Flagship Practice

AI is moving faster than your controls.
We close that gap.

Most firms can talk about AI. We build, secure, and govern it — operating production AI systems in our own practice and bringing that hands-on experience to every advisory engagement. From board-level strategy to agentic automation, we help you capture the upside of AI without inheriting unmanaged risk.

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What We Do

Six practice areas. One integrated view of AI risk.

AI Readiness & Strategy

Executive briefings, opportunity assessments, and pragmatic AI roadmaps — including realistic budgeting, build-vs-buy analysis, and vendor evaluation grounded in token-level cost modeling. We cut through hype to find the 20% of AI applications that deliver 80% of the value in your specific context.

→ Roadmap · Budget · Vendor Diligence

AI Governance & Risk

AI acceptable-use policy, model risk management, and governance programs aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 — built for regulated environments including HIPAA-covered workloads. We've built governance programs for organizations deploying AI in clinical workflows, financial reporting, and legal analysis.

→ NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001

AI Security Assessment

Security reviews of LLM applications, agents, and AI vendors: prompt injection exposure, data-flow analysis, BAA coverage, and third-party AI risk assessment protocols. As your vendors embed AI into their products, your vendor risk program needs to evolve. We build the assessment layer.

→ LLM AppSec · Vendor Risk

Agentic AI & Automation

Design and deployment of AI agents and automation pipelines for real business workflows — document analysis, compliance operations, and back-office processes — with guardrails built in from day one. We operate production AI systems in our own practice; this is hands-on expertise, not theory.

→ Agents · Orchestration · Guardrails

AI Transformation Advisory

Engineering and operating-model transformation for software and services companies: where AI changes the cost structure, where it doesn't, and how to restructure responsibly. We help leadership teams make these decisions with a clear-eyed view of the technology — without hype or fear.

→ Operating Model · Cost Structure

AI Infrastructure Advisory

Architecture and procurement guidance for AI platforms — cloud vs. local inference, data governance, identity and access design, and compliance-ready deployment in Azure and beyond. Whether you're evaluating Azure OpenAI Service, building on open-weight models, or assessing AI appliance vendors, we help you decide on data and evidence.

→ Architecture · Cloud & Local Inference
Frameworks We Work In

Standards-aligned from day one.

NIST AI RMF

Govern · Map · Measure · Manage — the four core functions of the framework that underpins our assessment methodology.

ISO 42001

The international standard for AI management systems — increasingly required for regulated-industry AI deployments.

EU AI Act

Compliance and readiness for organizations subject to EU AI Act obligations — risk classification, conformity, and documentation.

HIPAA + AI

BAA coverage, PHI flow analysis, and clinical AI governance for healthcare organizations and their AI vendors.

Why Blair Carlisle

We govern the AI we build.

Our AI Advisory practice isn't a rebranded IT team. We operate production AI systems — agents, automation pipelines, and governance tooling — in our own firm, led by senior practitioners with decades of data science and enterprise AI delivery experience.

When we advise your organization on AI governance, we're drawing on direct operational experience — not a playbook assembled from white papers. That's the difference.

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Eight questions. A clearer picture.

Take our free AI Readiness Assessment — scored against the NIST AI RMF — and get a directional read on where your organization stands and what to prioritize first.

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