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AI READINESS WORKSHOP · ONE DAY ONSITE · LOS ANGELES

put AI to work at your firm, safely, in one day.

A full-day, onsite working session with your partners. We find where AI is already in use, where it can take on real work, and the guardrails your clients and your profession expect. You leave with a policy, a plan, and a working first version, not a slide deck.

THE DAY

How the day runs, and what happens after.

01 · BEFORE THE DAY

Shadow AI review

We review a sample of your network's web (DNS) traffic to see which AI tools your team already uses. It shows the tools, never anyone's messages.

02 · MORNING

Walk your firm front to back

With your leaders in the room, we trace how work moves, from the first client call to the final invoice, and mark the routine work AI can take on.

03 · MIDDAY

Choose tools and set guardrails

We rank the opportunities by value and risk, pick the tools you'll approve, and draft the rules: what goes in, what never does, and who reviews the output.

04 · AFTERNOON

Build it

We build a working first version of your top workflow on tools you approve, so you see it run before we leave.

05 · THE NEXT 90 DAYS

Your 30/60/90 day plan

Owners and dates for rolling out what we built, plus questions for your insurance broker about how your cyber and professional liability policies treat AI.

06 · AFTER THAT

Ongoing AI governance

AI tools change every month. Our retainer vets new tools before your team adopts them, keeps your policy current, and confirms a person still reviews what AI produces. Priced monthly and quoted after the workshop. How Defensible AI works →

THE WORKSHOP

One day. One fixed price.

ONE FULL DAY ONSITE WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

$7,500

Everything below is included: the shadow AI review, a draft AI use policy ready for partner review, a ranked map of where AI fits in your firm (and where it doesn't), a working first version of one AI workflow, a 30/60/90 day plan with owners and dates, and questions for your broker about how your insurance treats AI.

49% of small and midsize businesses have no AI-specific security policy. 84% would trust an outside technology advisor to guide their AI rollout.
ConnectWise, 2025, cited by Pax8 · Pax8, The Agentic Workforce Economy, June 2026
SHADOW AI REPORT
DRAFT AI USE POLICY
WORKING FIRST VERSION
30/60/90 DAY PLAN
AN HONEST FIT CHECK

Is the workshop right for your firm?

A strong fit if you are…

A law firm, CPA or accounting firm, or entertainment, creative, or PR business with 5 to 100 people; already using AI without a written policy; fielding client questions, outside counsel guidelines, or contract clauses about AI; and able to get the people who make technology decisions in the room for the full day.

Probably not a fit if…

You want custom AI software or models built from scratch (we set up and govern tools, we don't develop them), you can't clear a full day with your decision makers, or you're after a slide deck instead of something that runs.

BY FIELD

How the day changes for your field.

What's different for law firms?

The guardrails are built around your duties of competence and confidentiality (ABA Model Rules 1.1 and 1.6): what goes into AI, what never does, and which attorney reviews the output. We map intake, conflicts, drafting, and work like first-pass summaries of talent and production agreements, and help you answer client and outside counsel questions about AI. We handle the technical side; your ethics counsel decides.

What's different for CPA and accounting firms?

The rules center on safeguarding client tax and financial data under your professional standards and IRS safeguarding requirements. We trace engagements from document collection and organizers through prep, review, and client communication, and we schedule the day around your busy seasons.

What's different for entertainment, creative, and PR teams?

The rules protect unreleased work, embargoed announcements, and client confidential material, and someone checks AI output for accuracy and voice. We trace projects from the brief and pitch through production, approvals, and wrap, and give you plain answers for client contracts and questionnaires that now ask about AI.

Will you read our team's messages during the shadow AI review?

No. We review a sample of your network's web (DNS) traffic to see which AI tools are in use. It shows the tools, never anyone's messages, and you get the report before the workshop day.

pick a date for your workshop.

Tell us about your firm and we'll find a day that works, including around busy season. The shadow AI review runs before the day, so we arrive knowing what's already in use.

Book a 30-minute planning call →