Your team is already using AI. Nobody's governing it.
We're not an AI hype shop. We're the local IT partner that's kept Wisconsin businesses secure since 2011, and AI is now the fastest-moving risk and the biggest opportunity on your desk at the same time.
Start with a 45-day AI Readiness & Governance Sprint. You'll know exactly what your people are doing with AI, what policy you need, and the three places it will actually save you money.
Fixed fee · 45 days
Free. We'll tell you if a sprint makes sense yet.
Manufacturer? Read our guide to AI adoption in manufacturing.
Find out what your employees are actually doing with AI.
The AI Workload & Opportunity Snapshot is the same employee questionnaire we use inside the Readiness Sprint. Hand it to your team, and see which AI tools are already in use, what data is touching them, and where the real time-savings are hiding.
- A ready-to-send employee questionnaire, five pages
- Built to surface shadow AI use before it becomes a problem
- The exact worksheet behind our paid discovery phase
Who this is for
Wisconsin businesses with 20 to 150 employees who've realized AI isn't optional anymore and don't have anyone internal who owns it.
Manufacturers. Professional services firms. Contractors. Clinics. Anyone with institutional knowledge worth protecting and staff who've already discovered ChatGPT.
If you're a two-person shop, this isn't for you yet, and we'll say so.
The risk isn't that you're behind on AI. It's that you're already using it.
Ask around your office. Somebody in accounting is running invoices through a free AI tool. Someone in sales pasted a customer contract into ChatGPT last week. Somebody's using an AI notetaker that's been silently recording client calls. None of them are being careless, they're being productive. But right now:
You have no policy.
Nobody has told your staff what's allowed, what isn't, and what counts as confidential. So everyone is guessing.
You don't know where your data went.
Free AI tools train on what you feed them. Client records, pricing, contracts, employee information — once it's out, it's out.
You can't answer the question yet.
Cyber insurance renewals, vendor questionnaires, and auditors are asking how you govern AI use. "We don't really" is an expensive answer.
The opportunity is sitting untouched.
Nobody has the time to figure out which of the forty AI tools in your inbox is worth ten minutes.
AI Readiness & Governance Sprint
45 days. Fixed fee. One-time.
We come in, find out what's actually happening, put guardrails around it, and hand you a ranked plan for where AI pays off in your business. You get a decision-ready document and working policy, not a slide deck.
1.AI Usage Discovery
We find out what AI tools are already in use across your organization, by whom, and with what data. Most owners are surprised by this part.
2.AI Use Policy
A written, plain-English policy your staff can actually follow. What's approved, what's prohibited, what requires sign-off, and what to do when someone isn't sure.
3.Data Handling Rules
Clear lines around client data, employee records, financials, and anything under a confidentiality obligation. Which tools may touch which data, and which may never.
4.Vendor Evaluation Framework
A repeatable way to assess any AI tool your team wants to bring in — before it's in.
5.Staff Training
A working session with your people. Not a compliance video. What AI is good at, where it lies to you, and how to use it without creating a problem.
6.The Opportunity Map
Department by department, where AI fits in your business, ranked by return, with effort estimates. This is the piece nobody else gives you.
7.First Use Cases Live
We implement one to three of the highest-return items before the sprint ends. You see it working, not described.
Pricing
- Under 50 employees: fixed sprint fee
- 50 to 150 employees: fixed sprint fee, larger scope
- Over 150 employees: let's talk
AI Advisory Retainer
The sprint tells you what to do. The retainer is how it stays true when the tools change every ninety days, because they do.
Monthly retainer. 12-month minimum.
- Monthly strategy session with our team
- Quarterly governance review, policy updated as the landscape moves
- New use cases rolled out as they're identified
- Vendor and tool reviews before your team commits to anything
- Training refreshers for new hires and new capabilities
- A direct line when someone asks "can we use this?"
Optional. The sprint usually surfaces more than a year of work. What you do with it is your call.
When the roadmap says build, we build it.
The sprint decides what's worth doing. Implementation is quoted separately, against the plan, never before it.
AI-powered workflow automation
Ticket triage, invoice processing, reporting, and the repetitive work that eats hours. With human-in-the-loop controls, not blind automation.
Searchable institutional knowledge
Your SOPs, contracts, and documentation made answerable in plain language, with citations back to the source document so nobody has to trust it blindly.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Deployed, tuned, and governed properly. We're Microsoft-preferred for a reason: in a Microsoft environment we can actually see and control what AI is touching. Recommending tools we can't secure would be malpractice.
API and platform integration
Connecting AI into the line-of-business systems you already run, with cost controls and fallback logic so it doesn't quietly become a five-figure surprise.
AI governance consulting for Wisconsin businesses
Most of the risk in early AI adoption is not the model. It is that staff have already pasted customer data, pricing, drawings, and contracts into tools nobody approved, and there is no record of what left the building. Governance is what turns that into something a customer, an auditor, or an insurer can be shown.
For Wisconsin organizations that means a written acceptable-use policy, a decision about which tools are permitted and under what license, data-handling boundaries that match your existing compliance obligations, permission cleanup before anything is indexed, logging so usage is reviewable, and a named owner for the whole thing. Regulated environments add scoping: what a tool may touch and what it may not.
This overlaps directly with Microsoft 365 tenant ownership and with IT compliance work, because in most companies the data an AI tool would reach is already sitting in the tenant.
We were here before AI and we'll be here after.
Since 2011. 150+ organizations. Wisconsin-based.
Local trust since 2011
We're not a consultancy that appeared in 2023 with a new website. We've been securing Wisconsin businesses since 2011, with 37 five-star Google reviews.
Governance is our home field
We already do security posture, compliance readiness, and cyber-insurance requirements for companies like yours. AI governance isn't a new product line, it's the same conversation with a new chapter.
We tell you when the answer is "not yet."
A local masonry contractor came to us mid-refresh, ready to migrate everything to the cloud. We told them not to, sold them the cheaper perpetual-license option, and left the bigger project on the table until it actually made sense a year later. Some of what's being sold right now, AI included, doesn't work for you yet, and we'd rather tell you that than bill for it.
Local. Actually local.
You'll work with the same people every time. You can call us. Someone will drive out.
Frequently asked questions
Book the AI Readiness & Governance Sprint.
Forty-five days from now you could have a policy, a trained staff, a ranked plan, and AI doing real work. Or you can keep hoping nobody pastes the wrong thing into the wrong window.
- Fixed fee, 45 days, one-time engagement
- Scoped to your headcount and the tools already in use
- A real engineer reviews your request, no call center
- If a sprint isn't the right next step yet, we'll say so