03Insights
Working notes from inside the systems we modernize.
We publish what we'd say in a private working session — about architecture, fraud, governance, and what actually works. We don't publish executive summaries.
Modernization · 4 min read
The strangler-fig migration is the only one that survives benefits-system politics
A flag-day cutover of an eligibility engine is a career-ending event. The strangler-fig pattern is older than any of our vendors and it remains the only honest way to retire a benefits mainframe.
Frank Speiser · April 29, 2026
AI Governance · 2 min read
The audit-trail problem: why most government AI deployments fail their first OIG review
Models that can't show their work don't survive an Inspector General audit. The fix is architectural, not optional.
Frank Speiser · April 22, 2026
Anti-Fraud · 4 min read
Synthetic identity is the unemployment-insurance problem of the next decade
PUA-era fraud showed every state UI agency what it looks like to lose a billion dollars in a quarter. The defenses that work are not single-model. They are architectural — and they are largely unbuilt.
Frank Speiser · April 15, 2026
Anti-Fraud · 3 min read
Stop running models. Start running architectures.
If your fraud-detection program is described by the name of a model, it is fragile by construction. The work is at the seams, not the layers.
Frank Speiser, Payton Jonson · April 8, 2026
AI Governance · 2 min read
Reading the OMB AI memos as an engineer: what M-24-10 and its successors actually require you to build
Most agency responses to the OMB AI memos are policy documents. The memos quietly demand specific engineering artifacts. This is what they are.
Frank Speiser · March 25, 2026