Where AI pays off, and where it needs care.
Senior AI advisory, organised around the four questions a leadership team actually asks: what is viable, what is valuable, what is safe, and when and how.
Most engagements start at one of two doors, a two-week Diagnostic when you want the whole picture, or Find Fix Flow when you already know where it hurts. Underneath sit the deeper service lines, grouped by the question they answer. You come in where it fits, and the work is built around how your organisation actually runs.
The four questions below organise everything that follows. Click a segment to jump straight to it.
Two ways in.
The strategy door
The Diagnostic
The whole picture in two weeks, what is viable, valuable, safe, and when and how, built for the board.
The delivery door
Find Fix Flow
Already know where the friction is. This is where it gets found, fixed, and its return measured.
Understand what is viable.
Shadow AI discovery
See the AI your organisation is already using
Every AI governance conversation assumes you know which AI your organisation is calling, and knowing that is harder than it sounds. Someone may be pasting client data into a consumer chatbot, a team may have wired a side project to an unapproved provider, a tool you already pay for may have added a generative feature nobody assessed.
You get a clear inventory of the AI actually in use, with anything off your approved list flagged, often within an afternoon and from log exports you already hold.
First step: run ShadowGlass, the open tool we built for this, free.
Find what is valuable.
Opportunity and use-case discovery
Find where AI actually pays off
Most organisations are past deciding whether to use AI and are now choosing between more possible uses than anyone can pursue. The loudest ones are rarely the most valuable, and it is hard to tell a use that pays for itself from one that quietly absorbs a year of effort.
You come away with a short, prioritised list of where AI is worth doing, ranked by value and by how hard it is to ship, as clear about what to leave alone as about what to pursue.
First step: a fixed-scope discovery sprint, so you know the cost before you commit.
Pilot to production
Get AI out of pilot purgatory
The pilot worked and the demo impressed. Then production needed the real data, and the work stalled on data residency, access scopes, a security review, and a compliance team that was not part of the pilot.
You get AI work across the gap where it usually stalls, because the production and compliance path is designed in from the start rather than discovered after the business case is written. Sometimes the fastest path through is avoiding the infrastructure fight altogether, the approach behind a recent field note, Retrieval Without Infrastructure.
First step: an assessment of one stuck pilot, which tells you whether the gap is closeable before you spend anything crossing it. This is also what Find Fix Flow delivers, loop by loop.
Ensure what is safe.
Regulatory readiness
Be ready for the EU AI Act before it bites
The obligations are landing and the deadlines are real, and it is hard to separate what the Act requires of you from what is merely good practice, or to know which of your systems fall into scope at all.
You get a clear read on where you stand against the obligations that actually apply to you, a prioritised path to readiness, and documentation that holds up when a regulator or a customer asks.
First step: the gap analysis on its own.
Governance framework and continuous assurance
Govern AI without grinding delivery to a halt
Governance earns its place when it lets people move quickly and safely rather than routing around it: the policies, controls, model-selection criteria and human-in-the-loop posture your sector requires, built around how your organisation works.
You get a governance framework people use rather than one they work around, and the standing evidence to show it is working.
First step: the Assess tool, a 10-minute readiness picture, then a scoping conversation. For the fuller thinking behind how we approach this, see the Governance page.
Plan when and how.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Senior AI leadership, without the full-time hire
You have decided AI matters enough to need someone senior owning it, but not enough, or not yet, to justify a permanent Chief AI Officer on the payroll. So it falls between a technology leader who is already full, a risk function that was not built for it, and a board that wants answers nobody currently owns.
You get the senior AI seat filled at the cadence the work actually needs, someone who can sit in front of the board, set the governance posture, and make the calls.
First step: a scoping conversation. See how the role works on the Fractional Chief AI Officer page.
The organisations we help.
Navitec works with organisations using AI seriously, without a full-time leadership seat in place to run it. The shape of the help differs by organisation. The kinds of organisations that find us most useful tend to share four characteristics.
Mid-market and growing organisations.
Using AI for operations, customer service, or product features, but without the scale or budget to justify a full-time governance team. The work is built around the seat that exists, not the org chart that doesn't.
Boards asking the hard question.
When leadership has decided AI governance matters but no one inside the organisation has the breadth to answer. Sometimes this surfaces from a customer audit. Sometimes from a regulator. Sometimes from one director who has done their homework.
Regulated sectors approaching EU AI Act obligations.
Financial services, healthcare, legal, public sector. Organisations facing new requirements that the existing risk and compliance functions were not designed to handle. The work meets you where the existing GRC posture leaves off.
Organisations with AI in production.
Where governance has been reactive or ad-hoc, and now needs structure, evidence, and oversight. The technology is in use. The governance has not caught up. The work is to close that gap without breaking the work that is already running.
The first conversation is a thirty-minute call, no pitch, no deck, no obligation. We talk through where you are. If we are the right fit for the work, we will know. If we are not, we will tell you who is.
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