Federal agencies are actively screening contractors on AI governance. SENTINEL scores your organization across six domains mapped to the regulations they're enforcing right now — and delivers a compliance roadmap built on your actual maturity level.
Federal AI policy moved faster in 2025 than most contractors anticipated. Executive Order 14179 directed agencies to accelerate AI adoption. OMB M-25-21 established minimum risk management requirements for high-impact AI. OMB M-25-22 applied those requirements to all AI contracts awarded after October 1, 2025.
That means contracts being evaluated right now require vendors to demonstrate AI governance readiness. Organizations without documented frameworks are being screened out of source selections before evaluation begins.
SENTINEL closes that gap — before it costs you an award.
Regulatory information shown reflects current federal AI policy. SENTINEL assessments are updated as the regulatory landscape evolves.
Policies, accountability structures, and oversight mechanisms. Evaluates whether your organization has the governance foundation required to deploy and manage AI responsibly under federal standards.
Identification, classification, and documentation of AI systems in use. Federal agencies now require contractors to maintain and disclose AI use case inventories — this domain assesses your readiness to do so.
Quantification of AI risks, bias evaluation, performance monitoring, and measurement frameworks. Mapped directly to NIST AI RMF 1.0 and the minimum risk management practices required under M-25-21.
Processes for responding to identified AI risks, implementing controls, and managing ongoing compliance. Evaluates your ability to demonstrate active risk management to contracting officers and source selection boards.
Contract terms, vendor management, and acquisition compliance for AI systems. Directly aligned with OMB M-25-22 requirements — the domain most immediately affecting contractors pursuing new federal AI work.
Data provenance, access controls, privacy protections, and IP ownership documentation. Federal AI contracts require explicit protections for government data — this domain assesses your compliance posture.
Every SENTINEL deliverable is produced by legal counsel, formatted to federal standards, and written in the language source selection boards actually evaluate.
Deliverables are tier-locked. Your maturity score determines your package — no upselling, no scope bloat, no deliverables you're not ready to use.
Book a discovery call →A 100-point score across all six domains with benchmark comparison against federal contractor standards and an auto-generated key insight narrative based on your relative position.
A domain-by-domain assessment of where your current posture falls short of M-25-21, M-25-22, NIST AI RMF 1.0, and ISO/IEC 42001 requirements — with specific remediation priorities.
Foundational governance policy documents written to federal standards — ready to adopt, adapt, and submit. The baseline documentation agencies expect contractors to have in place.
A structured inventory of your AI systems with associated risk classifications — the exact documentation M-25-21 requires agencies to maintain and that contractors are increasingly expected to mirror.
Advanced-tier clients receive a full certification readiness assessment and documentation package aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 — the international AI management system standard increasingly referenced in federal source selections.
A complete M-25-22 contract compliance package and an AI Governance Capability Statement formatted for federal business development use — a direct source selection differentiator.
Ninette Ponton-Torres, Esq. leads every SENTINEL engagement. She brings 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 background gives SENTINEL a legal depth that no general AI consultant can match.
She reads the directives, interprets the policy, and builds frameworks your organization can defend — because she has spent two decades building defensible federal legal work product for clients in your position. When the auditors arrive, her clients are ready.