Industries · Public sector & defense
Mission-critical autonomy with a clearance-grade leash.
From acquisitions assistants to autonomous logistics and intelligence triage, federal and defense teams need a defensible boundary around every agent - under FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, and current AI executive guidance. We're designing Hootleash for that bar.
Where we're focused
Autonomous workflows we want to govern first in public sector & defense.
The first release of Hootleash is being engineered around a deliberately narrow set of high-risk autonomous workflows - chosen with our design partners.
Acquisitions & contracting
Govern autonomous solicitation drafting, vendor scoring, and award routing with FAR/DFARS-aligned policy.
Mission & ISR triage
Constrain autonomous triage of sensor data with cross-domain release controls and human-on-the-loop audit gates.
Insider threat & UBA
Behavioural-analytics agents with explainability requirements and bias monitoring built in.
Records & FOIA copilots
Default-deny on classified or controlled-unclassified information leaks, with cryptographic redaction proofs.
Cyber & SOC autonomy
Govern autonomous incident-response agents with pre-approved playbooks and hardware-isolated halt.
Citizen services
Eligibility, benefits, and adjudication agents under continuous fairness monitoring and right-to-explanation evidence.
Regulations & frameworks
Built against the standards your auditors live in.
FedRAMP High
Federal cloud authorisation
Continuous monitoring and POA&M evidence designed in.
DoD IL5 / IL6
Impact levels
Hardware-isolated single-tenant deployments planned.
CMMC 2.0 L3
Defense industrial base
Continuous assessment evidence for primes and subs.
NIST AI RMF
Govern · Map · Measure · Manage
Federal AI risk management profile, out of the box.
OMB M-24-10
Federal AI use governance
Pre-built control mapping for chief AI officers.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
Security & privacy controls
Crosswalk to High baseline.
Design partner program
Want to shape how Hootleash works in public sector & defense?
We're working with a small cohort of design partners through 2026 - risk, security, and AI leaders willing to trade input for influence over the first release. If that's you, get in touch.
- Co-design FedRAMP High evidence templates for autonomous AI
- Influence the v1 cross-domain release control model
- Working drafts of OMB M-24-10 control mappings
- Direct line to our regulatory team on federal AI guidance
Ready when you are
Put your public sector & defense autonomous workflows on a leash, before everyone else does.
We're building Hootleash in private design partnership with a small number of regulated enterprises. If you run autonomous AI in production, get in touch.
Pre-launch · design partner program open · early access 2026