Operational modernization for federal agencies — we assess, advise, and build.
Assess. Advise. Build. The modernization big firms quote in nine months — delivered in weeks by one accountable team.
Northvane is an operator and builder for government modernization. We diagnose how an agency runs, advise the fix, and ship the working software — delivering in weeks what large firms quote in months.
Strategy, operations & management — operating-model design, process reengineering, program evaluation, and IV&V. The core: helping agencies run better.
The moat. Custom applications, workflow automation, dashboards and data pipelines, plus AI features — document search, triage, and summarization.
Executive and management development, AI-literacy and digital-skills programs, plus curriculum, instructional design, and coaching.
Recruitment and public-awareness marketing, website builds and redesigns, communications strategy, and human-centered UX.
508 compliance and WCAG 2.0 AA conformance, accessibility remediation, and VPATs — a recurring, legally-mandated, under-served need.
The advisory judgment Northvane sells is earned — not theory from a slide deck.
Northvane is led by founder and principal Hayley Henning — an operator with 15+ years founding and running companies: designing operating models, building and leading distributed teams, owning P&L, and structuring multi-entity organizations.
We redesign and modernize the kinds of operations our principal has personally run, staffed, and scaled. That operator's-eye view is what separates Northvane's recommendations from analysts who have never owned a payroll, a hiring pipeline, or a margin.
Designed and built an end-to-end CRM for a multi-location service business — booking management, staff scheduling, automated gig-offer workflows, SMS/email notifications, and integrated payments (no-fee eCheck and card). Replaced manual, spreadsheet-based booking — pod-level output without pod-level overhead.
Designed the full operating model for an event-staffing company spanning nine U.S. metros: entity and labor structure, multi-tier pay logic, payroll and geo-tagging integration, and a phased service-line expansion plan — from the ground up.
Built a portfolio of production automations: an AI customer-inquiry responder, an AI email auto-drafter working from a retrieval knowledge base, an automated multi-subdomain content/SEO system (~49 posts/week), and a federal-opportunity scanning pipeline analyzing 2,500+ awards.
Architected an AI workforce-retraining platform spanning nine industry tracks: structured curriculum with AI assistance at key learning moments, instructional design, and e-learning delivery.