A working read of your AI position, by builder-operators behind a studio of AI-native ventures that ships product weekly. We tell you what to build, what to buy, what to kill, and where the real defensible value sits.
Human-led by the founder of Podium VS. With an on-call bench of AI-native operators when the work needs it.
Every AI Audit includes a monthly Briefing for twelve months after the engagement ends. We use the intelligence we gathered during the audit to produce a tailored monthly read on what’s happening in AI that matters for your business specifically.
Not a generic newsletter. A brief written for you, building on what we already know about how your firm operates.
You do not need another presentation explaining that AI is going to be big. You need someone to sit with your team, look at how the business actually runs, and tell you which parts of it are about to be rewritten and which parts are safe.
The audit produces an actionable written report. It says what to build, what to buy, what to kill, and what to defend. It tells you where the real defensible value sits in your sector, which is usually not where consultancies think it is. It identifies the two or three moves that will actually shift the business in the next twelve months, without hiring an army.
The credibility is the work. Podium VS runs a studio of AI-native Ventures and ships product weekly across a wider portfolio. Fourteen AI agents in place of conventional headcount, running on under 10% of what equivalent traditional roles would cost. We do this every day. That is the experience we bring to your audit. For clients who want it, the relationship continues after the audit ends as a Fractional Chief AI Officer engagement, including a tailored monthly Briefing on AI developments relevant to their business.
We map your cost base against what current models can actually do reliably. Not theoretical futures. The places where margin is about to compress, and the places where it will not.
Almost everyone over-builds. Some things genuinely warrant a proprietary stack. Most do not. We will tell you which is which for your business, with a clear reason for each.
Foundation models commoditise capability. They do not commoditise regulated positioning, professional networks, audit trails, or accountability. We identify the parts of your business that are defensible, and the parts that are not.
Not a list of forty initiatives. The moves you can ship in the next twelve months with the team you already have, ranked by impact.
The vendor renewals to question. The consultancy engagements that produce nothing. The pilot projects that should be killed. The hires you are about to make that you do not need.
Whether you need a Head of AI, a small in-house team, an outside partner, or some combination. We tell you what works at your scale, and what is just expensive theatre.
Energy and water are now strongly correlated with cost. We tell you which workloads are oversized, which vendor regions are routed through dirtier grids, and where the run-rate decision and the footprint decision are the same decision. Our environmental position →
Three weeks of focused work culminating in one actionable written report. The diagnostic that names the highest-value AI moves for your business: what to build, what to buy, what to kill, and where the real defensible value sits.
Because we own all our underlying platform components across legal, finance, and AI workflow infrastructure, bespoke AI solutions for clients cost a fraction of what a from-scratch build would cost. Most audit clients commission at least one build directly off the back of the audit report.
Monthly tailored Briefing on AI developments relevant to your business, regular access for specific questions as they arise, and ongoing oversight of any builds in flight. The relationship continues as long as it is useful to both sides.
A direct conversation about your business and what you actually want to know. No sales process. If it is not the right engagement, we will tell you on the call.
Working sessions with your operating team. Light access to your data, vendor contracts, and tooling. We do the homework. You carry on running the business.
We model the economics, prototype the recommended moves where useful, and pressure-test our recommendations against what we know works in production.
An actionable written report you can take to your board. A two-hour read-out with your team to land the recommendations. Follow-up access for thirty days.
The audit is not delegated. Sanjay leads the work end to end, backed where useful by the AI-native operators he works with day to day in the studio. You speak to the person responsible for the recommendations, not to an account manager.
A thirty-minute call. We will ask about your business and what you want to know. If the audit makes sense, we will tell you what it looks like. If not, we will tell you that too, and point you in a useful direction.