An independent AI assessment for readiness, governance, and due diligence
Senior AI engineers review your operations, your systems, and anything already built, by you or by a vendor, then put it in writing: where you stand, what needs oversight today, and what to do first. For the board that asked for a plan, the investor who needs an independent read, and the owner with a build they don't fully trust.
Free 30 minutes. We scope the assessment on the call. Written recap either way.
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Who asks for an independent assessment
Most requests come from someone who has to answer to someone else. The report is written for that room.
The board asked for a plan
A competitor announced something AI-flavored, or AI came up at the last meeting and the partners want to know where the firm stands and what it would cost to move. A deck won't survive the follow-up questions. A written assessment from engineers who have built these systems will.
An investor or acquirer wants due diligence
Someone is funding, buying, or backing a company whose value rests on an AI build, and wants an independent read on what was built, how, and whether it holds up when a buyer's diligence team goes looking. Preventive inspection now beats an explanation at the closing table.
You have a build you don't fully trust
A vendor, a freelancer, or your own team shipped something and nobody outside that team can say whether it's sound. You want someone who can read the code to tell you, before the 3 a.m. shortcut that got buried becomes the thing you have to explain.
You know there is more to automate. Nobody can tell you where to start.
You've adopted a tool or two, maybe built something yourselves, and the rest is a wish list nobody has put in order. Every vendor says theirs is next. You want the list ranked, an AI policy so the whole team works the same way, and a straight answer on which subscriptions you are still paying for and no longer need.
Independent means independent: no referral fees, no vendor partnerships, no build we need to sell you at the end. E&O insured, and contractually on the hook for what we put in writing.
What the assessment covers
One instrument, pointed at the question you brought. Scope is set on the discovery call; the report goes as deep as that question needs on each of these.
Readiness: where AI earns its place
A hands-on review of your operations and how the business actually runs: what your team does by hand that a system should, which tools overlap, which subscriptions you no longer need. Where AI creates durable value, ranked by impact and effort, with honest cost estimates and a recommended sequence. Where you stand today, stated plainly, including whether you are behind and the places where the answer is "not yet".
Governance: what needs oversight today
Which systems and vendors are making decisions nobody is accountable for, what happens when they are wrong, and an AI use policy your team can actually follow, so everyone works the same way and client data only goes where it is allowed to go. Plus the governance and compliance documentation your industry expects, from HIPAA to bar rules to SOC 2. What to put in place before the next tool arrives, not after.
Due diligence: what was actually built
An independent technical review of anything already running, whether a vendor, a freelancer, or your own team built it. Architecture, security gaps, data handling, dependency and licensing exposure, and the parts that, done wrong, silently create problems six months from now. Written so a buyer's or investor's technical team can follow it.
The report: written for the room that asked
Delivered in about two weeks as a written report and walked through with you. Ranked findings, what to do first, what to stop, what to watch. Your team sees the findings before the final report goes to whoever commissioned it, so nothing lands as a surprise. Yours to keep whether or not we do anything further.
Meet the Team
The senior engineers who do the assessing. No junior analysts, no slide-deck consultants. The people reading your systems build and run systems like them, which is why the findings hold up when someone technical pushes back.
Dimitri
Founder & Technical Director
Clayton
Head of Client Engagement
Kareem
Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems
Pawan
Senior AI Engineer, Regulated Systems
Ikechi
Senior AI Engineer, Product & Workflows
Osama
Senior AI Engineer, Frontend & UX
Talha
Senior AI Engineer, AI Pipelines & Data
Jesse
Partnerships & Outreach
How It Works
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Discovery Call
A free 30-minute call. We listen first, then tell you straight whether an assessment is the right instrument for the question you have; sometimes the call is enough. If it is, we scope it together: which systems, which people, and who the report is for. You walk away with a short written recap either way.
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Scope and Access
A fixed price, agreed before any work starts. NDA first if you want one. Read-only access to what is in scope: systems, code, vendor contracts, and the people who run the workflows. We work in regulated businesses every day, so the access conversation is a familiar one.
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The Assessment
About two weeks. Senior AI engineers review your operations and systems hands-on: readiness, governance gaps, and technical due diligence on anything already built. Your team keeps building the whole time. We are in addition to them, not in place of them.
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Report and Readout
A written report, walked through with you: ranked findings, honest cost estimates, what to do first, and what needs oversight today. Yours to keep. From there: act on it yourselves, have us build or fix what ranked first, or keep us on as a fractional AI officer for the ongoing oversight it identified.
Questions worth asking
Is this an AI readiness assessment, an AI maturity assessment, or AI due diligence?
The same instrument, pointed at different questions. A readiness assessment asks where AI would create durable value in your operations and what has to be true first. A maturity assessment asks where you actually stand today against where you assume you stand; you get findings and a ranked sequence, not a score on a five-level chart. Due diligence asks for an independent technical read on a specific build, vendor, or team, usually because a board, investor, or acquirer wants one. We settle which question you are asking on the discovery call, and write the report for the audience who asked it.
We need governance, not a project list. Is that what this is?
It can be. The governance half of the report covers what needs oversight today: which systems and vendors are making decisions without an accountable owner, what breaks when they are wrong, and the governance and compliance documentation your industry's rules expect. If you want that oversight owned month to month rather than documented once, that is what our fractional AI officer role does, and an assessment is how it usually starts.
The board or an investor asked for this. Who does the report go to?
Whoever commissioned it. The engagement can be scoped so the report goes to the board or the investor, with your team seeing the findings first so nothing lands as a surprise. We say what we found either way. There are no referral fees or vendor partnerships behind the recommendations, and no build we need to sell you at the end.
Do you need access to our code and systems?
Read-only access to what is in scope, under NDA if you want one: repositories, infrastructure, vendor contracts, and time with the people who run the workflows. We work inside HIPAA, bar-rule, and SOC 2 constraints every day, so the access conversation is a familiar one. The people doing the review are the same senior engineers year over year, every one of them under contract and NDA.
Is this legal advice? Our concern is IP.
No. Where the questions touch IP ownership, licensing, or regulatory exposure, we document the technical facts your counsel needs: what code exists, where it came from, which dependencies and licenses it carries, and how it is built and deployed. We work alongside your law firm, not in place of it.
What does it cost, and how long does it take?
Fixed price, quoted after the discovery call and before any work starts. Scope drives it: an independent read on one build costs less than a readiness assessment across several departments. Most assessments run about two weeks from access to report. If the discovery call shows you don't need one, we will say so on the call.
We're a small firm with no board. Is this too much for us?
No. The same review, scoped smaller: how your team actually works, which tools overlap, what gets done by hand that shouldn't, an AI use policy everyone can follow, and an ordered list of what to automate first so you hit one thing, finish it, then hit the next. Often the first finding is a subscription you can stop paying for. Sizing the scope to the business is what the discovery call is for.
Let's talk.
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