data ever reaches the agent.

An employee asking about their own training sees their records; a supervisor querying the same system sees their directorate; an agency admin sees aggregate analytics. Same MCP server, different views.

PII Masking and Data Classification

MCP responses pass through a policy engine that redacts sensitive fields based on configurable rules and data classification levels. Social security numbers, clearance details, and CUI-marked content are masked or excluded from agent context unless explicitly authorized by policy.

Every redaction and classification decision is logged for audit.

Audit Trails and Compliance

Every MCP tool invocation is logged with timestamp, requesting agent, authenticated user, data accessed, and response summary.

These audit trails support NIST 800-53 compliance reviews, NIST 800-53 control assessments, IG audits, and incident response. Logs are stored in your infrastructure and retained per your agency records schedule.

Sandboxed Execution

MCP servers run in isolated containers within your GovCloud VPC, on-premises infrastructure, or IL4/IL5 enclaves. No agency data leaves your environment.

Agents interact with MCP servers over internal networks with mTLS encryption. Air-gapped deployment options ensure LLM inference stays within your security boundary.

Who We Work With

Agency CIO / IT & Enterprise Architecture
Chief Learning Officer / Workforce Development
Program Managers / Mission Owners
Contracting & Procurement Officers
Agency CISO / Security & Compliance
Privacy Officers, General Counsel, IG

What We Do (Scope at a Glance)

Systems & Data Mapping

Inventory: HRIS (e.g., USA Staffing, DCPDS, Workday Government), LMS (Cornerstone for Government, Percipio, FedVTE, AgLearn), Case Management (ServiceNow Gov, Salesforce Government Cloud), ERP/Finance (SAP S/4HANA Public Sector, Oracle Federal Financials), Identity (PIV/CAC via Entra/Okta for Government), Storage (GovCloud S3/DISA/SharePoint Gov).

Schemas & Contracts: personnel records, training completions, certifications, clearance levels, compliance status, regulatory metadata. Policy & Governance: classification fields, need-to-know scopes, retention schedules, redaction maps, authorization flows.

MCP Server Development

We build production-grade MCP servers for every agency system in your stack. Each server exposes typed tools and resources following the MCP specification, with built-in schema validation, error handling, rate limiting, and observability.

Servers are containerized and deployed via Terraform or Kubernetes manifests you own — in GovCloud, on-prem, or IL4/IL5 enclaves.

Memory Layer Engineering

MCP-based Connectors: secure adapters that normalize read/write paths across systems. Per-User Memory Graph: knowledge graph + vector index for contextual retrieval (training content, certifications, compliance deadlines, regulatory guidance).

Guardrails Engine: RBAC, field-level permissions, data classification enforcement, need-to-know controls, audit trails. Sync & Freshness: event bus/CDC, backfills, idempotent jobs, conflict resolution, replay.

Agent Enablement (Optional)

Workforce Coach: citable Q&A grounded in training content, regulations, and agency policies via MCP. Program Assistant: compliance tracking, reporting roll-ups, mandate deadline monitoring, status briefings.

Citizen Service Agent: eligibility lookups, case status, program guidance with provenance. Model Hub: OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Llama, or local/NPU — hot-swappable per policy/cost, air-gap compatible.

Workflow Automation (Agency Partners)Proactive nudges (certification renewals, mandate deadlines), case routing, compliance milestones. Content pipelines (ingest → chunk → cite), assessment generation with human review. Approval gates for mission control (human-in-the-loop).

Deliverables You Keep (No Lock-In)

MCP server source code for every connected agency system
Connector code & IaC (Terraform/K8s manifests) to deploy in GovCloud/on-prem/IL4/IL5
Data dictionaries, MCP tool schemas, and contract tests
Policy configs (RBAC matrices, classification rules, need-to-know controls, retention/expiry)
ETL/ELT jobs, sync runbooks, and observability dashboards
Agent starter kits (prompts, MCP tool definitions, evaluation harnesses)
Security & Compliance packet (threat model, MCP data flows, NIST 800-53 audit checklist)

Engagement Model (Hours-Based, Transparent)

Discovery & Design (1–3 weeks):workshops, MCP architecture, system inventory, backlog, estimates
MCP Server Sprints (2–6 weeks):build and test MCP servers for each agency system, memory layer, policy engine
Pilot & Hardening (2–4 weeks):limited directorates or programs, telemetry, MCP performance tuning, handover
Handoff or Co-Manage:your team runs it; we stay on a light retainer if desired
Billing:hourly, ultra-competitive rates; weekly timesheets; milestone demos; you can pause/rescope anytime

Security, Privacy, and Compliance

All MCP servers run in your environment (GovCloud, on-prem, or IL4/IL5 enclaves), with your IAM/KMS
NIST 800-53 support, NIST 800-53 controls, least-privilege MCP access
MCP-level data minimization, classification enforcement, need-to-know controls, audit logs
Red-team prompts, safety filters, and replay evaluation for agents
mTLS between agents and MCP servers; air-gapped deployment options for sensitive workloads

Reference Architecture (MCP-Powered)

MCP Server Layer → Typed connectors to HRIS/LMS/Case-Management/ERP/Identity/Storage
MCP Gateway → Authentication, rate limiting, request routing, and observability
Event Bus + CDC → Reliable syncs, backfills, and change capture
Workforce Memory Layer → Graph + vector store with classification-aware MCP policy retrieval
Policy/Guardrails Engine → RBAC, data classification, need-to-know enforcement, rate limits
Agent Interfaces → Coach (workforce), Program Assistant (manager), Citizen Service Agent (public)
Observability → MCP request traces, latency metrics, cost monitors, evaluation harnesses

Common Use Cases We Deliver

"Single pane of glass" coach with training history, certifications, and clearance context — powered by MCP connections to HRIS, LMS, and personnel systems
Program assistant that tracks compliance mandates and triages reporting questions (cited answers from MCP-connected regulatory materials)
Citizen service agent that surfaces eligibility and case status with provenance via MCP queries across program, identity, and case management systems
Cross-system automations: certification-renewal triggers, mandate deadline alerts, onboarding workflows — orchestrated through MCP tool chains
Regulatory content ingestion pipelines with citations and classification safeguards
Multi-agent workflows where specialized agents collaborate through shared MCP servers — one agent handles workforce development, another handles compliance, a third handles citizen services — all sharing the same secure data layer

Why ibl.ai FDEs

MCP-native architecture:every integration we build follows the open MCP standard — no proprietary lock-in
Government native:NIST 800-53 controls, PIV/CAC authentication, GovCloud/IL4/IL5 deployment readiness baked in
Ownership by design:you get the MCP server code, configs, and deployment scripts
Model-agnostic and cost-aware:MCP works with any LLM provider including air-gapped models; swap and optimize freely
Speed + rigor:we ship working MCP integrations quickly, with tests and runbooks

Get Started

Architecture Review (hours):map systems, goals, risks, and design your MCP server topology
Fixed-Scope Pilot (optional):cap hours for MCP servers covering a specific program or directorate
Ongoing Hours (as needed):new MCP servers, additional connectors, and workflow builds

Workflow Analysis Process

Process Mapping

We embed with your teams to map how work actually flows—not how org charts say it should. Every handoff, approval step, data lookup, and decision point is documented.

This reveals automation opportunities that generic AI tools miss.

Bottleneck Identification

We identify where staff spend time on repetitive, rule-based tasks that agents can handle.

Common findings: answering the same policy questions, manual data entry across HRIS and financial systems, routing FOIA requests, and generating routine compliance reports.

Agent Opportunity Scoring

Each potential automation is scored on impact (time saved, error reduction), feasibility (data availability, system access), and risk (classification sensitivity, NIST 800-53 compliance requirements).

High-impact, low-risk workflows deploy first.

Phased Rollout Planning

We plan deployment in phases—starting with internal-facing agents that assist program staff, then expanding to interagency and citizen-facing agents as confidence builds.

Each phase has defined success criteria and security reviews before proceeding.

Knowledge Base Architecture

Read/Write Separation

Your knowledge base is architected with strict read/write separation. Agents that answer questions read from curated, validated knowledge stores. Agents that update knowledge write through approval workflows with human review.

This separation prevents hallucinated content from contaminating your agency's authoritative knowledge.

Structured Knowledge Ingestion

We work with your subject-matter experts to catalog and ingest agency knowledge—policy directives, regulatory guidance, SOPs, training materials, and institutional decisions.

Each knowledge source is tagged with provenance, classification level, freshness dates, and authority levels.

Version-Controlled Knowledge

Knowledge bases are version-controlled like code. Every update is tracked, reversible, and auditable.

When directives change, OMB guidance updates, or new regulations take effect, knowledge updates flow through your existing governance process before agents surface them.

Multi-Source Retrieval

Agents retrieve from multiple knowledge stores simultaneously—your training content, HR policies, regulatory databases, and program documentation—ranked by relevance, authority, and classification level.

Need-to-know enforcement at every layer.

Agent Roles: AI Hires with Defined Skills

Role-Based Agent Design

Each agent is designed like a new hire with a specific position description. It has defined responsibilities, access to specific systems, knowledge boundaries, clearance-aware access controls, and escalation protocols.

An acquisition agent knows procurement workflows. A HR agent knows OPM qualification standards. They do not bleed into each other's domains.

Skills as Capabilities

Agents are equipped with discrete skills—query DCPDS, draft a correspondence, generate a status report, schedule a review, look up a regulation.

Skills are composable: agents chain them to handle multi-step workflows that previously required multiple staff and manual handoffs.

Escalation Protocols

Every agent knows its limits. When a question falls outside its defined competence—especially anything involving classification, legal authority, or congressional sensitivity—it escalates to the right human.

Escalation paths are configured per role, per office, per classification level.

Performance Reviews

Just like human hires, agents get reviewed. We build evaluation frameworks that measure accuracy, response quality, escalation appropriateness, and mission impact.

Underperforming agents get retrained or restructured.

What This Is

AI Data Unification connects PeopleSoft, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, and case-management systems into a single ontology — a structured representation of your organization that agents can reason over.

It has two layers: a semantic layer (the nouns — entities, attributes, relationships) and an operational layer (the verbs — actions, functions, permissions). Together they become the single source of truth every agent reads from.

Unify once, reuse everywhere

Model an entity once and the tenth agent costs a fraction of the first, because it inherits the same definitions, the same data, and the same governance.

The implementation is open source at github.com/iblai/ontology — MIT-licensed, Python 3.11+, 163 passing tests. ibl.ai is family-owned and operated from New York, NY: a long-term partner, not a vendor that ships a license and disappears.

The Two Layers

The Semantic Layer — the nouns

Entity types model the real-world objects in your organization — constituents, cases, programs, benefits, and employees. Attributes capture their characteristics, and relationships define how they connect. A constituent opens a case; a case belongs to a program; a determination is an action with rules.

This is the shared vocabulary your domain experts already use, made machine-readable so agents reason over the same reality your people do.

The Operational Layer — the verbs

Actions define the permissible changes an agent can make. Functions encode logic. Permissions govern who — human or agent — can do what.

Agents inherit the same permissions as the users they serve, so they can only act within your existing rules. Every action is captured as data, so audit trails are built in, not bolted on.

Five Core Principles

Shared understanding at scaleTeams operate from unified definitions instead of siloed, per-system data. Local decisions gain global context because every agent and every department reads from the same graph.
Human-readable by designThe ontology is expressed in familiar business terminology, not a technical schema. Domain experts can explore and validate it directly, bridging technical and non-technical teams.
Build once, reuse everywhereA properly modeled entity serves every application that needs it. The cost of launching the tenth agent is a fraction of launching the first, because the knowledge is already there.
Capture decisions as dataActions are recorded and become queryable knowledge. Audit trails and decision history are a property of the system, not an afterthought you instrument later.
Ground AI in organizational realityAgents operate on the same knowledge humans use. Grounding answers in your real entities and relationships removes the translation layer where hallucinations creep in.

How the Unified Layer Works

Inbound connections

Databases connect through the Google MCP Toolbox; REST-based systems connect through custom MCP servers, defined in tools.yaml. For public-sector agencies, that means PeopleSoft, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, and case-management systems.

Source credentials never leave your network. Each inbound connector has isolated credential scope, with secrets encrypted at rest.

Knowledge materialization

Data is synced into three layers: text memories in Markdown, a Postgres cache, and vector embeddings for semantic search.

The unified graph stays fresh on a schedule you control.

Outbound — one MCP server

The unified layer exposes itself as a single MCP server over HTTPS, behind your firewall and identity provider.

Any authorized runtime — ibl.ai, Claude, Cursor, or your own apps — connects to it, and results are scoped to the caller's identity.

Security & Governance

Read-only enforcement

Version 1 is read-only by design. Before provisioning, a seven-test safety suite verifies that every write attempt is denied; if any write succeeds, provisioning halts and emits remediation SQL.

Agents can read your systems — they cannot mutate them.

Identity & accessEvery MCP request carries the user's Microsoft Entra ID JWT. The gateway validates it and resolves the caller's role from roles.yaml, so an agent sees exactly what that user is allowed to see — row-level scoping included, mapped to your NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP-aligned controls obligations.
Permissions inherited from your peopleSchema and data permissions are governed centrally. Agents inherit the same permissions as the users they serve, so access control is consistent whether a human or an agent is asking.

Built-In Service Catalog

Pre-configured connectors for GovernmentThe catalog ships defaults for PeopleSoft, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, Okta, and case-management systems. Seed any of them with one command (ontology service add --from <key>), then test and provision from the CLI.
Provision from the CLIA single CLI covers the whole lifecycle — service discovery and testing, schema analysis, role validation, scheduled sync, and Docker Compose deployment. Stand the layer up, test it, and ship it from your terminal.

Full Ownership

Your code & dataThe entire unified knowledge layer is open source. Records stay in the systems you already run — the layer queries them in place; it never copies them to ibl.ai or any third party. "You will have your data, and we may not even have access to it."
Your infrastructureThe MCP server, the Postgres cache, and the vector index all run inside your perimeter. Deploy it in the cloud you choose, in your VPC, on-premise, or fully air-gapped.
Built on Agentic OSAI Data Unification is the knowledge foundation the rest of the ibl.ai platform reasons over. Pair it with Agentic OS to deploy agents that act on the unified graph — all owned and self-hosted by you.

Enablement: the faculty and staff program

Collective Training (Agency/Office Cohorts)

Foundations: how AI agents work (retrieval, citations, guardrails), data classification, and responsible government use. Mission Patterns: workforce coaching, mandatory training, certification prep, and knowledge management.

Toolkits: prompt frameworks, "do/don't" libraries, agency policy language, and end-user guidelines. Hands-On Labs: build a training coach, configure knowledge bases from agency SOPs, test citations, and set classification-aware guardrails.

Individual Coaching & Seminars

Program Makeovers: co-design training sequences, certification curricula, and AI-supported workflows for workforce development. Mission-Specific Clinics: acquisition workforce training, cybersecurity awareness, leadership development programs, and citizen-service improvement.

Prompt & Policy Reviews: refine prompts for classification-appropriate content, set boundaries for sensitive information, and add transparency language aligned to agency directives.

Office Hours (Ongoing)Weekly drop-ins for troubleshooting, use-case vetting, and "show and tell". Micro-demos (10–15 min): coach setup, knowledge base updates, analytics reads, security flags. Rapid Iteration: review conversation transcripts, improve prompts, adjust datasets and classification-aware guardrails.
Safety, Ethics, and Compliance

federal-security-aware workflows; dataset scoping, data classification controls, and role-based access. Information security: classification boundaries, CUI handling, and audit trail requirements.

Accessibility by Design: Section 508 practices, captioning, alt text, and inclusive prompt patterns for diverse federal workforce.

Enablement outcomes

Training team adoption & confidence ratings
Program coverage: coaches deployed, knowledge bases configured, guardrails enabled
Workforce outcomes signals: engagement, certification rates, skills-gap trends surfaced
Time saved on repetitive tasks (estimates from staff self-reports)
Section 508 accessibility and NIST 800-53 compliance checks completed

Custom agent deployment: OpenClaw, NemoClaw and Claude agents

On-Premises (Agency Data Center)Full deployment on your agency infrastructure or IL4/IL5 enclave. Kubernetes or Docker-based orchestration with Terraform IaC. Complete network isolation, air-gap compatible.
GovCloud (AWS/Azure/GCP Government)Deploy in your GovCloud tenancy with VPC isolation, private endpoints, and your encryption keys. government-authorized infrastructure with your ATO boundary.
Hybrid (Agency + GovCloud)Classified workloads on-premises, unclassified compute in GovCloud. Secure cross-domain solutions with consistent agent behavior across both environments.

How we harden the agents you deploy

Security Patching & CVE Monitoring

We actively monitor OpenClaw's security advisories and apply patches before they reach your production environment.

Our team tracks CVEs, validates fixes, and manages updates on a schedule aligned with your agency's change management and ATO process.

Clearance-Aware Access Controls

Deploy agents with granular permissions tied to your identity provider and clearance levels. Agents enforce need-to-know and classification boundaries.

All access controls enforced at the infrastructure level via PIV/CAC integration.

Audit Logging & Compliance

Every agent action, tool invocation, and data access is logged to your SIEM or logging infrastructure.

NIST 800-53 aligned by design, with NIST 800-53 controls, configurable retention policies, and export formats for agency review.

Network Isolation & Data Boundaries

Agents run in isolated network segments with strict egress controls. Mission data never leaves your perimeter.

Integration with agency systems uses mTLS, service mesh architectures, and classification-aware routing.

Input Validation & Prompt Safety

Hardened input pipelines prevent prompt injection, data exfiltration, and unauthorized tool execution.

Multi-layer validation ensures agents only perform sanctioned operations within your security boundary.

What our partners say about us

Chris Gabriel

Chris Gabriel | Google

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Lorena Barba | George Washington University

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Dr. Juana Mendenhall | Morehouse College

Juile Diop

Juile Diop | MIT

Adam Tetelman

Adam Tetelman | Nvidia

Jason Dom

Jason Dom | American Public University System

Benjamin Breyer

Benjamin Breyer | Columbia University

Ken Fujiuchi

Ken Fujiuchi | SUNY

Erika Digirolamo

Erika Digirolamo | Monroe College

David Flaten

David Flaten | SUNY

David Vise

David Vise | Modern States Education Alliance

Linda Wood

Linda Wood | ARM Institute (U.S. Department of Defense)

Chris Gabriel

Chris Gabriel | Google

Lorena Barba

Lorena Barba | George Washington University

Dr. Juana Mendenhall

Dr. Juana Mendenhall | Morehouse College

Juile Diop

Juile Diop | MIT

Adam Tetelman

Adam Tetelman | Nvidia

Jason Dom

Jason Dom | American Public University System

Benjamin Breyer

Benjamin Breyer | Columbia University

Ken Fujiuchi

Ken Fujiuchi | SUNY

Erika Digirolamo

Erika Digirolamo | Monroe College

David Flaten

David Flaten | SUNY

David Vise

David Vise | Modern States Education Alliance

Linda Wood

Linda Wood | ARM Institute (U.S. Department of Defense)

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