Independent practice · Est. 2018 · Rapid City, South Dakota
Describe the system.
Do not decorate it.
Specialized auditing, compliance review, and automated system architecture for institutions and foundations. We do not sell "solutions" in the corporate sense. We identify bottlenecks, flag institutional mendacity, and record what a system actually does.
Operational scope
The practice
01
Regulatory Compliance & Auditing
Review of IRB protocols, research programs, HIPAA, and FERPA structures. We audit for procedural integrity, ethical alignment, and regulatory exposure.
02
System Architecture & Automation
Localized, high-redundancy processing systems. Design and scaling of automated workflows that reduce legacy manual labor and institutional bloat.
03
Behavioral Strategy
System-wide behavioral mitigation for high-acuity residential environments (PRTF / ARU). Consulting on holds reduction, safety protocols, and staff response models.
Consulting philosophy
Structural skepticism, measurable close-out.
Engagements are scoped for specific outcomes. We review operations with the same posture used in research-compliance work: if it is not written, versioned, and owned, it is not a control. Broken high-overhead processes get replaced with localized, high-redundancy systems — or they get named as the risk they are.
The firm sits next to, and is distinct from, the Observable Compute Foundation. Consulting is the practice. The Foundation is the 501(c)(3) research arm.
Simulated systems integrity feed
Stylized simulation of the audit workflow. Not live client or system data.
Frameworks
What the work is standing on
Independent critiques are kept in the open so operational service does not have to impersonate research, and research does not have to impersonate a pitch deck.
Working papers · Rapid City
Director
Adam Ian Stratmeyer, J.D.
Legal-technical researcher. Former graduate compliance officer at the University of South Dakota (300+ IRB protocol reviews). Former faculty. Current fieldwork in high-acuity residential care. The dossier is on the record; the work is not a personality brand.