Former Secretary of CA GovOps, Senior Counselor to the CA Governor, and California State CIO will help scale a model that connects government challenges to innovative suppliers, with AI built in
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 6, 2026 / Authorium, the cloud-based technology platform that automates and improves complex government processes, announces that Amy Tong has been appointed to Authorium's Board of Advisors. Tong will help lead a national effort to make government procurement a place where innovative companies and public agencies can actually find each other, and will help shape the company's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for the public sector.
Amy Tong is a respected government innovator and AI leader who served in executive leadership roles during two different governor administrations. During her over 25 year tenure as a civil servant, she rose through the ranks and was appointed as State Chief Information Officer, where she led a $67B portfolio and 22,000 employees, and later both the Secretary of CA GovOps and Senior Counselor to California's Governor, for strategy and leadership to tackle the State's toughest challenges. Among her many accomplishments, she led the nation's first statewide Generative AI policy and implementation rollout.
"I've spent my career pushing government to adopt technology that actually works for the people using it," said Amy Tong. "The real bottleneck in procurement is that the demand side and the supply side never meet. Agencies do not want the same three bidders, and the companies with the best ideas cannot get through the door. Authorium is the only team I have seen with both the platform and the track record to fix that, and I am joining to help take it national."
The problem in government procurement is not process alone. It is that supply and demand do not meet. Agencies with hard problems struggle to reach past the same handful of large incumbents, while capable small and mid-sized companies, including the wave of narrowly focused AI tools now reaching the market, cannot find the door or afford the cost of knocking on it. Authorium is building the curated space where both sides show up: agencies publish challenge statements in a standard format, qualified suppliers are surfaced to the agencies whose problems they actually match, and AI helps both sides do the work of writing, responding, and evaluating. The more the network is used, the better the matching gets.
"Amy's public service and technology expertise is second to none, and this is the work Authorium started a decade ago bringing innovative startups to help solve public sector challenges," said Kamran Saddique, CEO of Authorium. "We began by making procurement accessible for the City of San Francisco, we carried out to 50 cities, counties and States with federal funding before bringing it into the State of California, and the demand we are now seeing across states, counties, and cities is what makes this the moment to scale it nationally. Amy understands better than almost anyone what stands in the way, and having her leading this with us changes what is possible."
Authorium's platform is built for government, and 60% of Authorium employees served in government themselves. The company partners with California's Office of Data and Innovation (ODI) in California's innovation showcase program. Authorium is currently working with ODI on an AI permitting challenge in which agencies posted the problem and suppliers responded on Authorium's platform. Since spring 2025, Authorium has worked with the California Department of Finance to pilot the use of Generative AI for bill analysis workload, and in 2026 the company launched an in-depth training and certification program, which expands available avenues for public sector teams to engage with Authorium.
Authorium built its platform to be AI-first, an approach that separates the company from incumbent enterprise vendors retrofitting AI onto legacy systems. Rather than asking government teams to operate AI models on their own, Authorium embeds those capabilities directly into the documents and workflows agencies work in every day. Staff work inside a secure, compliant environment that processes sensitive information within AWS GovCloud rather than sending it to consumer AI tools, keeps a human in the loop, and grounds each result in the agency's own rules, data, and compliance requirements. The platform is model-agnostic, running the AI model each agency is approved to use rather than locking it to a single vendor.
Every consequential thing the government does begins as a document; Authorium is the governed front door for those documents, such as a challenge statement, a scope of work, a bill analysis. Staff start with the document - rather than a multi-year implementation - and the document accrues the actions government requires, including AI drafting and analysis, tasks, approvals, and evaluations, until it becomes the procurement, the contract, or the grant. Nothing leaves the system of record, and every step carries an audit trail.
About Authorium: Authorium is a no-code, cloud-based platform exclusively for government administrative operations. Government teams rely on us to support procurement, contract lifecycle management, legislative analysis, budget analysis, and grant management. As a public benefit corporation, we serve the government workers that serve their communities. Learn more at authorium.com.
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