Research · design · technology

Systems built to remain answerable.

Lone Fight Systems is an Indigenous-owned research, design, and technology company. We conduct research, design interfaces and workflows, and build software for repatriation, archives, art and philosophy, and public-interest work.

Explore our work Talk with us

Selected work

Research, made useful.

Current product

PAVA

PAVA — Provenance Audit, Viability of Action: organize inventory, review, internal notice drafts, grant projects, and online field notes for institutional NAGPRA work.

Completed imports and previous review actions remain available so the next reviewer can revisit how the work developed.

Explore PAVA
PAVAExplanatory workflow

From records to an internal draft.

  1. 01 · Source record

    EXAMPLE-001

    A synthetic record and field note ask staff to check box labels against inventory.

  2. 02 · Preliminary review

    A question to resolve

    Staff examine the supporting records and retain the review action for the next person.

  3. 03 · Internal draft

    Facts ready for review

    Staff prepare a supported notice draft from reviewed facts. It remains an internal working document.

Consultation, decisions, publication, and submission remain with the responsible people.

Explanatory workflow · synthetic example, not an application screenshot.

Research · preprint and synthetic model

Sovereign Relational Architecture

Research into what a system must preserve when it turns a relation into a record, a category, or a decision.

A field can preserve one affiliation while losing the political relation it claims to describe. SRA makes that problem concrete.

Explore the research

In development · local synthetic prototype

NAAGU

Independent source/Nation-side development for reviewing requests, setting conditions, preparing responses, and carrying decisions forward.

Nations determine their own authorities and ways of working. The development explores what a source chooses to record, share, and pass on.

Explore NAAGU development

The broader practice

Ways to work together.

Work with us

Understand

Research and interpretation

Examine evidence and assumptions through research, archives, art, and philosophy; develop an analysis, conceptual framework, or model others can inspect.

Possible outputResearch brief or archival/provenance analysis

See the research

Design

Governance and systems design

Define who can decide, what context must survive, and how an interface or workflow should carry those responsibilities into everyday work.

Possible outputRequirements and governance/provenance model

See the NAAGU development example

Build & carry forward

Software and implementation

Build or adapt software around a defined need, with setup, documentation, training, and a handoff that helps people maintain the work.

Possible outputWorking software or a scoped prototype

See how PAVA works

Why this company

Built from the work. Grounded in relation.

Darren has encountered repatriation through institutional work, alongside Tribal Nations bringing relatives home, and as a descendant seeking their return.

I know what the paperwork looks like from each chair. PAVA began with what I kept wishing existed.
Darren Lone Fight · Founder
Read the story behind the work

Start a conversation

What are you working on?

Bring a question, a system that needs attention, or a project you want to carry forward.

Talk with us contact@lonefightsystems.com