# Affinity Networks Inc (ANi)

> Agentic AI consulting and governed AI deployment for federal, clinical, and regulated environments. Founded 2007, Arlington, VA. SAM.gov registered, UEI ZG6RXFXUNBX8, primary NAICS 541512. Method: "little ai", crawl, walk, run; autonomy is the last step, granted only after governance, evals, and observability are in place.

Contact: build@theanigroup.com (general), contracts@theanigroup.com (federal contracting), +1 (703) 957-0110.

## Pages

- [Home](https://theanigroup.com/): What ANi builds and the governed agent pipeline that runs every action.
- [Services](https://theanigroup.com/services): Agentic system development (including OSINT collection and fusion), AI governance and assurance, data fabric and integration (FHIR R4, high-speed low-latency pipelines), applied AI strategy. Model-agnostic: open-weight models on customer infrastructure, frontier models where policy allows.
- [Approach](https://theanigroup.com/approach): The little ai method, the governed pipeline, and how it maps to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and OMB M-25-21.
- [Work](https://theanigroup.com/work): Case studies across healthcare, federal, defense and homeland security (OSINT fusion, low-latency sensor-to-decision pipelines), energy, and regulated industry.
- [Government](https://theanigroup.com/government): Capability statement, contract vehicles, past performance (VA, US Army Medical Command, CMS, state and municipal), security posture, contracting FAQ.
- [Commercial](https://theanigroup.com/commercial): Enterprise engagements: pilot-first, fixed scope, no lock-in, customer owns IP and data, commercial FAQ.
- [Edge & autonomous systems](https://theanigroup.com/autonomy): Active R&D in decentralized micro-agent autonomy (Rust/WebAssembly), resilient undersea orchestration, contested-edge operations.
- [Security & trust](https://theanigroup.com/trust): HIPAA under signed BAAs, SOC 2 in progress, CMMC Level 2 preparation, data-handling commitments enforced in code.
- [How we evaluate](https://theanigroup.com/evaluation): Evaluation gates before go-live, continuous evals and drift monitoring after.
- [Applied model card](https://theanigroup.com/model-card): CHAI-aligned model card for the clinical intelligence layer.
- [Insights](https://theanigroup.com/insights): Executive briefings, positions, and field notes, available on request.
- [Heritage](https://theanigroup.com/heritage): Four decades of mission systems, from US Navy submarine command and control and the NASA Space Shuttle program to clinical AI. Founder bio and ventures.
- [Contact](https://theanigroup.com/contact): How to start a build.

## Facts

- Legal name: Affinity Networks, Inc. Brand: ANi. Domain: theanigroup.com.
- "little ai" is intentionally lowercase.
- Federal identifiers: UEI ZG6RXFXUNBX8, CAGE 3C0M8, DUNS 118266076, NAICS 541512, 541511, 541519, 518210, 541611, 621999.
- Office: 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 102, Arlington, VA 22201.
- Position on recursive self-improvement (RSI): supported, but gated. Systems may propose their own improvements; changes pass the same evaluation gate as human releases, are audit-trailed, and are reversible.