AI Advisory & Delivery
Neither hype nor handbrake.
A fixed-fee AI readiness assessment for mid-market and PE-backed companies. What’s worth doing with AI, what isn’t, and what to do first. Delivered by a CTO who has run the infrastructure, not read about it.
The same judgment covers the platforms underneath: ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, and the systems your business runs on.
The assessment
A straight answer in two to four weeks.
A fixed-fee engagement that tells you where you actually stand on AI, ranks the few opportunities worth pursuing, and names the ones that aren’t. You leave with a deliverable you can act on or take to your board, not a deck to file.
What you get
- Executive readiness report: board-ready, exec summary first
- Capability scorecard: data, infrastructure, security, governance, talent, use cases, change-readiness
- Prioritized opportunity map: 3–5 use cases ranked by feasibility × business impact
- Risk register: security, regulatory, vendor, and key-person risks, with mitigations
- 90-day action plan, with effort and cost estimates
- Optional Pilot Build proposal for the highest-ranked use case
What you don’t
- Generic AI strategy decks
- Vendor recommendations dressed up as advice
- A 100-page tome no one will read
- Open-ended “we should explore X” hand-waving
Platform advisory
The same judgment, on the platforms you already run.
Delivered by a CTO who has spent a career running and buying enterprise platforms: ServiceNow, Salesforce, Snowflake, and the endpoint-management stack among others. When a platform isn’t paying its way, a rollout has stalled, or you’re weighing a purchase, you get the same straight read: what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do about it.
Platform assessment
Whether the platform returns what you pay for, and where the money leaks. ServiceNow work most of all.
Architecture & rollout review
For a rollout that stalled, drifted from its original design, or never hit the business case it was sold on.
Vendor selection
Independent evaluation, no reseller stake. The pick does not come off a price list.
Operator, not integrator
Advice from the seat that owns the platform and its budget, not a delivery firm booking its next phase.
Why Boundfast
Judgment, from someone who has run it.
Operator-led
Delivered by an operator who has run production infrastructure and security at scale, not a methodology consultant.
Judgment over theater
Knowing AI is commoditized. The value is telling real opportunities apart from the hype, and saying which ones to skip.
Outcome-shaped
Every section answers “so what do we do about it.” No finding without a next step.
Build-capable
If you want the next thing built, the same operator can build it, not hand it off to another firm.
Who it’s for
Mid-market operators who have seen the hype cycle.
Companies roughly $50M–$500M in revenue: PE-backed, mid-acquisition, stalled in AI pilots that never reached production, or in a regulated industry where security and governance gate adoption. Leaders who want a straight read, not a glossy deck.
If you’re after the cheapest possible answer or a certification framework, it isn’t a fit, and I’ll say so early.
The operator
Boundfast is Michael Gray.
A CTO who has spent his career running production infrastructure, security, and the enterprise platforms on top of it, and now evaluates AI systems and platform investments on that foundation. It is the seat his clients sit in, and he does the work himself, start to finish.
Contact
Weighing AI, or a platform decision? Start a conversation.
Boundfast takes on a small number of engagements at a time. If your company is weighing AI or a platform investment and wants a straight answer, get in touch.
hello@boundfast.com