Sthenostechnologies

Vision and values

Sthenos aims to earn lifetime customer loyalty by consistently delivering high-quality software services that provide excellent business value. Its culture emphasizes ethics, integrity, trust, and dignity in relationships with partners, affiliates, customers, and employees.

The company uses a "People, Process, and Technology" framework, integrating operational strategy, leadership, digital transformation, organizational talent, and management practices.

Leadership

• Saliha Ghaffar — Chief Executive Officer
• Suleman Siddiqui — Advisor to the CEO

Sthenos is a woman-owned small business.

• Artificial intelligence: Practical AI solutions for decision-making, process automation, and actionable insights from enterprise data.
• Application development: Secure, scalable web, mobile, and enterprise applications tailored to business workflows.
• Cloud consulting: Cloud migration, modernization, and optimization focused on performance, security, cost efficiency, and scalability.
• Digital transformation: Modernization of processes, systems, and operating models by aligning technology, data, and people.
• Quality engineering: Testing, automation, and continuous quality assurance for application reliability, performance, and security.
• Team augmentation: Engineers and technology specialists who extend delivery capacity and provide project flexibility.

Government-focused capabilities

For agencies and government program teams, Sthenos lists application modernization, custom software, cloud migration, data and reporting, AI and automation, and staff augmentation. Government services also include cybersecurity and penetration testing, managed IT and help desk services, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, and Salesforce consulting and implementation.

Industries served

Sthenos works with professional services, financial services, healthcare, education and learning, media and entertainment, logistics and supply chain, ecommerce and retail, mid-market SaaS and software-driven companies, and healthtech firms.

Reported examples include a bank staff portal, an AI-driven logistics optimization platform, a digital learning platform, a construction and engineering management platform, and an IoT health monitoring application.

1775 Tysons Blvd, 5th Floor, Suite 04187 McLean, VA 22102

Phone

+1 (703) 945-5300

Email

info@sthenostechnologies.com

Maryland office

11810 Grand Park Ave, Suite 500 North Bethesda, MD 20852

Phone

+1 (301) 793-3980

Prospective clients can request a free consultation, book a 30-minute call, or talk directly with an engineer. The website states that Sthenos responds to strategy-call requests within one business day.

Lists Bethesda, North Bethesda, McLean, Tysons, and Virginia Beach as a location. Names Maryland as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.

Projects are delivered in two-week sprints, with working software expected every two weeks. Sthenos states that a first production release typically arrives in three to six months.

The company uses AI-assisted engineering and states that it delivers projects up to five times faster than a traditional IT services company.

What happens next

1. Sthenos schedules a call at the client's convenience.
2. It runs a short, bounded discovery scoped to the engagement.
3. It provides a costed roadmap before the client commits to a build.

Sthenos also states that the people who pitch are the people who deliver, and that clients own the code, repository, and cloud accounts from the first commit.

• UEI: ULUZGKWYCJB7
• CAGE code: 9RX92
• Primary NAICS: 541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services
• SAM.gov: Active; the registration is listed as expiring June 24, 2027
• SBA record: Lists 31 NAICS codes and marks Sthenos as a small business under each
• Maryland certification: MBE and SBE, certificate 26-134, covering NAICS 541611 and 541613

Sthenos states that its WOSB and EDWOSB certifications can support applicable WOSB set-asides. Its work codes are listed with the WOSB designation, while the company explains that an EDWOSB set-aside is not available in those codes. The stated sole-source ceiling for the professional and computer services codes in which Sthenos works is $5.5 million, subject to applicable federal requirements and contracting officer determinations.

Sthenos does not hold a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract or a place on a GSA vehicle. It also states that it is not 8(a), HUBZone, veteran-owned, or service-disabled veteran-owned certified.

Sthenos reports that its delivery partnership with NeoSOFT provides additional enterprise-scale delivery capacity while a senior Sthenos team remains accountable for each engagement.

Assurance

Sthenos states that it does not hold independent SOC 2, HITRUST, ISO 27001, or CMMI credentials. Instead, it builds to the framework named in a contract, runs the required controls, and provides an evidence trail for the customer's assessor and authorizing official.