Silicon Requirements Assessment
SiliconAIR Phase 0: mission description to a complete silicon requirements and compliance specification. A different product — and a different price point — from Hardware Trust.
Operational Friction & Multipolar Mandate
Why traditional ad-hoc approaches fail at scale, and the precision protocol deployed to resolve it.
Why this engagement exists
Program offices can describe a mission but not the silicon that delivers it. Requirements scoping, compliance cross-referencing, and NRE baselining are still manual, late, and inconsistent — so programs enter acquisition with incomplete requirements, discover export-control and trust constraints mid-flight, and re-baseline under pressure.
- ✕Requirements documents are assembled manually and differ from review to review.
- ✕Export-control, trust, and anti-tamper constraints surface after design work begins.
- ✕NRE and make-vs-buy economics are estimated informally, if at all.
- ✕Acquisition packages go forward without a defensible silicon requirements baseline.
Engineered scope & execution
We run SiliconAIR Phase 0 for the chip or program you name: automated requirements capture from the mission description, framework cross-references, NRE and make-vs-buy economics, and a program-office decision package. Each program is a Phase 0 unit at $75,000. This is a scoping engine for silicon that does not yet have a complete requirements baseline — not a posture assessment of existing systems.
- ✓Mission framing workshop: platform, environment, threat, and constraints
- ✓Phase 0 requirements capture across hardware dimensions
- ✓Compliance and export-control cross-referencing
- ✓NRE and make-vs-buy economics baseline
- ✓Program-office decision package built for acquisition
What You Take Away
Every deliverable is named, structured, and tied to an immutable operational outcome. Nothing ships as a slide deck with no longevity.
Phase 0 silicon requirements baseline
The complete requirements baseline for the chip or program: performance, trust, provenance, and the hardware dimensions that drive NRE and export control.
The program enters acquisition with a defensible, structured requirements baseline instead of a manually assembled document.
Compliance cross-reference and roadmap
Export-control, trust, and assurance regimes mapped to the requirements, with a roadmap for staying compliant as the program evolves.
Compliance constraints are known before design begins, not discovered mid-program.
NRE / make-vs-buy economics baseline
Non-recurring engineering estimates and make-vs-buy comparison grounded in the requirements, not in vendor quotes alone.
The program office can defend budget and sourcing decisions with quantified economics.
Program-office decision package
Requirements, compliance, and economics assembled the way a PMO needs them for acquisition review — not a workshop readout.
The package goes into acquisition processes as-is, saving a re-packaging cycle.
How This Engagement Runs
Structured gates from initial telemetry and baseline ingestion to verified exit capabilities.
Frame the mission
You describe the platform, operating environment, threat, and constraints. We turn that into a structured silicon profile that drives everything downstream.
Scope requirements
Phase 0 capture runs across the hardware dimensions that drive NRE, export control, and trust: performance, assurance, provenance, and lifecycle.
Cross-reference and cost
Frameworks and export-control regimes are mapped to the requirements, and the economics baseline (NRE, make-vs-buy) is produced so the program office can decide.
Decision package
Everything is assembled into a decision package a PMO can take into acquisition. We close with a readout to the program office and stakeholders.
Interactive Pricing Studio & Scope Engine
Our pricing is engineered, not asserted. Configure your organization profile and estate parameters to see the exact real-time cost breakdown.
Configure Your Parameters
The fee moves on three objective multipliers—Sensitivity, Involvement, and Org Type. Each factor reflects real operational handling and operator time.
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.
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.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Specific intelligence regarding security clearance, deliverable ownership, platform telemetry, and execution cadence.
Hardware Trust is posture on systems you already run, billed at $15,000 per system. This is Phase 0 for a chip or program that does not yet have a complete requirements baseline, billed at $75,000 per program. Different products, different price points.
Have unique mission constraints?
Our engineering leadership reviews technical architectures and custom scoping directly under NDA.
Ask an Operator →Adjacent & Next-Stage Engagements
Expand into ongoing retainer coverage, organizational digital twins, or hardware trust specifications.
Ready to Brief Us on the Silicon Requirements Assessment?
We select our client engagements carefully and confirm technical scope, operator capacity, and final pricing directly in the initial briefing.