Your AI vendors sell you the tool. We make your organization ready to trust it.
There's a gap almost nobody fills. The model gets sold, the platform gets bought, and then the initiative stalls on a question no vendor answers for you: can we actually trust this, and how would we know? That gap is governance, policy, and the honest alignment work that has to happen before you deploy. It's the work we do.
The Trusted AI Readiness Assessment
A structured engagement that starts where every other AI project skips: with what trust actually means in your organization, tied to a real business objective, before a single control gets written. We map your AI initiative to your goals and your operating context, then hand you the governance you can actually run on.
What you walk away with:
- A governance plan tied to a named business objective. Not a binder that sits on a shelf; a plan aimed at the outcome you actually care about.
- An honest readiness map: where trust is already strong, where it's quietly missing, and what that exposes you to.
- Policies and procedures built for how your teams really work. The difference between "we have a policy" and "we have a practice."
- Alignment across the people who have to stand behind it, so the AI you deploy is one the business, legal, and the builders all recognize.
For → Leaders about to build or buy AI, and organizations whose AI stalled on "can we trust this?" That includes teams adopting a vendor's platform who need the readiness layer around it.
Start the assessmentThe standing work
The assessment is the front door. Most engagements are one and done by design: you get what you need and go build. When a relationship earns more, three shapes carry it:
Strategy Retainer
A standing seat at your table. Monthly working sessions on AI strategy and priorities, with direct access between them when a decision can't wait.
For → Executive teams that want a standing strategy partner
Executive Advisory
Ongoing counsel on AI strategy, governance, and trusted AI. You don't get a framework binder. You get someone who has made these calls at the 100,000-employee scale, thinking through yours with you.
For → CEOs and CxOs carrying the AI decision
Board Service
Director-level oversight of AI strategy, governance, and trusted AI, as an independent board member, advisor, or standing resource to your governance committee. Includes board education, because every director should understand what they're being asked to approve.
For → Boards of directors and governance committees
Inside-out completes your GRC. It never replaces it.
You already run outside-in controls: NIST, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, whatever your industry demands. Keep them. This is the inside-out half most programs are missing. Trust designed into the AI from the start, so the agent declares what it is and reports what it does, and your controls verify and enforce it. Both halves, or you've only got one. The whole practice runs on the Trusted Living Agent Framework™, the framework from the book behind it.
Bears & Mosquitoes, the field guide this practice teaches from. Available on Kindle.