AI & Emerging Risk Advisory

Navigate emerging risk.

Realis converts uncertainty into clarity and confidence — building defensible strategies we stand behind, with you, from the boardroom to the courtroom.

Which sounds like you?

Any question, no pitch. Tell us what you want to know when you book, and we'll come ready.

Why Realis

$4B+
in client revenue protected
Decades
at the intersection of AI, risk & enterprise technology
Principal-led
no junior bench, no filler — the people you meet do the work

Clarity + Protection = Velocity

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New paper — Machine Speed, Human Judgment
How AI is reshaping the security services market.

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"We're using AI — but is it governed, safe, or effective?"

If that sounds familiar, you're where most organizations are right now. The fastest way forward isn't a six-month program — it's a short, scored assessment that tells you exactly where you stand and what to do first.

First engagement · The starting point

AI Readiness Assessment

We score your organization's AI readiness across six dimensions — usage, data exposure, policy, workforce, vendor risk, and compliance — and hand you a prioritized list of what to fix first.

— 1.5 days · Scored posture by end of week · Fixed fee

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Why it works · The 3/3/3 model

Assess. Pilot. Prove.

Three days to assess. Three weeks to pilot. Three months to production value. It's the delivery model the industry's largest technology platforms are standardizing on — and it's how Realis engagements are built. The assessment is your first three days: when it's done, you know exactly what to pilot and why.

— Assess first · A focused second engagement · Custom work only when it's earned

Then go deeper — the second engagement

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Executive Advisory

Strategic Foresight for Executive Leadership

A senior-led half-day working session that gets 6–16 executives board-ready on AI, cyber, and material risk — before the questions come from the board, regulators, or the market.

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AI Advisory

AI Development Lifecycle Evaluation

Find where your AI build process introduces unmanaged risk — with a prioritized action plan to fix it, benchmarked to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.

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AI Product Assessment

Jumpstart

Prove your AI product is trustworthy before a buyer demands it. An independent attestation designed to unblock the deal stuck in procurement.

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AI Advisory

AI Vendor Evaluation

Know exactly what you're buying before you commit team, budget, and roadmap. A defensible Buy / Wait / Walk — not "it depends."

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Executive Workshop

The Executive Gameday

The closest thing to real life — without the risk. Realis guides your leadership through a realistic crisis in the first half of the day, then turns what it exposed into policy, priorities, and a plan in the second.

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And when the work calls for more, Realis builds custom engagements — scoped from what the assessment surfaced, not from a template.

The people you'll work with

Emily Soward

Emily Soward

Co-Founder · CEO & Chief AI Officer

Data science and AI security — from national AI policy to building AWS' global AI security practice.

Mike Reed

Mike Reed

Co-Founder · COO

Management and emerging technology — present at the industry's pivotal launches for three decades.

Our story and full backgrounds →

For law firms & legal teams

AI expertise, under counsel.

Realis principals serve as AI and emerging-technology subject-matter experts at the direction of counsel — litigation support, privileged investigations, and crisis management, scoped to the underlying legal matter and conducted under privilege. On-call retainers keep senior practitioners a phone call away.

Expert Services for Legal Counsel ↗ Advisory Services Retainer ↗

Why Realis

Deep expertise. Practical results.

We combine decades of enterprise risk management, technology leadership, and regulatory experience to deliver advice that is both strategically sound and operationally grounded. No generalists, no junior bench, no filler — we don't just identify problems, we help you solve them.

AI Strategy
Specialists
Risk Management
Veterans
C-Suite
Level Advisors
Global Regulatory
Perspective

How we work

Our approach is defensibility.

Executives need decisions, not dashboards. We work in fixed scopes on the 3/3/3 model — assess in days, pilot in weeks, prove value in months — and every recommendation is built to hold up in front of your board, your regulator, or a courtroom.

Read our approach → Insights & analysis →
$4B+
in client revenue protected
Decades
at the intersection of AI, risk & enterprise tech
Principal-led
no junior bench, no filler
AWS Marketplace Seller Microsoft Partner Google Partner

Ready to navigate what's next?

Book a 20 Minute Intro Call

Any question. 20 minutes. A real answer — no pitch. Tell us what you want to know when you book, and we'll come ready.

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