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About SIIP Governance Technologies
Governance at the Speed of AI
SIIP Governance Technologies LLC is a Denver, Colorado enterprise AI governance company founded July 18, 2026 by Armod L. Hinkle. SIIP holds six USPTO provisional patent applications covering a real-time AI employment compliance enforcement middleware — a patent-protected platform that intercepts non-compliant AI employment decisions before they execute, transmits live actuarial compliance telemetry to insurance carrier engines, and generates performance-based revenue share from the employment claims losses it prevents. The company operates across three independent revenue universes: enterprise SaaS and carrier risk-share ($847M TAM), secondary data intelligence licensing to 10 buyer categories ($2.8B TAM), and patent licensing to the HCM vendor market ($42B TAM). Seed round open: $29,000,000 at $325,000,000 pre-money.
The missing layer is now a regulatory obligation.
Each current mandate points at the same missing layer. None of the incumbent HR platforms supplies it.
SIIP Governance Technologies was founded in Denver, Colorado in 2026 to build it. The founding observation was specific: the systems holding an employer’s most consequential decisions are built to record those decisions, not to govern them.
An organization can maintain rigorous policy, mandatory training, and a fully staffed compliance function, and still possess no mechanism that declines a single non-compliant employment action at the moment it is produced.
Every employment decision deserves a witness.
Enterprise compliance has long been treated as documentation, a record assembled to demonstrate, after the fact, that an organization intended to do the right thing. Intention is not the difficulty. Execution is.
SIIP is built on the position that compliance is not a cost center but a form of institutional control, and that the appropriate place to exercise it is the moment a decision is made rather than the quarter in which it is reviewed.
The commercial case and the human case converge here. An enterprise that governs the employment decision layer reduces its employment-practices exposure. It also ensures that a person on protected leave, a person who reported a concern, or a person who requested an accommodation is not harmed because a system permitted something it should have declined.
We are not an audit firm, a law firm, or a consultancy. We are building compliance infrastructure.
What We Believe
The layer between intention and consequence.
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AI should serve human judgment, not replace it.
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Speed without oversight is liability at scale.
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Every employment decision deserves a witness.
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Compliance is not a cost center. It is institutional control.
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We are not auditors, lawyers, or consultants. We are the infrastructure.
How We Work
Credibility, invention, and protection.
Begin from the transaction.
Enterprise compliance middleware required asking how to govern decisions as they occur, not how to document them more thoroughly afterward.
Enforce the safeguards already promised.
The objective is not a cleaner audit file. It is that safeguards on paper are enforced by the systems people actually use.
Leadership
Armod Lemans Hinkle
Founder & Chief Executive Officer · Denver, Colorado
Armod Lemans Hinkle founded SIIP Governance Technologies around a fundamental observation: organizations possess sophisticated systems for processing employment decisions, but too few controls capable of stopping a high-risk action before it becomes permanent. He is the author of the provisional patent application underlying the SIIP architecture and leads the company’s product, regulatory, and capital strategy from Denver, Colorado. His vision is to establish enterprise compliance middleware as a distinct infrastructure category—supporting operational performance while preserving accountability, legal defensibility, and the dignity of the people affected by employment decisions.
Market Context
Enterprise AI governance and employment-practices risk are converging.
EPLI Market
$9.8BEmployment Practices Liability Insurance reflects the growing financial exposure attached to hiring, discipline, accommodation, compensation, and termination decisions.
AI Governance Market
$28BEstimated AI governance opportunity as enterprises formalize oversight, accountability, and control.
One layerSIIP connects decision governance with the employment-practices risk that enterprises and carriers already manage.
Built for a regulatory environment that increasingly governs how employment decisions are made.
NYC
NYC Local Law 144
Bias-audit and notice obligations for covered automated employment decision tools.
CO
Colorado AI Act
Algorithmic-discrimination duties for developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems.
FED
Title VII
Federal protections against employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
FED
Americans with Disabilities Act
Employment protections and accommodation responsibilities for qualified individuals with disabilities.
FED
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Federal protection against age discrimination for individuals age 40 and older.
The Company
Built in Denver. Designed for enterprise control.
Legal nameSIIP Governance Technologies LLC
Founded2026
HeadquartersDenver, Colorado, United States
EntityColorado limited liability company
ProductSystemic Integrity Integration Protocol
CategoryEnterprise Compliance Middleware
PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform
StageIn development · Seed round open
Intellectual Property
The architecture is protected by six provisional patent applications.
SIIP holds six USPTO provisional patent applications with priority dates of July 8 and August 6, 2026, covering the core decision-interception architecture, federated deployment, ML compliance training, carrier actuarial integration, cryptographic audit chain, and risk-share computation.
SIIP Governance Technologies LLC is a Colorado limited liability company.
6USPTO Provisional Applications