AI automation.
The task your team does fifty times a week. We make it run itself, with a person still in charge.
Systems that ship.
AI automation, custom software, and websites for teams in the DC metro. Built in Arlington, Virginia. Running in production for people who needed them yesterday.
Software we built and run. Runs a university conference center from the first inquiry to the event day. Live at a design partner in the DMV.Tracks an identity governance program and computes coverage across six compliance frameworks live.Twenty questions, nine categories, a ranked list of where a business is losing time. Free in the browser.
See Cardinal HubSee Apex StewardRun the auditCustom software.
Built around the way your business already works, not the other way round.
Web development.
Fast, well built, and found by the people looking for you.
Apex. Our software line.
Apex is the family of products we build and run ourselves. Two are live today, built because clients kept asking the same two questions: where is the time going, and who has access to what.
01Apex StewardIdentity governance and compliance tracking. Six frameworks computed live, AI conflict detection against your vendor's own guide, one-click executive reports.See the platform02ApexAuditA four-minute automation diagnostic. Twenty questions, nine categories, a ranked scorecard of where a business is losing time. Free, with a $50 Deep Audit.Run the audit
Apex Steward
It reads the policy library so your analysts don't have to.
Drop in vendor documentation. Steward extracts the roles, entitlements, and policies buried in hundreds of pages.
Apex Steward
94%
less time spent on ingestion.
What used to take a security team days of reading and spreadsheet work now takes minutes, with every extraction traceable to its source.
Apex Steward
70%+
lower total cost of ownership.
Compared with the manual programs mid-market teams run today. No consultants on retainer to keep the role catalog current.
Apex Steward
Multi-tenant from the first line of code.
Built for security teams and the consultancies that serve them. Every tenant isolated, every action logged, every decision explainable.
ApexAudit
Four minutes. Nine categories. A ranked list of where your business is losing time.
Answer a short set of questions and get a scorecard ordered by impact. Free in the browser. A deeper AI-written report when you want it.
Built here. Running now.
Production systems we designed and shipped, most of them end to end.
Conference center software
Cardinal Hub
Bookings, dual pricing, payments, and a live run of show board for every department, from first inquiry to the event day.
5payment methods in one ledger, from Stripe to cost center journal
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Knowledge vaults · coming soon
Gnosis
A vault per project. Files, links, and notes in one place, with answers that cite the file they came from.
150+features shipped by a single engineer
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AI-powered IAM governance
Apex Steward
Reads vendor docs and policy PDFs, extracts every role and entitlement, and scores six compliance frameworks live.
94%less time spent on ingestion
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Healthcare billing automation
Practice Ledger
SimplePractice to QuickBooks without a human retyping numbers. Patient data is stripped before anything reaches the model.
0records of PHI ever sent to an AI
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Email classification and routing
Inbox Sentinel
Reads every inquiry that lands in our mailboxes, classifies it, and routes it to the right person. We run it on ourselves.
24/7monitoring, no ticket queue to check
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Small team. Measured in what got shipped.
0%less ingestion time in Apex Steward
0compliance frameworks computed live in Apex Steward
0%lower cost to insight with ApexAudit than a consulting audit
0.0Google rating, every project so far
★★★★★
"Best developers in the DC Metro. On time, on budget, and exceeded expectations."Jason Ray, Google review
"Solid communication, within the budget, and unexpected value you can't beat."
"Very responsive, and always knows what needs to be done to resolve any issues people have."
"Top-quality work and great attention to detail. Highly recommend."
Ready when you are.
No pitch decks. No twelve-step sales funnel. A conversation about what you need and whether we're the right fit.
Arlington, Virginia
AI automation, custom software, and web development in the DC metro.
We build the systems that let small teams operate like larger ones: automated intake and follow-up, internal tools that fit real workflows, and fast, well-built websites that get found. Every engagement is scoped around one measurable outcome.
AI automation
Repetitive intake, routing, approvals, and reporting handled by systems that sit inside the tools you already use, with a person still in charge of every decision that matters.
AI automation servicesWeb development
Websites that load fast, look premium, and are structured so search engines and AI assistants can describe your business correctly. WordPress when it fits, custom when it doesn't.
Web development servicesCustom software
Dashboards, portals, integrations, and internal systems built around the way your business already runs, on a stack that survives a security review.
Software development servicesQuestions people ask before they call.
What does RJ Autonomous do?
RJ Autonomous is an Arlington, Virginia firm that builds AI automation, custom software, and websites for businesses in the Washington, DC metro. We also build our own products: Cardinal Hub for conference centers, Apex Steward for identity and access governance, ApexAudit for automation diagnostics, and Gnosis, a vault-per-project knowledge app that is coming soon.
Where are you located and where do you work?
We are based in Arlington, Virginia and work with teams across Arlington, Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland, plus select clients nationally.
Who is the ideal client?
Growing companies, professional services firms, healthcare practices, and security teams that have a real operational problem: manual work eating the week, a website that is not pulling its weight, or a process that needs software built around it.
Do you handle both design and the technical build?
Yes. The same two people scope the problem, design the solution, and ship the code. Every project is built end to end, and most of them keep running in production long after launch.