BLACKARC SYSTEMS // FEDERAL AI // PRACTICE 05

Custom & Tuned Models.

Generic models give generic answers. We tune and deploy models on your data and your decisions, and run inference where your data is allowed to live.

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01 // OUTCOMES

What you get.

01 Models tuned on your mission data, for your decisions only.
02 Self-hosted inference for sensitive workloads — on your hardware or ours.
03 Order-of-magnitude lift from proprietary skill and tool tuning, not just bigger models.
04 No data leaves the boundary it's required to stay in.

02 // CAPABILITIES

How we deliver it.

The capabilities below are what we ship under defined scope. Custom work outside this list is welcome, and scoped explicitly.

CAP / 01

Fine-tuning & adaptation

Supervised tuning, preference optimization, and held-out evaluation gates to catch overfitting before deployment.

CAP / 02

Skill & tool tuning

Proprietary methods that lift the output of skills, tools, and prompts by an order of magnitude — measured, not claimed.

CAP / 03

Self-hosted inference

vLLM, TGI, and Triton on your GPUs or ours, sized against your workload and its real token economics.

CAP / 04

Evaluation harnesses

Quantitative accuracy benchmarks against your acceptance criteria, with regression coverage that runs on every change.

03 // ECOSYSTEM

OEMs we build on for custom & tuned models.

We carry authorizations across each, accessible on federal contract vehicles through our partner CTG Federal. Call us if a vendor matters to you and isn't listed.

NVIDIA

Dell Technologies

Supermicro

Red Hat

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04 // PROOF

We ship systems, not slides.

BlackArc runs 150+ agents in production across federal, SLED, and commercial deployments — versioned, evaluated, and observable. Every recommendation here comes from work that has held up on a duty cycle, not from a pitch deck.

How we build

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PROOF // IN THE FIELD

Custom & Tuned Models in the field.

Anonymized mission patterns — the shape of the work, without the names. Each one ran in production, with a human on the decisions that mattered.

Analyst & Intelligence Support

National laboratory

SITUATION

Analysts spending more time collating sources than reasoning about them — long documents, scattered systems, fixed deadlines.

WHAT WE BUILT

A research-support agent that summarizes across documents with citations back to the original, resolves entities, and drafts RFIs — running air-gapped where the work required it.

WHAT CHANGED

Analysts start from a first pass instead of a blank page and keep their judgment on the assessment. Nothing leaves the enclave, and every claim points to its source.

ANONYMIZED · PATTERNS, NOT CLIENTS How these get built →

05 // RELATED PRACTICES

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Run & Sustainment

Go-live is the beginning. We monitor, tune, and expand systems so they compound instead of decay.

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Agentic Systems

Production agentic systems for federal operations — built to take action, integrate, and survive a duty cycle.

ENGAGE

Scope a custom & tuned models engagement.

Start with a 30-minute briefing. Bring the workflow, the architecture, or the accreditation question. We bring the engineer who can answer it.

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