Security-first agentic AI, edge to core. Founder of TECHLEAD 187 LLC · builder of LUCID Agent IDE · co-founder of the C.O.V.E.R.T. Consortium · host of a weekly AI briefing.

_{I design, build, and securely deploy AI systems for national security and commercial enterprises,
with the evidence leadership needs to approve them. Speed is cheap. Trust is expensive.}

26+ years in uniform enlisted → senior CW

IL5 first Google Cloud enclave for a USAF customer

2006 AI fielded in combat 350+ soldier task force

7,300+ tests gating LUCID Agent IDE

202 free certification modules across 11 curricula

A secure-AI application platform, far beyond a coding agent: build agents and workflows, ground them on your own knowledge, and run them wherever your data is allowed to live, behind a prompt-injection gate on every tool call that cannot fail open. Built on oh-my-pi (omp).

• Fail-closed gate on every tool call - kill the scanner mid-run and it blocks. Even Save in the IDE is scanned.
• Fleet Mode - many gated agents at once, each on its own repo and model, every reply scanned; one AOS-1 goal with a spend and time budget, and tasks verified before they count.
• Provenance-backed memory + an encrypted personalization knowledge graph - poisoned content never auto-promotes into what the agent remembers.
• AI-authorship attribution - a tamper-evident ledger of which model wrote which lines.
• Remote, Voice & Trainer - drive your desktop agent from your phone end-to-end encrypted, talk to it hands-free (fully offline capable), and let the LUCID Trainer interview your experts into drills.
• Metadata-only governance telemetry + cross-model cost showback, lucid hub control plane, and signed .lplugin premium plugins.

_{Live products from TECHLEAD 187 and builds from the C.O.V.E.R.T. workshops. We ship what we advise.}

_{Described by business vertical only; customer names withheld by design. What they do is open - how the hard parts work stays proprietary.}

Vertical	What it does	Craft
Legaltech	Citation-bound case-intelligence dashboard fusing eDiscovery, tracking, and AI work product - role-gated to the row	37 ADRs · 150k+ metadata rows in-process · Bun DuckDB Claude Cloud Run
Smart venues	Explainable ambiance engine with human-governed recommendations, scenario playback, vision floor-plan studio	CSP pinned to its own sha256 · CodeQL/Trivy/gitleaks gates · Gemini Vision
Defense budgeting	Knowledge-graph POM/COA and zero-based-transfer analysis, built for government code ownership	Clean-architecture .NET · ML.NET in-process · xUnit
AI infrastructure	DGX Loader - remote NVIDIA DGX access with tiered VPN/SSH transport detection	Electron typed IPC · Vitest
Contested logistics	Ops-intelligence map: threat/port/airfield layers, MGRS grid, synthetic exercise data	Next.js
Certification prep	Spaced-repetition studio (SuperMemo-2) with grounded pro decks	Stripe entitlements
Nonprofit · clean water	Donation platform funding village water-system repair	Keyless Cloud Run · JSON-LD · $0 idle
GovCon compliance	Workflow, ticketing, and compliance automation (Infrastellis Advisory Group)	ROI-mapped recommendations
PropTech · consumer fintech	Turns an opaque annual homeowner ritual into a guided savings play	Investor-ready, brand-first
Local services	Growth engineering for a main-street business	Push-notification quote alerts (no SMS spend) · AI-search-optimized schema

Proof is the system that makes advanced technology dependable.

What I deliver: agentic AI engineering · secure AI platforms & accreditation (RMF, IL5, FedRAMP, CMMC, Zero Trust) · cloud-to-edge architecture for DDIL · data, MLOps & knowledge graphs · AI adoption workshops · GovCon strategy & R&D leadership.

Civilian On-ramp for Veteran Engineering, Rapid Transition. A rank- and service-agnostic builder community I co-founded, for veterans, active duty, guard, and reserve members who deploy practical GenAI by doing, not talking - and transition into real technology careers.

• Show work, not slides. Sessions prioritize live demos, prototypes, and test results.
• Build together, then build the business. Every session ends with a Marketing & Sales breakout.
• Cadence: monthly, 120 minutes - Setup → Updates → Demos → Collab → Mktg & Sales.

TECHLEAD 187 LLC is registered in SAM.gov and is SOF RACER consortium member No. 893 (since September 2026) - the Special Operations Forces Rapid Acquisition Consortium for Emerging Requirements, a prototype OT consortium under 10 U.S.C. § 4022.

_{Consortium membership and marketplace participation do not imply Government endorsement and do not guarantee an award.}

• AI fielded in combat (2006) - installed and ran the Army Research Laboratory's first AI-powered translation capability: Arabic broadcast TV to English in under a second, networked across a 350+ soldier task force during the Surge.
• USSOCOM (2016-21) - cloud-to-edge for denied environments; with Google, deployed containerized AutoML computer vision on remote edge systems; certified data-science platforms in classified environments.
• NT Concepts (2021-26) - accredited a U.S. Air Force customer's first Google Cloud enclave at IL5; Principal Investigator for AI agents on Gemini and Gemma for Army predictive logistics; technical advisor for NGC2 Project Trinity.
• Still serving - senior Chief Warrant Officer of the AI Detachment, Army Reserve 75th Innovation Command, the Army's change agents for emerging technology. Also Senior Consultant, Infrastellis Advisory Group.

• AFCEA 40 Under 40 (2019) · AUSA Sunshine Chapter, 75th Innovation Command Officer of the Year (2019) · Army Reserve Most Outstanding Recruiter (2012)
• BBA, Accounting & Information Systems - University of Toledo (with honors, earned while serving)

1. The Future of Military Logistics: AI, Data Models, and Emerging Technologies - NT Concepts Next Talks
2. Digital Engineering Tools for Efficient AI Development
3. Fight and Win in Contested Multi-Domain Operations - Small Wars Journal
4. Cloud-Agnostic Data Management Solutions
5. Data Management Design Patterns for Cloud Ecosystems

• Co-founder, C.O.V.E.R.T. Consortium - hosts hands-on AI workshops that build real apps.
• Mentor, MilMentor - free career mentoring for veterans and military spouses: cloud, AI, and the move from uniform to industry.
• Computer Science Advisory Board, Hillsborough Community College · student mentor, AMRoC · xTechSearch finalist mentor · AFWERX Fusion small-business mentor.
• Technology Chair, AFCEA Greater Tampa Bay (2019-21).

Bring me the problem others call impassable.

_{Agentic AI, accreditation, cloud-to-edge, or a team that needs to adopt AI safely. Tell me the mission and the outcome you need.}

_{© 2026 Nick Chadwick · TECHLEAD 187 LLC · Do, Not Talk.}