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SERVICES

From First Assessment to Ongoing Partnership

Start with a free audit to see where you stand. Go deeper when you're ready. Every tier builds on the last — no wasted work, no starting over.

Free — No Obligation

AI Readiness Audit

A complimentary assessment that gives you a clear, honest picture of where your organization stands with AI — the opportunities you're missing and the risks you're carrying.

What's Included

  • AI Footprint Scan — inventory of current AI/ML tools, integrations, and vendor relationships
  • Security Posture Assessment — SSL/TLS configuration, API exposure, data privacy policy review, breach history check
  • Vendor AI Feature Audit — analysis of AI capabilities already embedded in your vendor stack — what's active, what's available, and what's ungoverned
  • Missed Opportunity Analysis — industry-specific AI use cases mapped to your business operations
  • Executive Brief — concise deliverable with top 3 risks and top 3 opportunities, prioritized by impact

What You Receive

✓AI Readiness Scorecard (branded PDF)
✓Top 3 risks with evidence and severity
✓Top 3 opportunities with ROI estimates
✓Vendor AI Feature Audit summary
✓Competitive positioning snapshot
✓Regulatory exposure summary
✓90-day quick wins with estimated ROI

Timeline

2-4 hours of our time. Delivered within 1 week.

Deliverable

A branded PDF brief with actionable findings.

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$10,000 – $25,000

Deep AI Readiness Audit

A comprehensive, hands-on engagement that goes beyond surface-level scanning. We interview your team, review your systems, and deliver a detailed security and readiness report.

What's Included

  • Stakeholder Interviews — conversations with technical leads, department heads, and executive sponsors
  • AI Model Security Review — evaluation of model inputs, outputs, training data handling, and adversarial vulnerability
  • Data Pipeline Assessment — end-to-end review of data collection, storage, processing, and access controls
  • Responsible AI Readiness — AI governance framework design, responsible AI policy documentation, AI risk assessment methodology, and bias detection and fairness testing protocols — aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001
  • Compliance Gap Analysis — mapping current practices against the regulations that actually apply to you (SEC, CFPB, HIPAA, state AI laws)

What You Receive

✓Detailed findings report with severity ratings
✓AI asset inventory and data flow map
✓AI Risk Register with likelihood and impact scoring
✓Controls gap matrix mapped to applicable regulations
✓AI Governance Charter (responsible AI policy document)
✓Prioritized remediation roadmap
✓Executive summary for board or leadership review

Timeline

2-4 weeks depending on organizational complexity.

Standards-Aligned

Controls mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 — formatted for your board, your auditors, and the regulators who might come knocking.

Schedule a Deep Audit
$25,000 – $75,000

AI Strategy & Implementation Roadmap

A strategic engagement that translates audit findings into a phased, executable plan. We score use cases, recommend technology, and build a roadmap your team can actually follow.

What's Included

  • Prioritized Use-Case Scoring — every AI opportunity ranked by ROI potential, implementation complexity, and risk
  • AI Capability Roadmap — phased 6-18 month implementation plan with clear milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements
  • Technology Stack Recommendations — vendor-neutral evaluation of platforms, tools, and infrastructure
  • Board-Ready Presentation — executive summary designed for leadership and board-level communication
  • Change Management Framework — adoption strategy, training recommendations, and success metrics

What You Receive

✓Use-case scoring matrix (ROI, complexity, risk)
✓AI Capability Roadmap (phased 6-18 month plan)
✓Technology stack evaluation and recommendations
✓AI Governance Charter tailored to your organization
✓AI Risk Register carried forward from the deep audit
✓Board-ready executive presentation deck
✓Change management playbook with success metrics

Timeline

4-8 weeks.

Board-Ready

Every milestone tied to a compliance requirement or business outcome your board can track. Governance artifacts aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

Plan Your AI Roadmap
$15,000 – $25,000 / month

Advisory Retainer

Fractional AI leadership with continuous controls — the same operating cadence your auditors expect for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, applied to your AI program. We become an extension of your team: evaluating vendors, overseeing implementations, and keeping you ahead of regulatory changes with evidence you can show on demand.

What's Included

  • Fractional AI Readiness Leadership — dedicated senior advisor embedded in your decision-making process. Available as fractional AI officer or vCISO role.
  • Vendor Evaluation & Selection — unbiased assessment of AI tools, platforms, and service providers
  • Implementation Oversight — QA, milestone tracking, and technical review of AI deployments
  • Monthly AI Capability Health Checks — structured review of every AI system in production — performance drift, accuracy degradation, data pipeline integrity, and usage patterns. Findings documented with severity ratings and remediation timelines.
  • Quarterly Vendor Stack Reassessment — full re-evaluation of your AI vendor portfolio — feature adoption rates, contract utilization, new capabilities from existing vendors, and competitive alternatives. Ensures you are not paying for shelf-ware or missing features you already own.
  • Ongoing Regulatory Compliance Monitoring — continuous tracking of AI legislation (SEC, CFPB, Colorado AI Act, state privacy laws) with impact analysis specific to your business. Quarterly compliance briefings with your legal and compliance teams. Pre-built evidence packages for audit requests.
  • Real-Time Competitive Intelligence Updates — monitoring of competitor AI deployments, industry benchmarks, and emerging use cases in your vertical. Monthly competitive position reports so you know where you stand relative to peers — not just where you stood last quarter.
  • Continuous AI Risk Monitoring — ongoing controls testing, drift detection, and compliance evidence collection aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001. Dashboards updated weekly, alerting on policy violations and risk threshold breaches.
  • Incident Response Playbook — pre-built escalation procedures for AI model failures, bias incidents, data breaches, and compliance findings. Defined roles, communication templates, and remediation workflows.
  • Monthly Strategic Review — recurring sessions with your leadership team covering AI initiative progress, risk posture changes, vendor performance, and upcoming regulatory deadlines

What You Receive

✓Monthly advisory report with risk posture trends
✓AI Risk Register maintained and updated continuously
✓Vendor AI Feature Audit updates (quarterly)
✓Vendor scorecards and evaluation updates
✓Implementation QA results and milestone tracking
✓Controls monitoring dashboard (updated weekly)
✓Regulatory change alerts and compliance updates
✓Audit evidence package (ready for internal or external audit)

Timeline

Ongoing. Minimum 3-month engagement.

Operating Cadence

Weekly monitoring updates. Monthly strategic review. Quarterly regulatory briefing.

Always Audit-Ready

Continuous evidence collection so when a regulator or client asks “show me your AI governance,” you have the answer.

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INCLUDED

You Keep Everything

The goal is to make your team self-sufficient — not dependent on us. Every engagement leaves you with infrastructure your team owns and runs without us in the room.

Documented Playbooks

Your AI Governance Charter, AI Risk Register, and AI Capability Roadmap — written for the people who'll actually use them, not a shelf.

Clear Ownership

Who approves new AI tools, who monitors performance, who handles incidents. No ambiguity, no “I thought someone else was handling that.”

Audit-Ready Evidence

Controls mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001. When a regulator, client, or board member asks “show me your AI governance” — you pull up a dashboard, not a scramble.

Not Sure Where to Start?

Book a free discovery call. We'll help you figure out which engagement makes sense — or if you need one at all.

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