The data layer is where AI actually fails

Benjamin Asante founded Fortis Data Group to put senior data platform engineering directly in front of the organizations that depend on it, without the layers that usually separate the people who scope the work from the people who deliver it.

His conviction is that most data problems are not modelling problems. They are provenance, quality and governance problems, and they are solved by engineers who have carried a pager for a production estate rather than by a slide deck. Fortis is built around that: the people who scope your work are the people who deliver it, and nothing is promised that we would not be comfortable being paged about at three in the morning.

Benjamin holds Public Trust and Department of Defense Secret clearances concurrently, with production depth in AWS and delivery experience across Azure Government, Oracle Cloud and Google Cloud.

Maame Tiwaah Frimpong leads the operational side of Fortis Data Group: contracting, compliance administration, financial operations, and the systems that keep engagements moving once engineering begins.

She brings a clinician's standard for documentation and verification to how Fortis handles client agreements, data handling commitments and the evidence trail behind its own operations. In medicine those are not administrative overhead, they are the difference between a good outcome and a bad one, and the same holds for a regulated data engagement.

Maame holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Business Administration.

Fortis engages vetted subject matter experts when an engagement requires expertise beyond the core team, including database engineering, analytics, and delivery management. All are United States persons, contracted and insured through Fortis, and identified to the client before work begins.

Named delivery staff are confirmed in writing as part of the engagement scope.

Anansi Cloud Systems builds and operates the cloud platform layer: landing zones, infrastructure as code, container platforms, and secure delivery pipelines. Fortis engineers the data layer that runs on it.

Where an engagement needs both, one firm primes and subcontracts the other under a teaming agreement, so the client has a single contract and a single point of accountability.

SFM Script builds custom software, web and mobile applications, and provides design, hosting and ongoing management. Fortis engineers the data layer underneath.

Each firm contracts directly for its own scope. Where an engagement needs both, that split is defined before anything is signed.