Ingress/About

A small firm
that ships real systems.

Founded in 2014 in Reston, Virginia. Ten years of regulated-industry IT delivery, federal, financial, healthcare. SBA-certified small business. Now with an in-house AI division, Otonmi.

Est. 2014 · Reston, VA Small Business · SBA GSA MAS · #47QTCA26D000K
Delivery model
Senior practitioners only
The people who scope it build it
Operating Principle

Strategy and delivery,
under one roof.

Ingress was founded on a simple bet: that the same firm should write the strategy and ship the system. Most consultancies divide the two; we believe that division is the root cause of most failed transformations.

Our principals all run delivery. Our delivery leaders all advise on strategy. The diagnostic is real because the people writing it would be staffing the build.

  • Practitioner-led. Every engagement is staffed by people who've shipped before.
  • Right-sized. Small teams of senior people. We don't pyramid-staff.
  • Audit-ready. Documentation, lineage, and runbooks shipped with the system, not after.
  • Cleared where it counts. A maintained network of cleared talent for federal and defense.
What We Hold Ourselves To

Four commitments.

Same four lines we read at every internal review. They sound simple. They aren't.

01.

Honest diagnoses.

If the right answer is "don't buy this," we say it. If we're not the right firm, we say that too. Reputation outlasts revenue.

02.

Senior only.

Our teams are small and senior by design. No green bench warmers staffed onto your work to learn on the job.

03.

Code over decks.

Working systems beat slideware. Our deliverables run in production. Our slides exist to explain them, not replace them.

04.

Plain contracts.

Fixed-fee diagnostics, milestone-priced delivery, T&M with monthly true-up. No surprise SOWs, no change-order theater.

Timeline

Ten years, briefly.

A short version of the company history. The longer version is in the diagnostic, if you ask.

2014

Founded in Reston, Virginia.

Five engineers, one cloud-modernization contract for a financial-services client, and a stubborn belief that strategy and delivery should sit at the same table.

2017

First federal engagement.

First civilian-agency contract, delivered as a sub on a prime IDIQ. Three more followed in eighteen months. The federal practice formalized.

2019

SBA small-business certification.

Eligible for set-aside vehicles where size standards apply. Cleared-talent network grows past one hundred.

2021

Data & analytics practice spun up.

First Snowflake and dbt programs. Embedded analytics-engineering pods become a standard offer.

2024

Otonmi launches.

In-house AI division. Aizen™ methodology. Air-gapped GenAI delivery for regulated and defense workloads.

2026

GSA MAS award.

Direct order under MAS contract #47QTCA26D000K, SIN 54151S, 54151HEAL, 518210C. Federal customers can now buy Ingress without a sub-relationship.

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