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Fixed-scope first. Fractional after.

Start with the Readiness Sprint. Then keep it running with a fractional retainer.

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AI Governance & Engineering Readiness Sprint

4 weeks. One Blueprint your board, your auditors, and your engineers can all read.

$15,000

Founding rate $9,500

Infrastructure Sovereignty review

Debt audit, scaling plan, and a score for vendor independence.

Applied AI plan

A shortlist of the workflows with the biggest gains, plus data readiness and where a human stays in the loop.

Institutional Resilience review

Perimeter review, shadow-AI audit, and guardrails.

Regulatory Readiness Pack

NIST AI RMF, Colorado AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2: risk classification, technical documentation, oversight and logging, and post-market monitoring.

Engineering team and communication gaps analysis

A review of how work flows between teams, and a recommendation from our engineering network.

The Closer

By day 30 you'll know what to build, how to govern it, and who should build it, and the fee is credited to your first retainer month.

Start here

Then keep it running.

The Architect

Strategy & governance

I set the direction and hold the standard: security posture, AI governance, and architecture. Your team executes. Best when you have engineers but no principal.

  • • Monthly strategy & architecture sessions
  • • Security and AI-governance review
  • • Regulatory Readiness Pack (NIST AI RMF-aligned)
  • • Direct access via a private channel

The Engine

Strategy + hands-on delivery

Strategy plus 20–40 hrs/month of SRE, DevOps, and applied-AI delivery from our engineering network, under my architectural direction.

  • • Everything in The Architect
  • • 20–40 hrs/mo of engineering delivery
  • • Infrastructure automation & hardening
  • • Pragmatic AI/automation opportunities

$11,000/mo

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The Full Office

Fractional CTO/CISO + pod

The complete fractional engineering office: fractional CTO/CISO, a dedicated pod, and a live dashboard deployed in your environment.

  • • Everything in The Engine
  • • Dedicated pod for a specific initiative
  • • Live dashboard (governance and ROI)
  • • Board-ready reporting

$17,000/mo+

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Questions

→ What does the Readiness Sprint actually produce?

A board-readable Blueprint: an Infrastructure Sovereignty review, an Applied AI plan, an Institutional Resilience review, a regulatory Readiness Pack, and an engineering team and communication gaps analysis. It is a plan you can hand to any team, ours or yours.

→ Is the Sprint fee really credited?

Yes. If you transition to a retainer, 100% of the Sprint fee is credited toward your first retainer month.

→ Do you replace our team?

No. I provide the architectural vision and governance. Your team, or our engineering network, executes. Think fractional CTO/CISO with an on-demand bench, not an outsourcing shop.

→ Where are you based?

Delivery across Portland · Denver · New York. US engagements lead with NIST AI RMF and the state regulatory patchwork; EU obligations are covered with our Nordic partners.