LLM Integration Company in Denver

A Denver LLM budget splits on one question: does the build have to happen inside an ITAR boundary? A scoped commercial LLM integration (a Confluence or SharePoint copilot, a contract extractor, a customer-service assistant for REI or Frontier Airlines) is an eight to fourteen week engagement. ITAR-restricted builds inside AWS GovCloud or on-prem for Lockheed Martin Space, Ball Aerospace, ULA, or Sierra Space cost materially more because of the cleared-personnel-only build constraint, the NIST 800-171 control mapping, and the DDTC technical data custody documentation. Cannabis-tech compliance copilots for Dutchie or Leafly style operators add IRS 280E and Colorado MED rule-base curation. Codazz bills fixed fees that map cleanly to a contract WBS or a corporate IT budget line.

ITAR and EAR work at Lockheed Martin Space, Ball Aerospace, ULA Centennial, Sierra Space, and Maxar runs under three guardrails. First, US persons only (US citizens, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals) ever touch the technical data or build infrastructure, with documented export-control training and an annual recertification. Second, all storage and compute live in AWS GovCloud (US-West) or on-prem GPU clusters inside the cleared facility; hosted frontier models that cannot demonstrate US-person-only handling are excluded. Third, every prompt, completion, and retrieval is logged for the DDTC and BIS records, and any inadvertent disclosure triggers the Voluntary Disclosure path. We coordinate with the program FSO and Empowered Official before kickoff, not at audit time.

Yes. The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) applies to controllers processing personal data of 100,000+ Colorado consumers or 25,000+ consumers when deriving revenue from sale. The 2024 AG rulemaking added definitions for profiling, sensitive data inferences, and the universal opt-out mechanism, which Colorado recognises through Global Privacy Control. Our LLM builds for REI, Vail Resorts, VF Corp, Frontier Airlines, and DISH Network ship a CPA-aligned privacy notice, sensitive data inference detection in the inference pipeline, profiling opt-out wiring tied to the consumer right to opt out of profiling that produces a legal or similarly significant effect, and a Data Protection Assessment (DPA) for high-risk processing. The Colorado Attorney General has been active; we engineer to the AG's enforcement priorities.

Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin Space, ULA, Sierra Space, and most Denver-area aerospace primes carry DFARS 252.204-7012 obligations and have to attest to NIST SP 800-171 compliance through the Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) score. CMMC Level 2 certification is increasingly contractually required. Our LLM integrations map every architectural and procedural choice to a 800-171 control (access control 3.1, audit and accountability 3.3, configuration management 3.4, identification and authentication 3.5, etc.). We deliver a System Security Plan annex, a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) for any unmet controls, and SPRS-ready evidence. Where the project crosses into CUI handling, we deploy in AWS GovCloud or on-prem under the same control set.

Yes. Aerospace work at Lockheed Martin Space, Ball Aerospace, ULA, Sierra Space, and Maxar nearly always demands self-hosted fine-tuned models because ITAR technical data cannot transit a hosted frontier API. We train on AWS GovCloud GPU instances or on-prem cleared facilities, keep weights inside the client custody chain, and document hyperparameters, training data lineage, and evaluation results under the NIST AI RMF and 800-171 control set. For cannabis tech at Dutchie, Leafly, or METRC integrators we fine-tune on Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division rule sets and Section 280E IRS guidance, with quarterly retraining as the rule base evolves. Self-hosted Llama 3 70B and Mistral 7B / Mixtral are the typical targets; we benchmark against hosted Claude or GPT-4 and pick the winner on cost and accuracy.

We build a labelled golden set from sanitised client data (200 to 1,500 examples reviewed by Ball Aerospace engineers, Dutchie compliance leads, Newmont reservoir analysts, or REI customer-service supervisors depending on the use case), then run Ragas, TruLens, or DeepEval against every model and prompt change in CI. Faithfulness, context precision, answer relevance, and hallucination rate are tracked over time; for cannabis-tech use cases we add a Colorado MED rule-coverage probe; for aerospace we add a CUI / ITAR leakage probe with a custom detector. The harness sits inside the GovCloud or commercial enclave depending on classification, and stays with the client after handoff.

Section 280E denies federal income tax deductions and credits to businesses trafficking in Schedule I or II controlled substances, which captures every Colorado state-legal cannabis operator. Our cannabis-tech LLM copilots at Dutchie, Leafly, Wurk, and METRC integrator clients distinguish between Cost of Goods Sold (deductible under 280E court guidance, primarily inventoriable production costs under IRC 471) and operating expenses (disallowed). The model never auto-classifies an entry as deductible; it surfaces a draft classification with the IRC and case citation (Californians Helping to Alleviate Medical Problems v. Commissioner is the lead authority) and routes it to a licensed CPA for sign-off. We deliver a 280E policy memo your tax counsel can adopt.

Yes. METRC integrations at Dutchie / Leafly clients use the documented METRC API for inventory, transfer, and waste reconciliation tasks; we never bypass the regulator-of-record. Windchill and Teamcenter integrations at Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin Space, and ULA use the Windchill REST Services API and the Teamcenter Active Workspace API with ITAR-respecting auth. DOORS Next integrations for requirements traceability use the OSLC API and stay inside the cleared environment. SCADA-adjacent reporting at Newmont Mining or energy operators reads from the data historian (PI System, GE Proficy) on a read-only path with no inference loop closing back to control systems. The integration layer enforces the entitlement model the client already operates.