Montana-Built · Government-First · AI Governance
Standing Framework builds secure, workflow-integrated AI systems for state agencies — grounded in your rules, your responsibilities, and your chain of accountability. Not a chatbot. A system of record that works.
What We Do
We don't retrofit a general-purpose AI onto your workflows. We build from your regulations, decision trees, and compliance requirements — then connect AI directly to how your employees already work.
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We model your agency's legal authorities, policy hierarchies, and operational rules as a structured, machine-readable knowledge graph — making obligations visible and dependencies traceable.
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We deploy AI agents that operate within defined policy boundaries — augmenting staff capacity on permitting, compliance review, case management, and reporting without removing human authority.
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We design the governance layer: audit trails, accountability structures, and oversight controls that satisfy state leadership, legislative scrutiny, and emerging federal AI mandates.
Why Standing Framework is different.
Built by insiders
Our founders spent a decade inside Montana state and federal agencies. We understand procurement, accountability, and the reality of public service — not just the technology.
Secure & state-controlled
Your data stays within your infrastructure. No third-party model training on agency content. Sovereignty and chain-of-custody are design requirements, not afterthoughts.
Humans remain in control
AI handles the repetitive — structured queries, compliance checks, document drafts. Final decisions stay with your staff. Accountability never transfers to the machine.
Who We Serve
We focus where structured AI delivers the clearest return: agencies managing regulatory obligations, environmental compliance, public health systems, and natural resource governance.
DEQ
Department of Environmental Quality
Permitting workflows, environmental review, compliance tracking, and regulatory correspondence — structured for staff capacity and auditability.
DPHHS
Dept. of Public Health & Human Services
Case management, eligibility determination, policy-aligned documentation, and cross-program reporting with full accountability trails.
DOA
Department of Administration
Statewide AI governance infrastructure, policy standardization, and enterprise-level oversight architecture for coordinated state deployment.
Get in Touch
We begin every engagement with a no-obligation briefing — a working session to understand your current workflows, identify the highest-value AI applications, and assess fit before any commitment.
Our Ethics
We do not believe in a zero-sum future. Technology that displaces workers without creating something better in return is not progress — it's a choice. We choose differently.
Standing Framework exists to help Montana state agencies do more with the people they already have — not to automate away the jobs of public servants. When agencies operate more efficiently, the goal isn't a smaller workforce. It's a more capable one, freed to take on the larger challenges Montana has been deferring for decades.
Permitting bottlenecks and administrative backlogs delay roads, bridges, water systems, and broadband that working Montanans depend on. Structured AI compresses review timelines and produces defensible decisions — so projects move, and communities benefit sooner.
Wildfire risk, timber management, and forest health require fast, well-documented project approvals. We believe AI-assisted regulatory workflows can accelerate the sustainable forest management that protects firefighters, wildlife, recreation, and the working lands that define Montana's economy.
When projects move from backlog to shovel-ready faster, working-class Montanans get to work. Our goal is a state government that approves and delivers more — creating demand for the skilled tradespeople, contractors, and land stewards who build and maintain Montana's infrastructure.
We are not here to replace public servants. We are here to give them better tools — so that a wildlife biologist spends less time on paperwork and more time in the field, so that a permitting officer can clear a backlog without burning out, and so that Montana can say yes to more of the projects its communities have been waiting years for. That is what capacity means to us.
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