Team

Senior, small, and built around the researcher

A white-paper engagement at this size is best served by senior people who do the work themselves. Four people are named below and carry the deliverables, each with a signed Letter of Commitment accompanying our proposal. Around them sits a small advisory bench engaged for judgment on specific questions, described by function because no one is named here without approving the language first.

The model

We carry the apparatus; the researcher's argument is the product

Most consulting delivers the firm's conclusions with an expert's name attached for credibility. This engagement is built the other way around.

HSG carries the apparatus

The contract, the administration, the production capacity, the research tooling, and the delivery schedule sit with us. A researcher joining this work does not take on procurement, invoicing, document production, or client management.

The researcher's argument is the deliverable

We are not assembling names to lend weight to conclusions we have already reached. Where an advisor holds a view, the deliverable carries their view, including where it cuts against ours. Advisors retain their intellectual property.

Named only with written consent

No advisor appears in a proposal, a research note, or on this site without approving the language first, in writing. That is why the seats below are described by function rather than by name while conversations are still open.

Compensated for judgment, not attendance

Seats carry defined milestones with honoraria attached, guaranteed on award rather than left to as-needed discretion. We would rather pay properly for a small amount of the right person's time than fill hours with generalists.

Named team

Named, and accountable for the deliverables

Michael M. Kubayanda

Senior Advisor · postal regulation and economics

Michael M. Kubayanda. Served as a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission from 2019 to 2025, and was its Chairman from 2021 to 2025. Earlier in his career he served in the Office of Inspector General's research group, and subsequently led the OIG's government relations and public affairs functions. Before that he was counsel to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and worked in the Postal Service's Government Relations and Pricing groups. He has worked on technology policy and management issues in his government roles, as an investor and privacy advisor to a technology startup, and as a Google Policy Fellow. He holds degrees from Georgetown University, Northwestern University, and The Ohio State University.

On this study

Analytical direction across the four research notes, review authority over each, and regulatory-feasibility judgment on the revenue-opportunity register

Jelani House

Program Manager and Engagement Lead · digital channels and UX analysis

Jelani leads HSG's research and digital practice. He has built and shipped more than twenty live web platforms for government-facing engagements, which is the vantage point this study needs: the UX review and monetization analysis come from someone who designs, instruments, and operates digital products, not only evaluates them. He has led HSG responses and research support across HUD, USDA, VA, and state and local clients.

On this study

Method ownership, the Task 1a comparison set and its rationale, both benchmark notes, the UX friction review, the revenue-opportunity register, and every deliverable to the OIG

Maurice House

Comparative Research Lead · institutional and market analysis

Maurice served 38 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, retiring from the Senior Foreign Service. The discipline he practiced for four decades was structured market and institutional research: establishing what a market or an institution actually is, on the evidence, and writing it up so a government reader could act on it. Task 1a is that discipline applied to American organisations. Deciding which entities are genuinely comparable to the Postal Service, and defending the choice in writing, is the same analytical work he produced on a recurring cycle for the U.S. government.

On this study

Screening candidate domestic entities against the agreed comparability dimensions, drafting the written rationale for each finalist, and institutional context across the comparison set

Pier Luigi Parcu

Comparative Regulatory Economics Advisor · network industries

Professor Parcu directs the Centre for a Digital Society at the European University Institute in Florence and has chaired Studio Economico Parcu in Rome since 2003. He spent nine years as Director of Investigation at Italy's competition authority, then served as Chief Executive of GRTN, the national electricity grid operator, an infrastructure business carrying universal access obligations under regulated pricing. From 2010 to 2012 the European Commission appointed him monitoring trustee for the divestment of several European gas pipelines, judging whether separated infrastructure entities were genuinely comparable and independently viable. He has co-directed the Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics since 2015. Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, UCLA; Laurea cum laude, University of Rome La Sapienza.

On this study

The comparability framework behind the Task 1a set, review of the written rationale before it reaches the OIG, critical review of the Task 1b note, and an economic view on what an operator carrying a public mandate may reasonably pursue commercially

Advisory bench

The remaining seats, described by function

One seat has confirmed interest in writing; the other is held open. Each carries defined milestones and compensation payable on award. Names and affiliations are published only after the individual approves the specific language in writing, which is how the four people above came to be named. The European regulatory seat that formerly sat here is now filled and named: Professor Parcu.

Seat	What the seat does	Status
Postal economics and pricing A professor of finance and economics at a major American business school who publishes on Postal Service financial sustainability. He has read our demonstration paper and written that its thesis matches a presentation he gave recently at a European postal conference, and that the Postal Service needs outside help to find new market opportunities.	Critical review of the revenue-opportunity register and the domestic monetization benchmark, against the published literature on USPS financial sustainability.	Interest confirmed in writing
Adversarial review A published skeptic of postal diversification.	A paid critical read from someone skeptical of postal digital diversification, engaged specifically to argue against the register's conclusions before they are published.	Seat held open

Seat

What the seat does

Status

Postal economics and pricing

A professor of finance and economics at a major American business school who publishes on Postal Service financial sustainability. He has read our demonstration paper and written that its thesis matches a presentation he gave recently at a European postal conference, and that the Postal Service needs outside help to find new market opportunities.

Critical review of the revenue-opportunity register and the domestic monetization benchmark, against the published literature on USPS financial sustainability.

Interest confirmed in writing

Adversarial review

A published skeptic of postal diversification.

A paid critical read from someone skeptical of postal digital diversification, engaged specifically to argue against the register's conclusions before they are published.

Seat held open

The adversarial seat is deliberate. A revenue study that only convenes people sympathetic to its conclusions is worth less than one that pays a credible skeptic to attack them before publication.

Method and verification

How this research is produced

House Strategies Group uses AI tooling in the first pass of a literature: sweeping sources, assembling benchmark matrices, and drafting. It is fast, and on its own it produces confident errors that only a person who knows the subject will catch. Everything published in a deliverable is therefore verified against a primary source and dated, findings that cannot be confirmed are labeled unverified rather than asserted, and subject-matter reviewers are engaged and paid specifically to challenge what the first pass produced. The materials on this site are a preliminary evidence base built before the bid; the research notes contemplated by the Statement of Work would be held to the standard just described.

Bibliography

The written record

The written product has been the constant of this career: agency reports produced on monthly cycles, transaction documents, and a continuing series of policy papers. Agency publications carry no individual byline, so production credits are stated as exactly that.

Production credits · Ginnie Mae, in a contractor capacity (Guidehouse)

Global Markets Analysis Report — monthly production — Ginnie Mae's monthly analysis of agency MBS and the U.S. housing market
Annual report on ownership of Ginnie Mae securities — The recurring study of who holds Ginnie Mae MBS, domestic and foreign
Asset sales plans — Sale planning documents supporting HUD and Ginnie Mae dispositions
Ad hoc research for the Office of Capital Markets — Data analytics and short-turn analysis on request

Produced for Ginnie Mae's Office of Capital Markets while at Guidehouse. Agency publications; no individual byline.

Policy papers and essays · House Strategies Group

Published at housestrategiesgroup.com.

Practitioner guides · GovCert

GSA MAS Refresh 31: What Changed and What You Need to Do
The Complete OASIS+ Application Checklist
WOSB Certification: Step-by-Step Guide
The 8(a) certification series: costs, denials, and the consultant decision

Guides to federal certification and contract-vehicle processes, published at govcert.ai.

This engagement

Cultivating the Postal Service's Digital Channels — Demonstration White Paper — Twenty pages in RISC format, written before the bid

Firm

House Strategies Group, LLC

Identifiers

UEI EAE1MJHMN2Z1
CAGE 7W4Y5
EIN 47-5283120
NAICS 541990, 541611, 541612, 541618

Offices

Tampa, FL and Washington, DC

10525 Mistflower Lane, Tampa, FL 33647

Point of contact

Jelani House

Managing Director and Principal Consultant

jelani.house@housestrategiesgroup.com

(434) 981-5295

Advisory seats describe roles under discussion for the engagement contemplated by the Statement of Work. No individual is identified on this page, and none will be, absent that person’s written approval of the language used. Resumes and reference details accompany the written response.