Digital, cloud, and operations work the rest of the catalog does not cover.
Special Projects is where Black Fox takes on the work that does not fit neatly under construction, IT, cyber, or continuity. Website development, product UI/UX design, custom cloud builds, independent auditing, financial management support, and discreet senior-team engagements — staffed with the same standard of cleared, accountable people that runs the rest of the firm.
Each engagement combines a small senior team with the systems, tooling, and partner network the mission demands.
Marketing sites, agency portals, and citizen-facing applications built on modern stacks (React, Next.js, headless CMS) with accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and Section 508 conformance baked in from day one.
Research-led product and service design: discovery, journey mapping, wireframes, design systems, and high-fidelity prototypes. We design what gets built and we sit at the table when it gets built.
Custom cloud builds the catalog cannot describe — mission-specific data platforms, analytics workspaces, agency-owned LLM gateways, and FedRAMP-aligned tenancy work delivered as discrete, fixed-scope engagements.
Independent IT, program, financial, and compliance audits scoped against AICPA, GAGAS, NIST, and customer-defined criteria. Counsel-ready findings, defensible workpapers, and a remediation roadmap that names owners.
CFO-grade financial management support for federal and quasi-government programs: budget formulation and execution, cost estimating (IGCE), DCAA-compliant accounting support, and earned-value reporting that withstands audit.
Concept-to-prototype in 90 days for software, hardware, and integrated systems — plus 72-hour surge cells when a program needs senior people on contract before another resume can be reviewed.
Sit with the customer, define the actual decision being made, and the latest moment a useful answer can arrive.
Hand-pick a 3–7 person team with the exact skill mix the problem demands — designers, full-stack engineers, cloud architects, auditors, or financial analysts as the work requires.
Daily reporting, weekly decision points, no surprises. Cancel the engagement at any milestone, no penalty.
Transition the artifact, the source code, the design system, the workpapers — plus a written runbook — to the program of record. Then disappear.
A representative slice of recent special projects engagements across local, state, federal, quasi-government, and private clients. Signed past-performance references — including direct contracting officer phone numbers — are furnished on qualified inquiries.
Designed and built a citizen-facing services portal on a modern React + headless CMS stack; Section 508 and WCAG 2.2 AA conformant, average page load under 1.4s on 3G profiles.
Discovery, journey mapping, design system, and high-fidelity prototypes for a residential permitting platform; usability testing showed a 46% reduction in task-completion time.
Custom cloud build of an agency-owned LLM gateway with policy enforcement, prompt logging, and FedRAMP-aligned tenancy; supports 11 internal applications under a single governance plane.
GAGAS-aligned independent audit of a $58M IT modernization program; identified 23 prioritized findings and a remediation roadmap adopted by the board within 30 days.
Embedded financial management cell producing IGCEs, monthly EVMS reports, and DCAA-aligned accounting support for two task orders totaling $112M in obligations.
UI/UX research, design system, and full-stack development of a B2B analytics product; from concept to general availability in 11 months with a 7-person Black Fox team.
Stabilized a struggling federal grant accounting program: cleared a 9-month reconciliation backlog and produced an unqualified audit response within one quarter.
Outside-in evaluation of an at-risk $74M IT modernization vendor; produced a 30-day candor report with go/no-go recommendation that was adopted by the program executive.
Tell us what you are trying to accomplish. We will tell you, in writing, whether we are the right team and how we would attack it.
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