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Keystone Advanced Technology Services

Center of Excellence

Keystone Advanced Technology Services (K.ATS) analyzes, measures, and architects technology in novel ways.

About

The K.ATS team comprises ~50 computer scientists, data scientists, engineers, and technologists supported by a network of dozens of leading computer science and AI experts from industry and academia across the globe.

K.ATS has the on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure and capabilities to ingest, parse, and analyze a wide variety of highly confidential big data (>100TB) and source code from the world’s largest tech companies. Our cleanroom and other proprietary tools offer a secure end-to-end data transport, storage, analysis, and disposal solution.

The K.ATS team works with clients on the world’s most consequential strategic, legal, and regulatory matters impacting technology. Prior K.ATS project work includes:

Source Code Measurement and Review

  • The review, analysis, and measurement of complex codebases to estimate the value of software technology for IP and tax matters
  • Code review and forensic analyses to determine patent, copyright, trade secret, data breach, and related IP theft


AI/ML Training, Auditing, and Valuation

  • Analyzing the impact and value that specific training data has on AI/ML model performance (including Generative AI models)
  • Training and deploying large language models (LLMs) with guardrails and monitoring frameworks
  • Assessing how “black box” AI/ML models work and their capability for identification (e.g., for BIPA matters)
  • Conducting algorithmic audits to assess large-scale AI/ML systems (e.g., recommender systems) for fairness and bias concerns

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Regulation

  • Architecting and implementing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to safeguard sensitive user data for regulatory compliance matters
  • Analyzing network traffic communications to determine information sent (e.g., via pixels) and the “architecture” of those communications between client/servers for VPPA, CPPA, and wiretap-related matters
  • Analyzing data pipelines set up to scrape web content and bot traffic on social media platforms for CFAA and Generative AI-related matters

Tech Strategy and Architecture

  • Software and hardware technology teardowns and architecture/integration assessments (e.g., distributed systems, semiconductors, chips) for IP and antitrust investigations
  • Developing data, platform, and system strategy roadmaps and tech diligence reports for M&A, including assessments of quality, scalability, security, and debt in systems

Capabilities
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Source Code Value Measurement and Analytics

Informing granular understanding of code features and value (e.g., lines of code, dependencies, code carryover, technical debt)

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Source Code Review and Digital Forensics

Applied to large-scale, real-world distributed systems, like ad auction infrastructure, recommender systems, and information retrieval systems; interception of mobile app networking communication and reverse engineering

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Machine Learning Development and Analytics

Including model and pipeline design, development, and deployment, and algorithm auditing to explain and assess measures of bias, fairness, interpretability, data value, and privacy

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LLM Training and Data Value

Conducting experiments quantifying training data’s impact/value on LLM performance/output (e.g., training LLMs, assessing datapoint marginal value); analyzing large-scale telemetry data to quantify user behavior patterns of LLM interactions and relationship with outputs

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Cybersecurity and Risk Assessments

Including design, development, deployment, and advisory on responsible ML systems, privacy-enhancing technologies like differential privacy and multi-party computation, risk assessment for regulatory compliance with DSA, DMA, GDPR, etc.

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Technology Architecture Development

Applied to large-scale system design, platform architecture, and implementation advisory and development including AI/ML systems and Generative AI-based apps