Fractional technology leadership and applied AI. I work with organizations whose documents carry real consequence — regulators, professional bodies, and businesses operating under obligations they have to be able to evidence.
What I do
Senior technical judgment without a full-time hire. Architecture and build direction, engineering leadership, vendor and platform evaluation, and getting stalled projects moving again.
Most engagements are fixed-scope and run weeks rather than quarters.1
Assistants built on an organization's own documents, not on the open internet. Every answer cites the source it came from, and the system declines to answer rather than guess when the corpus doesn't cover the question.
Separate audiences — staff and the public — can be served from one corpus with different visibility.2
Security & privacy
Tenant isolation, role-based access with an explain endpoint, a full audit trail, and encryption in transit and at rest — with the data path documented end to end, including where model and embedding calls are processed. Full architecture and security documentation is available on request, and is set out on the Ansora platform, with a current statement of what has and has not yet been independently certified.3
Background
Damien Steiger is President of DEK Consulting Inc. He has led software development organizations as a VP, delivered enterprise consulting engagements in regulated sectors including anti-money-laundering reporting, and designed and built a production retrieval system serving a commercial SaaS platform.4 He works from Cape Breton.
Get in touch
Prefer email? damien@dekconsulting.ca
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