Cloud Center of Excellence
Setup, maturity model, operating cadence. A CoE that governs without becoming the reason nothing ships.
Pillar 2
Cloud & AI Advisory
Senior architecture, governance, and enablement for organizations that need perspective before they need execution.
Problems we solve
What we hear on the first call
- "Our cloud spend keeps surprising the CFO."
- "We're adopting AI across teams but have no governance story."
- "Our architecture review is 2 years stale."
- "We need a Cloud Center of Excellence that does more than hold meetings."
What we ship
Offerings
Architecture & ops reviews
Honest assessments of existing architecture with concrete recommendations — and the seniority to back up hard advice.
AI Governance
Responsible AI policy, risk management, compliance alignment with NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and ISO/IEC 42001.
Leadership & team enablement
Half-day to multi-day workshops; tailored to the audience (exec, senior IC, mixed). Internationally delivered.
What an engagement looks like
3–8 week CoE build (representative)
- Weeks 1–2 — Discovery: current-state review, stakeholder alignment, operating model workshops.
- Weeks 3–5 — Design: CoE charter, policies, guardrails, initial metrics scorecard.
- Weeks 6–8 — Launch & transition: kickoff, runbook, named owners, 60/90-day check-ins scheduled.
End state: a CoE that your platform teams actually want to work with.
Proof
Our thinking, in public
Wayne Smith co-presented Microsoft's Azure Design Blueprint Series: Responsible AI in Azure (December 2024) and has delivered AI workshops at Morocco's 1337 coding campuses. The governance work we do draws directly on that practice.
Watch the Responsible AI episode →