Better operations. Smarter technology. Lasting change.
We help commercial businesses and government agencies simplify operations, put AI to work, and modernize critical systems, from the first decision through implementation.
Different missions. The same need for operations that work better. We shape each engagement around your organization, your people, and the outcomes you need to deliver.
Reduce manual work, connect fragmented systems, and give teams more capacity to serve customers. Bring structure and execution to your next transformation.
Discuss your business prioritiesModernize workflows and legacy systems with attention to service continuity, records, accountability, and the people who rely on them.
Discuss your agency’s prioritiesSAM.gov registered
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Building a delivery partnership? Explore teaming and subcontracting with Collatio Labs.
Discuss teamingAs an independent consultant, mapped the real workflow in 12 departments, redesigned 250 business processes with each change agreed by its manager, and put an unused automation platform to work on a manual data-entry operation.
At MidFirst Bank, the work reduced manual effort and ended the keying errors behind customer-data discrepancies flagged in compliance reviews, for an estimated $4 million in savings over four years, mostly in labor.
Directed a three-year infrastructure and network security refresh across 26 countries, managing hardware ordering, placement, and billing, and securing executive sign-off on multimillion-dollar orders.
Delivered at HP Enterprise Services for a Fortune 50 financial institution.
Owned the hardware budget for a $10M infrastructure refresh and a $3M disaster recovery build on a critical state healthcare system, and set up its change advisory board.
Delivered at HP Enterprise Services. The change advisory board saved an estimated $200K a year in labor.
Selected work from the founder’s experience before Collatio Labs; not the firm’s past performance.
Transformation creates value when processes, technology, and people change together. Our services connect operating-model design with implementation, adoption, and delivery oversight.
Redesign workflows, reduce manual effort, and implement AI with source validation, exception handling, and human decision authority.
Stabilize complex initiatives, clarify decision rights, establish accountable plans, and align leadership around an executable delivery path.
Modernize the systems operations depend on. Retire historical platforms while preserving records, reports, and independently verifiable evidence.
Turn a business priority into an implemented change, with a practical design, clear decisions, accountable delivery, and an operating model your people can sustain.
Map the real workflow with the people doing it. Establish the baseline, constraints, and cost of the problem.
Simplify the workflow. Define process owners, controls, decisions, and a practical implementation sequence.
Build or integrate the right solution. Automate repeatable work and route exceptions to human judgment.
Test the change with users, document the operating model, and measure performance against agreed criteria.
Our business-development platform runs Collatio Labs’ own government contracting through SAM.gov and other federal, state, and local sources. Specialist AI agents support discovery, qualification, and response preparation, with source validation now built into the workflow. A person reviews and sends every response; the platform drafts but cannot send.
It shows how complex work can move from intake to a reviewed output while keeping decisions traceable and people in control. The same control model can be adapted to rules-based work in business and government.
Internal Collatio Labs use. Reported figures cover July 19 to October 11, 2026.
Timing covers 51 responses, mostly capability statements, submitted August 16 to October 6. Seven submissions were full proposals. Figures measure response preparation and submission.
From July 19 to October 11, 2026, review controls returned 259 drafts for revision, including drafts never submitted. Drafting is automated; submission stays under human control.
Discuss a demonstrationChoose a focused assessment, an implementation engagement, or accountable transformation leadership. We agree the right starting point around your priorities, readiness, and required outcomes.
One process. One focused week.
A clear plan for what comes next.
Understand the workflow, prioritize improvements, and receive a costed plan for the first phase. Scope, access, participation, and a fixed price are agreed before the review begins.
Turn the plan into a working operation.
Redesign processes and build the automation, integrations, or software to support them. Acceptance criteria and a defined handover make progress clear and the result sustainable.
Process redesign · Governed AI · Integrations · Legacy modernization
Give complex change a clear direction.
Establish an accountable plan, align decision-makers, and lead the work through delivery. Responsibilities, decision authority, and a handover plan are defined at the start.
Executive alignment · Delivery governance · Recovery planning · Handover
We discuss your objective, the process or program involved, and the information needed to assess fit. Where there is a suitable engagement, the next step is a proposal defining scope, deliverables, responsibilities, and price.
A defined process, an accountable owner, access to relevant source material, and input from the people doing the work. We agree participation and access before the review begins.
A documented view of the process today, prioritized improvements, and a costed plan for the first phase. The implementation sequence and acceptance criteria help you decide what to fund and how to measure progress.
Accountability, delivery responsibilities, and decision authority are agreed in the scope, so ownership remains clear throughout the work.
Custodia is a legacy-system retirement solution that preserves records and reports in tamper-evident, independently verifiable archives, reconciles them to the source system and identifies reconciliation gaps for audit.
Built and tested, not deployed, and available for demonstration.
Discuss legacy retirement ↗Collatio Labs combines operating-model design, technology implementation, and disciplined delivery to help organizations carry complex change through to a working result.
Founder Steven Lamar Michael brings nearly 25 years of experience across banking, healthcare, energy, state government, and enterprise cloud. That experience includes strategic account leadership at Amazon Web Services and delivery leadership at HP Enterprise Services, alongside independent consulting in process redesign and automation.
The perspective is practical: understand how work actually runs, involve the people responsible for it, establish clear decision authority, and implement technology that supports the operation. Collatio Labs brings that foundation to governed AI, modernization, and transformation delivery.
Founder’s professional background ↗Sensitive work runs in the client’s environment by default. Client data is never used to train models and is never sent to the cloud AI services used in our internal operations.
Define scope, decision authority, and acceptance criteria before implementation.
Document the workflow and operating model so your team can sustain the change.
A business priority, an agency initiative, or a delivery partnership. Tell us where you want to go. We’ll help define a practical next step.
Commercial enterprises · Public agencies · Portland, Oregon