Axiom
Requirements drift between meetings and documents, and by the design review nobody can say what the program actually committed to.
Compliance evidence gets assembled by hand at the end, when the findings cost more than the defects did. Then the team rotates and the reasoning leaves with them.
What Axiom is
Axiom is Softek's internal AI-augmented delivery accelerator, built around the federal lifecycle and refined on our own federal delivery work. Eight specialized agents cover requirements capture through deployment and operations. It is not a product sold to the Government: it runs in Softek's environment, every output is reviewed and approved by a Softek engineer, and the Government pays for outcomes and deliverables, not AI licenses. It accelerates delivery by up to 50% while holding SDLC, FISMA and Section 508 discipline at every phase.
Across every phase
- xCapture
Digital BA
Requirements
Elicitation, user stories, acceptance criteria
Gate: Requirements Review
- xArch
Digital Architect
Design
Architecture and data design against federal standards
Gate: Design Review
- xBuild
Digital Dev
Build
PowerApps, SharePoint, dashboards and data pipelines
Gate: Code Review
- xVerify
Digital QA
Verify
Test cases, automation, Section 508, performance, regression
Gate: Release Approval
Running continuously underneath
- xShieldDigital SecuritySecurity documentation currency, POA&M tracking, compliance monitoring
- xPulseDigital PMDelivery and risk tracking, release orchestration, status reporting
- xCoreKnowledge HubPersistent index of sites, flows, data models and runbooks
- xViewClient PortalReal-time progress, quality and risk dashboards for CORs and PMs
Six stage gates produce an evidence package each: Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review, Security Gate, Release Approval and Post-Deployment. Every output is directed, reviewed and approved by a Softek engineer.
What it covers
Across the lifecycle
- Requirements elicitation, user stories and acceptance criteria, traceable from the start
- Architecture and data design aligned to federal standards
- Accelerated build for PowerApps, SharePoint, dashboards and data pipelines
- Test cases, automated scripts, Section 508, performance and regression before release
Running underneath every phase
- Security documentation currency, POA&M tracking and compliance monitoring
- Delivery and risk tracking, release orchestration and status reporting
- A persistent knowledge base indexing sites, flows, data models and runbooks
- Real-time progress, quality and risk dashboards for CORs and program managers
Governance
- Evidence packages produced at six stage gates: Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review, Security Gate, Release Approval and Post-Deployment
How it is applied
- Greenfield development
- Comprehension and modification of an existing application
- Operations and maintenance
What changes on the program
Requirements live in Word docs and email chains
Structured, traceable, linked to tests automatically
Compliance checked at the end, and it fails
Enforced at every phase, evidence generated as you build
“Where are we?” takes a two-hour status meeting
Real-time dashboards stakeholders check themselves
Knowledge disappears when team members rotate
Persistent knowledge base indexed across the program
Testing starts after development is “done”
Test suites generated alongside code, linked to requirements
ATO prep is a six-month scramble
Security monitoring is continuous, ATO artifacts accumulate
In production at HRSA
Axiom is in production use on our HRSA engagement. That is the only program where we claim production use; everywhere else it has built prototypes and proofs of concept.
- 5.0
- CPARS rating at HRSA
- 5
- Production applications in 2 years
- Up to 50%
- Faster than traditional delivery
Axiom has also built working prototypes for CMS ODAT, AHRQ MEPS and other federal programs, including an 8-screen MEPS data-platform prototype taken from solicitation to demo in days. Those are prototypes, not production deployments.
How it is engaged
- Axiom operates inside Softek's development environment. It does not process client confidential data, which stays in client-authorized systems.
- No Axiom software is deployed into a client environment, and no proprietary Softek runtime is required there.
- It is never licensed, sold or charged to the Government. There is no separate software license or hosting fee.
- Deliverables are Government-owned and maintainable with or without Axiom. No vendor lock-in.
- Every output is directed, reviewed and approved by a Softek engineer.
See Axiom on your program
Send a requirements document and we will build against it, or tell us what you are trying to deliver.
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