The company behind Helm.
HARBOR builds Helm, the governed AI platform for work that can't leave. It also runs the productization practice that helps federal contractors turn delivery work into a product they can sell more than once.
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Founded by Amyn Porbanderwala.
What HARBOR builds.
The product
Helm
The governed AI platform for work that can't leave. One instance per firm, on the models the firm names, with every action on a record it can check. HARBOR hosts it today, and installs it in the client's network for pilots that need it.
See HelmThe federal data layer
HARBOR Port, Helm's federal data layer
18 public federal data sources and 147 tools that Helm uses when the work needs public federal data. HARBOR Port is also sold on its own.
See HARBOR Port (opens in new tab)The practice.
The services side of the company. When the product is not the fit, HARBOR still does the work: a free diagnostic, fixed-scope engagements, and the book that started it.
HARBOR Signal
Free. Thirty questions, about eight minutes. A readiness score and a live read on the federal footprint. A work email gets you the report.
Run itEngagements
Fixed-scope projects with a defined deliverable and an end date, from the delivery-record audit to a working pilot.
See themThe books
Shrink-Wrap It is the playbook. The HARBOR Method, Book 2, is coming soon.
Read Book 1
Amyn Porbanderwala.
A former Marine Corps cyber operator with a decade inside federal contractors. He was a CDAO SBIR Phase I principal investigator. He has nearly two decades of professional experience, about ten of them in federal technology.
Before HARBOR, he built a product company. At 22, he co-founded Securranty, a mobile hardware management platform, and served as CTO, learning what it takes to turn a service concept into a repeatable product. That experience followed him through eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and into federal technology leadership, where he watched the same opportunity and the same hesitation play out across the GovCon industry.
He founded HARBOR Initiative LLC to answer a question he kept hearing from contractors: the same work is delivered well over and over, so why does growth still depend on headcount? Shrink-Wrap It: The GovCon Productization Playbook is his answer in book form. He is based in the Washington, D.C. area.
Amyn holds a BBA in Finance & Economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He holds Shipley Business Winning certification, the methodology behind HARBOR's capture framework.
Get in touch.
A question about the framework, a productization conversation, or Helm. Press or media: press@harborgovcon.com or the press room.
Company information.
The HARBOR lockup: the linked-block H, the chain's stem blocks and notched crossbar as the first letter of the name, with the rest set in Jost. One form for the company and its products.
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Start with the free read.
The Signal scores where the firm is and points at the next useful step. It takes about eight minutes and needs no account.