Sovereign AI deployment. Regulator-grade evidence.

Government AI decisions cannot be explained with a link to a dashboard. They need evidence admissible in court, auditable by an inspector general, and defensible under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Where public sector AI needs evidence

Federal, state, and local government deployments of AI face obligations that private sector deployments do not: transparency under the Administrative Procedure Act, FOIA-responsiveness for AI-assisted decisions, constitutional due process for benefits determinations and enforcement actions, and increasingly, disclosure obligations under OMB M-24-10 for federal agencies and parallel state-level rules. The evidence bar is higher because the consequences reach beyond commercial dispute into constitutional and statutory domains.

The five use cases we focus on

Benefits adjudication and eligibility

AI-assisted eligibility decisions — unemployment insurance, SNAP, housing assistance, Medicaid — have faced multiple lawsuits in 2020-2025 for denial rates, disparate impact, and due-process concerns. Veridra signs each adjudication decision with the policy version, eligibility rule set, and reasoning chain. Appeals workflows get an immediate, tamper-evident record; FOIA requests get a redacted pack generated in seconds.

Tax and enforcement AI

Audit selection AI, fraud detection, and enforcement prioritization tools need defensibility against challenges of arbitrary or disparate targeting. Veridra's signed decision stream — with the model version, policy version, and triggering factors — produces the evidence to defend the selection process, or to detect when the selection has drifted from policy.

Grant and procurement AI

AI scoring of grant applications or vendor proposals sits inside the Federal Acquisition Regulation compliance perimeter. Scoring decisions need to be reproducible, explainable, and challengeable. Veridra signs each scoring decision with the rubric version and the scoring rationale; protests and appeals get verifiable evidence.

Criminal justice and public safety AI

Risk assessment, recidivism scoring, and predictive deployment tools face the highest evidence bar of any AI use case. Constitutional due process requires the ability to challenge the decision, which requires proof of what the decision was and how it was made. Veridra produces the evidence record per decision; Watch surfaces drift in protected-class outcomes in real time.

Public-facing generative AI

Government chatbots, translation AI, and document-generation tools face specific transparency obligations — citizens must know they are interacting with AI, and the content produced must be traceable. Veridra signs generative outputs with Verify module (Q1 2027) support for content authenticity manifests. Every public-facing AI output carries a verifiable provenance trail.

Federal alignment specifics

• OMB Memorandum M-24-10 — federal agency AI governance requirements including inventory, impact assessment, and risk management. Veridra outputs satisfy inventory, risk-management, and continuous-monitoring requirements directly.
• FedRAMP Moderate — mapped to Veridra's self-hosted federal deployment model. Interim deployments are supported in customer-owned FedRAMP environments.
• FISMA and NIST 800-53 alignment — our security controls map to NIST 800-53 Rev 5 for federal system deployment support.
• Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 — self-hosted deployments integrate with agency TIC architectures.
• EO 14110 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI) — Veridra is explicitly aligned to the evidence and accountability expectations in the executive order, even where specific rulemaking is ongoing.

State and local

State-level AI governance is evolving rapidly. Colorado SB 205 (employment AI), California SB 942 (generative AI transparency), New York City Local Law 144 (hiring AI bias audits), and Texas HB 2060 (AI governance) all create evidence obligations that Veridra directly supports. For state agencies procuring AI, the same assurance architecture applies — with state-specific residency and disclosure options.