A fixed-fee starter pack for startups and small growth firms adopting AI faster than their policies, vendor reviews, and risk ownership can keep up. We give you the practical baseline: AI use-case inventory, acceptable-use policy, vendor review, lightweight risk register, and a roadmap workshop.
It is not a heavy compliance program. It is the minimum operating discipline a founder, COO, CTO, investor, or enterprise buyer can understand.
The Launch Pack is for teams already using AI in product, operations, sales, support, finance, HR, engineering, or research, but without one shared view of what is approved, risky, vendor-dependent, or customer-facing.
People are using copilots, AI SaaS, model APIs, or internal assistants before governance has a clear owner.
Enterprise buyers, investors, insurers, or partners want a credible answer on how AI is controlled.
You are not ready for enterprise governance, private AI, or a full managed program, but you need the basics in writing.
The work is deliberately small enough to approve quickly and concrete enough to reuse in buyer questionnaires, investor diligence, vendor decisions, and internal AI operating rules.
We keep the cadence simple: scope, gather, draft, review, and hand off. The output is a working governance baseline, not a binder.
Agree the AI systems, vendors, and workflows in scope and the decision-makers who need the output.
Collect the tools in use, data touched, owners, user groups, and customer or employee impact.
Draft the acceptable-use policy, vendor review, and lightweight risk register around your actual AI usage.
Run the workshop and leave your team with practical priorities, owners, and evidence to keep current.
The Launch Pack is the first rung. If the work surfaces a larger deployment, a regulated evidence need, or a private AI requirement, we scope that separately.
You should leave able to explain what AI you use, who owns it, what data it touches, which uses are restricted, and what decisions need review before the next growth stage.
The packet is useful for internal leadership, investor diligence, security questionnaires, customer procurement, and deciding whether a more formal Growth AI Governance Pack or private AI architecture brief is justified.
Every artifact is advisory and point-in-time. It helps you govern and explain AI usage; it does not certify compliance or guarantee any buyer, investor, insurer, or auditor outcome.
The fixed-fee range is $7,500 to $15,000, scoped before work starts. The final fee depends on the number of use cases, vendors, data types, and stakeholders in scope.
Most Launch Pack engagements run two to three weeks. We keep the cadence short because the goal is a usable baseline, not a heavyweight program.
No. It is for any startup or small growth firm using AI in product, operations, sales, support, finance, HR, engineering, or research.
You can run the roadmap yourself, convert into light advisory support, move into the Growth AI Governance Pack, or scope implementation and private AI work if the business case is clear.
No. This is readiness and governance consulting. We do not provide legal advice, issue certifications, guarantee audit outcomes, or attest compliance.
Yes, within reason. It gives you a clear story and evidence baseline for how AI is used and controlled. It does not replace a customer-specific security review or formal audit.
Use these guides to decide whether a light Launch Pack is enough, or whether the next step should be Growth Governance, implementation, or private AI architecture.
The inventory, policy, vendor review, risk register, and evidence baseline a fast-growing team needs.
How ownership, risk tiers, vendor controls, and evidence upkeep turn a policy into a repeatable program.
How policy decisions become workflow design, controls, evaluation, logging, and handoff.
Tell us what AI your team is using, where it touches sensitive data or customers, and what external pressure you need to answer. We will confirm whether the Launch Pack is the right first step.
DSE provides advisory AI governance and readiness consulting. We do not provide legal advice, certify compliance, guarantee buyer acceptance, or operate a 24/7 security or AI operations function under this package. All engagements are governed by a signed SOW / MSA.