AI / LLM enablement
AI that answers from your real documents, with sources and permissions built in from the start.
groundedness 0.94 · P95 2.1 s · zero egress findings
Capability statement
Built to be awarded the work.
Epcotec is a senior engineering studio operating in Australia and Canada, in continuous operation since 2011, with roots in Canada. This page maps our capability to the requirements buyers and tender panels actually ask for.
Capability matrix
Requirement → how we cover it
Each row maps a common tender or procurement requirement to the specific capability we bring.
Application development
Products shipped end to end by one senior team, no handoffs, no telephone game.
one senior team, database to deploy · demos every Friday
Cloud & platform
Deploys that run themselves, one approved change, automatic rollback if it breaks.
MTTR 4 h → 22 min · declarative, auditable, reversible
Data & MLOps
Numbers you can trust, pipelines with lineage, models monitored after launch.
2.4M pages ingested · lineage and monitoring by default
Security & GRC
Audit-ready evidence on every release, security that doesn't slow you down.
evidence on every release · SAST/DAST in the build
Systems integration
What you already own, connected, piece by piece, no big-bang rewrite.
2.1M records migrated, reconciled line by line
Senior-led delivery
Named engineers review, approve and own every merge, you talk to the people who build it.
named engineers own every merge, estimate and answer
Fast tender turnaround
Fixed-price RFP responses within two business days.
fixed-price RFP responses in two business days
Delivery governance
Fixed-scope SOW, weekly demos, staging from week one, no surprises at the end.
fixed-scope SOW · staging from week one · weekly demos
Commercials & compliance
AU and CA entities, PI/PL insurance, local invoicing, contract and pay locally.
AU + CA entities · PI/PL insurance · local invoicing
Applied R&D
Optically-guided-discharge research, from feasibility to TRL-raise.
published principle, industrialised · feasibility to prototype
Voice & telephony
Carrier-grade IP telephony with an optional AI receptionist. AU · CA · US.
carrier-grade platform · numbers to porting · AI receptionist optional
Senior-led delivery
Named engineers, owned outcomes
Named senior engineers review, approve and own every merge, every estimate and every answer. You talk to the people who build it, and accountability never leaves the team that signs the work.
How every engagement runs
- ✓Named senior engineers own every merge, estimate and answer. Scope, estimates, fixed-price commitments, production access, security and architecture decisions, client communication and contractual accountability are set and signed by senior engineers.
- ✓Automated pipelines handle drafting at scale. RFPs and specifications are parsed into requirement matrices and compliance maps; scaffolding, migrations, refactors and generated tests across TypeScript, React, Node, Python and Go reach review in hours.
- ✓Line-by-line review before anything ships. No unreviewed code ships: every change is examined line by line by a senior engineer before merge.
- ✓Quality gates enforced on every merge. Generated tests, dependency and CVE audits and automated review must pass in the build before a senior approves the change.
- ✓Data pipelines and eval harnesses, engineer-owned. Pipelines, dbt models, RAG and eval harnesses and drift monitors are scaffolded automatically, then tuned and owned by engineers.
- ✓Documentation verified against the live codebase. Runbooks, API references, user guides and compliance evidence are generated from source and verified before delivery.
- ✓Legacy comprehension in days. Architecture recovery and characterisation tests map unfamiliar codebases and ERP platforms before work begins.
Tooling accelerates drafts. The gates (tests, CI, evals, review) are enforced on every merge.
Delivery governance
How we de-risk an award
Local entities, fixed scope, weekly demos, audit-ready evidence and full IP transfer, so the work is verifiable at every step.
- ✓Fixed-scope SOW with milestones, acceptance criteria and a change process.
- ✓Weekly demos and a staging environment from week one.
- ✓Security review and audit-ready evidence for compliance requirements.
- ✓Documented handover: code, infrastructure and runbooks in your name.
- ✓Local contracting via Epcotec Pty Ltd (AU) and Epcotec Ltd (CA).
Commercial & compliance
Entities: Epcotec Pty Ltd (Australia, ABN 65 626 197 368, ACN 626 197 368) and Epcotec Ltd (Canada, CRA BN on registration).
Insurance: Professional Indemnity, Public & Products Liability and Cyber Liability insurances are held and current; certificates of currency are provided at contract stage.
Security posture: Essential Eight and ISO 27001-aligned controls: multi-factor authentication, least-privilege access, encrypted transit and storage, dependency and CVE scanning, logging and incident response.
Data residency: Australia and Canada residency options agreed per contract, including in-Canada storage for protected data.
AI governance: AI tooling under named-senior review; client data is never knowingly used to train public models.
Ethics & accessibility: Modern slavery and forced-labour zero tolerance (Australia and Canada); WCAG 2.1 AA as our target standard.
Subcontracting: disclosed with written approval; Epcotec remains accountable for delivery.
References to standards describe alignment. Certification is claimed only where an accredited certificate is published on this page.
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