Zach DeBruine
CEO, product and technology
Zach holds a Ph.D. in machine learning and serves on the AI faculty at Grand Valley State University.
zach@contigtech.comNow deploying with Michigan law enforcement agencies
Connect every record your agency holds.
Contig answers questions from your agency's reports, case files and records requests. It runs inside your CJIS boundary. Every answer shows the page it came from. People make every decision.
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- Built to the FBI CJIS Security Policy
- Azure Government
- Your own sign-in
- Every action logged
Swipe sideways to see the cited source.
- Cited to the page
Each sentence links to the record it came from.
- The source, side by side
One click opens the passage with the cited text highlighted.
- Clear about gaps
Contig points out what the records leave unanswered.
- Every step logged
Each question and each source you open goes into your agency's audit log.
- Research and development
- With Michigan law enforcement agencies
- Built to the FBI CJIS Security Policy
- Inside each agency's own boundary
- Hosted on Azure Government
- A dedicated environment for each agency
- Founded at Grand Valley State University
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
The problem
Today, connecting cases depends on memory.
“Right now, it's just purely on memory, and it takes a lot of time to get to that.”
17,541
U.S. law enforcement agencies keep their own records.
1
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2018
1 in 4
criminal histories in a 30-state federal study included arrests in more than one state.
2
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Multistate Criminal History Patterns of Prisoners Released in 30 States, 2015
20%
of surveyed police departments share records data with neighboring agencies.
3
Birkenfeld, Homeland Security Affairs, 2021
Contig gives every person in the agency the memory of the whole agency. Every answer traces back to its record.
What it does
Built for the work agencies already do
Our standards
The standards we set for ourselves
We monitor KPIs with you and your team. We use your feedback to optimize our AI systems in real time.
Citation accuracy
Each citation supports the sentence beside it.
Answer scope
Contig answers from your records and flags questions outside them.
Redaction coverage
Proposed redactions find personal identifiers and exempt items.
Map accuracy
Each address lands where the record places it.
Speed
Answers arrive fast enough to use in the middle of a case.
Security and principles
Everything runs inside your CJIS boundary.
Each agency gets its own Azure Government environment. People sign in through your identity provider. Every question, source and decision goes into an append-only log. Your agency owns that log and can export it. Your records stay out of model training.
Records only
Contig works on records your agency already holds.
People decide
The software proposes. Your staff decide under their own names.
One append-only log
Every action is recorded and ready to export at any time.
Your data stays yours
Export it whenever you like. We certify deletion when you leave.
Email us for the security documentation your CJIS security officer needs →
The software proposes. A person decides. Everything is logged.
Next: the first connection between two Michigan agencies
Two agencies can agree to connect. A case in one can then draw on what the other knows.
Neighboring agencies that both run Contig agree on a search policy and sign it. Contig flags possible connections across their records. An investigator reviews each one. An officer approves each request on a single case. Both sides log every step.
County sheriff's officecontigInside the agency's own CJIS boundaryIts own records system and records
Consent-based connectionEach request approved by an officer
- A search policy both agencies agree on
- Signed by both agencies under the CJIS Security Policy
- An officer approves each request on one case
- We run the infrastructure
How an agency starts
Start with one office and one workflow.
- 01
A conversation
We meet the people who would use Contig and the team that owns its environment.
- 02
Shadowing
We sit with detectives and records staff. We watch the work before we propose anything.
- 03
A clear scope
We define the work together. Both sides agree on what finished means.
- 04
Build and review
We build. You review and accept each capability before the next one begins.
Who we are
Built with the people who do the work.
Contig began when a Michigan sheriff's office brought a problem to Grand Valley State University. Its detectives were connecting cases from memory. We built the answer with them.
We start with law enforcement in Michigan. Every public agency that keeps records and answers to the public faces the same problem.
Aziz Boufaied
COO, operations, strategy and partnerships
Aziz founded Innorov and led it to an exit. Aziz is earning an M.S. in applied computer science at Grand Valley State University.
aziz@contigtech.comSafer communities, built on trust in the people serving them.
Email us to book a briefing, request our security documentation or talk about working together.
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