Three defined mandates. Fixed scope. Fixed partner. Delivered by a team of no more than four people, led by the partner who quoted the work.
Commissioned by the CEO or board. A clinical review of every AI initiative against commercial merit, regulatory exposure, and organisational capacity to execute.
Every AI project, pilot, and vendor contract catalogued with owner, spend-to-date, and stated outcome.
Each initiative rated on cost base attacked, time to value, and defensibility of the resulting position.
AI Act risk classification, GDPR Article 22 implications, and sector rules per initiative.
Honest assessment of data, talent, and organisational readiness, against what each initiative requires.
A named set of initiatives recommended for decommission, with reasoning and a transition plan.
What to fund, in what sequence, under what governance. Explicit about what we refuse to recommend.
Partner-led kickoff. Access to finance, risk, IT, and business owners established under NDA. Working documents exchanged.
Structured interviews, contract review, and on-site observation. Findings logged against a live register, visible to the sponsor.
Hypothesis tested against CFO, CIO, and general counsel. Dissent recorded. Recommendations adjusted or defended.
Board-session read-out. Written report with evidence annexes. Thirty-day follow-up to review adoption.
For organisations operating high-risk or general-purpose AI systems under the EU AI Act. A control framework designed to be signed off by your general counsel, not ours.
Every deployed or planned system mapped to its AI Act risk tier and associated obligations.
A documented set of controls for data, models, monitoring, and human oversight. Mapped to ISO 42001 where relevant.
The internal process by which a new system is assessed, approved, and released into production.
How performance and adverse events are tracked and reported to the regulator within statutory windows.
Named owners for each obligation. Reviewed with HR and legal. No ambiguity about who signs.
A concise quarterly pack that satisfies the audit committee without generating new work.
Current obligations mapped against current practice. Gaps documented without hedging.
Controls drafted and pressure-tested with operators. Language aligned with existing policy hierarchy.
Framework applied to two live systems, end to end. Findings fed back into the control set.
Framework tabled at risk committee. General counsel letter of adoption. Handover to internal owners.
For organisations that have spent two or three budget cycles on AI and cannot point to a P&L effect. We diagnose the reason, and either restore the programme or close it.
Every euro committed to AI over the last three years, traced to a business outcome or to absence of one.
A short written verdict, technical, organisational, commercial, or regulatory, with supporting evidence.
Two costed options, honestly compared. The brief states which one we recommend.
Where contracts are the issue: a term sheet and negotiating position drafted with your procurement team.
If restart is selected: a narrow, weekly-tracked plan with a named executive sponsor and a kill-switch date.
Independent read-out to the sponsor and audit committee for the duration of the retainer.
We do not quote work without a 90-minute conversation with the people accountable. It is the only way to know whether we should take the mandate.