Question 1

Which advisory service fits my situation?

Accepted Answer

The right door depends on the pressure, not the product name. Use the Vendor Interrogation Pack when a specific AI vendor claim is about to become a contract or workflow. Use the Always/Never Audit or Safeguard Defensibility Read when you need an adversarial read of an AI governance document, pledge, or safeguards report. Use the Systems Briefing when the live issue is ambiguous, the deadline is real, and you need outside judgment before the next meeting. If the problem spans multiple actors or governance layers, custom advisory is the right shape. Current rates for every fixed-scope offering are listed in the catalogue.

Question 2

What is the lightest way to start?

Accepted Answer

The Vendor Interrogation Pack is the entry rung: a fixed-scope, asynchronous artifact with six pressure-test questions, two email templates, and one forensic read of your vendor's written response within five working days. No discovery call required. It can be started from a DM.

Question 3

Do I have to get on a call to buy?

Accepted Answer

No. The document audits, Vendor Interrogation Pack, and Content Sprint are bought outright by card. Checkout leads to a private intake page, and the written memo returns within the stated turnaround. The Data Centre File Stress Test starts with a short written fit and conflict check before transfer because the file may be live and commercially sensitive. Its scope and $1,750 founder rate are fixed. The Systems Briefing includes a 90-minute session as part of the deliverable. Custom advisory is scoped in writing through the enquiry form.

Question 4

What is the difference between the audits and the briefing?

Accepted Answer

The Always/Never Audit and the Safeguard Defensibility Read take a specific document, stress-test its claims, and return a hardening memo. They are document-in, memo-out. The Systems Briefing addresses a live, often ambiguous pressure in your system: it delivers a written Preliminary Systems Analysis before a 90-minute working session, and is suited to situations where the problem is not yet a document but a decision architecture under strain.

Question 5

Do you offer AI vendor due diligence?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Vendor Interrogation Pack gives procurement, legal, ESG, and operations teams six pressure-test questions and one forensic read of an AI vendor's response before signing. For a fuller vendor review scoped to one tool or contract, the AI Vendor Review engagement covers the same interrogation with a human-written memo and a set of questions to take into procurement.

I read it the way a hostile reviewer will, before a lender or a court does.

South Africa’s draft National AI Policy

When to call

Vendor claim before contract.

Automated summary before sign-off.

Low complaint volume before reassurance.

Most failures arrive as smoothing and polite dashboards.

Fixed-scope work

Find your door

Start with one live decision your team already has to stand behind.