Fixed-fee AI assessments for organizations under scrutiny

AI you can deploy — and defend.

The Defensible AI Assessment tells you which AI use cases to deploy, which to pilot, and which to hold until the foundations are fixed. With proof that survives a regulator, an auditor, a board, or a donor.

Tony Daggett · 20 years building data & model systems
The intro call is free, 30 minutes. You'll leave knowing whether it fits, even if we never work together.
DEPLOY PILOT WITH CONTROLS REMEDIATE FIRST
Every use case leaves with exactly one verdict.
20
Years building data & model systems
4
Sectors: banking, funds, AI, nonprofit
2–4
Weeks, fixed fee
1
Principal, start to finish
The problem

Too cautious to move, or moving blind

Wherever decisions face scrutiny, a model is only as deployable as the data beneath it, and only as safe as your ability to explain, evidence, and reconstruct its decisions. Most organizations are either too cautious to move, or moving on foundations they can't audit.

AXIS 1 · SCORED

Business value

What the use case is actually worth: revenue, cost, risk reduction, measured against your numbers.

AXIS 2 · SCORED

Data & technical feasibility

Whether the data beneath the use case can support it today, and what it costs to close the gap.

A GATE, NOT A SCORE

Regulatory defensibility

Can you explain, evidence, and reconstruct the decision for whoever examines it? If not, value doesn't matter yet.

DEPLOY PILOT WITH CONTROLS REMEDIATE FIRST
The assessment

Fixed scope. Fixed fee. 2–4 weeks.

$10–50K
Three tiers · fixed fee

From one team to institution-wide and board-ready. Every use case leaves with a verdict and the evidence behind it, delivered by a senior principal who does the work.

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Why ARDInsights

Built by an operator

20 years building these systems, and a hard-won map of where they fail. Deep data-foundation expertise in entity resolution, reconciliation, and lineage. Counterparty credit risk at Fidelity, systematic strategies as a portfolio manager, LLM risk detection as a principal data scientist. Miami-based, remote-capable, and on-site when the work requires it.

ARDINSIGHTS LLC
The Verifiability Gradient
WHITE PAPER · 2026
FROM THE INSIGHTS DESK

The Verifiability Gradient

Why human oversight breaks when AI output stops being checkable. A framework for CROs and model-risk leaders.

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