Public agencies often seek partners who understand their operational challenges and regulatory requirements related to adopting AI technologies. Our AI services guide organizations through building understanding, developing use cases, assessing readiness, and implementing solutions while maintaining security, privacy, and compliance standards.
How We Help
Public agencies recognize the potential of AI to improve operations but face complex decisions about adoption, implementation, and governance. Our AI readiness and integration services support agencies through every stage of their AI journey, ensuring readiness and responsible and effective implementation.
Pre-Implementation Planning:
- AI Literacy and Level-Setting—help leadership teams understand current capabilities, opportunities, and challenges while addressing common misconceptions
- AI Use Policy—establish policies, procedures, and oversight structures to ensure responsible and ethical AI use aligned with your agency’s mission and values
- Use Case Development—guide your agency to identify and prioritize specific AI initiatives that are aligned with your mission and operational needs
- AI Readiness Assessment—evaluate organizational preparedness across data maturity, governance structures, training, technical infrastructure, and compliance obligations
Implementation and Ongoing Support:
- Technical Deployment—build, integrate, or support AI solutions within your existing systems and workflows, with flexible engagement models ranging from full-service development to advisory support
- Sustainability—partner with your agency as you maintain and advance AI initiatives, adapting to both organizational changes and the rapidly evolving AI landscape
We emphasize AI ethics throughout all services, ensuring solutions address privacy protection, transparency requirements, and regulatory compliance.
Service Delivery
- Hybrid
Who Will Benefit
Public agencies and nonprofit organizations, including the following:
- Chief Executive Officers and Executive Directors
- Chief Data Officers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Technology Officers
- Chief Privacy Officers
- Program Directors
- Data Professionals
- Researchers
- IT Professionals Managing System Integration
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Baron Rodriguez
Jessica Cunningham
Kate Wright
Sarah Quesen
Connecting Research With Practice
Our AI services align with established industry best practices and government AI adoption frameworks that emphasize responsible implementation. Leading practices in public sector AI deployment highlight the importance of comprehensive readiness assessment, interest holder engagement, and robust governance structures before implementation. Ethics-by-design approaches that embed fairness, transparency, and accountability throughout AI system development have become standard in government environments. Our methodology incorporates these proven frameworks while addressing the unique operational requirements, regulatory constraints, and public accountability standards that government agencies must maintain when adopting AI technologies.
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