Local systems. Sovereign by design.
Seven engagements. One path. From organizations that have not yet adopted AI to organizations in crisis. Each engagement is scoped in writing before work begins. Each is priced as a flat fee. No hourly billing. No surprises.
| Service | For |
|---|---|
| Sovereignty Screen | The 90-minute entry engagement — where would AI actually help, and where is it waste? |
| Zero-AI Readiness | Organizations with no AI yet |
| AI Readiness Assessment | Organizations with AI that needs an audit |
| AI Compliance Audit | Organizations that need the compliance baseline |
| AI Governance Assessment | Organizations maintaining a compliance baseline |
| Emergency Audit-Only | Key AI person left — audit only |
| Emergency Full-Rescue | Key AI person left — full rescue |
| Proof of Work | Organizations that need receipts, not promises |
For organizations that want the question answered before they commit to an engagement.
The engagement: ninety minutes with the decision-maker. The ten questions that matter most — where your data lives, who can reach it, what your AI posture actually is, where AI would genuinely help your workflows and where it would be waste. You leave with written findings and one prioritized remediation list.
| What you receive | Detail |
|---|---|
| Session | 90 minutes, structured, recorded summary |
| Written findings | The ten answers, scored |
| Remediation list | One page, ranked by impact |
| Credit | Full $500 credited toward any subsequent engagement |
| Fee | $500 flat — credited toward a full engagement if you continue |
|---|---|
| Timeline | Delivered within 48 hours of the session |
To engage: Email with one paragraph on your organization. I confirm scope in writing before work begins.
For organizations that have not yet adopted AI — and want to know where it would actually help.
You are running the business on the tools you have always had. Spreadsheets. Email. Paper. Maybe a CRM someone set up years ago and nobody maintains. You have heard that AI is changing everything. You have not seen it change anything in your business.
This engagement answers one question: where would AI actually help here, and where would it be a waste of money? A written roadmap, mapped to your actual workflows. No implementation. No vendor pitch. No AI theater.
Any change to the scope of work described in this agreement must be documented in writing and signed by both parties before additional work begins. New work outside the original scope will be priced separately and added by written amendment. Work on out-of-scope requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
| Term | Value |
|---|---|
| Fee | $5,000 – $12,000 flat, based on scope |
| Timeline | 2–3 weeks |
| To engage | Email with a brief description of your organization and what you are looking for. I will recommend the scope and confirm pricing in writing before work begins. |
For organizations that have AI systems and cannot answer basic questions about them.
Where does your data physically live? Who can legally compel access to it? Who technically can access it? What happens if your AI vendor shuts down tomorrow?
If you cannot answer these questions about your own systems, your AI posture is someone else’s business decision. This assessment returns that posture to your control.
Forty questions. Ten categories. A written report with a sovereignty score and priority remediations.
The assessment is not a questionnaire. It is a structured interview series with the people who hold each answer — typically across IT, legal, finance, and operations — followed by a technical discovery pass where findings are verified against the systems in place.
Ten categories. Four questions in each category. Forty questions total.
| # | Category | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Ownership | 4 |
| 2 | Model Dependency | 4 |
| 3 | Data Flow | 4 |
| 4 | Sovereignty Posture | 4 |
| 5 | Vendor Concentration | 4 |
| 6 | Legal and Compliance | 4 |
| 7 | Security | 4 |
| 8 | Recovery | 4 |
| 9 | Cost Predictability | 4 |
| 10 | Organizational Readiness | 4 |
| Total | 40 |
The full question set is disclosed during engagement, under a written agreement.
Any change to the scope of work described in this agreement must be documented in writing and signed by both parties before additional work begins. New work outside the original scope will be priced separately and added by written amendment. Work on out-of-scope requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
Pricing is determined by two axes: the number of AI systems in scope and the depth of the interview and verification process. The higher of the two determines the tier.
| Tier | AI Systems | Interview Scope | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 1–2 | Single round | $7,500 |
| Standard | 3–5 | Two to three rounds | $15,000 |
| Enterprise | 6+ | Full interview series | $25,000 – $40,000 |
Priced at the higher of the two axes. A single-system organization requiring a full interview series is priced at Enterprise.
Timeline: 2–3 weeks from engagement. Confirmed in writing.
To engage: Email with a brief description of your organization, the number of AI systems in scope, and the tier you are considering. I will confirm scope and pricing in writing before work begins.
For organizations that need to know which rules apply to their AI — and whether they are following them.
You have AI in production. You may be regulated. You may not be. You may have a policy. You may have nothing. You may not know which category you are in.
This audit establishes the baseline. Which laws apply. Which policies exist. Whether they are actually followed. Whether the organization can prove any of it. Without this baseline, no other AI work is verifiable. It is the foundation everything else stands on.
Any change to the scope of work described in this agreement must be documented in writing and signed by both parties before additional work begins. New work outside the original scope will be priced separately and added by written amendment. Work on out-of-scope requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
| Tier | AI Systems | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1–2 | $5,000 |
| Standard | 3–5 | $10,000 |
| Enterprise | 6+ | $20,000 |
Timeline: 2–3 weeks from engagement. Confirmed in writing.
To engage: Email with a brief description of your organization and the number of AI systems in scope. I will confirm scope and pricing in writing before work begins.
For organizations that have a compliance baseline and need to know it still holds.
Your systems were compliant when the audit closed. Time has passed. Models have changed. People have moved. Vendors have updated their terms. The policies on file may no longer match what is actually running.
This engagement verifies, on a schedule, that the systems still operate as approved — and flags drift before it becomes a breach.
Requires a completed compliance audit. Governance without a baseline is not verification. It is guesswork.
Any change to the scope of work described in this agreement must be documented in writing and signed by both parties before additional work begins. New work outside the original scope will be priced separately and added by written amendment. Work on out-of-scope requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
| Tier | AI Systems | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1–2 | $7,500 |
| Standard | 3–5 | $15,000 |
| Enterprise | 6+ | $30,000 |
Timeline: Initial baseline verification plus an agreed schedule of ongoing verification cycles. Confirmed in writing.
Prerequisite: A completed AI Compliance Audit or AI Readiness Assessment.
To engage: Email with your compliance audit reference and the number of AI systems in scope. I will confirm the schedule and pricing in writing before work begins.
For organizations where the key AI person has left and the stack is undocumented.
You know the AI systems exist. You do not know what they do, who can access them, or how to operate them. The person who built them has left. There is no handover. There is no documentation. There is no one else who understands the stack.
This engagement drops everything else and delivers an audit — findings, documentation, and a written report. No remediation. The audit only.
The clock starts the day you engage.
Emergency engagements are priority-sequenced rescues, not fixed-scope deliverables. The scope is defined by the priority sequence agreed in writing. Any work requested outside that sequence is a change order and will be quoted separately. Work on out-of-sequence requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
| Tier | AI Systems | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1–2 | $25,000 |
| Standard | 3–5 | $40,000 |
| Enterprise | 6+ | $75,000+ |
Timeline: Priority-sequenced. Audit delivered as fast as the environment permits.
To engage: Email with URGENT in the subject line, a brief description of the situation, and the number of AI systems you believe are in scope. Response within one business day.
For organizations where the key AI person has left and the stack is broken.
You are in crisis. Systems may be running. They may be half-running. They may be failing silently. No one knows what is deployed. No one knows what depends on what. No one knows what to do next.
This is not an audit. It is a rescue.
Priority sequence:
The engagement takes as long as it takes. The fee is flat. The clock starts the day you engage.
Emergency engagements are priority-sequenced rescues, not fixed-scope deliverables. The scope is defined by the priority sequence agreed in writing. Any work requested outside that sequence is a change order and will be quoted separately. Work on out-of-sequence requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
| Tier | AI Systems | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1–2 | $50,000 |
| Standard | 3–5 | $65,000 |
| Enterprise | 6+ | $150,000 |
Timeline: Priority-sequenced. The engagement takes as long as it takes. Fees are flat regardless of duration.
To engage: Email with URGENT in the subject line, a brief description of the situation, and the number of AI systems you believe are in scope. Response within one business day.
Any change to the scope of work described in an engagement agreement must be documented in writing and signed by both parties before additional work begins. New work outside the original scope will be priced separately and added by written amendment. Work on out-of-scope requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
Emergency engagements are priority-sequenced rescues, not fixed-scope deliverables. The scope is defined by the priority sequence agreed in writing. Any work requested outside that sequence is a change order and will be quoted separately. Work on out-of-sequence requests will not begin until a change order is executed.
Evelyn — Sovereign AI Builder Email: evelyn.caro.cloud@gmail.com Portfolio: qaevelyn.github.io
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For organizations that need receipts, not promises — proof that the AI work was done, done right, and is still working.
The Proof of Work entry is the engagement where the artifacts do the talking: twenty published works, five documented RAG pipelines, the first published tool — A Mirror of My Becoming — Suite: Ingestion Tools (formerly Mirror Ingest Suite) — combining RFC822 message-id normalization, dual-store ingest, and crash-proof reconciliation (battle-tested against a 127-conversation corpus), and a public provenance record that logs its own errors beside its successes. The method is the same one this site runs on: every claim sourced, every gap flagged, every correction dated and kept. An engagement here means your systems documented the way this portfolio is documented — verifiable by a stranger, auditable by you, owned by you end to end.
Where it stops: this engagement produces the evidence and the record; it does not certify compliance or provide legal opinions.