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Jacob Clifton
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U.S. Department of the Treasury · 2026 to present

Enterprise AI Architecture Advisory

Advising the federal CIO on deployment, risk assessment, and scaling of enterprise AI across government platforms.

Role · Technical Advisor to the Chief Information Officer.

The problem

Large institutions do not struggle to find AI vendors. They struggle to tell the difference between them, and to deploy anything at all inside real constraints on security, procurement, and public accountability.

Approach

  1. 01

    Evaluate LLM, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic architectures against the operational and compliance constraints they will actually run under.

  2. 02

    Build deployment frameworks that senior non-technical leadership can use to decide, then present them at the executive level.

  3. 03

    Run technical diligence on emerging AI platforms and vendors for security, compliance, and scalability.

Outcome

Presented at the White House on managing AI engineering teams, and on the harder half of that problem, which is not the engineering. It is the product function. Once a team's throughput jumps, planning cadence, scoping, and review become the constraint, and none of them adapt on their own. The engagement is ongoing and public detail is otherwise limited.

Stack

LLM architectureRAGAgentic systemsAI engineering managementTechnical diligenceSecurity & compliance