An aerospace defense contractor had critical work stalled for years, knotted up on identity. We deployed a heavy Zero Trust platform inside a brutal compliance environment, then designed the strategy that had been missing. Zero Trust means never trust, always verify. We still build and lead their identity architecture today.
AI Readiness Assessment
Find out where you stand. Get a plan for what to do first.
- You hear "figure out AI" from your board and need a plan you can defend.
- You suspect AI tools are spreading through departments and nobody is tracking what data they touch.
- You have one pilot that's stalled in security review and you don't know why.
- You're already past discovery and need to ship a specific AI use case. Start with the Sprint.
- You only want a slide deck for the board. We don't produce decks.
A plain timeline.
- Step 01
Discovery
We map what's running, what's stalled, what's hiding, and what's planned. Interviews across IT, security, data, and the business units actually using AI.
- Step 02
Shadow AI inventory
Network and SaaS-side discovery of AI tools your IT team didn't catalog. We share the list. You decide what stays.
- Step 03
Governance scoring
Where you stand against each of the five ATF questions, with the evidence behind each score.
- Step 04
Roadmap
A prioritized plan: what to do this quarter, this half, this year. Sized so your team can execute it without us.
- An interactive close-out application your board can present and your engineers can drill into. Not a slide deck.
- A shadow AI inventory with risk levels and recommended actions.
- A scorecard against the five ATF questions, with sourced evidence per score.
- A 12-month roadmap with named owners and rough estimates.
How to keep the scorecard current after we leave. How to talk about governance posture with your board without using the word "governance."
Real objections, answered straight.
How is this different from a NIST AI RMF audit?
NIST tells you what to think about. We tell you where you stand and what to do Monday. We use NIST, ISO 42001, and OWASP as inputs; the deliverable is your roadmap, not a compliance report.Will you push us toward your own product?
No, because we don't have one. We don't resell, take referrals, or partner with vendors. If the right answer is "your existing stack does this," we say so.What if we have nothing in place yet?
That's fine. The Assessment works for "we have one pilot stuck in security" and "the board asked about AI last week" equally well. We start where you actually are.Who needs to be involved?
Two to four hours a week from a senior security or IT leader, plus 60-minute conversations with the leaders of the business units using AI. Your CFO doesn't need to be on every call.
Want to know if this is the right size?
One 20-minute call. We'll tell you straight. If a different engagement fits better, or if we're not the right people at all, we'll say so.