AI into your business.Not your business into AI.

Most AI vendors arrive with a tool and go looking for problems it fits. We work the other direction. We learn how your firm actually operates, then deploy AI to serve those processes, safely, with your people trained and your risks understood. Fixed fee. No commissions. Nothing to resell you.

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This is already happening
Tuesday, 9:40 pm. Someone on your team has a deadline, a tedious document, and a personal AI account that has never let them down. They paste.

No one did anything wrong on purpose. They were never given a better way. That is the state of AI at most firms right now: helpful, invisible, and completely undefended.

Three questions are coming your way

When they arrive, assurances will not be enough.

A client asks
"Is your firm using AI on our files?"
You need a one-sentence answer, and a page behind it.
An examiner or a court asks
"Show me how you control it."
You need documents, not recollections.
Your own partners ask
"Are we behind?"
You need a plan that is neither reckless nor paralyzed.
What we do about it

Three things. Done in order. Built to hold.

Deploy AI safely and properly

A workspace your firm controls, with every setting decided on purpose instead of left at defaults. Stray personal accounts found and folded in. The contractual commitment that your data never trains anyone's model, confirmed in writing before signatures. Your files in private, identity-controlled storage where AI can work on them without anything leaving your environment.

You end up holding a one-page record of every control and why. That page is your answer when someone asks how you govern AI.

Train your people, on the tool and the risks

Not a lunch-and-learn. A structured ramp built for people who did not grow up on this: what the tool is, what it gets wrong, what data never touches it, then guided practice on safe material before anyone works solo. Every person signs off on the rules before receiving access, so adoption becomes a dated record instead of a hope.

Your best people get faster. Your cautious people stop quietly opting out.

Integrate AI into your processes

This is the part most vendors skip, because it takes actual work. We sit with the people who do the jobs, map how work really moves through your firm, and find the places where AI removes hours without adding risk. Then we build it into that process, matching your conventions, your review steps, your standards. The work still looks like your work. It just takes less of your week.

The line that governs everything

Some work should never touch AI. We tell you where that line sits.

Tier 1 in your world Published material, marketing content, blank templates, anything already public. AI helps freely here, including research with web access.

An adviser paid on commission has no reason to draw this line. We do, because our fee is fixed whether you deploy a lot, a little, or not yet.

Proof, from where the stakes are highest

Built where mistakes face cross-examination.

Forensic accounting firm · partners testify in court

Intake that used to eat a week, with a paper trail it never had.

Case files arrived as unorganized dumps, cloud shares, email, flash drives. We deployed AI in a workspace the firm controls, moved files to private storage that never touches the public internet, certified every employee, then built their intake into the tool: files classified to the firm's own conventions, an independent second review on anything uncertain, every action written to a permanent audit log. Because when your partner takes the stand, "the AI did it" is not an answer.

Material under protective order never enters an AI tool at that firm. That rule was ours.

Registered investment adviser · answers to SEC examination

AI adoption an examiner can inspect.

Governance documents, an approved tools list, and a dated certification log for every employee. When AI comes up in the exam, the firm hands over four documents. The conversation is short.

A real pattern from a live deployment: every file hashed, classified, reviewed, and logged. Nothing moves without a record.
How the partnership runs

Three phases. You can stop after any of them.

Phase 1 · Fixed fee

Discovery

We inventory your tools, your data, and how work actually moves through your firm. Written findings and a straight recommendation, priced before we begin, yours to keep either way. If the honest answer is "not yet," that is what the report says.

Phase 2 · Fixed fee

Deployment

Workspace, training, certification, and your first integrated process. Scoped and priced in writing before work starts. You know the full cost before committing a dollar.

Phase 3 · Optional

Ongoing partnership

A flat monthly fee as use grows: new processes vetted, rules kept current, new people trained. Cancel anytime, which is exactly why clients stay.

No commissions Not one dollar from any vendor. When we name a tool, the recommendation has no owner but you.
No resale You buy licenses direct and own every account outright. If we vanished tomorrow, everything keeps working and everything is yours.
No lock-in Every phase ends at a natural stopping point. You continue because the last phase was worth it.
Do not take our word for it

Ask the AI we deploy. Live.

These answers come from Claude, the same model we stand up inside firms like yours. Pick a question.

Claude
Live AI answer. For anything that matters, we put it in writing.

A few weeks from now, you can answer the question.

One email gets you a fixed discovery quote in writing within the week. No call required unless you want one. No obligation after it.

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DoubleChecked, LLC · Vendor neutral technology advisory