Pillar Profile
A scored read of your posture across the five pillars. Each pillar carries a score, anchored evidence, and a narrative on what's working, what's not, and what the score means in operating terms.
A practitioner-led, five-pillar assessment. Two to three weeks of elapsed time. Three durable deliverables — a scored Pillar Profile, a ranked Use Case Portfolio, and a 30/60/90 Day Roadmap — that you can act on the day you receive them.
Most AI advisory work is sold by people who have read about AI. The Anchor AI Bearing Assessment is delivered by someone who builds AI systems every week — and who spent 35 years in the same leadership trenches you're in now.
Not a webinar. Not a certification program. Not a sales pitch disguised as education. A scoped, time-bounded engagement that produces three artifacts you can put in front of your team, your board, or yourself.
It's built for the executive who wants a senior peer read on their AI posture — not a junior consulting team running a methodology against a checklist.
Each pillar is scored 1 to 5 against anchored evidence — interview transcripts, intake materials, and published research. The score is the spine of the conversation; the narrative is where the value lives.
Where your data lives, how clean it is, and whether it's reachable by the systems you'd want AI to plug into.
Whether AI is tied to a real business outcome or sitting on a wish list because the board asked about it.
The platforms, tooling, and security posture that decide what's actually deployable in the next 90 days.
Who in the building can build with AI, who can govern it, and where the critical capability gaps sit.
How the organization absorbs new ways of working, and where the quiet resistance lives that will determine whether anything sticks.
From the entry tier to the most expansive, every Bearing Assessment produces all three. Depth scales with tier — the artifacts themselves do not.
A scored read of your posture across the five pillars. Each pillar carries a score, anchored evidence, and a narrative on what's working, what's not, and what the score means in operating terms.
A ranked list of candidate AI initiatives surfaced from your interviews — scored for fit, sequenced by dependency. Each carries a brief, the team that owns it, the prerequisites, and an expected timeline.
What to do, in what order, and what to leave alone. The first 30 days name quick wins. The next 60 name foundation moves. The final 90 name visible deployments that compound on the foundation.
Every tier delivers all three core artifacts. Higher tiers add more discovery interviews and bundle additional artifacts where the decision warrants them.
Two to three weeks of elapsed time. Virtual by default. Final deliverables as locked PDFs.
A 90-minute kickoff confirms scope and walks the framework. Discovery interviews run across the week — 90 minutes each, led by Clark.
Clark scores the Pillar Profile, ranks the Use Case Portfolio, and sequences the 30/60/90 Day Roadmap. A working draft lands the day before the readout.
A 90-minute readout walks through every artifact with the executive. Final PDFs are delivered immediately after.
A one-hour follow-up call answers questions that surfaced after the readout and confirms which roadmap items moved.
Tell Clark where you are with AI and what decision the assessment would inform. If the engagement is the right next step, you'll know by the end of the call. If it isn't, you'll know that too.