Your people already use AI. What's missing is anyone accountable for what the firm learns from it. Over about ninety days we stand up the group that owns it, and we leave once it runs without us.
Any firm can buy access to the tools. Capability has to be built: knowing what to point them at, what's safe with client data, and what actually worked. Most firms sit somewhere in between, and it sounds like this:
“People here are already using AI, and we could not tell you where or on what.”
“We are paying for these tools and cannot say what has changed because of them.”
“Nobody has written down what is allowed with client information.”
“Everyone agrees this matters. Nobody owns it.”
What leadership tells us in the first conversation, almost word for word.
And why it hasn't fixed itself: The people best placed to lead it have the least time to give it. Most of what arrives is someone selling a tool, so the conversation keeps returning to products instead of direction.
The fix isn't another tool. It's an owner.
Here's where that owner sits in your firm.
Nothing above it changes. It's staffed from across the firm, meets on a schedule, and becomes the one place your firm's AI decisions get made and recorded.
We carry the load at the start. Your people carry it by the end. Every phase in between moves more of it to them.
We find where AI is actually used across the firm today, and how long the work you'd want to target currently takes.
The group is named, and writes down what it is for and the language it will use. It sits under whatever already governs technology at your firm, and nothing above it changes.
The group meets, decides, and records. Grounds brings the agenda and carries the research between sessions, translating it into something the firm can use.
The group meets, decides, and records on its own. You hold its baseline and a training plan leadership can fund.
Agreed before we start, and measured against your own numbers rather than an industry average.
Where your people actually use AI today, and how long the work the group chooses to target currently takes.
Whether the group meets, decides, and records without Grounds in the room.
The hours the targeted work takes, against the baseline taken before the group existed.
How much of your firm's own way of working is written down rather than held by individuals.
What this does not claim: This does not produce a finished AI capability. It produces the group, the direction, and the measurement that a capability gets built from.
The engagement ends with your firm holding the group, its direction, and the record it keeps. Start a conversation, or see the research it rests on first.