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AI Opportunity Audit
We map your operations, find the highest-ROI automations, and hand you a ranked plan with payback math. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
No obligation. No follow-up sequence.
ai governance
Every action your systems take, gated, logged and explainable
Autonomy levels a person sets, policies the system enforces, approvals before anything leaves, and a log that reads as a story. 5x ROI in 30 days. Or we work for free.
Teams we build for
- Hoyes Michalos
- Nurse Next Door
- Fedi
- UBC Sauder
- Merchant House Capital
- Picton Investments
- Campbell Froh May & Rice LLP
- Barnakl
- Hungerford
- Breez
Teams we build for
- Hoyes Michalos
- Nurse Next Door
- Fedi
- UBC Sauder
- Merchant House Capital
- Picton Investments
- Campbell Froh May & Rice LLP
- Barnakl
- Hungerford
- Breez
Teams we build for
- Hoyes Michalos
- Nurse Next Door
- Fedi
- UBC Sauder
- Merchant House Capital
- Picton Investments
- Campbell Froh May & Rice LLP
- Barnakl
- Hungerford
- Breez
The problems this solves
01
Nobody can say what the agents may do.
Ask what an agent is allowed to touch and you get a shrug. The permission lives in a prompt someone edited months ago.
02
A new rule goes live untested.
The policy sounds right in the meeting. The first time anyone learns what it actually blocks is in production, on real work.
03
The audit trail is an export nobody can read.
The regulator asks what happened and you hand over raw events. Nobody in the room can follow them, so the question stays open.
04
Autonomy grows by drift, not decision.
An agent that behaved for a while quietly gets more rope. Nobody signed off, and nobody can point to the record that earned it.
05
Nobody knows where the data goes.
A tool ships your files to a vendor nobody vetted. The first inventory of what leaves the building gets written after the breach question, not before.
What we build
01 · Autonomy matrix
Every agent gets a level a person set. Watch-only to start, approved actions next, and independence only on low-risk work it has earned.
02 · Policy writing
The rules get written down in plain language and enforced by the system, not remembered by whoever built the agent.
03 · Rehearsal
Before a policy goes live we walk it against recent activity and show you what it would have blocked and what it would have let through. Nothing is written.
04 · Approvals and audit
Outbound actions wait in a queue for a person. Every decision lands in a log that reads as a narrative, with a data inventory kept beside it.
What's included
- An autonomy matrix covering every agent you run, with the person who set each level named beside it
- Written policies the system enforces, each change tested against recent activity before it goes live
- Approval queues wired into the tools your reviewers already watch
- An audit narrative and a data inventory your counsel can read without an engineer in the room
Where this lands hardest
AI for financial services→
Autonomy levels and approval trails a compliance officer can sign off on.
AI for law firms→
Every automated touch on a matter logged in language counsel can read.
AI for healthcare clinics→
Rules that keep patient records inside the walls, proven by the data inventory.
AI for energy and utilities→
Change control for automated actions, with the record your auditor asks for.
Weeks, not quarters.
How the full engagement works01 Discovery
WEEK 0
02 Prototype
WEEKS 1-3
03 Deploy & train
WEEKS 4-8
04 Run & improve
WEEK 9+
How we build it
Step 01
Start every agent on watch-only.
The first level is read and report. The agent shows what it would have done, a person checks the record, and nothing moves up until the record supports it.
Step 02
Write the rules where the system can enforce them.
A policy that lives in a prompt is a suggestion. We write rules the system itself enforces, then walk every change against recent activity before it goes live. The walkthrough never writes.
Step 03
Make the log the deliverable.
An audit trail nobody can read protects nobody. Every action lands as a narrative, who approved it, what ran, what it touched and where the data went. Your counsel follows it without an engineer beside them.
What we will not automate
Promoting an agent past its record. More autonomy is granted by a person, on evidence from the log, never by the system that wants it. An agent that has not earned independence does not get it.
What that means in practice
Security, privacy and governance
Keeping your data yours, and your AI safe to put in front of customers.
Where we stop. We do not claim certifications we do not hold, and we will not ship a customer-facing agent without a human gate and an eval suite. If a vendor cannot offer no-training terms, it does not get into the stack.
Evaluation and observability
How we prove the AI actually works: measured, monitored and regression-tested like real software, not vibes.
Where we stop. There is no engagement where we skip this. The honest variable is depth: a document pipeline gets faithfulness and extraction suites, an outbound agent gets human review sampling, a classifier gets a held-out test set. We size the harness to the risk, never to zero.
Agents and orchestration
AI that does the work instead of just answering: looks things up, calls your systems, completes multi-step tasks, and knows when to hand off to a human.
Where we stop. Multi-agent swarms are oversold; most jobs need one well-guarded loop. If a cron job and a script solve it, that is what we build, because 90 percent per-step accuracy compounds to 59 percent over five chained steps and no framework changes that arithmetic.
Questions? Straight answers.
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Three ways in. No long discovery.
Paid · Fixed scope
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One high-ROI system, built on your real data and deployed in your stack, with your team trained to run it. Fixed scope. Quoted after the audit. Covered by the 5x ROI guarantee.
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