Engagements

Every engagement below is fixed in scope and fixed in price. You will know before you start what you get, what you don't, and what it costs.

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Two ways in, depending on whether the question is "how exposed are we?" or "what does the board need to see?"

Regulatory Exposure Snapshot

Which AI systems you actually have, which laws reach them today, and the five things to fix first. Two weeks, capped at 12 systems, no board deck. The fee is credited in full against an Assessment taken within 60 days.

$7,500 2 weeks

Board AI Oversight Briefing

A half-day closed-door session for the full board or audit committee. What the law now expects of directors, and the five questions to put to management. Commits the board to nothing beyond a morning.

$15,000 3.5 hours

The core assessment

The full five-pillar Scorecard, and the report an audit chair can put in the minutes.

Fiduciary Readiness Assessment

Scored 0–100 across the five Scorecard pillars. Full inventory, eight structured interviews, gap analysis, a 90-day remediation plan, and the board presentation to go with it.

From $25,000 4–6 weeks

Annual Oversight

Quarterly board packs, an annual re-score against your baseline, named incident on-call, and two board attendances a year. Offered only to Assessment clients — the board has to have seen the first report for the second to mean anything.

On request 12 months

When there's a date on the calendar

An audit, an incident you'd rather rehearse than discover, or a deal that closes next month.

Audit-Ready Review

Five days to find what the auditor will find first. ISO 42001 clauses, SOC 2 AI-related controls, or a customer's red-team scope. Preparation, not assurance — no opinion is issued.

$10,000 5 days

AI Incident Tabletop

Ninety minutes, four timed injects, and the AI incident your board has never rehearsed. A biased hiring tool, or an agent that bought things nobody approved. Written after-action report within a week.

$10,000 90 minutes

Expert Witness & Litigation Support

Consulting or testifying expert on AI system design, deployment standards, governance practice and reasonable care. Also litigation readiness: what a hold means when the evidence is a model. Conflicts are checked before any case facts are discussed.

Rate card on request Matter-dependent

Ongoing and portfolio

Where the work is continuous, or spans more than one company.

Annual Oversight

Quarterly board packs, an annual re-score against your baseline, incident on-call and two board attendances. Offered only to assessment clients — a trend needs a baseline.

Engagement pricing 12 months

Fractional AI Governance Lead

Two to four days a month. Owns the inventory, chairs the committee, signs off vendor diligence, and is the named contact for regulators and insurers. Six-month minimum, capped at three engagements.

Engagement pricing 6 months min

Portfolio AI Governance Sweep

One framework across every portfolio company in 60 days, and a single page the investment committee can read. Each company keeps its own results, which is what makes them answer honestly.

From $5,000 per company 60 days

M&A AI Diligence

What the target actually runs, what it owes because of it, and which of its “proprietary AI” is a wrapper on an API with terms that break on change of control. Sell-side variant at the same price.

$15,000 / $25,000 5 days / 2 weeks

Not sure which one?

Most conversations start with a 30-minute call and end with a recommendation — sometimes that none of these is what you need yet.