Service-disabled veteran-owned
Commercial‑scale engineering, pointed at public problems.
Flintyard builds software for government the way the best commercial teams build it: small scope, working code in production early, and short feedback loops with the people who actually use the system.
What we take on
Legacy modernization
Incremental migration off mainframe and COBOL-era systems. Working software in production every sprint, with the old system still running until the new one has earned the traffic — never a big-bang cutover that puts the mission at risk.
Applied AI
Document processing, eligibility triage, and case summarization — built with evaluation harnesses, provenance, and human review from day one, so the system can survive an audit and a FOIA request.
Systems at scale
Infrastructure that holds up on the last day of open enrollment, when a year of traffic arrives in six hours. Load engineering, observability, and incident response practices carried over from commercial systems.
How we work
Discovery
Two weeks with the people who use the system and the staff who maintain it. What gets written down is what actually happens — not what the process document says happens.
Working software
Something real in a staging environment inside the first month, and every sprint after that. Progress is demonstrated by software you can click, not by a status deck.
Handoff
Your team owns it when the engagement ends. Documentation, runbooks, and pairing throughout — not a knowledge-transfer meeting scheduled for the final week.
Senior people do the work
The people who scope the work are the people who write the code. No account manager in between, no hand-off to a different team after the award, and no pyramid where the engineers who won the contract are not the ones who show up to build it.
Flintyard takes on a small number of engagements at a time and staffs them deeply rather than broadly. That is the right trade for programs where the binding constraint is judgment rather than headcount — a modernization that needs a plan before it needs forty contractors.
As Flintyard grows, every hire will be a veteran or the family member of one. That is a hiring commitment, not a marketing position.
The experience behind Flintyard
Flintyard is a service-disabled veteran-owned firm. The engineering experience behind it was built in the commercial technology industry — designing, shipping, and operating systems that carried national-scale traffic and could not be allowed to fail quietly.
Flintyard exists because the gap between how those systems get built and how government systems get built is not a talent gap. It is a structure gap — incentives, contract shape, and feedback loops. Most of what makes public software fail is decided before anyone writes a line of code.
That experience shows up as specific habits: instrumenting a system before scaling it, treating migrations as reversible steps rather than events, and writing the runbook while the knowledge is fresh instead of during turnover.
Prior engineering experience at
Former employers, listed as engineering background. They are not Flintyard clients and imply no endorsement.
Most government software fails for reasons that have nothing to do with technology. Flintyard works on the parts that actually break.
Have a program that needs to actually ship?
Flintyard responds to sources sought notices, RFIs, and market research requests — and is glad to talk well before any of that.