Our Focus
What we deliver.
The AI Procurement Advisory Group helps organizations align complex AI governance goals, objectives, and strategies to multi-disciplinary activities throughtout their procurement apparatus. Our proprietary methods leverage existing organizational workflows and collaboration points to minimize resistance, unlock shared value, and speed execution. This alignment embeds AI risk management and responsible use into daily decision-making, enabling accelerated adoption, innovation, and ROI.
How we do it.
Our advisors are seasoned digital transformation practitioners with deep AI expertise—delivering advisory services grounded in experience, not hype. We’ve navigated transformation cycles before. While much of the AI journey follows familiar patterns, AI fundamentally reshapes risk, scale, and decision-making. To address the new contours of this transition cycle, our industry-leading research has produced proprietary frameworks and tools that enable organizations to adopt AI with confidence, discipline, and lasting impact.
Why it works.
When strategies, policies, resources, and practices are misaligned, AI risks escalate and investment value leaks away. When AI governance and the procurement apparatus are aligned, AI transformations stop being aspirational and success becomes inevitable.
Procurement is where AI strategy becomes AI reality.
Our Services
Our advisory services ensure that every AI investment is technically sound, contractually secure, and fully aligned with global governance standards.
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Procurement Transformation & Workforce Training
Procurement Modernization and Transformation
We audit your existing workflows and workforce capabilities to deliver a tailored modernization roadmap, ensuring that critical risk controls and AI value expectations are thoroughly embedded into your contractual agreements.
Procurement System Advisory & Evaluations
Procurement Systems:
Evaluating & Validating AI Components
We provide a rigorous technical analysis of the AI components within your current and prospective procurement platforms to ensure best practice alignment, future scalability, and transparent capabilities benchmarking for informed decision making and long-term supplier value.
AI Acquisition Support
Scoping and Writing
AI Solicitations
We translate your complex business needs into high-precision technical AI specifications and qualifying evaluation criteria, settling accurate performance-based scoping criteria and ensuring your technology investments align with operational goals.
Procurement Transformation & Workforce Training
Upskilling the Procurement Workforce
This service utilizes proprietary assessment tools to assess and upskill your acquisition staff through custom, guardrail-infused AI use cases, empowering your team to automate tactical tasks and focus on high-value strategic functions.
Procurement System Advisory & Evaluations
Supplier Management Systems:
Evaluating & Validating AI Components
This service delivers an independent analysis of AI components within your SCM and GRC platforms, mitigating downstream third-party risks while ensuring your supply chain remains compliant with local and global AI governance standards.
AI Solution Acquisitions
Evaluating and Benchmarking
AI Acquisition Response
Our advisors conduct rigorous, independent, and objective benchmarking of AI vendor responses against your specific performance and security requirements, de-risking the selection process to ensure provable value and long-term compatibility with AI governance mandates.
Our Frameworks & Tools
Our years of research and testing were done so you can enjoy years of AI success and savvy.
AI Strategy & the Role of Procurement
"Procurement" is not just ONE person or ONE department. It is an interconnected, cross-departmental systematized apparatus of control that joins aspirational value creation with intended strategic governance.
Your AI requirements are unique. So too are the providers selling AI solutions - some are highly qualified, some are not, and many land in middle. Your procurement function is one of your best AI guardrails. It represents a critical check point and oversight apparatus for every AI solution vendor - invited or not* - that is supporting your organization.
When it comes to buying AI solutions and using AI in the procurement process, orchestrating this cross-collaboration of business units, departments, and specialists requires all participants to understand your AI strategy if you want that strategy to become your operational reality. When the entire procurement apparatus is fine tuned with modernized approaches that incorporate AI governance practices, organizations can reduce risks and allow AI investments to become sustained ROI achievements.
Is your procurement apparatus modernized for complex AI purchasing and adoption?
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* If you are concerned about shadow AI, we can also talk with you about that. There are many entry points for AI in this environment. There are also high-tech and low-tech detection AND mitigation solutions. As independent advisors, not tied to any one solution, we can walk you through the landscape and provide a range of options to consider.
Our Industry-Leading Research
We rely heavily on evidence-based solutions to make sure we can be just as proud of your results as you are. To make that happen, we conduct research across multiple categories to inform our proprietary frameworks and tools.
Transforming Procurement
Determining the role, responsibilities, and accountabilities of procurement in fulfilling the new and evolving landscape of AI governance mandates.
International Standards
Tracking, leading, authoring, interpreting, cross-walking, and synthesizing AI standards to establish harmonized AI governance controls and procurement best practices.
Procuring AI
Defining the differences between scoping and evaluating traditional, rule-based IT solutions and modern probabilistic AI systems.
AI Laws
Aggregating, dissecting, and interpreting a continuous flow of evolving AI legislation, regulations, and orders impacting AI buyers and sellers.
Auditing AI
Understanding appropriate AI contract controls to ensure testing, evaluation, validation, and verification in an era of "black box" solutions.
Workforce Impacts
Investigating challenges and solutions related to AI knowledge, skills, and abilities; employee displacement; AI literacy and adoption management; and transformation roadmaps.
To be clear...
What We Do | What We Do NOT Do | Why |
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Help buyers use responsible AI solutions to transform their operations. | Advise developers or sellers on how to build responsible AI solutions. | Deliverying objective advisory services with integrity requires us to remain focused on buyer's needs. |
Provide executive-level advisory services. | Provide configuration management for procurement platforms. | Configuration management requires a micro-focus on discrete tasks. We provide a macro-focus on connecting governance strategies to those tasks. |
Help AI buyers establish protocols for AI assurance and audit requirements. | Perform AI audit, verification, validation, and assurance services. | Performing these services requires specialized skills. We have a referral network of qualified providers who can help. |
HONESTY is knowing who you are...and who you are not.
INTEGRITY is sticking to it when no one is there to see you make the choice.