VOL_01 / 2026 A practice in human-mediated AI

Humans for the parts of AI that need humans.

Your team is already using AI. We're the people who make sure that's working — and not quietly creating problems your board will hear about later.

Senior advisors reviewing a client's AI deployment
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A standing
operational layer
around your AI
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The Problem

You're already deploying AI. You just don't know all of it.

By the time leadership has a meeting about "AI strategy," every department is already using something. Most of it isn't tracked, isn't approved, and isn't safe to scale.

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Shadow AI everywhere

Half your team is using ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot — without coordination, governance, or a record of what data they've fed it.

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Customer data leaving the building

Sensitive information is moving through tools nobody approved, in formats nobody is logging, with retention terms nobody read.

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Tool sprawl, real cost

You're paying for six AI subscriptions that overlap, with employees buying more on credit cards. Procurement has no visibility.

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The board is asking

"What's our AI strategy?" — and the answer right now is uneven, defensive, or invented on the spot. That changes how the next round of funding goes.

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What We Do

A standing human layer around the AI you already use.

Not a one-time consulting engagement. An ongoing relationship with structured deliverables, named advisors, and the oversight your AI deployments actually need.

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The Rest of the Team

Senior advisors with the work behind them.

The principal advisor leads engagements. The rest of the senior team brings operational experience across engineering, training, and operations leadership.

Marcus Whittaker
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Marcus Whittaker

Tooling & Architecture Lead

Former engineering director. Maps risk surfaces to vendor categories.

Priya Lakshmi
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Priya Lakshmi

Training & Enablement Lead

Adult-learning specialist with a decade in regulated-industry training programs.

Tomas Linhardt
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Tomas Linhardt

Senior Operations Advisor

Ex-CIO of a 600-person services firm. Runs ongoing retainers and quarterly reviews.

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