Veassis, LLC

Our Story

In 2023, Doug and Stephanie Lane were laid off from their full-time jobs days apart. They founded VeAssis LLC to put their combined decades in technology and executive operations to work for themselves.

The business found its real market in 2025 and 2026. Government agencies, school districts, and nonprofits were being pushed to adopt AI while having almost no internal capacity to evaluate it, govern it, or deploy it safely. These organizations cannot hire the talent, cannot afford the large consultancies, and face procurement rules that make it slow and expensive to buy help. VeAssis rebuilt around that gap and became an AI and business intelligence consulting firm serving the public sector.

Our Opportunity

In April 2026, VeAssis was awarded HGACBuy Master Contract AI05-26 for AI Consulting Services, with a performance period running through April 30, 2030. HGACBuy is a nationwide cooperative purchasing program. The contract means that roughly 9,000 member agencies across the country can hire VeAssis by issuing a purchase order, with no separate competitive bid, no RFP cycle, and no six to twelve month procurement wait.

For a firm of our size, this is the entire thesis. The hardest part of selling to government is not the pitch. It is getting on an approved vehicle. We are already on one, and the vehicle runs for four more years.

VeAssis is also a certified DBE, MBE, WBE, WOSB, and ACDBE firm, which opens additional preference programs and subcontracting set-asides across federal, state, and local procurement.

Our Services

VeAssis sells four productized engagements rather than open-ended hourly consulting:

AI Readiness Assessment, which scores an organization across data foundation, governance, talent, technology, and use case pipeline and delivers our proprietary AI ReadyScore. This is the entry point and the lowest-risk purchase a new client can make.

AI Governance and Risk Management, built on our AI TrustFrame method, sold as a gap assessment, a full implementation project, or an ongoing monthly retainer.

AI Strategy Workshop Series, four facilitated sessions that build leadership alignment and produce a scored, prioritized list of where AI is actually worth doing.

AI Implementation Roadmap and Program Management, built on our AI WireMap method, which turns the readiness picture into a sequenced delivery plan with VeAssis running the program.

The sequence is deliberate. The assessment is a small first purchase that leads naturally into governance, workshops, roadmap, and recurring retainers.

Our Team

Stephanie Lane, President and CEO, brings 25+ years managing operations for C-level executives at companies including Dell and Sulzer Carbomedics. She leads procurement relationships, contract administration, and public sector sales.

Doug Lane, Co-Founder, Managing Director, and CTO, brings 30+ years in engineering and technical leadership at Intel and AMD. He leads technical delivery, AI architecture, and the proprietary assessment and governance methods that the firm's products are built on.

VeAssis is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner, an AWS Partner Network member, and a participant in the NVIDIA Inception program.

Where We Are Today

VeAssis is pre-revenue. We have not yet closed a purchase order under AI05-26. We have an executed nationwide contract, a defined product catalog with fixed pricing, delivery methods documented, and an active pipeline of member agency prospects in outreach and proposal stages across several states.

Why Invest

Most early-stage consulting firms spend their first years trying to get access. We already have it. The contract is signed, the pricing is approved, the certifications are in hand, and the products are defined. What we are raising for is the go-to-market push: outreach capacity, delivery bench, and the runway to convert a large pool of pre-qualified member agencies into recurring engagements before the contract term runs down.

Investing in VeAssis is a bet that a small, certified, technically deep firm holding a four-year nationwide public sector contract can convert access into revenue.