AI governance foundation
A governance framework, inventory, risk classification approach, policy, committee charter, accountability matrix, or intake and approval workflow.
Engagements
AI governance support shaped around the work.
Choose ongoing counsel when AI questions recur across teams, or a focused project when one defined governance priority needs to move. Scope follows the work your company needs.
Ongoing AI counsel
Dedicated AI counsel without a full-time hire.
An ongoing engagement is designed for companies that need recurring senior judgment across AI governance, products, procurement, privacy, and commercial relationships.
Ongoing engagement fees
Ongoing engagements generally start at $3,500 per month.
Final scope and fee depend on the expected workload, pace, coordination, and priorities identified during scoping.
Ongoing support can include
- Review new AI use cases, products, features, and deployments.
- Develop and maintain governance policies, inventories, risk classifications, and approval workflows.
- Support governance meetings and coordinate with legal, product, privacy, procurement, security, and leadership teams.
- Advise on AI vendors, procurement standards, customer commitments, and commercial terms.
- Handle recurring product, privacy, data use, and AI contracting questions.
- Turn recurring guidance into reusable positions, playbooks, and escalation rules.
Focused AI governance projects
A defined scope when ongoing counsel is not needed.
Project scope, timing, and fee are proposed after an initial conversation and review of the work involved.
AI product or deployment assessment
Focused advice on a particular AI launch, feature, vendor deployment, data use, disclosure, or commercial risk question.
AI contracting foundation
AI contract positions, addenda, vendor standards, diligence responses, or team guidance for more consistent negotiations.
How scope and fees are set
Each engagement is scoped around the complexity, pace, and level of support required.
The proposal identifies the priorities, expected involvement, fee, and working terms before substantive work begins.
Breadth of the AI activity
The number and type of products, internal uses, vendors, markets, and business teams involved.
Governance maturity
Whether the company is starting from the beginning or refining existing policies, inventories, assessments, and approval processes.
Pace and coordination
The timing of launches, negotiations, governance meetings, stakeholder reviews, and executive decisions.
Materials and deliverables
The volume of contracts, policies, questionnaires, product documentation, templates, and written guidance involved.
Ongoing involvement
Whether the work calls for a defined deliverable or recurring participation across teams and decisions.
Specialist needs
Whether the matter requires regulatory, local, litigation, employment, intellectual property, or other specialist counsel.
Common questions
Understand the relationship before you book.
How is the right engagement model determined?
We start with the work: your AI activities, current governance needs, the number and pace of active matters, the teams involved, desired deliverables, and timing. I then recommend an ongoing or focused scope that matches those needs.
Can a focused project become an ongoing engagement?
Yes. A company may begin with a governance framework, launch assessment, policy, or contracting project and move to ongoing counsel when recurring implementation, product, procurement, or commercial questions emerge.
Who performs the work?
You work directly with Obehi, and I perform all substantive legal work. If a matter requires specialist advice outside the scope, I will identify that need and can help coordinate separately engaged counsel.
Is there a minimum term for ongoing counsel?
Ongoing engagements are ordinarily month to month from the start and may be ended on 30 days’ written notice, subject to the signed engagement agreement. Scope can also change as the company’s needs evolve.
What happens after the introductory call?
The 20-minute call is a fit and scoping conversation about your AI activities, governance needs, priorities, and timing. If there is a potential fit, the next steps are a conflict check and a written engagement proposal. No attorney-client relationship begins until the conflict check is complete and an engagement agreement is signed.
Start with fit and scope
A short conversation, then a clear next step.
We will discuss your AI activities, governance needs, timing, and the engagement model that appears most practical.
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