Research · design · technology

Systems built to remain answerable.

Lone Fight Systems is an Indigenous-owned research, design, and technology company. We build software, conduct research, and design systems for work that carries lasting responsibilities.

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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.

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PAVAIllustrative record

Field-session notes

Location
Example storage room
Notes
Confirm box labels against the inventory before the next review.
Illustrative record · 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.

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In development · local synthetic prototype

NAAGU

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

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The broader practice

Ways to work together.

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Understand

Research and interpretation

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

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.

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.

Darren Lone Fight in glasses beside a tree and wildflowers in a sunlit wooded setting.

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
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The method in practice

What the design carries forward.

A field can change the meaning.

A single affiliation field can preserve one name and lose the political relation it claims to describe. SRA examines that change.

A draft still needs a decision.

PAVA helps staff prepare notice drafts for internal review. Consultation, decisions, and submission remain with the responsible people.

The next person needs the earlier work.

PAVA retains completed imports and previous review actions so a later reviewer can revisit how the work developed.

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What are you working on?

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

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