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Automate the back office. Keep the decision.

Rhode Island Airport Corporation · Procurement modernization

Procurement moved from email threads to a documented 15-step workflow: nine procurement paths, an 87-page operating guide, and a numbering system that makes every action traceable. That groundwork makes an AI agent safe to deploy, and it is where every Munivera engagement starts.

Read the RIAC case study

14
Years as a warranted federal Contracting Officer
30–60
Days from kickoff to a working pilot
7
Packaged offerings, assessment to managed ops
0
Agency documents hosted on Munivera infrastructure

01 — Wedge products

Specific workflows. Not a citywide chatbot.

Invoices waiting in shared inboxes. Permit backlogs. Records requests measured in weeks. One senior buyer who is the only person who knows the procedure. That is where the staff time goes, and where Munivera starts: procurement, contracts, finance, and the document-heavy back office.

3 weeks

AI Workflow Assessment

Five to ten prioritized automatable workflows, an ROI model, data and risk requirements, an architecture recommendation, and one recommended pilot.

Sized to fit common municipal small-purchase thresholds.

45 days

Government Knowledge Assistant

Secure retrieval over ordinances, policies, contracts, minutes, SOPs, and handbooks, with citations the employee can check before acting.

45 days

Procurement Intake & Solicitation Agent

Requisition intake, completeness checks, policy lookup, scope drafting, procurement-path recommendation, and a review package for the contracting officer or purchasing director.

From the field · Rhode Island Airport Corporation

Clean procedures, a numbering system, and a documented workflow are what make automation safe. That is the work we did first.

— Marcus Hale, on the RIAC engagement

02 — Land and expand

Assess. Pilot. Deploy. Operate.

Outcomes, not hours. The first purchase is an assessment. Production and managed operations follow only after a measured before/after.

  1. 01 · 3 weeks

    Assessment

    One recommended pilot and a defensible ROI case.

  2. 02 · 30–60 days

    Pilot

    Measured before/after on one workflow.

  3. 03 · 3–6 months

    Production

    Deployed, integrated, trained, and documented.

  4. 04 · Ongoing

    Managed ops

    Accuracy, cost, and change management.

03 — Deterministic by design

Most of the system is not AI. That is the point.

Every vendor claims trustworthy AI. Adjectives cannot be verified, so the architecture makes the claim instead: the model does one bounded task, and ordinary, testable software does everything else.

  1. Step 01

    Intake

    Rules decide what enters. Incomplete requests never reach the model.

  2. Step 02

    Retrieve

    Existing permissions decide what is read. Nothing more.

  3. The only AI step

    Model

    One bounded task: extract, draft, or summarize.

  4. Step 04

    Validate

    Code checks every output before a person sees it.

  5. Step 05

    Approve

    A named employee signs anything that matters.

Every step logged. If a step can be a rule, it is a rule — not a prompt.

04 — How IT approves this

Runs in your tenant. Built to pass IT review.

Munivera does not host agency data. Identity, retention, logging, and employee approval stay inside the environment the CIO already runs.

05 — Start

You do not need an AI strategy. You need one workflow measured.

For scale: one accounts-payable workflow, at 20,000 documents and ten minutes each, is roughly $97,500 a year in recoverable capacity.Run your own numbers, then bring the workflow and the system of record. A principal follows up.