Every engagement is built to answer one question: where must human authority remain non-delegable as AI scales? The deliverable is documented, board-ready governance infrastructure your leadership team owns from day one.
Every Falkovia engagement is fixed-scope, confidential, and built to transfer ownership at the end. The Architecture Engagement produces complete governance infrastructure in twelve weeks, mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, and calibrated to your sector. The engagement ends when your leadership team owns it cold.
No dependency. That is the design.The AI landscape moves faster than any briefing your team has prepared. The people around you are speaking different languages, operating at different speeds, and pulling in different directions. And the decisions still land on your desk.
What you actually need is a partner who gives you a clear, honest read on what is happening in AI and what it means for your institution, your leadership, and your next board conversation. Someone in your corner every month. Not to implement. Not to audit. To think alongside you, keep you ahead of the terrain, and make sure you walk into every room with the right questions before anyone else asks them of you.
This is for the President, CEO, or Board Chair who wants to lead AI with confidence rather than react to it. You leave every conversation with a sharper read on the landscape, the right framing for your board, and the clarity to direct your own teams with authority.
You already have the instincts. This is the intelligence layer that makes them sharper.
The foundational engagement. Falkovia conducts a complete governance diagnostic, designs your institution's AI decision authority map, human authority structures, and oversight architecture, and delivers a documented, board-ready governance infrastructure your leadership team owns and operates.
For institutions that need sustained AI governance leadership but are not ready, or do not need, a full-time Chief AI Officer. Dr. Masson serves as your fractional CAIO, providing ongoing governance oversight, board reporting, and architectural refinement as AI adoption evolves.
Designed for boards of trustees and directors who need to exercise fiduciary oversight of AI adoption without operational visibility into how AI is actually being used across the institution. Falkovia provides board-level governance assessment, risk framing, and oversight architecture.
The AI risk in a portfolio company is not in the model. It is in the human governance architecture that standard technical diligence never examines. Falkovia works with private equity and venture capital firms, providing pre-acquisition governance due diligence and post-acquisition governance architecture for portfolio companies in regulated sectors.
Some AI advisory engagements are built to grow. The scope expands, the team rotates, and the retainer renews. Falkovia is built the other way.
Every engagement is fixed in scope, so you know what it costs before it begins. It is led directly by Dr. Tiffany Masson, so the person designing your governance architecture is the person you hired. When an engagement calls for specialized depth, she draws on a vetted network of outside specialists matched to what your institution actually needs. You get senior, named leadership with the right expertise around it, without a rotating bench or a standing retainer.
Every engagement is also designed to end. When your leadership team owns the architecture and can defend it under scrutiny, the work is complete. And it is built to fit alongside the advisors you already trust, strengthening the work of your compliance, legal, and technology teams rather than replacing it. Confidential, fixed in scope, and built to transfer ownership rather than extend it.
The structural model that evaluates whether AI governance holds under pressure.
Documented boundary where algorithmic recommendation ends and human judgment must remain non-delegable.
Scored assessment across the five G.U.A.R.D. dimensions.
Operational template for the first ninety minutes of an AI-related incident.
“Dr. Masson has a unique ability to translate big, strategic priorities into practical human architectures: explicit decision rights, escalation protocols, and accountability frameworks.”
University PresidentComprehensive governance diagnostic. Shadow AI audit. Stakeholder interviews across leadership, clinical/academic, operational, and compliance lines. Regulatory and accreditation exposure mapping.
Decision authority mapping across all institutional domains. Human authority line design. Override and escalation protocol architecture. Board oversight structure.
Full documentation of governance infrastructure. Policy drafting. Role and accountability assignments. Board charter and reporting frameworks. Regulatory and accreditation alignment documentation.
Leadership team walkthrough and adoption. Board presentation preparation. Implementation roadmap with accountability assignments and milestones. Transition to internal ownership.
Some leaders come ready to build: full governance architecture, board-ready documentation, complete decision authority structures. The Architecture Engagement is where they start. It produces the governance foundation every other engagement model builds on.
Others want ongoing intelligence and thought partnership: a trusted partner who keeps them current on what is happening in AI, sharpens their read on what it means for their institution, and makes sure they walk into every board conversation prepared. The Intelligence Layer is where they start.
If you are unsure which fits, start the conversation. Every engagement begins with a confidential scoping call.
Most AI advisory firms start with technology: models, vendors, platforms, implementation. Falkovia starts with the human governance architecture that determines whether any of that technology actually works without creating institutional risk. The work is not about AI tools. It is about decision authority, human oversight structures, and governance that holds under scrutiny.
No. Falkovia does not sell or recommend AI technology. The practice is focused entirely on governance architecture: the decision rights, human authority structures, and oversight frameworks that must be in place regardless of which tools you adopt. Tool selection is a technology decision. Governance architecture is a leadership decision.
It means every deliverable is documented, structured, and presented at the level your board of trustees or directors needs to exercise fiduciary oversight. No jargon. No technical abstractions. Clear authority structures, accountability assignments, and governance frameworks that a board can review, approve, and hold leadership accountable to.
The Architecture Engagement is designed to produce complete governance infrastructure in 12 weeks. Board Advisory engagements are typically 6-8 weeks for the initial assessment and framework. Investment Due Diligence is scoped to acquisition timelines, typically 4-6 weeks. The Fractional CAIO is an ongoing retainer.
Falkovia works at the executive level: CEOs, presidents, provosts, COOs, general counsel, and board committees. The work requires institutional authority to design and implement governance architecture. Engagements that start below the executive level rarely produce architecture that holds.
Yes. Every engagement is fully confidential. Falkovia does not publish client names, case studies, or institutional details without explicit written permission. Many clients in healthcare and higher education require this, and it is standard practice for every engagement.
Most institutions do. The question is whether that committee has documented decision authority, clear governance architecture, and the structural capacity to provide meaningful oversight, or whether it is a discussion forum without teeth. Falkovia's diagnostic will assess what exists and design architecture that gives your committee the authority structure it needs to actually govern.
Yes. Falkovia regularly works alongside institutional legal counsel, compliance teams, and other advisors. The governance architecture is designed to complement and strengthen existing advisory relationships, not replace them.
Architecture and advisory engagements are fixed-scope with investment structured to institutional size, complexity, and current AI exposure. The Intelligence Layer is an ongoing monthly retainer scoped to your needs. Every engagement begins with a confidential scoping conversation. There is no standardized pricing because no two institutions have the same governance landscape.
Start with a confidential scoping call. No commitment. No sales process. Just a conversation about what your institution needs.
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