Capability Statement

AI systems that turn messy documents into trusted, compliant output.

Thorium Development Group is a veteran-owned small business in Tampa, Florida. We build production AI systems for environments where the output faces an unforgiving standard — a government template, an engineering tolerance, an acceptance criterion — and “mostly right” is worthless.

Core Competencies

AI document ingestion & extraction

Production pipelines that take unpredictable input (Word, Excel, PDF, scanned and legacy formats) and produce structured, validated data. Built for environments with no tolerance for silent error.

Technical-data structure recovery

Usable structure from legacy technical documentation, engineering drawings, and defense technical-data standards (S1000D, MIL-STD-3001 family) — figures and illustrated parts data, not just prose.

Provenance & AI verification

Every AI output traceable to its source. Guardrail and automated-review layers so AI output can meet government acceptance criteria — extraction joined to a verifiable checking layer, not unaudited model output.

Format-exact document automation

Automated completion of customer-mandated Word/Excel templates that must conform exactly to the original format for government submission.

Retrieval engineered for same-vocabulary corpora

Semantic search and knowledge-indexing pipelines for corpora where ordinary keyword and embedding matching break down.

Full-lifecycle engineering

Architecture through production operations; systems carried from prototype into operational use in both government and commercial settings.

Differentiators

Principal-led delivery

All work is architected and delivered by the founder: 20+ years of software engineering and engineering leadership, hands-on throughout.

Inside-government experience

Six years USAF (Korean linguist/translator; Joint Service Commendation Medal); five years as a Technical Director at the National Security Agency, delivering enterprise analytics platforms supporting 30,000+ government users and 2,000+ internal applications.

An operating business, not a research shell

Current client revenue from production AI systems in daily use.

Measurement-driven R&D

Self-funded feasibility work against real Distribution Statement A Navy technical manuals preceded TDG's Navy SBIR Phase I proposal (DON26BZ05-NV078, submitted Sept 2026).

Compliance posture underway

NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC Level 2 (Self) path; DCAA-aware timekeeping and job-cost accounting in place.

Representative Past Performance

AI submission platform — government-contracting services firm (2025–present)

Designed and operates a production platform that ingests jobs, resumes, and pursuit correspondence via email-routed AI agents; extracts structured facts from Word/Excel/PDF; scores candidates against labor-category rule sets; and completes mandated submission templates exactly to format.

AI earthworks estimation platform (commercial)

Interprets civil engineering drawings and produces automated cut-and-fill calculations — structured extraction from technical graphics.

AI knowledge & guardrails platform (commercial)

Persistent organizational knowledge with automated review that reduces hallucination and enforces standards on AI coding agents.

Fintech trading platform (prior role, CTO)

Led engineering for a multi-chain trading platform processing $500M+ in volume.

Company Data

Legal name
Thorium Development Group, LLC
Founded
2023 · Tampa, Florida
Business type
Veteran-Owned Small Business (SBA VetCert in process)
Point of contact
Michael Coon, CTO / Co-founder · mike@thoriumdev.com
Web
thoriumdev.com