Independent Practice · Est. 2018 · Rapid City, South Dakota
Describe the system.
Do not decorate it.
Specialized practice in AI Development, Personal Consulting, IRB Protocol Review, and AI Ethics. We audit for procedural integrity, design sovereign autonomous agent architectures, and evaluate computational systems against empirical reality.
Operational Capabilities
Core Practice Pillars
SOVEREIGN ARCHITECTURE
AI Development & Autonomous Systems
We design and deploy sovereign, localized processing infrastructure that cuts out recurring SaaS vendor bloat. We build autonomous agent pipelines, deterministic evaluation test harnesses, private inference clusters (vLLM / TensorRT), and observable compute monitoring.
- Autonomous agent workflows with verified tool decomposition
- Zero-telemetry on-premise local inference enclaves
- Deterministic evaluation harnesses for drift and hallucination suppression
- Custom LoRA adaptation and high-fidelity dataset purification
Deterministic Execution
No prompt hand-waving. Every agent loop is verified through reproducible regression benchmarks and observable logs.
CONFIDENTIAL ADVISORY
Personal Consulting with Adam Ian Stratmeyer, J.D.
Direct 1-on-1 counsel for executive directors, founders, and research principals facing high-stakes operational crossroads. We analyze systemic disputes, regulatory scrutiny, contractual risk, and organizational crisis with rigorous analytical skepticism.
- Confidential retained counsel without intermediary staff
- Forensic analysis of institutional disputes and unwritten liabilities
- Bridging statutory law (Common Rule, FDA, FTC) with software realities
- Behavioral crisis mitigation models adapted from high-acuity fieldwork
Retained Executive Counsel
All engagements undergo strict conflict screening. Inquiries receive personal review within 48 business hours.
RESEARCH INTEGRITY
IRB Review & Human-Subjects Compliance
Grounding our audits in 300+ human-subjects protocol reviews conducted by Director Adam Stratmeyer during his service as Graduate Compliance Officer in the Office of Research at the University of South Dakota. We audit protocols, consent mechanisms, and Common Rule compliance.
- 45 CFR 46 (Common Rule) and FDA 21 CFR 50/56 protocol auditing
- Informed consent architecture: removing therapeutic misconception and coercion
- Audit verification of expedited and exempt study determinations
- Auditing algorithmic and passive digital subject-tracking ethics
300+ Protocols Audited
Real compliance office experience. We reconstruct the actual paper trail before external regulators inspect it.
EMPIRICAL AUDITING
AI Ethics & Algorithmic Accountability
We reject decorative corporate "AI ethics" whitepapers. We take an adversarial, empirical approach: testing what autonomous models actually output under boundary conditions. Grounded in our published research on Observable Function and the Helpful-Harmless Paradox.
- Observable Function behavioral mapping under stress tests
- The Helpful-Harmless Paradox: measuring model sycophancy and veracity loss
- Refusal boundary calibration and prompt injection resilience testing
- Cryptographic state logging for autonomous agent actions
No Marketing Theater
Independent audits that give boards and leadership empirical proof of what their systems actually do.
Pillar 01
AI Development & Compute
Private LLM pipelines, autonomous agent frameworks, and deterministic test harnesses built for sovereign operation.
Pillar 02
Personal Consulting
Confidential 1-on-1 strategic counsel with Adam Stratmeyer, J.D. for technology founders and research executives.
Pillar 03 & 04
IRB Review & AI Ethics
300+ protocol reviews experience. Human subjects Common Rule auditing and empirical algorithmic accountability.
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.
Talent Acquisition
We're Hiring
Stratmeyer Analytica is actively expanding our team. We hire researchers and systems architects who prioritize empirical evidence, clean execution, and structural honesty over corporate theater. Remote-first with flexible retainer and full-time tracks.
AI Systems Engineer & Agent Architect
Build autonomous agent systems, private local inference clusters, and deterministic evaluation test harnesses. Replace cloud API bloat with sovereign on-premise compute.
IRB & Human-Subjects Compliance Auditor
Audit institutional research protocols, informed consent documentation, HIPAA research authorisations, and Common Rule compliance for university and foundation research.
Ready to apply? Send your portfolio, GitHub, or audit writing directly to adamstratmeyer@gmail.com.
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, South Dakota
Director
Adam Ian Stratmeyer, J.D.
Legal-technical researcher and founding director. Former Graduate Compliance Officer at the University of South Dakota (300+ human-subjects protocol reviews and alternate IRB member). Former faculty. Current fieldwork in high-acuity residential behavioral care. Author of three published volumes.