AI adoption creates a governance problem and a dependency problem at the same time — and both keep moving. We help organisations map the exposure, then stay ahead of it.
Your standing read on the drift.
You have bought the licences and your people are experimenting. When the board asks what has actually changed in how the business makes money, manages risk, or serves customers, the honest answer is often: not much.
Meanwhile the drift does not hold still. Export controls shift, a fab reports delays, a regulatory position diverges across the Atlantic — and the exposure you mapped in spring reads differently by autumn.
In short. A senior, independent reading of how technopolitical movement affects your supply chains, your procurement and your people — delivered every month, from £2,000 a month on a three-month initial term.
Free during our launch window — the first ninety days.
Three forensic domains, two analytical methods — read against your business, every month.
- A board-forwardable monthly briefing — what shifted, and the decision it changes
- A ninety-minute working session on one live decision, externally refereed
- The Line — direct access between sessions for the awkward questions
- A quarterly written exposure review on the 3×2 method
Leadership teams that stay ahead of the drift, not catch up to it.
The Drift Retainer is the relationship behind the analysis: a senior, independent reading of how technopolitical movement affects your supply chains, your procurement, and your people — delivered every month, in language a semi-technical leadership team can act on.
Equally for US companies operating in or entering Europe: a standing, independent read on how the AI Act, the sovereignty package, and the wider drift affect your European position — so compliance becomes a maintained state, not an annual panic.
How it starts
Every engagement opens with the Baseline Month: a structured read of where AI and the drift currently touch your operations, built from your org chart, your current tools and spend, and short conversations with three or four process owners. It ends with a Baseline Briefing — the two or three places where the exposure is real and where the next quarter’s focus belongs.
You know within thirty days whether the relationship earns its fee. After month one you can walk away paying that month only.
What we read. Three forensic domains — supply chain, policy, talent — each read two ways, for scenarios and against thirty years of precedent. What the 3×2 method means in practice →
The same drift runs through individual careers as well as company strategy. Where the brief is personal rather than organisational, WaymarkPath is the companion.
- The monthly briefing — a short, board-forwardable written read plus a call: what shifted in the drift this month, and the decision it changes
- The working session — ninety minutes on one live decision, refereed rather than advised: the call turns on the evidence, not on who prepared the better presentation
- The Line — direct access between sessions to challenge a vendor claim, sanity-check a proposal, or prepare a board answer
- The quarterly exposure review — a deeper written read on the same 3×2 method the public analysis uses, traced to your exposure
Software tracks your controls. It doesn’t read export controls. A governance platform will tell you what’s in your inventory; the Drift Retainer tells you what’s about to change around it — and which decision it changes. Most clients eventually run both; the Retainer also tells you which platform you actually need before you buy one.
£2,000 a month, on a three-month initial term
The Baseline Month guarantee: after month one, walk away paying that month only.
Prefer annual? Twelve months for the price of ten — £20,000 a year. Either way it is limited to a handful of client companies at any time.
An Advisory Briefing is credited in full toward your first month, and an Exposure Diagnostic toward your first quarter.
Where it starts
Most retainers begin with a smaller piece of work. Each of these credits toward the relationship if you go on to one.
“I need a read on this one thing.”
One hour on a single question, credited in full toward your first retainer month.
Read more“I do not know what we have actually got.”
One pass over the estate first, so month one starts from a map rather than a blank page. Credited toward your first quarter.
Read more“The board has to decide.”
For a board decision that has to be made before any standing arrangement makes sense.
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Tell us roughly where AI sits in your operations and what the board is asking. We'll say whether a retainer is the right shape, or whether something smaller is.
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The Baseline Month guarantee — after month one, walk away paying that month only.
Thirty years inside the technology industry, on call between sessions.