Enterprise AI Readiness & Control Assessment
Four workstreams matched to four disciplines. Seven named artifacts. A fixed fee, a fixed date, and fifty percent creditable against the engagement that follows.
The Four Workstreams
Run in parallel, not in sequence.
Every finding is cross-referenced across workstreams — a fabric bottleneck is also a unit-economics finding, and a lineage gap is also a control finding. Select a workstream to inspect its scope and primary output.
WS1 · AI Infrastructure
Compute & Platform Topology
AI capacity planning is now a facilities, utility and real-estate problem as much as a compute problem. We staff for both conversations — the head of corporate real estate and the head of platform engineering, in the same room.
Scope
- Accelerator inventory and utilisation; scheduler, quota and tenancy model
- Rack density, cooling type and thermal headroom against 120–150 kW direct-liquid-cooled baselines
- Network fabric and checkpoint storage bottleneck profiling
- Hybrid landing zone design and residency boundary definition
- Inference serving stack and token economics
- Egress exposure and lock-in analysis
Primary Output
Capacity model with 24-month runway and unit cost per million tokens and per business outcome
Delivered as a working artifact into your tenancy — a model you can run and a register you can hand to an auditor, not a screenshot in a deck.
Aegis working copies are destroyed within 30 days of engagement close, with written attestation to your sponsor.
The Deliverable Set
Seven artifacts, named in the statement of work.
Named artifacts are what make a fixed-fee assessment defensible in procurement, and what prevent scope disputes at closeout.
Executive Findings Report
Board and executive committee ready, 20–25 pages
AI System Inventory
Populated and machine-readable, in the E-23-aligned schema
Control Gap Register
With the multi-framework regulatory crosswalk
AI Capacity & Unit Economics Model
A working model, handed over — not a screenshot
Target Reference Architecture
One-page conceptual plus detailed component view
24-Month Roadmap
Sequenced tranches with T-shirt costing and dependency map
90-Day Quick-Win Plan
With named owners, plus the executive readout deck
50% credit-back
Half the assessment fee is creditable against a follow-on engagement above a defined threshold, valid for six months.
Execution Cadence — Enterprise Standard
Six weeks, with published exit criteria at each one.
If a week’s exit criteria are not met, we absorb the overrun — the fee does not move. Diagnostic compresses this to four weeks; Regulated Multi-Entity extends to ten.
Week 01
Mobilisation & Discovery
Read-only access provisioning, stakeholder interviews, and the discovery sweep that establishes what actually exists versus what is documented.
Exit Criteria
Validated scope register and first-pass system discovery
Activities
- 01Kickoff with executive sponsor and the four workstream counterparts
- 02Read-only credential provisioning under executed mutual NDA
- 03Independence position confirmed in writing — builder or assurer, not both
- 04AI system and model discovery across sanctioned and shadow deployments
- 05Scope register validated and signed by the sponsor
Tiers, Duration & Price
Three scopes. All fixed fee, all in CAD.
Present the fee as a percentage of the transformation programme it scopes — typically one to three percent. An assessment that de-risks a $20M programme is trivially justified; the same fee presented on its own merits invites line-item scrutiny.
4 Weeks
Diagnostic
$75,000 – $95,000
CAD, fixed fee
Single business unit or one model portfolio
Low-friction entry under a director’s signing authority
- All four workstreams
- All seven artifacts
- 50% credit-back
6 Weeks
Enterprise Standard
$150,000 – $225,000
CAD, fixed fee
Enterprise-wide, single jurisdiction
The default offer — everything anchors here
- All four workstreams
- All seven artifacts
- 50% credit-back
10 Weeks
Regulated Multi-Entity
$300,000 – $450,000
CAD, fixed fee
Multiple legal entities or jurisdictions, or federal accreditation scope
FRFIs with insurer subsidiaries, or Government of Canada departments
- All four workstreams
- All seven artifacts
- 50% credit-back
Design Principles
Why the offer is shaped this way.
Fixed fee, fixed scope, fixed date
Ambiguity in an entry offer is what pushes a decision from a director’s signing authority into a committee.
Evidence, not opinion
Every deliverable is an artifact you can hand to a regulator, an auditor, or a board committee. Nothing that reads as a point of view without a supporting register.
Descriptive name, proprietary method
The offer is named plainly so it survives procurement categorisation. The method inside it is ours.
Designed to expand
The assessment terminates in a sequenced roadmap with costed tranches. An assessment that ends with findings and no priced next step is a marketing expense.
What Comes After
The assessment is stage one of four.
We publish the ladder because a client who cannot see where this goes is right to be suspicious of a cheap entry point.
Readiness & Control Assessment
$75K – $450K
Establishes the baseline and produces the roadmap that scopes everything after it.
Control design & remediation
$400K – $1.5M / 3–6 months
Converts findings into implemented controls.
Platform build
$1M – $5M / 6–12 months
Landing zone, governed inference, evaluation harness. Independence questions settled first.
Managed assurance
$300K – $900K annually
Continuous control monitoring and inventory upkeep.
Where your governance regime requires independence between the party that builds and the party that assures, we take one role and say so in writing at the outset. Stage 3 is not automatic.
Next Step
A 45-minute technical qualification call confirms scope and fee.
Bring your platform lead. We walk your estate, your regulatory context and your model inventory, then issue a fixed-fee statement of work within two business days.
Request the qualification call