Your board is asking about AI. Walk in with the answer.
In one 90-minute session, we surface the AI tools already running in your company, including the ones nobody approved. Your leadership team makes five decisions with names attached, and you walk into the next board meeting holding a two-page memo written for the room that is asking. Every quarter without an AI governance position is a quarter you answer that room unprepared. This quarter can be the last one.
Five things. One session.
Nothing here is a template. Every item is built from your company's actual tools, people, and exposure.
The 90-minute working session
You, your leadership team, and me. Video or in person. No deck, no pitch. We leave with decisions, not notes.
The AI Inventory
The AI tools your company touches, including the ones nobody approved. Who uses each one, what information goes into it, and a red, yellow, or green rating.
The Five Decisions Register
Who owns AI, what is allowed, what is banned, when you tell customers, and who to call when something breaks. Each one with a name next to it.
The Board Memo
Two pages, in plain English, written so you can forward it without editing it. Hand it to the board, attach it to the questionnaire, send it to the insurer. In your hands within five business days, or the session is free.
The Questionnaire Answer Kit and the 30-Day Follow-Through
The exact paragraphs to paste into the security questionnaire or insurance form that started all this. Then, thirty days after the session, a 30-minute call to confirm the five decisions stuck and the named owners did what they said.
Somebody is asking you about AI, and "we're looking into it" has stopped working.
Three people ask, and they all want the same document.
The questionnaire
Their security questionnaire now has an AI section. Your deal sits still until someone answers it.
The renewal
The renewal form added AI questions this year. Whatever you write down, you are held to.
The meeting
They want one thing: who is in charge of AI here, and what happens if it goes wrong.
The memo I write answers all three. Same document, three audiences. Auditors and enterprise clients call this AI governance. Your board will call it the answer they asked for.
Three steps. About a week, start to finish.
Book a call, then answer 12 minutes of questions
We start with a short call to make sure the Briefing fits. Then the Discovery Intake opens. Plain questions about your company. "I am not sure" is an acceptable answer to every one of them. The moment you submit, you pick your date from the days still open.
We meet for 90 minutes
You, your leadership team, and me. We list the AI tools in the building, mark the dangerous ones, and decide five things: who is in charge, what is allowed, what is banned, what gets disclosed, and what happens if something goes wrong.
Your memo arrives
Two pages. Written so you can forward it without editing it. It includes the exact paragraph to paste into the questionnaire or the insurance form that started all this. Five business days is the promise. Miss it and you pay nothing.
This is the form that starts it.
A real section from a client security questionnaire. Companies lose deals over these two blanks every week.
After our session, both blanks have answers, and the answers are true. That is the entire point of the 90 minutes.
This is what the memo looks like.
Two pages. Addressed to your board. Forwardable without editing. The paragraph for the questionnaire is on page two.
To the Board: where we stand on AI, who owns it, and what happens next
I have spent nearly 20 years passing the inspections other people fail.
Christina Cooper
Nearly 20 years in cybersecurity compliance across federal and private sector, spanning NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and FISMA, in the world where a failed review does not mean a bad meeting. It means the program stops. Every authorization I have delivered has passed with zero critical findings.
I created the T.R.U.S.T. Framework™ this session runs on and wrote Raising AI Right. I chair the Business Technology and AI Council at the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce, sit on the AI Security Council and contributed to its white paper on governing the AI token economy, and served as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and a Guest Lecturer at Georgetown. AI governance is that same discipline, applied to the newest thing in your building.
Same document. Three ways to get it.
| Law firm | Consultancy | The Boardroom Briefing™ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to the memo | Six to eight weeks | Twelve-week engagement | One session, five business days |
| Who does the work | An associate you never meet | A team of analysts | Christina, in the room with your leadership team |
| What you leave with | An opinion letter | A slide deck | AI Inventory, Five Decisions, Board Memo, Answer Kit |
| Written for | Lawyers | Project sponsors | Your board, your client's questionnaire, your insurer |
| If it is late | You still pay | You still pay | You pay nothing |
| Fee treatment | Spent | Spent | Credits in full toward the larger build |
Minute by minute. No slides.
This is the actual run of the room. You will recognize it in the memo.
The reason you called
Ten minutes on the questionnaire, the renewal, or the board question that started this. It sets what the memo has to answer.
Build the AI Inventory
Thirty minutes. We walk every department and every tool, including the AI features nobody switched on deliberately. Each one gets a red, yellow, or green.
Rate the exposure
Fifteen minutes. Which tools touch customers, employees, or regulated data. This is where the dangerous ones surface.
The five decisions
Twenty-five minutes. Owner, allowed, banned, disclosure, incident. Each one gets a name and a date, in the room, out loud.
What the memo will say
Ten minutes. I read back the position we are taking to the board, in plain English, so nobody is surprised when it arrives.
There is no version of this where you lose money.
A law firm will quote you six to eight weeks and a retainer to produce this document. A consultancy will sell you a twelve-week engagement to reach the same two pages. Your board meeting is not moving. You get the document in one session and one week, and the fee credits in full toward anything larger you decide to build.
Most companies do. Start any larger governance build with me within 60 days and the entire session fee comes off that bill. The session ends up costing you nothing.
You keep everything: the AI Inventory, the Five Decisions Register, the Board Memo, and the Questionnaire Answer Kit. You paid once for the exact thing your board or client asked for.
One session. One conversation to start.
FAQs
We barely use AI. Is this for us?
Almost certainly. AI is switched on inside tools you already pay for. Your meeting software transcribes, your CRM drafts emails, your hiring platform ranks candidates. Nobody approved those as AI. The session finds them and puts a decision next to each one.
Who should be in the 90 minutes?
The people who can decide without checking with someone else. Usually the CEO or COO, whoever owns technology, whoever owns legal or compliance, and whoever owns the client relationship that triggered this.
Is this a class or a sales pitch?
Neither. It is a working session. We build the inventory and make five decisions in the room. If you never speak to me again, you still leave with the documents.
What if we need more than 90 minutes can fix?
Then the memo says so, plainly, and lists what comes next. If you decide to build that with me within 60 days, the session fee credits in full.
We already have an AI policy. Is this still for us?
Usually yes, and usually it is faster. Most policies I see were written before the tools arrived. We test yours against the actual AI inventory we build in the room, mark what holds, and fix what does not. If your policy survives intact, you leave with proof that it does, which is what the board and the questionnaire were asking for anyway.
Will you sign our NDA?
Yes. Send it with your intake or reply to your confirmation email. I sign a mutual NDA before the session, and the AI Inventory and memo are yours, not mine.
What happens if we cannot get the intake back in time?
You cannot book a date until the intake is in, so this solves itself. Sessions are booked at least seven days out, which means I always have your answers well before we meet. If you need to move a date, reply to your confirmation and it is done at no cost.
What if the memo is late?
You pay nothing. Five business days is the promise, and it is written into the confirmation you receive at checkout.
What time are sessions, and what if that does not work for us?
Sessions run Monday through Friday, starting at 10:00 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM, or 2:30 PM Eastern, and each one runs 90 minutes. One Briefing runs each day, so once a date is booked, it closes. If none of the open times work for your leadership team, reply to your confirmation email with two or three windows that do, and we will set the session there at no extra cost. The date you lock holds your place either way.
Remote or in person?
Video by default. In person is available in the Baltimore-Washington region on request.
How fast can we do this?
One Briefing runs each day, Monday through Friday. Reserve today, answer the intake, and the earliest open date is usually the following week.
Somebody is going to ask. The only question is whether you have the document.
Ninety minutes from now, you could.
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