OPERATOR-LED AI ADVISORY
$250,000 is what your AI tools are costing you.
Maybe more. Most mid-market companies lose between $80,000 and $250,000 a year to AI tools nobody authorized. Duplicated subscriptions. Shadow tools touching client data. Productivity drag nobody is measuring.
SRJ Consulting & Services surfaces the waste, contains the exposure, and recovers the margin. Audits typically pay for themselves before they surface a single risk finding.
WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE IS COSTING YOU
The four ways unmanaged AI quietly erodes your margin.
Most mid-market companies have between 8 and 24 AI tools running inside their business right now. Leadership can typically name three or four. The gap between what you know is happening and what is actually happening is where the cost lives.
Duplicated Subscriptions
Sales bought a ChatGPT Enterprise contract. Marketing has a separate Jasper subscription. Legal added Harvey. Finance is paying Microsoft Copilot per seat for everyone, including the teams already running the other three. Mid-market companies routinely pay for the same capability four times before anyone consolidates.
Shadow AI Exposure
Employees signing up for free AI tools on personal accounts. Customer data, financial records, and proprietary work flowing through systems your security team has never reviewed. The exposure compounds quietly until something breaks, at which point it becomes a board issue.
Wrong-Tool Productivity Drag
Departments selecting AI tools based on demos rather than fit. Teams spending six months trying to get value from a tool that was never going to work for their use case. The cost is the productivity that should have been gained but wasn’t, plus the switching cost when leadership finally pulls the plug.
Vendor Leverage Lost
Without a unified view of AI spend, finance cannot negotiate. Every contract gets renewed at list price. Every per-seat commitment gets locked in for another year. Procurement leverage that would save $30,000 to $150,000 annually gets left on the table because nobody has the consolidated data.
THE AI OPERATING SYSTEM™
Six service lines. Two operating pillars. The AI advisory framework that puts AI under management discipline.
The framework puts AI under management discipline without slowing the business down. It begins with surfacing what you cannot currently see, prices what you didn’t know you were paying for, and builds the governance structure that prevents the waste from returning next quarter.
PILLAR I
AI Business Services
Is AI making the business stronger?
Four service lines that audit, assess, govern, and optimize how AI produces value inside the organization. Most engagements begin with the AI Business Enablement Audit™, which typically recovers six figures in subscription consolidation alone.
Explore AI Business Services →PILLAR II
AI Risk Governance & Security
Is AI exposing the business to harm?
Two service lines that identify, contain, and remediate AI-driven security exposure. Traditional risk frameworks were not designed for how AI changes the attack surface. These engagements fill that gap.
Explore AI Risk Governance & Security →NOT A VENDOR, NOT A SOFTWARE SHOP
The advisory is the product.
SRJ Consulting & Services was founded by Stephen R. Jordan after three decades of senior leadership at Citi, Intel, McAfee, and Optiv. The practice was built on a deliberate constraint: no software sales, no vendor partnerships, no implementation revenue. The advisory itself is what clients buy, which means there is no commercial reason to recommend anything other than what is actually right for the business.
Operator credentials
Thirty years inside Fortune 500 operations, security, and risk programs at Citi, Intel, McAfee, and Optiv before founding the AI advisory firm. The frameworks come from running things, not from studying things.
No vendor conflicts
No software resold, no implementation partnerships, no kickbacks. Recommendations are aligned to your business outcomes, not a partner channel.
Six-figure findings, defensible analysis
Every audit produces a written deliverable a CFO can review and a board can act on. The numbers are sourced, the methodology is documented, the recommendations are prioritized by recoverable value.
RECENT ANALYSIS
Field notes on running AI as a managed business function.
Operator-led essays, framework walkthroughs, and case-based analysis from inside the practice.
- SRJ Consulting Is Transitioning Fully to AI Advisory
- Why We Are Not an AI Tool Vendor And Why That Matters to Your Leadership Team
WHERE TO BEGIN
Find out what unmanaged AI is costing your business.
Most executives find six figures in recoverable waste in the first thirty minutes of conversation. The consultation is free. There is no deck, no pitch, no sales process. A structured conversation about where your organization currently stands and what the right next step looks like.
Schedule a Free 30-Minute ConsultationOr call (415) 413-7772