One sourcing desk for
Tribal enterprises and data-center builds.
Konative is founded and majority-owned by Jeramey James, an enrolled citizen of the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation — a Native-owned AVANT desk built to sit in both rooms, with published benchmarks and a written sovereignty commitment.
Native-owned is a fact here, not a label.
Konative is founded and majority-owned by Jeramey James, an enrolled citizen of the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation — the coastal people of what is now the far Northern California and Southern Oregon border. That ownership is not decorative. It shapes who is accountable, where the value stays, and whose interest the firm represents.
Jeramey spent his career on the operator's side of the table: a former tribal enterprise CIO who built and ran real networks, won federal broadband funding, and stood up ISPs and enterprise technology for sovereign organizations. Konative exists because Tribal nations kept getting sold a single carrier's answer when what they needed was the whole market — brokered by someone who works for them.
As a vendor-neutral broker, Konative is paid by the supplier that wins the business, never by the Tribe. That model, run by a Native-owned firm, means a Tribal nation gets an advocate who understands sovereignty, procurement, and grant timelines — and a competitive market answer instead of a sales pitch.
Keep the dollars, and the trust, in Indian Country.
Procurement preference
Many Tribal nations, tribal enterprises, and federally funded programs extend preference to Native-owned vendors. Konative qualifies — confirm your program's specific rules with your procurement office and we'll help you document it.
Shared context
Sovereignty, TERO, grant compliance, and the gap between a funded build and a sustainable operating network aren't concepts we studied. They're where our founder worked.
Dollars stay home
Choosing a Native-owned broker keeps advisory value inside Indian Country instead of routing it to an outside carrier's sales channel.
Vendor-neutral, always
We represent the Tribe, not a supplier. Suppliers pay our fee, so the market answer we bring you is the whole market — not one carrier's.
A note on certification: Konative is Native-owned by ownership fact today. Formal credentials (SBA 8(a), NMSDC MBE, state DBE/MBE, tribal TERO) are a separate step we pursue where a specific program requires one — we will never claim a certification we do not hold.
Work with a broker
who answers to you.
Tell us what your nation or project needs. We'll run the market and bring you a real answer — at no cost to you.