GRC Advisory & Workforce Systems
Advisory, tooling, and workforce training from cleared practitioners who have trained GRC professionals since 2014. We write the control documentation, we build the workflow that tracks it, and we train the people who execute it.
Frameworks we architect, document, and defend
Advisory that does not stop at strategy.
HFI turns requirements into the things that make compliance work: documentation, workflows, training, and evidence-ready execution. We build the systems around the advice. So your organization can operate, scale, and pass scrutiny with confidence.
Build governance and compliance capacity without a large federal contracting apparatus.
K-12, higher ed, and public institutions building real security and compliance programs.
Enhance subcontractor performance, mitigate risk, and win more work.
Demonstrate security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
Two Strategic Pillars
From advisory to platform: one architecture, two lanes of execution. HFI engineers compliance and ships the systems that operate it.
Advisory
Senior-level consulting on NIST RMF and AI governance. Thirteen-plus years translating federal requirements into the controls, evidence, and authorization-ready documentation that pass scrutiny.
Explore AdvisoryPlatform
The proprietary GRC operating system that serves as an organizational second brain for compliance: control mapping, evidence workflows, and audit-ready posture aligned with current federal assessment standards.
Explore the Work OSProof & Delivery
Five concrete service lanes where advisory becomes evidence and platform becomes workflow.
Turn security requirements into clear control mapping, evidence workflows, POA&M support, and authorization-ready documentation.
Create responsible AI policies, use-case review processes, risk documentation, and adoption guardrails that stand up to scrutiny from auditors and program officers.
Replace scattered manual processes with repeatable systems, dashboards, and documentation that improve audit readiness and day-to-day execution.
Build mission-ready teams with NICE-aligned training, certification pathways, and pipeline programs that produce practitioners who can execute on day one.
Senior advisors (vCISO, privacy, and program leadership) embed alongside your team to translate strategy into defensible execution.
Applied AI trust readiness
You shipped an AI-built product. It runs. Then someone serious gets interested and the security questionnaire arrives. The deal stalls. Revenue waits.
Without the right trust signals, you're quietly walling off the audiences you most want to win. Every missing certification is a market you can't sell to.
90-minute workshop · Free 25-question checklist
Without these, you're locked out of
Without SOC 2
Enterprise B2B, mid-market SaaS, anyone with a vendor risk program.
Without FedRAMP
Every US federal agency, DoD-adjacent contracts, federal primes.
Largest single IT buyer on the planet
Without HIPAA / PCI / ISO 27001
Healthcare, payments, international and EU enterprise.
You don't need every cert. You need to pick the audience you're building for, and earn the trust signals that audience requires.
Founder-Led Expertise
Cleared, credentialed, and field-tested. HFI is led by senior practitioners with decades of combined experience architecting compliance, governance, and workforce programs for the mission.
Defense Logistics · Workforce
GRC Workforce & Mission Support Leader
Senior practitioner translating federal compliance requirements into operational systems, workforce pipelines, and mission-support programs that hold up under scrutiny. Bruce has been training GRC practitioners since 2014, a decade before HFI itself was founded.
Clearance
SecretCertifications
Security+
AI Governance · Technical Programs
GRC & Technical Program Strategy Leader
Aysha helps organizations turn emerging technology, regulatory pressure, and operational complexity into usable governance systems, documentation, workflows, and adoption strategies. So teams can move confidently without losing defensibility. Active in the AI Power Labs builder community.
Clearance
Top SecretCertifications
PMP · Security+ · CISM
The HFI Practitioner Program is a 7-week live cohort teaching the full RMF cycle end to end, plus a practitioner tool you keep using after it ends. Built by the same people who advise the organizations above.
Learn About the ProgramWe also build custom software, run marketing and copy audits, design and build websites, and help growing businesses with hands-on business development, from the same team.
Explore ConsultingBoth. State and local is where most of our current engagements start, and the same control logic that applies to federal RMF work maps directly to state, local, and education compliance needs.
Advisory is us doing the work for your organization: control documentation, evidence workflows, and authorization support. The Practitioner Program is for individuals who want to learn to do that work themselves, through a live 7-week cohort.