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Transformation.
From strategy
to execution.

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.

Who we help

Commercial ambition.
Public purpose.

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.

Commercial businesses

Make room for
the next stage.

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 priorities
Government agencies

Deliver better
public services.

Modernize workflows and legacy systems with attention to service continuity, records, accountability, and the people who rely on them.

Discuss your agency’s priorities

SAM.gov registered
UEI L1NBEH562XL9 CAGE 22GM5

Building a delivery partnership? Explore teaming and subcontracting with Collatio Labs.

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Leadership experience before Collatio Labs
Banking operations
redesigned for efficiency.

As 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.

A week-long process reduced to minutes.
Transformation detail +

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.

Global infrastructure refresh
with zero downtime.

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.

$25M program · On plan and on budget · Zero downtime
Delivery detail +

Delivered at HP Enterprise Services for a Fortune 50 financial institution.

State healthcare infrastructure
and disaster recovery.

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.

$10M refresh · $3M recovery build · Change governance
Governance detail +

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.

Our capabilities

Make the work flow.
Make the change last.

Transformation creates value when processes, technology, and people change together. Our services connect operating-model design with implementation, adoption, and delivery oversight.

01 / Operations & AI

Process redesign &
intelligent automation

Redesign workflows, reduce manual effort, and implement AI with source validation, exception handling, and human decision authority.

02 / Transformation delivery

Program recovery &
transformation leadership

Stabilize complex initiatives, clarify decision rights, establish accountable plans, and align leadership around an executable delivery path.

03 / Technology modernization

Legacy modernization &
records preservation

Modernize the systems operations depend on. Retire historical platforms while preserving records, reports, and independently verifiable evidence.

Our approach

A disciplined path
from diagnosis to delivery.

Turn a business priority into an implemented change, with a practical design, clear decisions, accountable delivery, and an operating model your people can sustain.

01

Understand

Map the real workflow with the people doing it. Establish the baseline, constraints, and cost of the problem.

02

Redesign

Simplify the workflow. Define process owners, controls, decisions, and a practical implementation sequence.

03

Implement

Build or integrate the right solution. Automate repeatable work and route exceptions to human judgment.

04

Adopt & hand over

Test the change with users, document the operating model, and measure performance against agreed criteria.

Applied AI / Business development

Move faster.
Keep control.

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.

View operating evidence

Internal Collatio Labs use. Reported figures cover July 19 to October 11, 2026.

199,605Opportunities screened
610Qualified for response
86Responses submitted across 84 opportunities
Under 3 hoursMedian qualified-notice-to-draft time

Timing covers 51 responses, mostly capability statements, submitted August 16 to October 6. Seven submissions were full proposals. Figures measure response preparation and submission.

How responses now move from opportunity to submission
01 Discover and qualify opportunities
02 Draft against the system of record
03 Apply compliance and cross-model review
04 Return exceptions and gaps for revision
05 A person reviews and sends

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.

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Ways to work together

Engagements aligned
to the work ahead.

Choose a focused assessment, an implementation engagement, or accountable transformation leadership. We agree the right starting point around your priorities, readiness, and required outcomes.

Custodia / Legacy retirement

Modernize with confidence
in the historical record.

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.

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The foundation of our work

Enterprise experience.
Applied to your operation.

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 ↗
Client control

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.

Explicit acceptance

Define scope, decision authority, and acceptance criteria before implementation.

Ready for handover

Document the workflow and operating model so your team can sustain the change.

Let’s get to work

What would better
look like for you?

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.

contact@collatiolabs.com ↗

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