Engagements

Selected engagements.

Client details are confidential. These anonymized examples illustrate our typical work.

Enterprise SaaS · Retained

AI transformation strategy for automation platform

Challenge: An enterprise automation company faced existential pressure from foundational models displacing point-of-feature products across its ecosystem. Approach: AI capability audit across 100+ product classes, competitive threat mapping against frontier model providers, framework design for integrating LLM capabilities into existing workflow orchestration, executive alignment sessions with CIO office. Outcome: Phased transformation roadmap, risk-adjusted build/buy/partner decision matrix, and board-ready narrative distinguishing platform durability from feature vulnerability.

Frontier AI Lab · 5 weeks

Adversarial evaluation sprint

Challenge: A high-impact deployment needed independent stress testing. Approach: threat model, staged adversarial tests, evidence logs, severity scoring. Outcome: remediation priorities and escalation controls.

Financial Services · 4 weeks

AI governance readiness

Challenge: fragmented ownership across product, legal, and risk teams. Approach: governance diagnostic, decision-rights map, control library. Outcome: board-ready roadmap tied to AI RMF concepts.

Public Sector · 3 weeks

Synthetic media incident tabletop

Challenge: communications leaders needed crisis readiness. Approach: scenario injects, verification workflow review, public response thresholds. Outcome: faster escalation paths and communications playbook.

Research Program · 6 weeks

Evaluation reporting framework

Challenge: technical findings were difficult for oversight audiences to interpret. Approach: report architecture, evidence taxonomy, interpretation layer. Outcome: clearer claims, caveats, and decision relevance.

Technology Company · 8 weeks

Foundational model integration risk assessment

Challenge: A mid-market technology company needed to understand which of its product lines were defensible against LLM-native alternatives and which required strategic repositioning. Approach: Competitive displacement analysis across product portfolio, capability gap mapping for frontier model integration, scenario modeling for three strategic postures (compete, integrate, pivot). Outcome: Investment reallocation recommendations, integration architecture for defensible product lines, and deprecation plan for vulnerable features.

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