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In June 2023, a federal judge in Manhattan sanctioned two attorneys who had filed a brief citing six judicial decisions that did not exist. The story got covered as a story about foolish lawyers. But the part that stayed with me was not the failure. It was the catch. Someone caught it, because the American legal system is built as a stack of humans each checking the one below. The question I could not put down was what happens when nobody is above it to catch one...
Read the essay →The EU AI Act's Article 50 is now in force, the Ninth Circuit ruled on AI agents and the CFAA, and California's AI Transparency Act went operative. The most consequential AI compliance week of 2026, in one update.
An AI audit is the fastest way to find out what AI is actually running in your business, what it costs, and whether you could defend it if someone asked. Today the AI audit opens in beta, and the first 100 people who run it get the full report free, with no restrictions. The short...
Read the essay →Most executives are running AI across their organization without a structured way to know whether it is producing value or quiet loss. The AI Maturity Assessment closes that gap, and The AI Readiness & Performance Assessment™, Volume II of The Operating Discipline for AI Library™, is the working method behind this article, available now in...
Read the essay →An AI readiness assessment turns vague AI conversations into business conversations. It separates the use cases ready to expand from the ones that need refinement before they grow, and it gives leadership a defensible reason to pause the ones that should not move at all. Volume II of The Operating Discipline for AI Library™ is...
Read the essay →The AI Governance Audit Gap: 95% Run AI, 31% Have One A founder I worked with last year guessed his company was running three AI tools. We found nineteen. He is not the outlier. He is the pattern, and new research now puts a number on it. Ninety five percent of organizations have adopted AI,...
Read the essay →Most Companies Still Cannot Say Where Their AI Tools Live Artificial intelligence is already inside the business. It may be inside writing tools, reporting systems, customer service platforms, marketing workflows, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, CRM systems, browser extensions, SaaS applications, and employee created automations. Some of it is approved. Some of it is visible. Some...
Read the essay →AI governance for executives is not a technology problem. It is a money problem hiding in plain sight. Last quarter, one leadership team I worked with discovered they were spending roughly $86,000 a year on AI tools they did not know they owned. Not on a strategic AI initiative. Not on a vendor they had...
Read the essay →AI pilot to production is the gap EY and Microsoft just bet a billion dollars on closing. Last week, the two firms committed more than $1 billion over five years to a single, very specific problem: helping enterprises move AI projects out of pilot purgatory and into operational production. Read that sentence again. Two of...
Read the essay →SRJ Consulting & Services LLC came online today at srjconsultingservices.com. The new resource hub at srjconsultingservices.com/books opens with free templates, worksheets, and framework graphics for executives who need to bring AI under management. No email required. No registration. The same artifacts used in active client engagements, made available for any executive who wants to evaluate...
Read the essay →SRJ Consulting Is Transitioning Fully to AI Advisory Effective immediately, SRJ Consulting & Services LLC operates exclusively as an AI advisory practice. The firm will no longer accept new accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, or QuickBooks engagements. This is a strategic transition, not an expansion. The firm is now built around a single question that most leadership...
Read the essay →Artificial intelligence is exploding across every industry. New platforms promise automation.Dashboards promise insight.Chatbots promise productivity. And vendors promise transformation. But here is the uncomfortable truth: Most AI initiatives fail because they start with an AI tool vendor rather than with leadership. At SRJ Consulting & Services LLC, we are not an AI tool vendor. And...
Read the essay →A 30-minute consultation to scope the question your leadership team needs answered. No deck, no pitch. A conversation about where your organization currently stands and what the right next step looks like.