Solutions · Government and defence
Public-sector and defence work has to stay under Australian control: your data onshore, your standards enforced, and a clear record of who decided what. Brain-Stem delivers software that way, so sovereignty is built into how the work runs rather than promised around it.
Your regulatory world
For government and defence, control of the supply chain matters as much as the code. These are the obligations we design around.
PSPF
The Protective Security Policy Framework sets how official information is handled and who is accountable for it. Delivery on the platform runs under your protective markings and records the controls that applied, so the baseline is evidenced rather than assumed.
ISM and Essential Eight
The Information Security Manual and the Essential Eight set the controls expected of government systems. Your security standards are written as rules the platform checks the work against, so the maturity you claim is the maturity that ran.
Hosting and data sovereignty
Where data lives and who can reach it is a sovereignty question, not a hosting detail. Work runs in Australian-controlled environments with your data walled off from every other organisation, ready for IRAP-style assessment.
DSPF
Defence industry work carries the obligations of the Defence Security Principles Framework. The same control problem holds: standards enforced as method, and a record you can produce. We frame it as that shared problem, not as defence experience we have not earned.
How control answers it
CortexOne is the governance and control product. It keeps your data and standards under your control, and makes every decision traceable, so sovereignty is something you can show, not just state.
Sovereignty and isolation
Your data, under your controlIsolation
Your data is walled off from every other organisation and runs in Australian-controlled environments. You set how much work runs automatically with a confidence line: above it work runs, below it stops and hands the decision to a person.
ISM and Essential Eight
Your policies and security standards are written as rules the platform checks the work against, not a step someone has to remember. Each output is graded against your approved examples before it ships.
Traceability and accountability
Every decision joins upReplayable
A single trace identifier runs through every step of a request, keeping the prompt, the model, the decision, and the result together. Any build replays, and "why did it decide that" is answerable rather than guesswork.
Accountable
Every record is stamped with who made it and when, and nothing is hard-deleted. The audit trail is a by-product of how the work runs, so producing it for an assessor or a review is retrieval, not reconstruction.
Part of the platform
It carries control. MemoryMesh carries compounding, so each engagement starts further ahead than the last. Reflex delivers the work faster and Synapse keeps its cost predictable. For a public-sector or defence buyer, control and compounding are what make speed safe to use.
How an engagement works
You should understand how you would buy before you ever book a briefing. An engagement has a simple shape. The site explains the shape; the briefing prices your work. We tell you what it costs before you have signed anything.
No pricing tiers, no package names. The same shape holds whether you are a department or an enterprise.
Fixed-price delivery
We scope a defined piece of work and deliver it for a fixed price. You know what you are getting, and what it costs, before we start. The work runs on the platform, governed by your standards, with every decision recorded.
Managed-services retainer
When the project lands, it converts to a managed-services retainer. The platform keeps delivering, maintaining, and improving. Each engagement teaches it more about your organisation, so the next piece of work starts further ahead.
How it fits
Brain-Stem runs the delivery layer above the tools you already have. Jira or Azure DevOps keeps tracking the work, and your engineering tools keep building it. The platform coordinates and governs what happens between them.
Adopting it is not a migration. Your teams keep their tools, and your delivery gains a governed layer over the top.
Enterprise readiness
We are early, and we don't dress that up: no logo wall, no borrowed badges. Every claim here is one you can verify in a working session.
Each requirement, decision, and output carries a full audit trail on the live platform. Ask to walk through one in a briefing.
Policies and standards are encoded as rules and checked on every output. A weak result is rewritten or stopped for a person, never shipped unseen.
You set the confidence line. Above it the platform runs on its own; below it, work stops and waits for a person.
Routing is not tied to one model provider, and processing can run in-country. Where your data is processed is your call, not the vendor's.
Take the assessment to see how your delivery measures up against your obligations, or book a briefing to talk through a specific piece of work.