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AI security and assurance for your next business decision.

Written scope and fixed-fee proposal within one business day of your scoping call.

Strategic engagement matrix

Matched to your organisation, your maturity and the outcome you need.

Every engagement begins with our Strategic AI Readiness Assessment: a fixed-fee discovery that confirms the right level before any build starts.

Level 1

AI readiness and governance

Target client
Growing mid-market enterprises adopting AI without exposing sensitive data.
Core scope
Data architecture review, data leak prevention and token access guardrails, corporate AI usage policy, and data infrastructure prepared for secure model integration.
Primary outcome
Secure data foundations, documented compliance alignment and infrastructure ready for AI models.
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Starts with the Strategic AI Readiness Assessment

Level 2

Infrastructure and autonomous agents

Target client
Technology-enabled businesses scaling operations and putting proprietary data to work.
Core scope
Secure corporate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, custom multi-agent workflows built with n8n or LangChain, and private local language models for sensitive compliance environments.
Primary outcome
Automated end-to-end workflows and internal AI applications powered by your private data.
Design your AI blueprint

Starts with the Strategic AI Readiness Assessment

Level 3

Forward deployed engineering

Target client
Large enterprises and high-growth technology companies building AI products continuously.
Core scope
Dedicated blocks of senior engineering and architecture hours, embedded in your product or operations teams to build, iterate and scale proprietary AI infrastructure.
Primary outcome
A continuous delivery pipeline of AI capabilities and direct access to a fractional AI research and development team.
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Starts with the Strategic AI Readiness Assessment

AI security, governance and compliance readiness

Secure AI engineering, product direction and testing, supported by governance, vCISO advisory and ISO 27001 readiness.

01

Forward Deployed AI Engineering

Build AI integrations, permission boundaries and deployment controls with engineers working in your team and repositories. Receive reviewed code, evaluation tests and a documented handover.

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02

Forward Deployed Product Management

Turn an AI idea into a buildable, prioritised product plan. A senior product manager works inside your team to define requirements, sequence the backlog and prepare the work for secure engineering delivery.

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03

AI Threat Modelling

See how your AI system can be abused before someone else does. Map assets, trust boundaries and attack paths across models, data, tools and operators, then agree which controls close the paths that matter.

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04

AI Application Security Assessment and Red Teaming

Test whether your AI application can expose data or act beyond its permissions. Receive reproducible findings, remediation guidance and an agreed retest.

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05

AI Governance and ISO/IEC 42001 Readiness

Make AI use accountable across the tools you build, buy and discover in use. Establish an AI inventory, review governance against ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF, and set the evidence you require from every supplier running AI on your data.

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06

Virtual CISO (vCISO) Advisory

Give your leadership team security oversight for AI adoption, clear investment priorities and board-ready reporting. Align AI deployment risks with your wider security programme and customer requirements.

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07

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Readiness Assessment

Prepare your AI-enabled business for an independent certification audit with clear control gaps, evidence requirements and remediation owners. SOC 2 readiness can be mapped alongside ISO/IEC 27001 where required.

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AI security architecture and technical assurance

Design decisions and technical testing for the cloud, applications and identities your AI depends on.

Direct access to the senior adviser responsible for your engagement

Written scope, fixed fee and agreed responsibilities before work starts

Actionable findings and clear next steps; retesting where included in scope

Evidence held under NDA and handled on the agreed schedule

Tell us what changed.

Thirty minutes, no obligation. Written scope and fixed-fee proposal within one business day of your scoping call.

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