Technical consulting · Central Ohio

Enterprise engineering execution. Without the headcount you cannot justify.

JVF Tech designs, builds, and deploys new-product programs, verification systems, and private AI on your hardware — so dates hold, IP stays inside the building, and operational overhead drops.

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Response within one business day. No discovery theater.

OPERATING PROOF

Vertiv

Honda

Westinghouse

Led inside. Not claimed as current clients.

Risk

The cost of a missing technical layer

Missed commercialization

Ungated NPI produces late-stage redesign, burned launch windows, and margin that never shows up. Program control is cheaper than a slipped quarter.

Unverified systems

Hardware and software that cannot prove what was tested, when, and against which requirement create field escapes and audit exposure.

Data leaving the building

Prompting third-party model APIs with product IP, customer records, or regulated documents is a leakage event, not a productivity gain.

Engagements

Four ways work gets done

NPD

Program Management and New Product Development

INSTALL: A stage-gate and resource model the organization can run — go/kill criteria, TRL risk reduction, capacity allocation.
FOR: Operators with an ungated pipeline, tribal project knowledge, or a team that cannot scale execution without unaccountable headcount.
LEAVE WITH: A gated pipeline and an org design that absorbs more programs — the same discipline that scaled engineering 20 → 45.

A stage-gate the team can actually run. A resource and execution model that scales. Fewer late-stage surprises.

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V&V

Custom Web Applications for Validation, Verification, and Data Aggregation

INSTALL: Custom web applications for software validation, verification, and automated data pulling.
FOR: Teams still running test and production evidence through spreadsheets and email.
LEAVE WITH: Audit-ready proof of what ran, when, and against which requirement — hours returned, defects caught before the field.

Labor hours returned. Defects caught before the field. One source of truth for test and operations data.

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Ops

AI Agent Consulting

INSTALL: AI agents scoped to measurable jobs: intake, triage, document generation, status routing, exception handling.
FOR: Operators drowning in repeatable technical work who cannot dump proprietary data into unmanaged tools.
LEAVE WITH: Lower overhead, shorter cycle time, routing that does not live in one person’s inbox.

Overhead down. Cycle time down. Routing that does not depend on one person’s inbox.

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Wedge

Custom Local AI Solutions

INSTALL: Open-weights models on hardware you control — retrieval, inference, and workflow automation inside the perimeter.
FOR: Operators who cannot leak IP to a model API, and small businesses that cannot match Fortune-scale AI spend.
LEAVE WITH: A working AI capability you own. No vendor lock-in. No API leakage.

AI capacity without a corporate budget — and without giving a model vendor your source of advantage.

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Differentiation

Local AI: data that never leaves your hardware

Enterprise AI programs assume a budget and a data-handling risk most operators should not take. The model stays on your metal. The work never leaves the building.

ON YOUR HARDWARE

Models

Your data

Third-party API

YOUR METAL · YOUR DATA · NO API

Open-weights, your metal

No tenant isolation story. No training-on-your-data clause to litigate later.

Built for the operator, not the hyperscaler

A scoped local system — not a seven-figure vendor stack you will never own.

Exit built in

Weights, prompts, and runbooks transfer. You are left with a capability.

How work gets done

Gated. Timeboxed. Transferred.

Assess

3–5 days

Written technical assessment: problem, constraint, risk, recommended engagement, range.

Architect

1–2 weeks

System design, data-handling rules, success metrics, build sequence.

Build

Scoped

Working system or program operating cadence. Weekly visible output.

Transfer

3–10 days

Runbooks, owners, and a shutdown plan for JVF Tech so the capability stays in-house.

Selected results

Execution, attributed

20 → 45

Engineering organization scaled

Grew a multidisciplinary engineering org while delivering multi-region NPI on time and on budget.

Directed at Vertiv, critical power and switching.

Thousands of hours

Order-entry and configuration automated

Architected configuration logic and automated order entry on a highly configurable product line, cutting labor and configuration error.

Built at Vertiv as Principal Engineer.

$80,000 / cycle

Full-vehicle test replaced

Designed a component-level durability test that replaced expensive full-vehicle testing for a development cycle.

Designed at Honda R&D.

This is for

Founders, owners, and technical directors with a real delivery, verification, or data-risk problem
Companies that will fund a scoped build
Operators who need enterprise rigor and will not get a 45-person department approved

This is not for

Logo redesigns and generic marketing sites
Idea-stage API wrappers with no operating constraint
Unpaid exploratory workshops
Teams shopping for the lowest hourly rate

Questions

Direct answers

Do you replace an internal engineering team?

No. JVF Tech is the execution layer you use when the work is too specialized or too urgent to hire for. The engagement is designed to transfer operating capability back to your staff.

What does a Technical Assessment include?

A written read of the constraint, the technical risk, the recommended engagement, and a commercial range. It is a decision document, not a sales deck.

How do you handle proprietary data?

Local AI deployments run open-weights models on hardware you control. Proprietary data is not sent to third-party model APIs. Assessment materials are treated as confidential.

What industries do you know?

Mission-critical power and data-center infrastructure, automotive electronics and hybrid systems, and nuclear control-room equipment qualification — plus most software and program systems that make any business run.

How fast can work start?

If the fit is real and the budget band is set, architecture can start the week after the assessment. Builds are scoped; they are not open-ended retainers.

What is the typical engagement size?

Most builds land between $15,000 and $150,000. Program and multi-system work can exceed that.

Will you work with our existing stack?

Yes. Systems are designed against the tools, hardware, and constraints you already have. Greenfield is used only when the current stack cannot carry the risk.

Where is JVF Tech based?

Central Ohio. Work is executed remotely across the United States, with on-site presence when hardware, labs, or classified environments require it.

Intake

Request a Technical Assessment

Three steps. One written response. No calendar-link maze.

— Response within one business day
— Proprietary data is not sent to third-party model APIs
— Central Ohio · United States
— Direct to John Van Fossen — not a BDR queue

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