Model Rule 1.6 audit pack
Zero findings letter, access matrix, and segmented network diagram for Reyes & Malik Litigation.
Updated July 2025 - Signed by managing partner
View dossierDigital Estate Architect
Sovereigndigitalestatesyoucontrol.
Current venture
DarkDeck
Valuation $250M Goal Hit | Target $350M by end of Q4 2025.
I engineer private, on-prem automation for Chicago founders, firms, and families. Every estate is installed in person, with failovers rehearsed, compliance evidence documented, and ownership kept inside your walls.
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Presence
Chicago only. Delivery requires on-site stewardship; remote work is not offered under any circumstance.
Current venture
DarkDeck
Valuation $250M Goal Hit | Target $350M by end of Q4 2025.
Elite Build Portfolio
World-class digital estates representing the pinnacle of private infrastructure engineering—custom-tailored, meticulously secured, and built for longevity.
Regulated Estates
Two flagship deployments engineered for teams who answer to bar auditors and HIPAA investigators.
Compliance Evidence Locker
Proof you can hand to auditors
Every estate ships with signed attestations, drill logs, and diagrams. Share these packets with your counsel, board, or regulator—no redactions required.
HIPAA readiness runbook
BAA inventory, quarterly drill log, and clinician-aware policy map for Meridian Surgical Group.
Updated September 2025 - 11 minute RTO verified
View dossierRansomware drill telemetry
Containment timeline, checksum report, and Dark Deck restore metrics for Black Summit Ventures.
Updated August 2025 - 3.5 minute containment
View dossierDocumented Proof
Named clients. Verifiable outcomes.
Every engagement ships with compliance evidence, disaster recovery results, and named references who signed off on delivery.
"Zero findings in our bar audit and every motion file stayed under our control. The estate runs faster than the cloud stack it replaced."
Alexandra Reyes
Managing Partner, Reyes & Malik Litigation
Model Rule 1.6 controls verified in 28 days
"We execute HIPAA drills quarterly now. Recovery dropped from hours to eleven minutes and our board stopped asking about vendor risk."
Dr. Lauren Chen
Medical Director, Meridian Surgical Group
11 minute documented recovery window
"Dark Deck gives us internal AI counsel without leaking strategy. Every safeguard is documented and we rehearse contingencies live."
Elias Porter
Chief Security Officer, Black Summit Ventures
Private AI deployment across three sites
HIPAA & GDPR runbooks on file
Signed compliance attestation per estate
Direct escalation line - no subcontractors
CLASSIFIED // ELITE ACCESS ONLY
Dark DeckPrivate Edition
AI built for professionals who will not accept outside visibility. Every inference, dataset, and audit log remains on hardware you own, tuned to the compliance regimes you answer to.
[Classified] Architecture details released under NDA // Deployment requires executive clearance
Plain-language promise
You receive a fully private AI estate with rehearsed failovers, sealed telemetry, and direct stewardship from me. No cloud relays, no subcontractors, and transparent documentation for every safeguard.
What's Included
- Seven-day on-premise deployment — nothing leaves until your team has operational mastery.
- Private control plane — runs air-gapped inside your perimeter with zero external dependencies.
- Zero telemetry leakage — conversations, logs, and model weights stay sealed within your infrastructure.
- Adaptive intelligence layer — response patterns calibrated to your mission profile and compliance guardrails.
- Multi-site orchestration — secure access across estates, offices, and failover nodes with hardened, encrypted replication.
Deployment Protocol
PHASE 01
Discovery & threat modeling
Capture operational scenarios, adversarial assumptions, and [Redacted] containment protocols that govern escalation.
PHASE 02
Hardware staging & model deployment
Install the inference stack with GPU acceleration, encrypted telemetry, and [Redacted] safety layers on pre-cleared hardware.
PHASE 03
On-site calibration sprint
Undertake a one-week integration cycle with estate-specific behavioural tuning and local knowledge curation.
PHASE 04
Stealth handoff & contingency drills
Deliver sealed runbooks, rehearse breach scenarios, and activate [Redacted] emergency protocols with your principals.
What I Deliver
Three pillars of sovereign infrastructure—built for privacy, security, and total control.
Private Servers
High-availability NAS and VM stacks (TrueNAS, Proxmox) with encrypted snapshots and offline recovery drills.
Recent build: triple-node TrueNAS vault protecting a 14TB litigation archive.
Zero-Trust Networks
Segmented networks, WireGuard mesh, and policy automation. Every endpoint authenticated, every tunnel encrypted.
Recent build: biometric VPN perimeter covering six villas with automatic threat sweeps.
On-Prem AI
Local LLM clusters (Ollama, vLLM) with curated datasets, safety policies, and observability tuned to your compliance rules.
Recent build: confidential RAG counsel trained on twelve years of legal briefs.
About Ehab Allababidi
Ehab Allababidi is a Chicago engineer who has spent the last decade hardening private stacks for families, founders, law firms, and medical groups who refuse cloud custody.
- Enterprise systems background: VMware, Proxmox, pfSense, Arista
- Hands-on builder—no resellers, no subcontractors, every rack wired personally
- Concierge stewardship with quarterly health checks and on-call response
"If you don't own the hardware, you don't own the data. I build estates where you command every packet."
2 Q4 2025 slots remaining - Next availability: Q1 2026
Get In Touch
On-site estates are available exclusively across Chicago and the surrounding suburbs; remote architecture counsel is delivered virtually. Three fast ways to reach me—pick the channel that fits and I’ll respond the same day.
ONLY WAY TO BOOK
1-Hour Architecture Consultation
We'll review your compliance posture, threat model, and capacity projections—then deliver a preliminary design basis within 48 hours.
Direct access to architect
NDA provided upon request
Q4 2025 booking now open - Next availability typically 2-3 weeks out
Existing clients only
Emergency infrastructure hotline: (773) 920-0030