Coverage · FedScoop Commentary · October 6, 2026
The government is buying AI by the token. It should buy results.
A former DOD official argues for more outcome-driven pricing over usage pricing.
By Savan Kong, CEO and Founder of Your Roster
Read on FedScoopWhite papers
Plain-language papers for government professionals and the teams building AI for government.
Why AI needs the judgment only public servants have
Why expert training work matters, what it looks like, and why it is some of the most rewarding work a government professional can take on.
Ethics & ComplianceEthics and compliance: what government professionals should know about AI expert work
A plain-language guide to the questions experts ask us most, starting with “am I allowed to?”
Trust & VerificationHow we verify experts, and why colleagues beat chatbots
A reviewed career record, with references from people who saw the work, against an automated interview.
The Podcast
A new series from Your Roster. We talk with government experts about the judgment their work takes, and with people at AI labs and enterprises about what they’re building and where models still fall short. The first episodes are coming soon.
Expert spotlights
A government expert walks through a real kind of decision, like defending a source selection, drafting a rule or signing an authorization, and the reasoning behind it.
Labs and enterprises
People at AI labs and enterprises on what they’re training, how they evaluate it, and where their models still need human judgment.
One question for everyone
Where does a model get your field wrong, and what would it take to get it right?
Be a guest
If you did the work inside government, or you’re building AI at a lab or an enterprise, we’d like to hear how you think about it. If you’re a current federal employee, check with your ethics official before you appear, and never share proprietary, controlled, classified or confidential specifics.
- Current and former federal, state and local employees
- Military members and veterans
- Researchers and engineers at AI labs
- Leaders putting AI to work at enterprises
Fact sheet
- Company
- Your Roster, Inc.
- CEO and co-founder
- Savanrith “Savan” Kong, former Customer Experience Officer at the Department of Defense
- Co-founders
- Savan Kong (CEO), David Spellman (COO), Christan Johnson (Chief Experience and Community Officer) and Matt Kelly (Growth)
- What it does
- Expert reasoning for reinforcement learning: scored answers and reasoning traces from credentialed government experts, or a standing cell of five to twenty experts
- Experts
- Current and former federal, state and local employees, military members and veterans, and government contractors
- First dataset batch
- Federal acquisition and contracting
- Scoring engine
- Aegis Eval, which scores each dimension separately and marks anything untested as Not Evaluated
- Buyers
- AI labs, federal integrators, program offices and enterprises
About Your Roster
Your Roster delivers expert reasoning for reinforcement learning. Government and defense experts, reviewed by its team, grade AI models’ answers and write out the reasoning the models are missing. Your Roster delivers standing expert cells and scored datasets to frontier labs and enterprises training models for government and business use. Its scoring engine, Aegis Eval, grades every answer against a published rubric and never combines results into a single trust score.
Media contact
For interviews, background, podcast bookings and press questions.
- [email protected]