House Strategies Group delivers finance, public-sector treasury and investment advisory, real estate, and management consulting to federal, state & local, and commercial clients — and builds the AI products and Responsible-AI guardrails that modern government work demands.
Deep federal, state & local, and commercial expertise across finance, public-sector treasury & investment advisory, real estate, management, human resources, policy, and AI — delivered by a team that has worked at the highest levels of government advisory.
HSG delivers rigorous financial advisory to federal agencies and private clients — from complex portfolio modeling and budget analysis to HUD transaction support and financial systems design. Our principals have advised on multibillion-dollar federal portfolios and bring deep HUD, VA, Ginnie Mae, and USDA financial expertise, combining Big 4-caliber analytical rigor with the agility of a certified 8(a) firm.
HSG advises the stewards of public money — county treasurers, controllers, finance directors, and treasury oversight committees — on the management and independent evaluation of public investment portfolios, from multi-billion-dollar county treasury pools to operating, reserve, and bond-proceeds funds. We pair institutional fixed-income discipline with deep public-funds expertise: portfolio construction and performance measurement, total-return benchmarking, and liquidity stress-testing, together with the statutory-compliance review that governs every public dollar — including California Government Code §53601 et seq. As an independent advisory firm, we serve precisely where agencies need rigorous analysis and board-ready counsel rather than discretionary money management — the equivalent, non-custodial public-finance expertise that treasury evaluations require.
HSG has directly managed federal lease portfolios, supported public-private real estate transactions, and modernized the systems that track government real property assets. Our team has administered leases across VA, HUD, and Navy programs — bringing lease compliance expertise, database proficiency, and field inspection experience to every engagement. Our principals bring decades of combined experience across federal real estate programs at the highest levels of government and industry.
HSG delivers results-driven management consulting that spans workforce standardization, HR data modernization, organizational transformation, and expert litigation support. Our principals have led large-scale federal restructuring efforts, managed multi-agency task forces at the executive level, and provided expert witness support in landmark cases with nine-figure outcomes. We bring the same executive discipline to every engagement regardless of scale.
Classification and compensation is our core practice. We confirm that public-sector position descriptions, salary structures, and benefits packages reflect the duties actually performed and remain competitive against a defensible comparator set. The work is led by a Certified Job Evaluator with thirty years of federal classification experience, producing and defending civil, foreign, and overseas position classifications for multiple United States Government agencies. That is a different starting point from a benchmarking exercise. It means the grade we recommend is one we can defend at a grievance, an appeal, or a hearing.
We work at county, municipal, special-district, and federal scale, with bargaining-unit fluency, MOU interpretation, and the public-meeting cadence these studies require. Every engagement runs on Plumbline, our classification and compensation platform, which records the evidence chain behind each grade as the study is performed rather than reconstructing it afterward.
HSG monitors, interprets, and responds to the federal policy landscape — providing clients with the intelligence and strategic framing they need to anticipate regulatory change before it disrupts their operations. Our live Federal Policy Tracker delivers real-time analysis of executive actions, rulemaking, and agency guidance. Our principals have operated at the intersection of trade policy, agricultural regulation, and federal procurement for decades, giving HSG an unusually broad policy lens.
HSG doesn't just use AI — we build it and we govern it. On the build side, we design and ship production AI products: our GovCert.ai certification platform (a fully-owned HSG company) and a growing suite of client engagement portals delivered on Claude and modern LLM stacks. On the governance side, we advise agencies on Responsible AI — governance frameworks, risk management, model evaluation, and human-in-the-loop assurance for the agentic and generative systems now entering government operations. Our differentiator is simple: we have stood on both sides — writing the code and writing the guardrails.
A disparity study asks whether a government buys from the firms available to it in the proportions you would expect, and if not, why. Most studies answer the first half. They measure availability, measure utilization, divide one by the other, and report the ratio. That number is the beginning of the analysis, not the end of it.
A gap is a question, not a verdict. A ratio below the threshold is consistent with discrimination, and it is equally consistent with differences in firm size, capacity, bonding access, or which firms even learn a contract exists. Our method separates those causes rather than assuming them. We control for capability, model the procurement funnel stage by stage, and test each finding group by group and category by category, so that a jurisdiction learns which of its own practices produce the gap and which do not. We do not assume a jurisdiction is at fault, and we are prepared to report no disparity where the data shows none.
That discipline is what makes a study survive contact with a court. City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. requires evidence specific to the jurisdiction, not societal statistics, and in the Fourth Circuit H.B. Rowe v. Tippett governs how that evidence must be built. We design to that standard from the first data request, and we sequence remedies race-neutral first, because a narrowly tailored program has to show that neutral measures were tried.
House Strategies Group is an AI-enabled firm that builds as it bids. Rather than promising capability in a proposal, we stand up a live, data-driven portal for each engagement, so a client can see the analysis instead of reading a description of it. Below is the full map of those environments. We label status honestly. Products are in production. Award Pending means we have submitted and no decision has been issued. Completed work is labeled as completed, including the pursuits we did not win, because the analysis behind them was real and stands on its own.
These environments were built for pursuits that are now closed. Some we did not win, one we chose not to submit. We keep them online because each contains original analysis of public data, and because the fastest way to judge how a firm works is to look at work it has already done.
HSG is led by practitioners who have operated at the highest levels of federal finance and foreign service — and who stay hands-on, on every engagement.
A 38-year USDA Senior Foreign Service officer (Minister Counselor) across Beijing, Brussels, Bangkok, Islamabad, and Lagos. Managed a $1.2B FAS export-credit portfolio and led the 2007 global food-price interagency task force adopted by the President and NSC.
Leads HSG's federal finance and public-sector practice — 20+ years across housing finance, capital markets, and real estate portfolios, from Ginnie Mae and HUD to the world's largest public loan-sale program and county treasury evaluation.
A Certified Job Evaluator credentialed by the U.S. Department of State and a retired Foreign Service HR Officer. Thirty years producing and defending federal civil, foreign, and overseas position classifications, at missions from Hanoi and Beijing to Pretoria, Paris, and Brasília.
We write about what we know and build what we need. Our thought leadership spans federal policy analysis, real estate markets, AI in government, and the broader questions of democratic governance — alongside a growing suite of practitioner tools.
HSG serves clients across the political spectrum. Our value to them is competence and honest counsel — not ideological alignment. A client's determination of our viability as a contractor should never turn on our political views.
That said, we have them. Our blog includes industry analysis, policy research, and occasionally frank political commentary — all published under our name, because intellectual honesty requires ownership.
Read the Full Statement →A sustained analysis of the structural conditions testing the American republic — inflating executive power, electoral distortion, financial minority capture, and the total absence of codified behavioral standards. Draws on Roman history, the Framers' unfinished work, and the sociology of ruling-class secession.
Read Essay →How a process failure in our 8(a) onboarding explains almost everything that followed — a case study in how administrative dysfunction gets laundered as enforcement action.
Read Article →On the unavoidability of the AI safety conversation and where a small federal advisory firm sits in the transition to AI-augmented government work.
Read Article →A close look at what labor force exit actually costs, who pays it, and what it reveals about the structural health of the American labor market.
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