Three doors, depending on where you are
I take on a small number of engagements at a time. Each of these is scoped so the first useful output arrives early, not at the end.
Three doors. Pick the one that matches how far along you are.
Agent governance review
A fixed-scope diagnostic on whether your agent architecture can be accounted for under review.
- Inventory of agents, the actions each can take, and the authority each action rests on
- Gap assessment against the four layers — entitlements, enforcement, attestation, model risk
- Obligation mapping for your sector and jurisdictions, with the evidence each obligation expects
- A prioritized remediation sequence, costed by effort, with what to fix before the next review cycle
A written assessment your risk function can take to a committee, plus a working session with the people who have to implement it.
Monthly retainerFractional AI architect
Senior architecture ownership, embedded with your team, through the stretch where the decisions are irreversible.
- Standing architectural authority on agent design, authority models and enforcement points
- Design review of what your team ships, on your cadence
- Direct work with risk, compliance and audit so the controls hold up when a reviewer inspects them
- Escalation cover — the senior second opinion when a decision is contested
Continuity of judgment. The most expensive governance failures come from decisions made in weeks when nobody senior was looking.
DeliveryDesign and build
The governance layer itself — entitlement, policy-enforcement and attestation architecture — taken to production.
- Authority and entitlement model designed against your existing identity and access estate
- Policy decision and enforcement points placed where actions actually happen
- Attestation and evidence pipeline built for the questions an examination asks
- Handover to your team, with the operating documentation a reviewer will ask for
Working infrastructure, delivered with a standing network of senior engineers I have shipped with before — not a slide deck describing one.
Send one artifact. Get back a written critique.
A policy, model card or vendor’s AI claims—one artifact per organization. I will return a concise written teardown within three business days, without requiring a call first.
Start as a bounded decision, not a transformation program
Large-firm programs are appropriate when the mandate is enterprise-wide transformation. These engagements begin with a fixed scope, keep the principal on the work and produce the first decision artifact early—so a buyer can route the work as a departmental review before manufacturing program-scale procurement.
A proposal states the fee; the public site does not. The comparison is about scope, senior attention and approval path—not an unsupported competitor price claim.
If any of this is live for you
The fastest route is a conversation. Bring the architecture you are worried about — the first useful thing usually surfaces inside twenty minutes.