Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned · 8(a) · Small Business
Proven federal expertise. AI-accelerated delivery. Small business cost.
Delivering for VA, IRS, and healthcare organizations since 2022. AI-augmented engineering means higher velocity and lower cost — faster delivery cycles from teams who know ATOs, FedRAMP, and federal operations from the inside.
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What we do
We build and ship software for federal agencies. Two core areas.
Digital services
VA.gov authenticated experiences and benefits delivery. We build the web applications that Veterans use to access and manage their benefits — from claims status to decision letters. Production systems serving millions of users.
See our work →AI decision-support
Document intelligence and risk scoring for federal workflows. AI that recommends, humans decide. 50M+ pages processed. We prototype fast and build trust with operators through explainable, auditable outputs.
See our work →Past performance
Proven delivery across VA, IRS, and healthcare — as both prime and sub.
IRS US Certs
Identity & access management for taxpayer authentication. Prime contract — end-to-end delivery.
Southwest Transplant Alliance
Technology modernization for one of the largest organ procurement organizations in the U.S. Prime contract.
VA OCTO / SPRUCE
VA.gov benefits delivery. Authenticated experiences serving millions of Veterans.
VA NCA AI Pilot
AI prototype for NCA contact center. Built for the VA Chief AI Officer's office.
Vet Docs
AI-powered document intelligence for a commercial law firm. 50M+ pages of mixed-format records processed.
How we work
Velocity
5-day MVPs. 8-week prototypes. 10 days to production post-award. We maintain a rapid delivery tempo — deploying existing frameworks and pre-trained models, connecting to data sources and configuring, not writing from scratch.
AI-augmented delivery
AI tools amplify every engineer — accelerating every cycle — testing, analysis, deployment. Smaller teams, faster delivery, lower cost.
Trust-calibrated design
AI recommends, humans decide. Every output includes confidence indicators and source provenance. Operators verify before they rely.
Leadership
Veterans and federal technology leaders who know how to deliver inside government.
Ari Perez
CEO
West Point graduate and Army veteran. 17+ years of federal technology leadership across VA, IRS, GSA, and the Department of Defense. Built Vet Docs — processing 50M+ pages of mixed-format federal records with AI-powered document intelligence and risk scoring. Knows how emerging technology actually lands inside government operations.
Phillip Jo
COO & Chief AI Design Officer
Two-time Fast Company recognition. Led a $1B+ technology portfolio at Capital One. Drove the technology implementation of the VA Appeals Modernization Act — modernizing decision-support workflows for federal adjudicators. Specializes in moving distributed workforces from manual prioritization to AI-augmented decision-making.
Dr. Jason Hipp
Chief Medical Officer
Board-certified pathologist. Former CIO of Mayo Clinic. AI/ML pattern recognition in complex datasets — from pathology slides to clinical notes to inspection narratives. Extracting risk signals from mixed data where trust and explainability matter. Leads Coa's healthcare AI practice.
Recent thinking
What we're working through, in our own words.
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Healthcare
My first coding project found something six specialists had missed
Coa's Chief Medical Officer used a single prompt — pointed at nine years of his own Apple Watch data — to surface a pattern six specialists had missed. The diagnosis: POTS. The methodology, and its limits.
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Operations
What an AI-Native Federal Contractor Brings to Your Program Office
How a small federal contractor built ~85% of its operations on agents from day one — and why the savings go to the customer, not the bottom line.
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Leadership
Leapfrogging: Why Modernizing Now Is the Best Time
The conventional wisdom says federal programs that haven't modernized are behind. The historical record says the opposite — late movers leap. Why the agencies that delayed are now best positioned for a generational jump.
Coa understands government and delivers at speed. They shipped an AI prototype for Veterans Affairs in weeks without needing hand-holding. That's the partner you want on a federal engagement.
Ready to move fast?
SDVOSB with 8(a) certification. Sole-source up to $5M. We set the tempo from day one.