Before you commit to governance software, know what you need it to do.
AI governance platforms are sold at four figures a month. The decision to buy one is usually made from a vendor’s own framing of the problem, because that is the only framing on the table.
The Strategic Assessment gives your board a framework-neutral decision document instead: what you are actually required to do, what you genuinely need tooling for, and what you do not. It is vendor-agnostic because we sell no software and take no referral fees.
We have nothing to sell you afterwards.
Most assessments of what AI governance tooling you need are produced by somebody who sells AI governance tooling, or is paid by somebody who does. That is not dishonesty; it is just an incentive, and it reliably produces the conclusion that you need more of the thing being assessed.
We sell no software and take no referral fees, so “you need less than you were told” is a conclusion this engagement is free to reach — and on a decision priced at four figures a month, that is where the value usually is.
What you get
Four deliverables, aimed at a board that has to make one decision and live with it.
Your position read against each framework in scope, with the overlaps separated from the genuine conflicts — the second of which is where the cost usually sits.
Forty pages and up: the analysis, the reasoning, and the recommendation stated plainly enough to disagree with.
The version that survives a board meeting — the decision, what it costs, and what happens if it is deferred.
Sequenced by what has to be true first, not by what is easiest to start.
From £8,000
Scoped against the decision and the frameworks in play, and fixed before the work starts.
Once the decision is made, keeping it current is a different job from making it — so the assessment transitions into a Drift Retainer for ongoing oversight, if and when the board wants that. It is not a condition of the engagement.
For a group, multi-jurisdiction exposure or a full board mandate, the bespoke tier runs £25,000–£50,000 — discuss an engagement.
Request a proposal
Tell us what decision the board is facing and roughly when it has to be made. We'll come back with a scope and a fixed price.
We sell no software and take no referral fees.
Initial response within 48 hours on business days.
Agreed against the decision before any work begins.