# Partner and Vendor Notes

## DataSystems Inc

DataSystems Inc is a data infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco. Acme Corp signed a strategic partnership with DataSystems in September 2025 to co-develop document indexing and search infrastructure.

Carol Okafor previously worked at DataSystems Inc as a DevOps Engineer from 2019 to 2022, before joining Acme Corp. Her former manager at DataSystems was Dr. Priya Nair, who is now VP of Engineering at DataSystems.

The partnership covers two active workstreams: the RAG Pipeline Project (document indexing) and a planned data lake migration.

## NovaTech Inc

NovaTech Inc is a SaaS company focused on developer tooling. Sandra Kim, Acme Corp's CEO, was VP Engineering at NovaTech before co-founding Acme Corp in 2015.

Acme Corp has an informal advisory relationship with NovaTech. No active commercial contract exists.

## HashiCorp

HashiCorp provides the Vault product used by Acme Corp's Platform team in the Secrets Service project. Acme Corp holds an enterprise licence for Vault signed in Q1 2026. The vendor contact is Marcus Tan, an enterprise account manager at HashiCorp.

## AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Acme Corp's primary cloud provider. The DB Migration project targets AWS Aurora. Acme Corp's annual AWS spend is approximately $800,000. The account manager is Lisa Huang at AWS.
