EngagementsFixed-scope & retainerRegulated AI

Three ways to start.

Three engagements, scoped around outcomes and your effort rather than hours. Each one reduces a different risk: not knowing where you stand, building the wrong architecture, or operating a system no one is governing. The flagship is the AI Governance Teardown, a two-week, fixed-fee, MESA-scored examination delivered board-ready. They are the concrete entry points to the AI-Native Enterprise Accelerator.

§ 01The engagements
01 · The flagship · Fixed fee

The AI Governance Teardown

Fixed feeShared on the Fit Call
Two weeks · fixed fee · readout on Day 10

A MESA-scored, evidence-required examination of how you govern your AI, delivered board-ready, so you can answer the regulator before the regulator asks.

  • The Governance Gap Report, a MESA-scored findings register where every finding traces to evidence.
  • The Remediation Roadmap, sequenced Now, Next, and Later with owners and effort bands.
  • A one-hour findings readout for your executive team on Day 10.
  • A one-page board summary a director can absorb in ninety seconds.
  • Scored against a fifty-question MESA instrument across the four layers; no production data leaves your environment.

Best forRegulated institutions with AI in or near production and a real obligation to answer for it: banks, insurers, fintechs, healthcare providers, and public-sector bodies. The land in the engagement ladder, conducted by the person who wrote the frameworks it uses.

MESA Self-AssessmentSix-pillar MRMFive-Gate ModelAI Vendor Risk FrameworkAIRP14-framework crosswalk
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02 · Design · Fixed fee

Regulated AI Architecture Sprint

Fixed feeShared on the Fit Call
4 to 6 weeks · fixed fee · design & handoff

Design the target architecture for LLMs, agents, RAG, observability, and the compliance controls, so a team moves from experiment to production without building it twice.

  • A current-state and target-state architecture review.
  • An LLM routing and model-selection strategy, the NexusCore gateway pattern.
  • Agent orchestration and workflow design, the planner-executor-verifier-generator pattern.
  • A security, logging, auditability, and observability blueprint.
  • An implementation backlog and a clean engineering handoff.

Best forCTOs, product leaders, and platform teams that already know what they want to build and need a sound technical and governance design before they commit. Both strategic and concrete, so the technical value is visible without a full transformation program.

NexusCore routingPEVG agentsAgentic RAGEvidence-grade observabilityPolicy-as-code
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03 · Ongoing · Monthly retainer

Enterprise AI Advisory Retainer

MonthlyShared on the Fit Call
3-month minimum · renewable monthly or quarterly

Executive-level guidance and oversight as you operationalize AI: a senior architect in the room for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong.

  • Monthly executive advisory calls.
  • Architecture and governance reviews on live initiatives.
  • Priority support on vendor, model, and policy decisions.
  • Review of AI roadmaps, initiatives, and risks.
  • Optional participation in steering committees or working groups.

Best forEnterprises running multiple AI initiatives, or internal teams that want a fractional Chief AI Officer rather than a full-time hire. The relationship that keeps a governed platform governed after launch.

Fractional Chief AI OfficerVendor & model reviewPARA operationsGovernance oversight
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§ 02How the fee works

You are not paying for hours.

You are paying for risk reduction, implementation clarity, and executive-grade judgment in regulated AI environments. Each engagement is scoped against your data residency, your regulators, and your risk appetite, and the fee is shared on the free Fit Call.

Fixed fees

The Teardown and the Architecture Sprint are quoted as fixed fees, because project-based pricing is the honest way to price clearly scoped examination and design work. You know the cost before it starts.

Monthly retainer

The Advisory Retainer is a monthly fee with a three-month minimum, because ongoing oversight is a relationship, not a deliverable. Renewable monthly or quarterly.

Not hourly

A fixed-scope package serves a regulated program better than hourly billing and protects both sides from low-value task work. The scope, and the fee, are agreed up front.

Shared on the call

Rather than post a number that fits no one, we share the fee on the Fit Call, once the scope is clear. The Fit Call is free and qualifies the work both ways.

§ 03One path, three entry points

The AI-Native Enterprise Accelerator.

The three engagements are entry points to one structured path, delivered through iSystematic. You can start anywhere and stop at any stage.

Assess
The AI Governance Teardown scores your governance against the MESA Framework and locates the gaps a regulator would find first.
Template & Implement
The Architecture Sprint adapts the controls to your stack, your residency boundaries, and your obligations, then hands engineering a backlog to build.
Operate
The Advisory Retainer keeps the governed control plane governed: oversight, reviews, and senior judgment as the platform grows.
§ 04Start
Begin with a conversation

The right engagement depends on where you are. Book a 30-minute call and we will scope it together, or send a note describing the AI you are putting into production and the obligations it has to meet. Engagements run as fixed-scope work or an advisory retainer, delivered through iSystematic.

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