WASHINGTON, D.C.
The future of AI is open. We protect the builders who secure it.
Traditional K Street lobbies for closed monopolies. They want to turn "safety theater" into a digital oligopoly that crushes mid-market innovation.
The Array Group is a specialized policy intelligence and strategic advocacy firm built exclusively for the open-weights, decentralized compute, and permissionless innovation ecosystems. We help founders, funds, and federal agencies defeat regulatory capture, enforce application-layer accountability, and deploy sovereign, crowd-sourced defense architectures.
POSITIONING
Positioning:
Securing the Open Frontier: Permissionless Innovation, Accountable Deployment.
WHAT WE DO
Federal Advocacy & Coalition Building
We form and manage high-impact coalitions that give mid-market technical innovators and decentralized networks a unified voice before Congress, the FTC, and the Executive Branch.
SIGNATURE RESEARCH
The arguments we bring to the Hill.
Closed-source incumbents are weaponizing "safety theater"—mandatory model registrations, upstream liability traps, and compute gatekeeping—to build a digital oligopoly and crush mid-market innovation.
These frameworks fail to prevent dangerous AI diffusion and instead surrender technological leadership while forcing builders onto untraceable foreign networks.
The coalition advocates for an open ecosystem secured by cryptographic weight provenance, application-layer accountability, and decentralized, crowd-sourced security.
What we do: Three disciplines, one mandate.
Regulatory Navigation & Compliance Mapping
Continuous, deeply technical tracking across federal agencies, congressional committees, and international export-control regimes — built to insulate your model from sudden shifts.
Brief No. 01
The Geopolitical Imperative of Verified Open-Weights
If America restricts open foundation models, the global developer ecosystem will pivot to weights released by foreign adversaries.
Bi-Focal Policy Intelligence
Brief No. 03
Sovereign Innovation & Decentralized Security Defenses
Defense and civilian agencies cannot run national security workloads on third-party closed APIs.
ECOSYSTEM FOCUS
We engage across the open AI capital stack.
Our coalitions draw from the funds, foundation-model labs, and compute providers whose business models depend on a regulatory environment that stay open and accountable.
TIER 1 VENTURE & INFRASTRUCTURE & COMPUTE
ENGAGE
If your stack depends on open infrastructure, your policy posture should too.
We translate the White House National Policy Framework, NIST standards, and evolving OMB procurement mandates into clear engineering roadmaps for founders.
Three briefs frame our policy posture across geopolitics, market structure, and federal procurement. Each is built to be defensible in a committee hearing and useful in a board meeting.
Brief No. 02
The Application-Layer Accountability Framework
Mandatory model registration crushes mid-market innovation.