Cloud AI for SMBs that need ROI this quarter,
Azure AI Foundry inside your tenant
when sovereignty matters but on-prem doesn't, and fully
air-gapped stacks for the
enterprises whose data can't leave the building.
From frontier APIs in the public cloud to fully sovereign on-prem deployments - and Azure AI Foundry inside your tenant for everything in between. Same engineering bench. Same compliance discipline. Different boundaries.
Public cloud
Frontier models. 90 days to live.
We integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini directly into the tools your team already pays for. The fastest path to working AI for organizations whose threat model permits API calls to a vendor cloud.
We design, deploy, and operate models through Azure AI Foundry inside your tenant. Frontier-grade quality with customer-managed keys, private endpoints, and data residency you control - without the operational lift of on-prem.
Azure AI Foundry hub / project provisioning
Foundry model catalog (GPT-4o, Llama, Mistral, Phi)
For defense, healthcare, financial services, and public-sector teams whose data cannot leave the building. Open-weight models on hardware you own, with zero external egress and full audit trails.
Not sure which mode fits? The AI Readiness Audit picks one with you - including the honest "you don't need a vendor cloud for this" answer when it applies.
Find your fit
Which deployment mode fits your team?
Five short questions. We'll point you to the mode that fits your risk profile and your timeline - and the honest case for the other modes if it's close.
Step 1 of 5
The differentiator
When your data can't leave the building, neither does your AI.
Most "private AI" claims still proxy through a vendor's cloud. Ours
doesn't. We design, deploy, and harden full LLM and RAG stacks on
infrastructure you own - running on a network you control. The deny
rule lives in the firewall, not in the marketing copy. We'll show you
the iptables output.
A full-stack AI consultancy - from boardroom to production.
Six practice areas, one team. We don't hand you off after the strategy deck - we ship the system that ran the workshop you remember six months later.
AI Strategy & Readiness
Executive workshops, capability mapping, opportunity scoring, and a 90-day roadmap built around business outcomes - not hype.
Use case discovery
ROI modeling
Risk register
Governance design
Cloud Implementation
Frontier APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) integrated into the tools your team already runs. Fastest path to working AI when policy permits a vendor cloud.
RAG pipelines
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Agent frameworks
Model evals
Azure AI Foundry
Frontier-grade AI deployed inside your Azure tenant. Customer-managed keys, private endpoints, Entra ID - sovereignty without the on-prem operational lift.
Foundry hub provisioning
Model catalog setup
CMK + private endpoints
Foundry-native evals
Air-Gapped AI
Self-hosted LLM and RAG stacks for environments that cannot send data to any vendor cloud. Open-weight models on hardware you own; operates fully disconnected.
Llama / Mistral / DeepSeek
GPU sizing
Hardened deploys
Sovereign RAG
Security & Compliance
Carry-forward from a decade of MSP security work - NIST CSF 2.0 aligned, with implementation experience across CMMC, HIPAA, CJIS, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.
AI risk assessment
Data governance
Identity & access
Audit readiness
Training & Enablement
Your people are the multiplier. Role-based training, prompt libraries, and operating models that turn AI from a side project into how work gets done.
Executive briefings
Practitioner labs
Prompt libraries
Adoption metrics
How we work
Outcomes measurable before invoice two.
Fixed scopes. Senior engineers. Honest dates. We've been shipping production systems since 2016 - applying the same discipline to AI is just the next chapter.
01 Week 1–2
Discover
Executive interviews, workflow mapping, and a candid look at where AI will and won't move the needle. We leave with a ranked opportunity set and an honest risk register.
02 Week 2–4
Design
Reference architecture, data flows, model selection, and a build plan with measurable outcomes. We pressure-test the plan against your compliance and security posture.
03 Week 4–10
Build
Engineers write the code. Real software in your environment - frontier APIs or air-gapped stacks, with evals and observability from day one.
04 Ongoing
Operate
We run the system with you until your team is ready to run it alone. Monitoring, evals, model updates, and a clear off-ramp when you outgrow us.
Engagement examples
The shape of the work we ship.
Representative engagement archetypes from Providentia's portfolio. We don't publish customer metrics; verifiable references are available under NDA on request.
Healthcare network
HIPAA Air-gapped RAG
Sovereign RAG over clinical records - PHI never left the building.
Designed and deployed an air-gapped retrieval system for a multi-hospital health system. Clinicians searched a decade of records through an interface that produced full audit trails to the customer's SIEM.
Defense contractor
CMMC Air-gapped On-prem
On-prem LLM stack inside a controlled enclave.
Stood up vLLM-served open-weight models with audit-grade logging and CMMC-aligned change control. No external egress, signed binaries, hardware sized to the workload.
Regional bank
SOC 2 Governance Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout that survived the audit.
Governed Copilot deployment across hundreds of employees with role-based DLP, prompt logging, and a documentation handoff the internal auditors signed off on first pass.
State agency
CJIS Public sector RAG
Constituent-services assistant, deployed inside the boundary.
Built a retrieval-grounded assistant for a public-services agency, deployed inside their compliance perimeter with full audit trails and policy-controlled escalation paths.
Customer names withheld by request. Specific outcomes shared with qualified buyers under NDA.
Why teams choose Provi
A decade of incident-grade discipline, now pointed at AI.
We were running compliance audits and security operations for regulated customers years before our first LLM deployment. The rigor is older than the practice - and it's what makes the air-gap claim defensible.
9+
Years in business
Founded in 2016 as Providentia Technology Solutions. We didn't pivot into security — we built on it.
100%
US-citizen engineers
Annual security briefings. Monthly training. No offshore contractors. The same standard regulated industries already require.
5
Compliance frameworks
Implementation experience across CMMC, HIPAA, CJIS, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 — the same rigor applied to every AI engagement.
The honest answer
We will tell you when AI is the wrong answer.
The fastest way to lose a customer's trust is to ship them a chatbot they
didn't need. Some workflows need automation, not intelligence - and some
need neither. We'll find the projects that actually pay back, and we'll be
candid about the ones that won't.
Not a fit if
We'll save us both the call.
You want a chatbot demo for the board next week - hire an intern.
The executive sponsor isn't the budget owner. We've watched too many engagements die on that disconnect.
You want a model deployed without an eval - we won't ship what we can't measure.
Common questions
The answers leaders ask for first.
Direct answers. If something here doesn't land, the contact form is the fastest way to a 30-minute strategy call.
What does 'air-gapped' actually mean when you say it?
It means your AI workload - models, prompts, retrieved documents, responses - runs entirely on infrastructure you own, on a network you control. When the deployment policy requires it, the system has zero egress to the public internet: no model API calls, no telemetry, no usage reporting. Updates arrive via your existing controlled-content channels.
We're an SMB. Do we actually need a consultancy for AI?
If you need a demo to show the board, hire an intern. If you need an AI workflow your CFO will defend in front of that same board next quarter, the answer is yes - and we'll tell you which workflow to build first. The cost of doing it wrong isn't the project; it's the system your team distrusts a month after launch.
Which models do you work with?
We're model-agnostic. Frontier APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Gemini) when they fit. Open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Phi) when sovereignty or cost demands it. We select per-workload based on accuracy, latency, cost, and your data posture.
When does Azure AI Foundry make sense vs. public APIs or air-gap?
Foundry is the middle ground. Models run inside your Azure subscription - not OpenAI's, not ours - with customer-managed keys, private endpoints, and your existing Entra ID. You get frontier-grade quality (GPT-4o, Llama, Mistral, Phi) and Foundry-native evals without the operational lift of standing up GPUs on-prem. The right answer for most regulated mid-market that doesn't have hard no-egress requirements but wants their data to stay in their cloud, under their controls.
Are you certified for CMMC / HIPAA / CJIS / PCI DSS / SOC 2?
We have implementation experience across all five and align our own operations to NIST CSF 2.0. We are not, however, an audit firm - we build and operate systems that pass audits, and we partner with your auditors directly.
How fast can you start?
Strategy engagements typically begin within two weeks of contract. Implementation engagements typically begin within four weeks. For incident-grade work (you've already shipped something and it's misbehaving), we can engage sooner.
Where are you based?
Fort Worth, Texas. We work across the US, mostly remote with on-site presence as engagements require. All engineers are US citizens with annual security briefings; we do not subcontract delivery offshore.
Ready to find your highest-leverage AI project?
Book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll ask sharp questions, give you our honest
read, and tell you whether we're the right team for the work.