AI is already inside your business. The question is whether you control it.
AscendAI brings a full team of strategists, trainers, and builders into your organization. Together we build your people’s capability, find where AI pays off, and deliver the projects that matter, which is more than any single consultant can do.
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The reality CEOs are facing
AI is spreading faster than most companies are enabling people to use it effectively. Employees are experimenting. Vendors are embedding AI. Teams are finding ways to move faster.
But without leadership, adoption becomes uneven, underused, and difficult to scale.
Questions most leadership teams cannot answer yet
Visibility
- What AI tools are being used?
- What SaaS already has AI?
- What groups are using AI?
Risk
- What controlled data is being shared?
- What AI models have access?
- Where is access authorized, and where is it not?
Accountability
- Who owns AI decisions?
- Do you have an AI committee?
- Who is governing AI?
Where most companies actually are
Most companies believe they are further along than they are. Many are still experimenting without a clear path to repeatable value.
Stage 1
Reactive awareness
- AI activity acknowledged
- Teams experimenting independently
- Value emerging inconsistently
Most organizations are here
Stage 2
Structured control
- AI use visible across teams
- Priorities and ownership defined
- Productivity gains repeatable
Stage 3
Institutionalized AI
- AI embedded in key workflows
- Teams enabled to use it confidently
- Value measurable and scalable
From capability to critical projects, with one team.
We bring the whole team to bear, and each part of the work feeds the next.
Continuous improvement loops back to capacity
1
Build capacity
AI literacy, role-based training, and the 12-week AI Ambassador Program give your people the skills and confidence to see where AI helps.
2
Diagnose and evaluate opportunity
The AI Enablement Diagnostic maps usage, workflows, and risk, then ranks opportunities by business impact and feasibility.
3
Engage in depth
One-on-one executive coaching and hands-on working sessions with your teams turn priorities into decisions, ownership, and new ways of working.
Those three drive two lasting outcomes
Continuous improvement across the organization
People keep finding and shipping better ways to work, inside clear guardrails.
Critical projects identified and delivered
The few initiatives that move the business get scoped, piloted, and built.
You get a team, not a consultant.
Strategy, governance, training, engineering, and delivery, working together inside your business. An individual advisor can point the way. A team can do the work with you.
Strategy and leadership
Deciding where AI matters and leading the change.
Risk and governance
Guardrails, policy, and oversight that let people move with confidence.
Training and enablement
Role-based learning and the AI Ambassador Program.
Engineering and automation
Workflows, integrations, and custom AI applications.
Engagement and delivery
The people who run the work with your teams week to week.
Working together inside your business
Testimonials and results
“The AscendAI team are fantastic. We had started AI internally but had lost momentum. They came in and helped us to reignite the effort. They took a complex subject and helped us to understand it, both the landscape and its applicability to our business. We also got some hands-on time creating uses for AI that were specific to our needs.”
Shawn Miele CEO, MyAdvice
“For teams looking to understand the real-world risks that come with AI adoption, AscendAI offers a smart place to start. Their programs lay out the landscape clearly, covering everything from drift and bias to hidden deployment and accountability gaps. It’s a strong foundation for building AI governance practices that actually work.”
Romaine Marshall Cybersecurity Expert and Shareholder, Polsinelli
“The current pace of disruption demands an understanding that goes well beyond the headlines. Kevin sees where the disruption is heading and constantly challenges me to look farther afield. He understands what cutting edge technology is doing and helps cut through the hype and noise.”
Executive coaching Steven Low President, KLAS Research
“Our calls are the highest leverage time on my calendar.”
Executive coaching Niall O’Malley CEO, eTraining
“Their team offers consistent, thoughtful, and collaborative perspectives, effectively bridging emerging AI trends with operational needs to drive ideas into action.”
Penny Atkins Director, Research and Science, University of Utah
“AscendAI brought an outside perspective with real depth that our team immediately connected with. Complex topics were presented in a way that felt approachable and practical.”
Noah Singer VP of Product, RIPE
First AI Ambassador cohort at a global property management firm
160+ AI use cases surfaced by employees across 15 departments
22 initiatives funded and implemented
Stein Collection assessment, with 15 executives and directors
54 AI workflow opportunities identified
$247,987 in conservatively projected annual operating-cost reduction
An assessment projection, not realized savings. AI for hospitality
Ways to start
Executive AI Briefing
A focused working session that helps your leadership team understand where AI can create value and what the smartest next moves look like.
- Grounded in your business
- Surfaces opportunity and gaps
- Aligns leadership quickly
- No prior strategy required
AI Enablement Diagnostic
Move from scattered AI activity to a clear, scalable operating model.
- Usage and workflow assessment
- Opportunity and risk alignment
- Manifesto and operating guidance
- Board-ready documentation and sequenced roadmap
Pilot
Scoped with measurable outcomes and delivered with your team.
Move into a pilot and your diagnostic fee is credited in full.
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Find out where you actually are.
Tell us where AI is showing up in your business, and our team will help you work out the smartest next move.
