When you hire SARTUS, you're not getting a consultant who read a handbook. You're getting practitioners who have operated inside the federal system for decades — and built a proprietary assessment platform around what they learned.
Most consulting firms are built around process. SARTUS was built around experience — the kind that only comes from spending decades operating inside the systems our clients are trying to navigate.
Mario Torres has spent over 25 years in federal contracting — not advising from the outside, but working within the procurement ecosystem. He knows what agencies look for, what disqualifies otherwise strong candidates, and what separates businesses that win contracts from those that wonder why they keep losing.
Ninette Ponton-Torres brings 25 years as a practicing attorney to SENTINEL. As AI regulation has become one of the fastest-moving areas of federal policy, her legal expertise transforms complex executive orders, OMB guidance, and agency AI directives into governance frameworks that hold up under scrutiny.
Together, they built SARTUS — and the proprietary advisory platform behind it — to make that depth of experience accessible to small businesses and veteran-owned enterprises that deserve better than boilerplate advice.
Behind every engagement is a proprietary scored assessment engine that evaluates your organization against the weighted criteria federal agencies and prime contractors actually use. You receive a tiered readiness score, a benchmarked gap report, live opportunity intelligence, and deliverables matched precisely to where you stand — not a generic package assembled from a menu.
Federal Contracting Advisor
25+ years in federal contracting · COR · SAFe 6 POPM · CSM
Mario brings a practitioner's command of the federal marketplace — built over 25 years of direct involvement in government contracting. He knows what contracting officers look for, where small businesses make avoidable mistakes, and how to position an organization to compete and win.
His military background shapes every engagement: disciplined, direct, and outcome-focused. When Mario reviews your capability statement, your SAM.gov profile, or your proposal — he's reading it the way the other side of the table will.
AI Governance Counsel
25+ years as a practicing attorney · 20+ years FAR counsel · Federal & State courts
Ninette has spent 25 years as a practicing attorney licensed in both Federal and State courts, including 20 years as legal counsel for small businesses navigating the Federal Acquisition Regulation. That FAR expertise gives SENTINEL a legal foundation most AI governance consultants simply can't offer.
She has focused her legal practice on one of the fastest-moving areas of federal law: AI governance and compliance. She reads the directives, interprets the policy, and builds frameworks that hold up — because she's been building defensible federal legal work product for two decades.
Every engagement begins with a structured assessment. Your readiness tier is determined by your score — not by advisor discretion. The diagnosis is repeatable, defensible, and clear.
Deliverables are matched to your readiness level. You receive exactly what your score indicates you need — nothing designed to extend the engagement beyond what actually serves you.
Everything SARTUS produces is formatted to federal standards. Submission-ready on delivery — not a draft that needs reformatting before it's useful to anyone.
Founded and operated by veterans who bring the discipline, integrity, and mission-focus that federal work demands — to every client, every engagement, every deliverable.
No referral relationships. No vendor incentives. No certification body partnerships influencing what gets recommended. The assessment drives the recommendation — full stop.
FORGE opportunity matching pulls live SAM.gov data. SENTINEL is anchored to the regulations agencies are enforcing right now. When the landscape shifts, the framework shifts with it.