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For the decisions you can't afford to get wrong.

Most leaders don't call me because something's broken. They call because they're about to make a decision they can't take back — and they want someone in the room who isn't selling them anything.

I find the ground truth, tell you the path I'd take and why — in plain English — and I stay accountable while it gets built. Six ways that work, below. Start with what's keeping you up.

The services

Six ways I earn a seat at the table.

Every engagement is vendor-neutral: I don't sell software, I don't take commissions, and I stay accountable past the recommendation. Start with the one that fits.

01

Vendor & MSP Accountability

Retainer Oversight

You already have an MSP or IT vendor — but no independent way to know whether they're earning their invoice or quietly costing you more than they save.

What you get

  • I don't replace them — I make sure they earn it
  • Scorecards and SLAs with teeth, so performance is measured, not assumed
  • A roadmap your vendors answer to, with you holding the standard

Engagement: standalone review · or folded into ongoing counsel

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02 · A decade on the ground

Tribal Digital Sovereignty

Too many vendors treat a sovereign nation as a procurement category — extracting data, locking in dependency, and leaving the community less capable than before. Your data tells your story, and it belongs to you.

  • Indigenous data sovereignty plans grounded in the CARE Principles and OCAP® — not a diversity add-on
  • Data repatriation: locating and reclaiming what federal agencies, states, and vendors hold about your nation
  • Sovereignty scorecards you attach to any RFP, so vendors answer to your standard in writing
  • Governance ordinances and sovereign cloud & network design that keep data in your hands and jurisdiction

Every engagement builds internal capacity — so your nation stays the expert in the room, not a dependent of outside vendors.

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03 · Stood up for tribes nationwide

Tribal Fund & Grant Program Technology Setup

A council approves a fund. Then someone has to actually build the technology behind it — eligibility tracking, disbursement, device or service fulfillment, reporting the funder will accept. That's the part vendors skip and grants stall on.

  • Program technology stood up end-to-end: applications, eligibility, disbursement, and audit-ready reporting
  • Built and delivered for Capital Projects Funds, home & elder education funds, and elder medical support programs
  • Member-facing programs: guest computer labs, home satellite & internet access, and tribal youth remote schooling
  • Vendor coordination on device and connectivity programs, including direct work with Apple

Scoped to the fund's rules and the funder's reporting requirements — so the money moves, and the paperwork holds up.

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04 · The front door to AI

AI Readiness & Alignment Assessment

MIT found 95% of enterprise AI initiatives produced no measurable impact on the bottom line — almost always because the organization wasn't ready, not because the technology failed.

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Two to three weeks. You walk away knowing exactly where you stand and what to do first — before you spend a dollar on AI. It's the read every other engagement builds on.

Fixed scope · fixed price
$15,000–$35,000
by org size · 2–3 weeks
  • A prioritized roadmap with a clear build / buy / wait call on every piece
  • Your readiness scored across strategy, data, infrastructure, governance, talent & culture
  • The gaps that sink pilots, named before you fund one
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What the assessment produces

Three deliverables. Each one prevents a different expensive failure.

01

Application Architecture Blueprint

The technical plan for a system, documented before anyone writes code or signs a vendor. It's how you avoid the six-figure mistake.

02

Platform Readiness Diagnostic

A hard look at the stack you've got against the goals you actually have. Where it's misaligned, where it's redundant, where it's a risk waiting to surface.

03

Integration Roadmap

A sequenced plan to fold new AI or technology into how you already work, without blowing up operations.

Staying accountable

And the work that keeps it honest.

Each of these can start from the assessment or stand on its own. This is where advice turns into results you can defend.

05

Fractional Technology & AI Counsel

Retainer Ongoing

AI is now a board-level question, vendor decisions are stacking up, and no one on your team can say what AI will actually earn or save you — but the problem doesn't justify a full-time technology executive at $250K+.

What you get

  • A senior technology & AI executive in the room a few days a month — a fraction of a full-time hire
  • The standing voice on every vendor decision, budget call, and build-vs-buy question
  • Board- and council-ready answers, in plain English, when leadership is put on the spot

Engagement: $3,000–$8,000 / month · the natural next step after an assessment

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06

AI Governance & Guardrails

Fixed-scope Compliance

Your people already use AI far more than leadership thinks — often pasting client, patient, or member data into public tools. Regulators and licensing boards won't care that it was "just AI" when it becomes a breach.

What you get

  • A clear, usable AI-use policy your staff will actually follow — not a binder no one reads
  • Controls that keep proprietary data out of public models, mapped to the NIST AI Risk framework
  • A governance statement you can hand a regulator, client, or council with confidence

Engagement: scoped from the assessment · fixed-scope or ongoing

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07

Architecture & Build Oversight

Project Delivery

Most advisors hand you a slide deck and disappear. The build is exactly where the six-figure mistake gets made — the wrong architecture, the wrong vendor, scope no one held to account.

What you get

  • The architecture documented and pressure-tested before a line of code or a signature
  • Vendor selection run as a real evaluation, not a sales process
  • Oversight through delivery — I stay accountable until it works, and keeps working

When the answer is build, we build

  • Custom application building — internal platforms, approval workflows, forms systems, integrations. Built on the blueprint, not around it.
  • AEO-ready website design — answer-engine optimization, so the AI assistants your buyers now ask can find you, read you, and cite you. We hardened our own site first.

Engagement: project-based · priced to scope after the blueprint

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Staying in the room

The advice only pays off if someone stays accountable for it. Most clients keep me on after the assessment.

Fractional counsel · $3,000–$8,000 / month
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Human-first by design

AI is the tool. People are the point.

I use AI to make good people faster, sharper, and harder to beat — never to replace them. Better, faster, stronger: the goal is a business that grows and hires more humans, not fewer.

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The stakes

Let's talk about what a wrong decision is costing you.