Services

Fixed-scope, fixed-price engagements for regulated practices.

The practice operates with one purchasable engagement at any given time — currently the AI Readiness Diagnostic. Other engagements are available to clients who have completed a Diagnostic and want to take the next step.

Methodology

Every Diagnostic is structured around five strategic questions, drawn from the AI strategy literature (particularly Upadhyay's Artificial Intelligence for Managers, 2021, and Yao & Koidan's Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2024) and applied with the Conversation not Delegation framework as the operating principle. The methodology is a delivery practice, not a marketing claim: every Diagnostic deliverable answers each of the questions below in the firm's own terms.

Question 1
Can we do AI?

Maturity assessment of the firm's current capability across strategy, data, infrastructure, talent, governance, and culture. The starting point: what the firm is actually equipped to take on.

Question 2
Should we do AI?

Opportunity analysis of where AI would create defensible value for this firm, and where it would create more risk than it removes. Not every viable use case is worth pursuing.

Question 3
How do we do AI?

Implementation orientation. What sequence, what gates, what change-management response. The practical move from what to how.

Question 4
Are we ready?

Infrastructure check. The data, the technology stack, the talent — and the gap between what the chosen path needs and what the firm currently has.

Question 5
What's the value?

Business case in the firm's own terms. Cost, return, risk reduction, scenario range. What the work is worth, in numbers leadership can defend.

Long-form treatments of each question are published in writing; practical techniques and frameworks that complement the methodology are in resources.

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Tier 0 · Bridge

AI Readiness Diagnostic

AU$1,500 fixed — 50% deposit, 50% on delivery

A two-hour structured conversation with your leadership team, plus a 2–3 page written recommendation. The Diagnostic answers the question many partners are quietly asking themselves: do we actually need to do anything yet? The recommendation places your firm on the literacy → governance → sovereignty journey and identifies the single highest-leverage first move.

  • 2-hour structured conversation, in person (Perth) or remote (national)
  • Written report with specific, firm-tailored recommendations
  • One follow-up email exchange to clarify the report
  • NDA available on request; all material handled per the practice's data policy
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Not sure if you need a Diagnostic?

Download the AI Readiness Reflection — a 3–4 page self-reflection prompt covering the kinds of questions a paid Diagnostic would ask. Use it alone or with your partners. If you can answer most of the questions confidently, you may not need a paid Diagnostic. If you cannot, that is also a useful conclusion.

Download the Reflection (PDF)

Note: generate the PDF from pre-diagnostic-reflection.md (in ~/Documents/borck-consulting/templates/) and place at public/pre-diagnostic-reflection.pdf before public launch.

Available After a Diagnostic

The engagements below are available to clients who have completed an AI Readiness Diagnostic and want to act on its recommendation. Each is fixed-scope, fixed-price, and shaped to the firm by the Diagnostic that precedes it.

Tier 1 · Foundation

Half-day Conversation-not-Delegation Workshop

From AU$2,500 fixed — scoped per firm

Single-firm half-day workshop for the partner group and senior staff (10–50 attendees). Establishes the firm's shared position on AI use through the Conversation-not-Delegation framework and its conversation loop — brainstorm, ideate, iterate, amplify — and equips the team with working prompts and protocols. Delivered in person in Perth or remotely nationally.

Tier 2 · Governance

AI Governance Starter

From AU$8,000 fixed — 3-week engagement

Three-week engagement producing an AI use policy specific to how the firm operates, a governance audit identifying current exposure, and a 90-day implementation roadmap. Includes a half-day Q&A session with leadership before sign-off. The output is not a template; it is a policy the firm can defend to clients and regulators.

Tier 3 · Sovereignty

Local AI Readiness Assessment

From AU$6,000 fixed — 1-week engagement

One-week engagement covering data-sensitivity audit, current-state review of AI deployment, and a written report with indicative hardware and software plan for local-AI workloads. Implementation itself is explicitly out of scope; the output is the credible answer to "what would we do with a matter we cannot route through any cloud service?"

Out of Scope

The practice does not undertake the following work, and this is unlikely to change:

  • Enterprise (more than 200 staff) and government tender work
  • Hourly billing or staff augmentation
  • Open-ended bespoke implementation or ongoing managed services
  • Engagements scoped specifically as marketing or sales-effectiveness AI projects