# ASCENDING

> ASCENDING Inc. is an enterprise AI and cloud consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. Its flagship product is Jarvis AI, a platform for governed enterprise AI adoption. ASCENDING also delivers cloud migration and modernization, data analytics, DevOps, security, IT staffing, and public-sector solutions — primarily on AWS, where it is an AWS Lambda Service Delivery Partner.

Jarvis AI is ASCENDING's enterprise platform for governed AI adoption, balancing cost-efficiency, control, and future-proof flexibility. Its two core products work independently or together, and Jarvis AI is available on AWS Marketplace.

- **Jarvis Chat** — a governed multi-LLM workspace (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek) with SSO/RBAC access control, PII detection and DLP guardrails, a RAG knowledgebase, agent automation, and embed-anywhere SDKs (JavaScript, Web Components, iFrame).
- **Jarvis Registry** — an enterprise MCP & agent gateway that connects AI copilots (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Windsurf, ChatGPT, and custom clients) to enterprise tools (Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, AWS, GitHub) with auto-discovery, fine-grained governance, OAuth/SAML, and full audit trails.

Every Jarvis product runs on a Governed AI Layer: access control (SSO, RBAC, SAML/OAuth), guardrails (PII redaction, content and topic filtering, 100+ prebuilt policies), observability, LLM routing, compliance enforcement, and complete audit logs.

For the complete Jarvis AI reference — deep per-product documentation and the full 140-question FAQ — see https://ascendingdc.com/llms-full.txt

## Jarvis AI Platform

- [Jarvis AI](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/): Enterprise AI platform overview pairing Jarvis Chat and Jarvis Registry for governed, multi-LLM AI adoption
- [Jarvis AI FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/faq/): Common questions on Jarvis AI governance, deployment, security, integrations, and enterprise adoption
- [Jarvis Chat](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/jarvis-chat/): Governed AI chat across OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock with SSO, RBAC, PII detection, RAG, and agents
- [Jarvis Chat FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/jarvis-chat/faq/): Common questions on Jarvis Chat model access, security, governance, knowledgebase, and deployment
- [Jarvis Registry](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/jarvis-registry/): Enterprise MCP and agent gateway connecting AI copilots to enterprise tools with auto-discovery, RBAC, and observability
- [Jarvis Registry FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/jarvis-registry/faq/): Common questions on Jarvis Registry MCP client support, discovery, governance, observability, and deployment
- [Agent Registry](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-registry/): Catalog A2A agents and MCP servers in one governed namespace with access policy, versioning, and lifecycle
- [Agent Registry FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-registry/faq/): Common questions on registry concepts, multi-cloud federation, security scanning, lifecycle, and observability
- [Agent Gateway](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-gateway/): Register, govern, and orchestrate agentic LLMs and low-code agents across AWS AgentCore and Azure AI Foundry
- [Agent Gateway FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-gateway/faq/): Common questions on agent registration, federation, orchestration, RBAC security, and runtime observability
- [AWS AgentCore Federation](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-gateway/agentcore-aifoundry-federation/): Federate AWS AgentCore and Azure AI Foundry agents into one governed experience layer
- [Claude on Amazon Bedrock Governance](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/claude-on-amazon-bedrock-governance/): Control Claude cost with Amazon Bedrock governance, cost attribution, and budget monitoring
- [MCP Gateway](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/mcp-gateway/): Enterprise MCP gateway and server registry governing, routing, and auditing every MCP tool call
- [MCP Gateway FAQ](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/mcp-gateway/faq/): Common questions on MCP discovery, governance, auth elicitation, OAuth federation, and observability
- [Agent Flow](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/agent-flow/): Task-driven AI agents that orchestrate multi-step enterprise workflows and integrate with existing tools
- [Governed AI](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/governed-ai/): Adopt OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock with built-in access control, compliance, and governance
- [AI Guardrails](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/guardrails/): Enforce safe AI use with PII redaction, content filtering, RBAC, and 100+ compliance policies
- [RAG Knowledge Base](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/knowledge-base/): Retrieval-augmented generation over company documents with citations, guardrails, and AI agent integration
- [Ambient AI for Healthcare](https://ascendingdc.com/jarvis-ai/healthcare/ambient-ai/): HIPAA-compliant ambient intelligence for clinical care, capturing and documenting patient encounters

## Jarvis AI — Frequently Asked Questions

A selection of the most common questions about Jarvis AI. The complete FAQ (140 questions across every product) is at https://ascendingdc.com/llms-full.txt

**Is Jarvis AI a SaaS product?**
No. Jarvis AI is licensed, customer-hosted software. We intentionally avoided the SaaS model because enterprise customers require strict data sovereignty and compliance. You maintain full ownership of your data, AI interactions, and audit logs, with no shared infrastructure and no external data transmission.

**Can Jarvis AI run fully on-premises?**
Yes. Jarvis AI deploys virtually anywhere you run Kubernetes clusters, including hybrid and on-premises environments. It natively supports AWS (EKS), Microsoft Azure (AKS), and Google Cloud (GKE).

**Does Jarvis AI send our data to a third party or external system?**
No. Jarvis AI deploys directly into your own environment, so your data never leaves your infrastructure or flows into any external system. There is no shared infrastructure, no external data plane, and no external data transmission.

**Where can I get Jarvis AI?**
Jarvis AI is available on both the AWS Marketplace and the Azure Marketplace, making procurement straightforward for organizations with existing cloud spend commitments.

**Do Jarvis Chat and Jarvis Registry have to be used together?**
No — they are two fully independent products. Jarvis Registry integrates with any MCP-compatible copilot, and Jarvis Chat works standalone with your own MCP servers, RAG pipelines, or knowledge bases. Used together they form a complete enterprise AI platform, but neither requires the other.

**What is Jarvis Chat?**
Jarvis Chat is an enterprise chat interface that gives your team access to multiple AI models through one secure, governed workspace — built for organizations that need control over who can use AI, what data it can access, and how it behaves, without sacrificing usability.

**Which AI models does Jarvis Chat support?**
Jarvis Chat integrates with OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and more. You can switch between models, compare outputs, and route requests to the right provider from a single interface, and add new models without changing your setup.

**How does Jarvis Chat protect sensitive data?**
Jarvis Chat includes built-in guardrails that match your organization's data policies. You can enable PII detection, define DLP (Data Loss Prevention) rules, and set custom privacy policies so sensitive information is never exposed to AI models or external systems.

**Can we embed Jarvis Chat into our own applications?**
Yes. Jarvis Chat comes with a JavaScript SDK, Web Components, and iFrame support, so you can embed a governed AI experience directly into your existing portals, internal tools, or custom applications.

**What is Jarvis Registry?**
Jarvis Registry is an enterprise MCP and Agent Gateway that connects any AI copilot to your enterprise tools through a single, governed entry point. It handles centralized discovery, routing, authentication, and governance for all MCP servers and AI agents.

**Which AI copilots does Jarvis Registry support?**
Jarvis Registry works with any MCP-compatible AI client, including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Windsurf, Jarvis Chat, and ChatGPT. One registry, every client — no duplicate configuration per tool or per team.

**How does Jarvis Registry connect AI copilots to enterprise tools?**
Jarvis Registry acts as a universal gateway between AI copilots and enterprise tools — including Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, GitHub, Docker, and AWS. All traffic flows through a single governed layer with consistent access controls and audit trails.

**What is an MCP gateway?**
An MCP gateway is the control and enforcement layer between AI clients and MCP servers. It centralizes discovery, authentication, policy checks, routing, and auditing for every MCP tool call, so you expose one governed endpoint and enforce consistent policy for all clients instead of configuring each copilot against each server.

**How is the MCP Gateway different from the Agent Gateway?**
The MCP Gateway focuses on tool, resource, and prompt invocation against MCP servers. The Agent Gateway focuses on autonomous agents and agent-to-agent orchestration. Both are part of Jarvis Registry and share identity, policy, and observability controls.

**Does Jarvis support OAuth 2.1 resource indicators (RFC 8707)?**
Yes. The MCP Gateway validates resource indicators for token scope binding so a token intended for one MCP server cannot be replayed against another. Jarvis enforces PKCE and standards-based OAuth behavior for inbound and outbound flows, including per-user token lifecycle controls.

**What is an agent gateway?**
An agent gateway is the runtime endpoint through which AI copilots and applications invoke registered agents. Rather than each copilot connecting directly to each agent, all traffic flows through the gateway, which enforces authentication, applies RBAC and ACL policies, routes to the correct backend, and records the event for observability.

**What is the difference between the agent registry and the agent gateway?**
The registry is the catalog plane — it stores what agents exist, what they can do, who owns them, and who is permitted to invoke them. The gateway is the data plane — it enforces the registry policy at the moment of every invocation. The registry is the rulebook; the gateway is the enforcer.

**What does the agent security scan check for?**
Every agent published to the registry passes an automated scan before it can be invoked, covering prompt injection patterns, capability misuse risks, and policy compliance against custom rules you define per environment. The scan is a publish gate, and re-scan triggers automatically whenever an agent card is updated.

**How many compliance policies does Jarvis AI Guardrails ship with?**
Jarvis AI Guardrails include 100+ prebuilt compliance policies for safe, ethical, and compliant AI adoption, alongside PII redaction, content filtering, topic filtering, RBAC, and real-time alerts — proactive controls rather than safeguards bolted on after deployment.

**What is the Jarvis RAG Knowledge Base and how does it ground answers?**
The Jarvis RAG Knowledge Base uses retrieval-augmented generation to surface company knowledge with GenAI, returning answers grounded in your own organizational data rather than generic internet content. It delivers document citations, vector search, and embedded PII guardrails, and supports use cases such as legal, sales, and support.

## Cloud Services

- [Cloud Migration & Modernization](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/migration-modernization/): Migrate and modernize workloads to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for scalability, security, and cost savings
- [DevOps & GitOps](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/devops-gitops/): DevOps and GitOps practices for CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and faster cloud delivery
- [AWS EKS Best Practices](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/aws-eks-kubernetes/): Expert guidance for creating, managing, and optimizing Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters for performance and cost
- [AWS Serverless & Lambda](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/aws-services-serverless/): AWS Lambda Service Delivery Partner building serverless web services and infrastructure automation
- [Data Analytics](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/data-analytics/): Scalable cloud data infrastructure on AWS, from ingestion pipelines to BI dashboards that turn insights into action
- [Security & Governance](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/security-governance/): Security baked into every solution: incident response, strategic readiness, and assurance across the data lifecycle
- [IT Staffing Solutions](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/it-staffing-solutions/): Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire IT placements delivering vetted candidates for critical business needs
- [Cloud IT Training](https://ascendingdc.com/cloud-service/training-for-success/): Instructor-led and self-paced cloud IT training plus documentation for efficient knowledge transfer

## Data & Cloud Solutions

- [Digital Transformation](https://ascendingdc.com/services/digital-transformation/): Integrating digital technology across operations, with the cultural shift to experiment, iterate, and deliver value
- [AWS Zero Trust Framework](https://ascendingdc.com/services/zero-trust/): Identity-based security enforcing fine-grained authorization and strong identity proof before granting access
- [Data Integration](https://ascendingdc.com/services/data-integration/): Collecting, processing, and unifying business data into analytics-ready systems as a big data foundation
- [Data Lake & Warehouse](https://ascendingdc.com/services/data-warehouse/): Building data lakes and warehouses that give teams access to high-quality, analytics-ready data
- [Smart Data (AI & ML)](https://ascendingdc.com/services/smart-data/): Applying AI and machine learning to business data for informed decisions and competitive advantage
- [Data Visualization](https://ascendingdc.com/services/data-visualization/): Turning raw data into visual stories that reveal trends, outliers, and patterns for clearer insight
- [DataOps](https://ascendingdc.com/services/data-ops/): Automated orchestration and metrics that bring transparency and speed to analytics and data operations
- [Cloud Big Data Solution](https://ascendingdc.com/services/big-data/): Scalable cloud data infrastructure built by big data engineers to turn insights into actionable outcomes
- [DevOps Cloud](https://ascendingdc.com/services/devops-cloud/): AWS-based DevOps with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and containers for scalable IT operations
- [Managed Single Sign-On](https://ascendingdc.com/services/managed-sso/): Automated, secure cloud-managed SSO that enforces security standards while reducing burden on IT staff
- [CloudFront](https://ascendingdc.com/services/cloud-front/): AWS CloudFront content delivery to accelerate and elevate how applications serve content globally
- [Embedded Analytics](https://ascendingdc.com/services/quicksight/): Embedding Amazon QuickSight analytics into applications to create new revenue streams from data insights

## Industries

- [Finance & Insurance](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/finance-insurance/): Cloud, data, and AI solutions for financial firms navigating regulation, market shifts, and new competitors
- [Healthcare](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/healthcare/): Technology and data solutions helping healthcare organizations modernize and adopt digital innovation
- [Information Technology](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/information-technology/): Cloud and data services for the IT sector underpinning the economy, security, and public infrastructure
- [Media & Entertainment](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/media/): Digital innovation and cloud solutions helping media firms improve user experience and grow market share
- [Education](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/education/): Custom data analytics and system integration solutions addressing challenges in the education sector
- [Energy](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/energy/): Energy-sector digital transformation spanning analytics, ML, AI, data visualization, and process automation
- [SMB & Startup](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/smb/): Cloud and technology solutions tailored to small businesses and startups driving the U.S. economy
- [Supply Chain](https://ascendingdc.com/industries/supply-chain/): IoT, blockchain, AI, and ML solutions to cut costs, optimize routes, and boost supply chain revenue

## Public Sector

- [Public Sector Overview](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/overview/): How ASCENDING modernizes government IT: e-government, legacy upgrades, e-procurement, and constituent communications
- [Baltimore County Public Schools](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/baltimore-county-public-schools/): IDIQ contract vehicle providing on-demand IT staffing to Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS)
- [Florida DMS IT Staff Augmentation](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/florida/): Florida State Term Contract (80101507-23-STC-ITSA) for IT staffing across agencies, schools, and authorized users
- [Louisiana Division of Administration](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/louisiana/): IDIQ contract vehicle from Louisiana's Office of State Procurement for IT staffing services
- [Texas DIR-ITSAC](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/texas-dir/): IT staffing via the Texas DIR-ITSAC contract (DIR-CPO-5569) for state, local, education, and public entities
- [VASCUPP (James Madison University)](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/james-madison-university/): VASCUPP contract UCPJMU6762 providing a comprehensive range of IT staffing services to member institutions
- [University of Arizona Staffing](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/university-of-arizona-staffing/): IDIQ contract vehicle delivering the full range of IT staffing services to University of Arizona units
- [TIPS Data Analytics & Services](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/interlocal-purchasing-system-data-analytics/): TIPS Contract 240403 for IT and data analytics, system integration, cloud, and consulting nationwide
- [TIPS Technology Solutions](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/interlocal-purchasing-system-technology-solutions/): TIPS Contract 250106 cooperative vehicle for technology solutions, products, and services nationwide
- [State of Ohio DAS AI Services](https://ascendingdc.com/public-sector/state-of-ohio-das-ai-services/): Contract 0A1335 Category 4 for AI assessment, strategy, implementation, governance, and managed services

## Company

- [Careers](https://ascendingdc.com/about/careers/): Open engineering roles and what it's like to work at ASCENDING on cloud and AI projects
- [AWS Well-Architected Review](https://ascendingdc.com/about/well-architected/): AWS cost-optimization reviews that cut idle resources and apply reserved and spot instances without losing performance

## Case Studies

- [Case Studies](https://ascendingdc.com/about/case-studies/): Client success stories across finance, healthcare, startups, and logistics built on cloud and AI work

## Company Overview

- [Company Overview](https://ascendingdc.com/about/company-overview/): ASCENDING's mission, AI-driven solutions, and cloud transformation expertise

## Webinars

- [GenAI for Healthcare Webinar](https://ascendingdc.com/webinar/genai-health-care/): AWS-cohosted GenAI workshop applying AI Scribe, AI PM, and AI Pathway to healthcare challenges
- [GenAI on AWS Webinar](https://ascendingdc.com/webinar/genai-aws/): Building generative AI apps on AWS for chatbot, HR, finance, and corporate legal use cases
- [AWS Deadline Cloud Webinar](https://ascendingdc.com/webinar/aws-deadline/): AWS-cohosted workshop on deploying and scaling a fully managed cloud render farm in minutes

## Company Information

- **Website**: https://ascendingdc.com
- **Company Overview**: https://ascendingdc.com/about/company-overview/
- **Location**: 2751 Prosperity Avenue, Suite 240, Fairfax, VA 22031-4397
- **Phone**: +1-518-288-7586
- **Email**: support@ascendingdc.com
- **Training Portal**: https://training.ascendingdc.com
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascendingllc
- **YouTube**: https://www.youtube.com/@ASCENDINGdc