What is this
Conselara Labs is the R&D arm of Conselara, LLC — a federal IT consulting firm focused on health IT modernization and AI adoption for HHS agencies. It’s where we work out hard problems before they become products or contract deliverables.
Federal AI has a real gap between what demos can do and what works in production. Systems have to operate at scale, under compliance requirements, without relying on third-party infrastructure that can’t be vetted or controlled. A lot of AI tooling that performs well in commercial settings doesn’t translate to federal environments. The lab exists to close that gap — to understand what actually works, on real hardware, under realistic constraints, before it touches a federal program.
What we’re working on
On-prem AI inference — running large open-weight models on NVIDIA DGX hardware via vLLM. Models in active use include Qwen3-235B-A22B, gpt-oss-120b, and Qwen3.5-122B. We benchmark throughput, latency, and quantization tradeoffs against real production constraints — air-gap capable, data-sovereign, no third-party inference APIs.
Autonomous agents — building agent systems that ingest federal data sources, run continuous analysis pipelines, and deliver structured intelligence outputs entirely on-prem. Tooling covers web search, knowledge base retrieval, document ingestion, and structured report generation.
AI integration into federal platforms — integrating LLMs into production health research platforms: publication discovery, AI-assisted development, and evaluation of AI-powered CMS modules. Includes head-to-head model evaluation under federal compliance constraints.
AWS cloud — designing and operating federally-compliant AWS environments: FedRAMP-aligned architectures, ATO support, serverless and managed services (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS), AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker), AIOps (DevOps Guru, Amazon Q), and legacy migration to AWS.
What we publish
The notes on this site are working findings — real API bugs, model performance numbers, infrastructure tradeoffs. If we hit a wall with an undocumented API behavior or spent three days on a configuration that should have taken twenty minutes, we write it up so the next person doesn’t have to. The posts aren’t marketing. They’re documentation of what we ran into.
Prototypes built in the lab move into production on existing federal health IT contracts. We’re also producing research and white papers drawing on lab findings and contract experience, with subject matter experts from the federal health IT space contributing to that work.
The business
Conselara, LLC holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract (47QTCA22D0051) covering IT professional services and health IT consulting. We work with federal agencies on health data modernization, system integration, and emerging technology adoption.
Questions or corrections: info@conselara.com