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UEIN8TAP6NS5PY8
CAGE246L3
SAM.govActive · All Awards
primary NAICS541511
Anchor 163 LLC is a California limited liability company based in San Francisco. It provides applied AI engineering, independent model evaluation, and measurement and test methodology services.

Core competencies

Applied AI systems engineering

LLM integration (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI and open-weight models) behind a provider-agnostic interface. Agent architectures, structured output pipelines, MCP tooling, and production deployment on AWS and Vercel.
Model selection is an implementation detail and never an architectural commitment.

Independent model evaluation

Behavioral test design for language models, eval harness construction, calibration measurement under distribution shift, and leakage auditing of backtested claims.

Distributed and federated model monitoring

Drift and fault detection across decentralized training nodes, using lightweight behavioral probes, healthy-baseline measurement and known-fault validation in bandwidth-constrained designs.
Packaged as an aggregator for Flower and NVIDIA FLARE with a quarantine hook. The FLARE example is listed in that project's research index as externally maintained. Measured results are in drift detection in federated learning.

Data pipeline engineering

Multi-source ingestion, ground-truth reconciliation methodology, and automated verification against canonical records.

Frontend platform engineering

Six years on a Fortune 100 financial institution's customer-facing web platform (Angular/Nx monorepo), including accessibility compliance and developer tooling adopted across business units.

Differentiators

Reference systems

Working systems operated under the company's own name, available for inspection.

Open-source contributions

A fix to NVIDIA FLARE's simulator, merged October 2026 (NVIDIA/NVFlare#5422). The telltale drift-monitoring example is listed in FLARE's research index.

Measurement discipline

Developed operating automated trading systems with company capital on regulated exchanges, where unverified numbers carry direct cost.

Lean delivery

The people performing the work hold the certifications and the production track record.

Company data

California LLC · EIN issued · small business. Federal registration: SAM.gov Active Registration (All Awards) · UEI N8TAP6NS5PY8 · CAGE 246L3 · Grants.gov registered (Expanded AOR). Company — LinkedIn · Principal — LinkedIn · studio@anchor163.com.
NAICS — 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services (primary) · 541512 Computer Systems Design Services · 541519 Other Computer Related Services · 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services · 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences · 518210 Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting.
Place of performance: San Francisco, California. All work performed in the United States.