AI Readiness & Governance

Know you're ready — and what it's worth — before you build.

Most failed AI projects didn't fail in the build. They failed because the data wasn't ready, the business case was never made, or governance was bolted on after go-live in a regulated shop. A short, paid diagnostic answers those questions first — so you commit to a build you already know will land.

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The four diagnostics

Four questions worth answering before you spend.

Each is a fixed-fee engagement that ends in a decision-ready deliverable, not a slide deck. Take one, or sequence several.

AI Readiness

Are your organization, data, skills, and tooling actually ready to adopt AI? We evaluate each, score the gaps honestly, and hand you a concrete path to ready — so you don't discover the data problem three months into a build.

Data, skills, tooling and change-readiness, scored
Gap-by-gap, with a sequenced path to ready

Fixed fee · deposit, balance on delivery

Governance & Risk Design

For regulated environments, where a wrong answer has consequences. We assess your risk posture and design the controls, policies, and audit trail that let you adopt AI without failing an inspection — built in, not bolted on.

Controls, policy, and audit-trail design
Depth in FDA / 21 CFR Part 11 / GxP / HIPAA regimes

Fixed fee · scaled to regulatory depth

Use-Case Opportunity Scan

Where does AI pay off across your operation, and in what order? We surface the candidates, rank them by value against effort and risk, and hand back a prioritized portfolio — so the first project is the right one, not the loudest one.

Many use cases surfaced and ranked
A value-vs-effort portfolio with a clear first move

Fixed fee · deposit, balance on delivery

Investment-Grade Business Case

Take one or two initiatives deep enough that a CFO can sign off. Full ROI, cost, and risk modeling — the numbers that turn "AI sounds promising" into a funded decision. And the fee credits toward the build if you proceed.

ROI, cost and risk a finance team can defend
Fee is creditable toward the follow-on build

Fixed fee · creditable toward the build

Why Evata for governance

Most AI consultants come from tech. We come from the audit room.

Governing AI in a regulated business isn't a slideware exercise. It's data-handling rules, access controls, validation, and an audit trail that stands up when an inspector asks how the decision was made. That's the work Evata has done for years.

Regulated-industry depth — 15+ years leading quality and FDA regulatory programs; 200+ organizations guided to GMP and ISO certification at a 100% first-time pass rate.
Validation and Part 11 fluency — computer-system validation, 21 CFR Part 11, and the documentation standard that audits demand, applied to AI systems.
Secure, recorded access — for regulated clients we work inside a managed, access-controlled environment, so every session that touches your systems is authorized and recorded.
Governance we run ourselves — our own AI quality system traces the ripple of a single SOP edit across all documentation and keeps a full audit trail. We design what we operate.

# Governance design — assessed per client
regime:
  - 21 CFR Part 11
  - GxP
controls:
  - access: least-privilege, recorded
  - data: what may enter, what may not
  - audit: full trail, decision provenance
  - human: review kept where it counts
validation:
  - csv: qualify the AI system
  - change: controlled, documented
deliverable:
  findings: scored gaps
  design: controls + policy

Where a paid diagnostic fits

The free assessment points. A diagnostic proves.

They do different jobs. One is a fast, no-cost sense of the opportunity. The other is the decision-grade work you'd want in hand before signing off a build.

Free assessment

A quick, no-cost read on where AI could help and where to start. Directional, self-serve, minutes not weeks. The right first step for almost everyone.

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Paid diagnostic

A scoped engagement that produces evidence — a readiness score, a governance design, a ranked portfolio, or a CFO-grade business case. What you take to a budget conversation before committing to a build.

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Already running AI in production? Governance design asks whether your controls and policies are right. It doesn't ask what an attacker can make your agents do — that's a separate, hands-on examination. See AI security & assurance.

Diagnostics sit at the front of our process — assess, build, deploy, enable. Do the readiness or business-case work first and the build that follows is scoped against real numbers, not a hunch. On the business case, the fee credits back when you proceed, so the diagnostic effectively de-risks the decision for free.

How it runs

Short, fixed-fee, and it ends in a decision.

No open-ended retainer, no drift. A deposit starts the work; the balance is due when we deliver the findings you can act on.

Fixed fee

Scoped up front and scaled to depth — no meter running

Deliverable

Findings and a recommendation you can take to a decision

Creditable

The business-case fee credits toward the build if you proceed