Counsel
Independent, senior expertise on your side.
Your outside counsel in the Age of AI. We assess where you stand, set strategy and the operating model to run it, give independent assurance on major technical work, and help when work hasn’t gone to plan.
Why outside counsel
We never sell you an implementation army.
You bring in outside counsel when a matter calls for specialist expertise. We do the same for AI: conflict-free, senior-only, and on your side alone.
We couldn’t credibly advise you if we were incentivized to sell you an army of consultants, so we don’t. Every engagement is priced at fixed-cost, around what we can do and produce together.
Counsel services
Six services. Start anywhere, combine as you need.
Every service stands on its own, so you can bring us in for the one you need today. Many organizations also follow the path below, adding the other two whenever they’re needed.
A common path
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AI Maturity Assessment
An expert-led reading of where you truly stand on AI, benchmarked against the Centru AI Maturity Model.
Learn more 2AI Strategy
Executive-ready AI strategy and the ecosystem architecture to carry it.
Learn more 3AI Operating Model
The structure, roles, and rhythm to run AI, designed with you and, if you want, run alongside you.
Learn more 4Technical Assurance
Senior expertise on your side with vendors and delivery partners, holding major technical work to standard.
Learn moreAlso on hand, at any point
Every Counsel relationship
Comes with an open door.
Access to anyone on our team when you need them, without the overhead of building a bigger staff.
Standing counsel
Most clients combine our services in one retained relationship
A client might retain us for AI Strategy and Technical Assurance together, with Lab cycles on hand whenever a priority calls for experimentation. Lab cycles and Centru.ai are included.
How we engageA single matter
Bring us one question
An assessment, a diligence, or an audit, scoped to the question in front of you.
Ask about a single matterProof
What counsel on your side is worth.
~$400M
Recovered in a week
For a publicly traded global company, within an ongoing Counsel relationship, with a strategy to reduce similar losses to near zero.
Technical Audit and Recovery1 roadmap
For three waves of change
A national utility faced end-of-life systems, a network modernization, and data for new AI at once. We built one vision, roadmap, and architecture to carry all three, and gave its CIO and board confidence in every major choice.
AI StrategyThe argument in public
Strangers at the Gate
AI diligence and the organizations that survive it. An AI Trust Forum paper.
The organizations that fare best in diligence are not the ones that prepared for it. They are the ones that never needed to.
Talk to us
Bring us the question in front of you.
Where you stand, what you’re exposed to, a major build under way, or work that hasn’t gone as expected.