Board AI Oversight Readiness
Board-level package: CYBAIR evidence on the workloads that matter, AIR readiness, and a governance narrative the board can act on.
Why this engagement exists
Boards are being asked to oversee AI without a posture score, a readiness picture, or a cadence they can actually run. Directors get vendor narratives and management optimism — but no evidence base that supports real oversight, and no rhythm for keeping it current.
What it looks like in your organization
- The board receives AI updates that are demos, not oversight material.
- Directors cannot ask sharp questions because they have no posture or readiness numbers.
- There is no cadence: AI oversight happens when something goes wrong.
- Regulators or insurers ask the board about AI governance and nobody has an answer.
What we do and how it works
We put CYBAIR evidence and AIR readiness into a board package: a risk and opportunity briefing grounded in workload posture, an oversight framework with a quarterly cadence, and an evidence trail for board and regulator review. This is not a facilitated conversation with nothing underneath it.
The engagement includes
- Selection of the workloads and readiness picture the board must see
- CYBAIR posture and AIR readiness, translated for directors
- AI risk and opportunity briefing
- Board oversight framework and quarterly cadence
- Evidence trail for board and regulator review
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Board-ready AI posture and readiness summary
Board summaryCYBAIR posture on the workloads that matter and AIR readiness, translated out of engineering language.
Directors see numbers and evidence they can question, not adjectives.
AI risk and opportunity briefing
Briefing documentWhere AI creates risk, where it creates opportunity, and what the board should demand next.
The board’s AI conversation is structured around real exposure and upside.
Board oversight framework and cadence
Framework + cadenceThe questions, metrics, and quarterly rhythm the board runs to oversee AI continuously.
Oversight becomes a standing capability, not an annual scramble.
Evidence trail for board and regulator review
Evidence trailThe evidence underneath every claim in the board package, ready for regulator or insurer review.
When a regulator or insurer asks, the answer is produced, not promised.
How this engagement runs
Pick what the board must see
Week 1The workloads and the readiness picture — not the entire estate on day one. Scope is chosen for oversight value.
A focused oversight scope the board can actually absorb.
Score and frame
Weeks 1–2CYBAIR scores the nominated workloads; AIR supplies readiness. Both are translated out of engineering language for directors.
The board has evidence-backed posture and readiness numbers.
Install oversight
Weeks 2–3Cadence, questions, and escalation a board can run quarterly are designed with the chair and governance counsel.
The board has a rhythm and a question set it can operate.
Leave an evidence trail
Weeks 3–4The evidence trail is assembled for board and regulator review, closed with a readout to the board or its committee.
Something a regulator or insurer can be shown without a fire drill.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
Each model, RAG pipeline, or agentic workflow you nominate for posture, compliance, evidence, and attestation.
The number of AI workloads you put in scope. Minimum one. You choose the estate to assess — the count is yours to set, and we do not flatten ten workloads and fifty into the same fee.
The organization or portfolio profiled against the AIR readiness ontology, sized by headcount and portfolio breadth.
The size of the organization being assessed: people, portfolios, and the systems that matter. A 200-person shop profiles at the Small band; a 10,000-person multi-portfolio enterprise profiles at Large or Extra-large.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
It is a board package grounded in CYBAIR and AIR evidence — not a facilitated conversation with no evidence underneath. Workshops are inputs; the package is the product.
Ready to brief us on the Board AI Oversight Readiness?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.