AI for the industries that can’t afford to get it wrong.
We help organizations in heavily regulated sectors, including healthcare and life sciences, legal, and higher education, put AI to work. We specialize in work with strict compliance rules and a high cost of error. We start from where you are, find the opportunities worth pursuing, and plan a practical path, with enterprise-grade security and compliance built into each step.
A 30-minute conversation with a partner, with no commitment.
Every industry has to adopt AI, including those with strict compliance rules.
If half of your leadership team is excited about what AI can do and the other half worries about what it might expose, we can help you move forward. We designed our lifecycle around that split.
We start from your compliance and security requirements and build everything else on them. We understand risk and regulation, we build guardrails in from the first conversation, and we help you move as fast as your organization can safely go.
Four phases, from first conversation to lasting capability
Most clients go through our phases of Align, Equip, Apply, and Sustain in that order. Many start at whichever phase is most urgent.
Align
Leaders agree on where to invest in AI and why. Our Leadership AI Alignment Program and AI Maturity Diagnostic help your team decide what it wants to achieve, which opportunities to pursue, and how ready the organization is. Those decisions guide the rest of the work.
Equip
Teach people to use AI in their daily work. AI Fluency 101 and 201 and the AI Champion Program give teams practical skills, guidance on which uses are approved, and support while they apply what they learned.
Apply
Turn your priority use cases into tools your team uses. In Use Case Accelerator Workshops, Custom Agent and Workflow Builds, and Compliance-Grade Data Analysis Builds, we build working tools, connected to your systems of record where the work needs it.
Sustain
Measure progress and hand the work to your team. We re-score the original AI Maturity Diagnostic, document the value delivered, and hand over the knowledge and ownership your team needs to keep building.
RIFFL, our platform, supports all four phases. Your people describe what they need, and it goes live on a private, secure address your IT, legal, and compliance teams can stand behind, with the guardrails already in place.
Senior, AI-native operators on every engagement
Everyone on an Itasca engagement has done this work inside an organization themselves. Our senior operators have experience in technology enablement, adoption, and innovation, and have run programs like yours before.
Peter Carlson
Leads executive engagements and stays on them from close through delivery.
Melissa Murphy
Leads AI adoption and enablement work, from executives to large enterprise teams.
Josh Dayberry
Oversees custom agents, workflow automation and AI infrastructure, and leads our FDE team.
We bring in senior specialists when an engagement needs them:
Instructional design
Senior instructional designers build workshop content around how your teams work.
Forward deployed engineering
More senior engineers, added to match the pace and complexity of a build phase.
Domain expertise
Specialists with experience in your industry’s compliance and technical requirements, for questions that need them.
Why clients bring us in
“Founded by two lawyers, combining legal grounding with deep experience in AI, data, and technology.”
Three things our method rests on
Compliance comes first.
We start with your regulatory obligations and then look at your tech stack, so governance is part of the engagement from day one.
We recommend Google Cloud, and we are an official partner.
We do the same work on OpenAI, Perplexity, Harvey, and Copilot, so the choice of platform stays yours.
Adoption is built into the lifecycle.
Training and coaching are part of the engagement from Align onward, so your team keeps using AI well after the first rollout.
Four commitments we bring to every engagement
Plan for this quarter
We start with what your team can get done this quarter, given its capacity and your business priorities.
Current AI, simple builds
We know the latest AI capabilities and agent design, and we pick the simplest approach that does the job.
Start anywhere
Start with training, strategy, or engineering. Move between them as your needs change.
Success defined up front
We define what we’ll deliver and how we’ll measure success at the start of every engagement.
We keep all four within your security and compliance requirements.
We recommend starting with Gemini.
We are an official Google Cloud partner.
We also work across Claude, OpenAI, Perplexity, Harvey, and Copilot. AI enablement depends more on training, governance, and judgment than on which model people use, so you get the same team and the same standard on whatever platform you already have.
Put AI to work and stay compliant.
In 30 minutes we’ll show you how we would approach it, starting with what you’re regulated to protect.
You’ll talk with a partner, and there’s no commitment.