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VIPS v8.0 Program · FORGE Engine In Active Development

The federal and state mission assurance platform for AI-driven procurement.

VIPS is the Vaxelrod Intellectual Proprietary System, a purpose-built compliance platform for federal and state procurement teams operating with AI. We are pre-launch and building toward customer pilots. This page reflects the program as it stands today.

Current Program v8.0
Status Pre-launch
Stage Pilot Engagement
01 / Overview

What VIPS does.

Federal procurement is governed by thousands of provisions distributed across the FAR, agency supplements, and program-specific clauses, a regulatory surface no team can hold in working memory. VIPS is the assurance layer that helps procurement teams operate with AI while producing an audit-grade record of every action. The same engine verifies state procurement law in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, because the businesses and agencies we serve do not stop at the federal line.

The Problem

Compliance is opaque, audit is reactive.

Procurement teams operate under deadline pressure against a shifting regulatory baseline. AI tools accelerate the work, but acceleration without provenance only relocates the risk downstream to audit. If a decision can't be defended, it shouldn't be made.

Our Approach

Verifiable AI for federal and state mission assurance.

VIPS is engineered around a single principle: every action is recorded before it's released, and every change is gated before it's merged. The platform is designed to be defensible by construction.

The Outcome

Decisions that hold up in audit.

A complete chain of custody from source authority to final action, preserved under regulatory-grade retention. Auditors don't ask what happened. They review the record. Fraud, waste, and abuse are not hunted after the fact; they are stopped at intake, gated at decision, and exposed by a ledger that cannot be quietly edited.

02 / Why VIPS Outperforms

The market sells answers. VIPS delivers determinations.

Most AI tools in government contracting are generative copilots: fast, fluent, and unaccountable. They will fill a gap in the record with a plausible guess, because that is what generative models do. VIPS is engineered to do the opposite. Same question, two different machines.

A typical AI copilot
Query: Does this subcontract require the cybersecurity flowdown?

"Yes, this flowdown almost certainly applies here. Based on similar contracts, you should be fine to proceed with the standard language..."

FLUENT · CONFIDENT · UNCITED
The source document was never in the record. The model filled the gap. The team finds out in audit.
VIPS
Query: Does this subcontract require the cybersecurity flowdown?
INCONCLUSIVE

Required source not in the record. VIPS returns a structured diagnostic identifying exactly which document is missing and what determination it blocks.

MISSING · governing clause text for this award
BLOCKED · flowdown applicability determination
NEXT · supply the source, VIPS re-runs and cites it
Dimension Generative copilots VIPS
Output Fluent prose with unverifiable confidence PASS / FAIL / INCONCLUSIVE, grounded only in retrieved source text with pinpoint citations
Missing data Fills the gap with a plausible guess Refuses to attest. Stops, reports what is missing, and escalates to a human
Verification Self-reported confidence scores Gated checks before release. Changes that cannot demonstrate they preserve the platform's guarantees do not ship
The record A chat history A tamper-evident, chained record of every material determination, preserved under regulatory-grade retention
In audit Reconstruct what the tool probably did Replay the record. Complete chain of custody from source authority to final action
Model disagreement One model, one opinion Multi-model arbitration. Conflicting outputs are detected and resolved before anything is released
Category-level comparison. Detailed architecture, model selection, and implementation specifics are shared with qualified partners under NDA.
03 / VIPS v8.0

The FORGE Engine.

In active development

The centerpiece of the VIPS v8.0 program: a unified evidence engine that transforms how procurement documents become defensible determinations.

Today, VIPS verifies rules against documents. FORGE makes the documents themselves first-class evidence. Every file that enters the platform passes through a zero-trust pipeline: validated, sealed, classified, and shredded into citable evidence objects before a single determination is made, with provenance tracked from first byte to final finding. The result is a system where every PASS, FAIL, or INCONCLUSIVE can be reproduced end to end from the exact sealed bytes it was derived from.

Stage 1 · Intake

Zero-trust upload with format and integrity validation.

Stage 2 · Seal

Hashed into write-once storage. The record of record.

Stage 3 · Classify

Document type and jurisdiction identified automatically.

Stage 4 · Shred

Decomposed into discrete, addressable evidence objects.

Stage 5 · Cite

Every determination bound to pinpoint evidence.

Stage 6 · Determine

Reproducible findings with full provenance.

The FORGE Pipeline · Every Document, Every Time
Why it matters

Guarantees, not marketing language

FORGE is being formalized under versioned, frozen data contracts with machine-checked verification logic. Its refuse-to-attest rules are properties of the system that can be independently checked, not claims on a slide.

What it changes

Reproducible compliance

An auditor, a protest reviewer, or a program office can trace any finding back to sealed source bytes and re-run the determination. Compliance stops being an assertion and becomes a reproducible result.

Scale

Every jurisdiction, one engine

FORGE applies the same evidence standard to federal, state, and district rules alike. New jurisdictions plug into the engine as cited rulesets; the pipeline never changes.

Status

In active development

The FORGE Engine is in active development within the VIPS v8.0 program at Vaxelrod's R&D division. Capability briefings on the v8.0 roadmap are available under NDA.

04 / Platform

Built on four commitments.

VIPS is delivered as an integrated platform serving federal and state jurisdictions alike, but our discipline is summarized in a few simple commitments. The technical implementation sits behind NDA and is shared with qualified partners during briefing.

01

Recorded before released.

Every action the platform takes is captured to a tamper-evident record before it reaches the world. Replay is not a feature; it is the contract we hold with every operator and auditor.

02

Proven before merged.

When the platform changes itself, those changes are gated. We do not ship modifications that cannot demonstrate they preserve the platform's stated guarantees.

03

Stops before guessing.

When the platform is not confident enough to act safely, it does not act. The case is escalated to a human reviewer with the full context attached. Caution is the default.

04

Sealed beyond reach.

Records are preserved under regulatory-grade retention. Even our own operators cannot mutate the historical record once it is committed. The audit trail is structurally protected.

05 / Development Status

Where VIPS is today.

VIPS is in active development. The platform has completed its v6.2 milestones and now advances under the v8.0 program, with the FORGE Engine in active development and first customer pilots ahead. We are pre-launch and building in the open about exactly what is shipped and what is not. This section reflects what is shipped, what is shipping, and what is next.

VIPS v8.0 Program / Pre-launch, in active development Core engineering milestones complete · AFWERX SBIR submission in progress
v8.0 Program
Q1 2026 / Shipped
Foundation
  • Core platform rebuild
  • Compliance & assurance design
  • Validation harness
  • Authentication & edge security
Q2 2026 / Shipped
Architecture Milestones
  • Decision record infrastructure
  • Self-correcting verification
  • Operator control surface
  • Operational verification
Q3 2026 / In Progress
Pre-launch
  • Production security hardening
  • NDA framework v2
  • AFWERX SBIR submission
  • Pilot partner engagement
Q4 2026 / Planned
Customer Pilots
  • First federal pilot deployment
  • Prime contractor partnerships
  • v6.3 capabilities expansion
  • Production hardening
06 / Strategic Partnerships

Backed by the right ecosystem.

Vaxelrod is building VIPS in partnership with industry programs that support the next generation of AI infrastructure for mission-critical work.

Member

NVIDIA Inception Member

Vaxelrod is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, an accelerator for startups building with AI infrastructure. The program supports access to technical resources, GPU compute, and ecosystem partnerships.

Industry partnership where it counts.

Building federal-grade AI infrastructure takes more than software. It takes alignment with the partners who provide the substrate. As an NVIDIA Inception member, Vaxelrod has access to the technical resources and ecosystem support that inform how VIPS is built.

We are selective about partnerships and disclosures. Detailed technical architecture, model selection, and implementation specifics are shared only with qualified partners under non-disclosure.

07 / Federal Identifiers

Registered. Certified. Contractable.

Vaxelrod LLC is the R&D and Intelligence Division of UTG Companies Inc., a federally registered woman-owned small business with active SAM.gov status and a verified contracting profile.

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08 / Engagement

Bring VIPS into your compliance program.

We work with federal program offices, prime contractors, and procurement teams ready to operate with verifiable AI. Briefings are held under NDA. We are currently engaging design partners for our first pilots.