Government

Government AI without governance is theater.

Government AI fails when agencies cannot prove which rules apply, which systems are in scope, and which evidence supports the decision. Sellhausen Consulting helps federal and state institutions determine applicability, build the decision-control map, and produce evidence that survives IG, GAO, and oversight review.

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The receipts · federal and state

Federal

Entity
Sellhausen Consulting LLC
SAM.gov
Registered · UEI RQJEPZ47MK68
SDVOSB
Being prepared
NAICS
541611 · 541512 · 541519
Veteran
U.S. Army · Service-disabled · Iraq deployment

State (Texas)

Entity
Sellhausen Consulting LLC
CMBL
Active · Vendor ID 14229761185Active since June 17, 2026
VetHUB
Being prepared
NIGP Codes
21 totalClass 918 (15) · Class 920 (6)
Districts
All 25 Texas state procurement districts
Location
Round Rock, TX · Williamson County

The thesis

No system answers for itself. A person does.

There is a category of decisions that cannot be made solely by AI. The duty to the people affected cannot be discharged by a system. The firm exists for the institutions whose structures still carry that duty — and who need help carrying it as the systems get faster, more autonomous, and easier to hand the answer to.

Evidence.

What did the system actually do, on which input, against which standard, with which result? Reproducible. Reviewable. Not narrated.

Accountability.

Who owns the decision. Who reviews it. Who answers when the answer was wrong. Named roles, not RACI diagrams.

Traceability.

The audit trail an examiner — IG, GAO, state auditor — can walk from input to outcome without taking your word for it.

Federal mandates

What the federal buyer is operating inside.

  1. NOW

    OMB M-25-21

    Required every federal agency to complete AI inventories by April 2026. Deadline passed. Most agencies are still not there.

  2. NOW

    OMB M-25-22

    Directs federal agencies on AI acquisition. Procurement officers and vendors selling AI into federal buyers operate inside this memo from intake through delivery.

  3. ONGOING

    NIST AI RMF

    Voluntary on paper, operational floor in practice. Cross-walked against M-25-21 reporting and most agency-level AI policy frameworks.

  4. ACTIVE

    OMB M-26-04

    Establishes Unbiased AI Principles that federal LLM procurements must include contractually. Agency compliance deadline March 11, 2026. Two-year sunset.

State mandates

What the state buyer is operating inside.

  1. NOW

    Texas SB 1964

    Effective September 1, 2025. Governs Texas state agency and local government AI use. Directs the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to establish an AI code of ethics aligned with the NIST AI RMF and to develop minimum risk management standards for heightened-scrutiny AI systems.

  2. JAN 2026

    Texas HB 149 (TRAIGA)

    Texas Responsible AI Governance Act. Signed June 22, 2025; in force as of January 1, 2026. State-actor restrictions on intentionally harmful deployment, biometric identification without consent, and social scoring. Creates a regulatory sandbox and an AI Council.

  3. JAN 2027

    Colorado SB 26-189

    Automated Decision-Making Technology Act. Signed by Governor May 14, 2026; effective January 1, 2027. Repealed-and-reenacted version of the prior Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205), which was substantially modified by SB 25B-008 before being superseded. Developer and deployer documentation obligations.

  4. TRACKING

    Multi-state landscape

    California (SB 53 — frontier transparency, in force), Illinois (HB 3773 — employment AI), New York (RAISE Act — frontier safety), and other state variants tracking. State CIOs already planning for the floor that lands first across multiple jurisdictions.

Two buyers · one method

Same method. Federal and state.

Applicability → Decision → Risk → Control → Evidence — the canonical method, applied to each buyer's actual source-status landscape. The output of every engagement is audit-ready evidence, not decks.

Federal agencies

For agency CIOs, CDOs, and program offices.

OMB M-25-21 remediation · OMB M-25-22 acquisition readiness · NIST AI RMF implementation · inventory documentation the IG and GAO can actually verify.

Federal engagements

State agencies

For state CIOs, CISOs, and procurement leads.

Texas TRAIGA (HB 149) and SB 1964 alignment · CMBL-active vendor · 21 NIGP codes · all 25 Texas procurement districts.

State engagements

Next step

Book a discovery call.

30 minutes. Describe your AI program. We tell you whether what is on stage is real and what to fix first. No deck. No obligation.

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