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Make AI work for
your company.
Infrastructure for enterprise AI.
Determinant Systems helps companies design, build, and deploy AI workflows that are controlled, reliable, and useful in production.
Model business workflowsPolicy-governed executionDeployable AI apps
An AI Consultancy
Built for the Agentic Era.
Determinant Systems helps organizations move from AI experiments to AI systems they can run in production. We implement enterprise AI workflows, build agentic systems for complex business processes, and deploy our own platform - LACE - for organizations that need full control over how AI operates inside their environment.
We work with businesses that can't afford unpredictable outputs: regulated industries, government programs, professional services, and any team where a wrong answer isn't just annoying - it's a liability.
LACE // WORKFLOW RUNTIME
Regional health modernization proposal pipeline
02 // Search queued
query_public_web
federal programs, grants, and modernization guidance
03 // Retrieve queued
retrieve_private_corpus
prior bids, policy packs, and internal capability notes
04 // Context queued
build_context_pack
evidence map, source weights, and policy rails composed
05 // Decide queued
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strategy branch selected from fit, risk, and scope
06 // Synthesize queued
draft_response
executive summary, workplan, and differentiators generated
07 // Deliver queued
review_export
approval route + packet export
The Problem
Most AI tools are fast.
Very few are trustworthy.
Generic chatbots
Fast and capable, but impossible to govern. No policies, no audit trail, no way to enforce consistency. Ask the same question twice and get two different answers. Unacceptable in any regulated or high-stakes environment.
Custom AI builds
Precise and controllable, but expensive, slow, and brittle. Each one is built from scratch, takes months to deliver, and serves exactly one use case. When requirements change, you start over.
What's actually needed
AI that operates inside real business rules. Auditable outputs. Consistent results. The ability to review, approve, and trace every decision without a six-month build cycle for every new workflow.
Our Platform
Introducing LACE.
LACE is an enterprise AI platform that turns business workflows into governed, repeatable systems. You define what the process should do — the inputs, the rules, the outputs — and LACE compiles it into a pipeline that runs AI inside controlled steps, validates every result before it counts, and keeps a complete record of everything that happened.
Think of it as the operational layer that sits between a powerful AI model and your actual business — making sure the AI does what you need, the way you need it, every time.
How It Works
From business process to governed AI system in four steps.
01
Define the workflow
Describe what the process does: what information goes in, what decisions get made, what the output looks like. LACE turns that into a structured pipeline — not a prompt, a real repeatable system.
02
Set the rules
Attach the guardrails: which data sources are approved, what language is required, what budget limits apply, which actions need human sign-off before they proceed. Rules travel with the pipeline, every run.
03
Run it — step by step
LACE executes the workflow in order. The AI reasons and generates inside each step, but the output is treated as a proposal — it doesn't become real until it passes your defined checks. No step can skip ahead.
04
Review, improve, and deploy
Inspect any run, trace any output back to its source, require human approval at key moments. Once a workflow proves itself, publish it as an internal tool or a full customer-facing application — without writing new infrastructure.
Platform Capabilities
What makes LACE different from an AI wrapper.
LACE isn't a thin layer on top of an AI API. It's a full execution environment — with type-checked pipelines, a policy enforcement layer, full provenance on every output, and a publishing system that turns proven workflows into deployable software.
Deterministic pipelines
Same inputs, same process, inspectable steps — every time. LACE doesn't improvise. Each run follows the exact sequence you defined, with enforced outputs at every stage. When something goes wrong, you know exactly where and why.
Policy-governed execution
Every pipeline runs inside a policy envelope: approved data sources, model constraints, token budgets, authority levels, and human review gates. Policies are set by your team and enforced by the platform — not honored by the AI on good behavior.
AI as a proposal engine
AI generates content — the platform decides whether it's accepted. Nothing the AI produces touches your final document without passing validation checks for accuracy, evidence grounding, and policy compliance. The model suggests. LACE approves.
Full provenance, every output
Every sentence in a LACE output can be traced to the source it came from, the constraint that shaped it, and the step that produced it. If an auditor asks where a claim came from, you have the answer — down to the page and paragraph.
Built for large, complex documents
Most AI tools lose coherence on long documents. LACE was built for them. It ingests and organizes large source files, selects the most relevant material for each step, and maintains consistency across a full document from first section to last.
From workflow to published product
Once a workflow proves itself, LACE can package it as a standalone application — complete with user management, billing, and hosting. You bring the domain knowledge; the platform handles the infrastructure of turning it into software.
Use Cases
Every business has a process that AI could handle — but can't trust it to.
LACE doesn't replace those instincts. It gives AI the structure, the rules, and the oversight that makes it usable in real business environments.
Proposals & Bids
Build a governed proposal workflow that can ingest requirements, align narrative across sections, and keep output grounded under review.
Regulatory & Compliance
Model a regulatory research workflow that can retrieve jurisdiction-specific rules, structure the answer, and keep outputs tied to source text.
Legal & Contract Work
Create a clause-aware drafting and redlining workflow that applies approved language under business rules and preserves reviewability.
Policy & Standards
Turn recurring standards updates into a controlled revision workflow with consistent language, policy checks, and review checkpoints.
Financial Analysis
Build a governed extraction workflow for earnings reports, filings, and financial data with full source citations.
Intelligence & Defense
Stand up a structured knowledge-generation workflow for defense and intelligence programs that need repeatability, traceability, and control.
Trust controls
AI you can audit, not AI that is usually right.
- Every run can be wrapped in a control plane for model, budget, data, and authority policies
- AI output is treated as a proposal inside a defined acceptance path, not final truth
- Human checkpoints can be required for sensitive actions or final approval
- Inputs, steps, outputs, and interventions stay traceable
- The goal is AI you can audit, not AI that is usually right
Deployment options
Deploy anywhere. Your environment, your rules.
- Publish a workflow as an internal tool behind a URL
- Launch standalone LACE apps on shared infrastructure
- Deploy in private cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped environments
- Support provider flexibility, scaling, and multi-tenancy at the platform layer
- Use the same foundation for SaaS products and custom enterprise delivery
Get started
Ready to run AI the right way?
Tell us what process you're trying to govern. We'll show you how LACE handles it - or build it for you.
∞Workflows
100%Traceable
0Black Boxes