For AI and Innovation Leaders
You were hired to build an AI program from nothing, usually without engineers. We provide the readiness evidence, the policy, and the first working project.
The job
The role is new. Some version of it now exists in agencies that had nothing like it two years ago: director of AI, chief innovation officer, chief data officer, or a deputy who was handed the portfolio on top of a job.
The mandate is visible, the timeline is short, and the resources usually do not include engineers. You are expected to produce a position on AI that the bench will accept, staff will use, and that will stand up to public scrutiny.
What is genuinely hard is not the policy language. It is knowing which of your systems could support any of it, which data is clean enough to use, and which project to do first so that the first one works.
What the program has to produce
A new AI program is judged in its first year on 4 things. Each one is work we do with you, and each one is adopted, published, or funded under your name.
A readiness picture you can defend
A system-by-system account of what could support an AI project today, and what would have to change first.
A policy your counsel and your bench will sign
Drafted to be adopted under your name, aligned to the guidance your state already follows, with the approved-tool list and vetting rubric that make it usable in daily operations.
Criteria for where to start
The first project has to work in public. Choosing it is a selection problem, and it is worth doing deliberately.
Something working, soon enough to matter
A pilot in weeks, with human review wherever the work touches a case, measured against criteria agreed before it started.
The role stays yours
Strategy, policy, and decisions belong to the agency. We assess the systems, draft the policy for you to adopt or amend, set out the options with what each one costs, and build what you decide to build. What gets adopted, what gets published, and what the agency will not do with AI are decided by you, and the analysis behind each one is written so you can defend it in a meeting we are not in.
The work that usually comes first
Each page sets out what the work involves in verbs, the artifacts it produces, how the engagement runs phase by phase, and what your agency owns at the end.
AI Readiness and Strategy
We assess your systems and data for AI readiness, draft an AI use policy for your adoption, and deliver a sequenced plan with costs.
AI Implementation
We build a working pilot to your adopted AI policy, with a person reviewing every decision that touches a case, and measure it against criteria agreed in advance.
A reasonable place to start
Nothing here requires a full modernization program to begin. This engagement is scoped in writing, priced on its own, and ends at a decision your agency makes with everything it produced already in hand.
What you own at the end
Every artifact is yours in editable source, written so another firm could execute it. Anything we build sits in your own repository from the first commit. If we operate it for you afterwards, self-hosting stays available and moving between the options is priced in advance.
Readiness and Modernization Roadmap
We interview your staff, review your systems and data, and deliver a modernization plan your agency can act on: what to do first, what it costs, and what it depends on.
- Price
- From $18,000
- Timeline
- 6 to 8 weeks
What your team uses
- An AI use policy drafted for your adoption, with a tool-vetting rubric and an approved-tool list for staff
- Your agency's modernization knowledge base, delivered as a working wiki: the systems, data, and integration inventory, the interview findings, and the decisions, ready for your team to keep current
- A scored readiness baseline, by system and capability, that your team can re-score to track progress
- A sequenced roadmap with costed options, prepared for your budget process
What we need from your team
- A working session with your IT lead and clerk of court
- Interviews with the people who do the work, about 6 hours total
- Read access to system documentation, not to case data
The safe first step
The readiness assessment is free, takes about 20 minutes, and returns a scored report you keep. It creates no obligation, no call, and no follow-up.