Custom Silicon Program Office Support
Dedicated SiliconAIR engineering for a single silicon program: requirements, compliance, and supply-chain decisions kept defensible for the duration.
Why this engagement exists
Silicon programs are run on tribal knowledge and stale baselines. Requirements drift, compliance questions get answered ad hoc, and supply-chain decisions are made without current silicon context — until a program review exposes that the evidence behind the decisions no longer exists.
What it looks like in your organization
- The program’s requirements baseline no longer matches what is being decided.
- Compliance and export-control questions are answered case by case, inconsistently.
- Supply-chain and sourcing decisions lack current silicon context.
- Program reviews demand assurance the program cannot produce on demand.
What we do and how it works
We embed SiliconAIR engineering with your program office for the duration: requirements kept structured and current, compliance cross-referenced as regimes shift, and supply-chain decisions grounded in live silicon context. Phase 0 programs are scoped separately; this is sustained program engineering on an existing program.
The engagement includes
- Program onboarding and SiliconAIR configuration
- Requirements engineering kept current across the program
- Compliance and export-control cross-referencing as regimes shift
- Supply-chain and sourcing decision support
- Program-review assurance material on demand
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Living requirements baseline
Requirements baselineThe program’s requirements kept structured, current, and traceable as decisions are made.
Program decisions are always traceable to a current requirements baseline.
Compliance cross-reference, continuously
CrosswalkExport-control, trust, and assurance regimes mapped to the program as they shift.
Compliance questions are answered from current context, not memory.
Supply-chain decision support
Decision supportSourcing and supply decisions grounded in live silicon context and exposure.
Supply decisions are defensible at the moment they are made.
Program-review assurance packages
Assurance packagesThe evidence and analysis program reviews demand, produced on demand.
Program reviews are answered from current evidence.
How this engagement runs
Onboard the program
Weeks 1–2The program is onboarded: requirements baseline ingested, SiliconAIR configured, and the engagement cadence agreed.
SiliconAIR is live on the program.
Run requirements engineering
OngoingRequirements kept structured and current as the program decides; every decision traceable.
No decision drifts from the baseline.
Keep compliance current
OngoingRegime shifts cross-referenced into the program as they happen, not after they bite.
Compliance continuity across the program duration.
Support reviews
On demandAssurance packages produced for program reviews from current context.
Reviews answered on demand.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
Each hardware-bound system profiled for trust, provenance, and silicon posture — the hardware dimension of CYBAIR.
The number of systems you nominate for assessment. This is posture on systems you run or plan to run — not Phase 0 chip-program scoping.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
No. Phase 0 (Silicon Requirements Assessment) scopes a program that lacks a requirements baseline. This is sustained engineering on an existing program. If your program needs Phase 0 first, we will say so.
Ready to brief us on the Custom Silicon Program Office Support?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.