Private AI Consulting
On-premises AI: privacy built in, not added on.
We help small and private companies adopt AI without handing their data — or their strategy — to someone else's cloud. Vendor-neutral, security-first, fixed-fee.
Sound familiar?
Your team is already using AI — unmanaged
Employees are pasting client data, contracts, and source code into free consumer AI tools right now. We help you replace that with something both safer and better.
You don't know where to start
Most companies stall at "AI strategy" as a slide deck. We start with a fixed-scope audit, not an open-ended engagement — you know the cost and the outcome up front.
Every vendor wants you locked in
We're vendor-neutral by design — frontier APIs, open-weight models, and your own local infrastructure are all just tools. You keep the leverage.
You can't predict what this will cost
Fixed-fee engagements, not open-ended usage bills. You know the number before we start.
How we work with you
Start small, prove value, expand only when it's earned it.
AI Readiness Audit
A fixed-fee, two-week look at your data, workflows, and security posture. You get a plain-language report on where you actually stand and what to do first — no commitment beyond that.
Readiness Sprint
A phased 4-8 week engagement: audit, use-case selection, secure integration, and your first working pilot — live, not theoretical.
Pilot Projects
One or two tightly scoped AI use cases, built to prove real ROI before you commit to anything wider.
Team Enablement & Training
Workshops for your team plus a written AI usage policy, so everyone uses AI well — and safely — from day one.
Fractional AI Advisor
Ongoing part-time strategic guidance. A Chief AI Officer's judgment, without the full-time executive hire.
Why "private" AI
Generic AI consultants sell you a platform. We start from your constraints.
Your data never leaves your network
Where it matters, inference runs on infrastructure you control — not a third party's training pipeline.
Security-first, not hype-first
Built by a CISSP/CISA-certified security leader with 25+ years running enterprise infrastructure — AI is evaluated with the same rigor as any other production system.
Vendor-neutral by design
We work across every major AI provider and local/open-weight models, and recommend whichever actually fits — never locked to one vendor's roadmap.
Fixed-fee engagements
You know the cost before we start. No surprise usage bills, no open-ended retainers by default.
The process
01
Assess
Audit your data, workflows, and security posture.
02
Architect
Design the right mix of local, private, and frontier AI for your actual needs.
03
Build
Ship one or two scoped pilots — fast, and built to prove ROI.
04
Train
Get your team using it well, with a real usage policy in place.
05
Support
Ongoing fractional advisory as your needs grow.
About
Private AI Consulting is built around one idea: companies shouldn't have to choose between adopting AI and controlling their own data. That comes from 25+ years leading enterprise IT and security programs — data centers, hybrid cloud, identity, and compliance — for organizations where getting it wrong wasn't an option.
That same rigor now goes into AI: running local and private inference infrastructure hands-on, working across every major frontier AI provider, and applying real security judgment (CISSP, CISA) to a field most consultants treat as pure hype. The result is advice grounded in what actually holds up in production — not just what's exciting in a demo.
Start with the audit
Two weeks, fixed fee, plain-language report. Tell us a bit about your company and we'll follow up.