The Velinor
AI Advisory.
A fractional Chief AI Officer retainer for boards governing AI in production. Monthly intelligence, quarterly portfolio re-score, board attendance on request, and a direct line for the decisions that cannot wait until the next meeting.
Boards that need a credible AI voice in the room — without hiring a full-time Chief AI Officer.
AI risk does not sit still between board meetings. Regulators publish, vendors change terms, models update, and incidents happen. The Advisory exists so that, when those things happen, there is a partner who already knows your portfolio and can brief you in plain English the same day.
A good fit
- You have completed a Velinor AI Audit or hold an equivalent diagnostic baseline.
- AI is on the board agenda and not going away.
- You face questions from regulators, customers, auditors, or the public about AI decisions you cannot yet answer with confidence.
- You do not need a full-time Chief AI Officer, but the role is real.
Not a fit
- You are looking for an engineering team to build models.
- You want a procurement intermediary for AI vendors.
- You expect daily operational support — the Advisory is governance and decision counsel, not on-call ops.
What's included
Standing scope per retained organisation. Additional work scoped separately as needed.
Monthly Intelligence Briefing
A written briefing each month covering your portfolio, sector-relevant incidents from Velinor's case base, regulatory movement, and what your board should be asking next.
Quarterly Portfolio Re-score
Every 90 days we re-score your AI portfolio against the 48 blindspots, flag what has shifted, and refresh the remediation roadmap.
Board Attendance on Request
Audit committee, risk committee, full board. Velinor attends, presents, and answers questions. Director-level audience, plain English.
Direct Line for Time-Sensitive Decisions
Vendor selection, regulatory enquiries, incident response, deal due diligence. When the timing is hours not weeks, you have an AI-credible adviser already inside your context.
Refreshed Roadmap Each Quarter
The 90-day roadmap is a rolling instrument. Each quarter we mark what closed, what slipped, what's new, and what the board should approve next.
Velinor Case-Base Access
Where a documented incident is materially relevant to your portfolio, we route it to you with the implications before it appears in the press.
Entry path
Most Advisory retainers begin after a Velinor AI Audit.
After an Audit
Most clients move directly from the AI Audit into a retainer. The portfolio, owners, and remediation roadmap are already on paper — the Advisory takes them forward.
Audit-equivalent baseline
Where an organisation already has board-level AI governance maturity, a scoped baseline conversation can replace the full Audit. Discovery will tell us which route fits.
Retainers run on a six-month minimum. Pricing delivered by proposal. Public sector pricing available.
Govern AI between audits.
Enquire about a Discovery conversation. By the end, you will know whether an Audit or an Advisory retainer is the right starting point.