Your AI Won't Fail
on the Technology.
It'll Fail on the Infrastructure Around It.
We build the internal systems your AI tools need to actually work — governance architecture, decision rights, compliance documentation, and operational readiness embedded into how your team already operates.
Two entry points. One destination. Choose the one that matches where you are right now.
Start with Phase 0 — a free pre-project governance diagnostic that surfaces what's missing before any AI tool goes live. Then earn your AI Intelligence Score™ to benchmark organizational readiness.
Take Phase 0 — Free →The Access Tax Assessment quantifies — in exact dollars — what your organization's access architecture is costing your AI investment. Estimated via survey, then verified with your actual IT data.
Join the Early Access List →State AI Laws Are in Effect Now
While federal AI legislation works through Congress, Colorado, California, and New York have already enacted AI compliance obligations that apply to companies your size — today.
Intelligence Resources™: The Operating Layer Your Company Is Missing
Intelligence Resources™ is an independent function built to coordinate AI readiness, governance, and compliance across every team simultaneously. It is not a policy document. It is not a consulting engagement. It is the operational backbone of responsible AI deployment.
A dedicated function that owns AI decisions inside your organization — sitting across Legal, Engineering, and Product with no competing agenda. Upstream of deployment. Accountable for readiness.
The real AI work starts before the AI.
From scattered ownership to a stable operational baseline for responsible AI. Phase 0 is where it begins. Intelligence Resources™ is where it lives.
Start Free, Go as Deep as You Need.
Both tracks converge at Tier 1 — the $5,000 strategic assessment that builds the governance infrastructure your organization is missing.
AI Intelligence Score™ + Badge
A 10-minute diagnostic revealing whether your organization is structurally ready to deploy AI — before you spend another dollar on tools.
- ✓Governance Gaps: Whether AI decisions are actually being made — and by whom
- ✓Operational Reality: Whether your workflows can actually support deployment
- ✓Compliance Readiness: Whether you meet current AI compliance requirements
Complete the diagnostic, earn your AI Readiness Badge™, and see exactly where your Phase 0 gaps are before any tool goes live.
Earn Your Free Badge →Access Tax Assessment
A financial diagnostic that puts a specific dollar figure on what your access architecture is costing your AI investment — before or after purchase.
- ✓Shelfware Cost: What you're paying for AI tools employees can't actually access
- ✓Friction Cost: The payroll dollars lost to access delays, calculated to the penny
- ✓Ground Truth Engine: Upload your ITSM data to verify your exact Access Tax
Get the number your CFO needs to approve the governance investment your operators already know is necessary.
Join the Early Access List →Both tracks converge at Tier 1 — the $5,000 Strategic Assessment.
The operator arrives from Phase 0 with a scored readiness gap. The CFO arrives with a verified Access Tax number. Tier 1 is where we build the governance infrastructure to close both. Incorporated as a Delaware PBC — your governance capacity is our public mission.
The IR™ Operator Credential
AI governance doesn't need more policy writers. It needs operators who can build and run the infrastructure — the people in the trenches of ops and systems who've been doing this work for years without a professional title that matches what they actually do.
The IR™ Operator credential is being built for those people. It is a deliberate signal: this is for the people who operate safe and secure systems, not just the people who write policy about them.
Learn About the IR™ Operator →- →Grounded in the Phase 0 framework and 7-pillar methodology
- →Built for ops, IT, and enterprise systems professionals
- →No JD required. Experience is the prerequisite.
- →Research-backed body of knowledge — not a course with an exam
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The real AI work starts before the AI.
My background is 13+ years of legal ops infrastructure at Apple, Amazon Lab126, Okta, and Figma. What kills AI projects isn't picking the wrong model — it's deploying before checking if your organization is ready. I kept seeing the same structural failure, across Fortune 500 companies, at every scale. Nobody owned the layer that had to exist before deployment could begin. That gap is what Ciph Lab is built to close.
Background & Credentials
- 🎓UC Berkeley BASIS AI Safety Policy Fellow, 2026
- ✓Certificate, Business Administration · UC Berkeley
- ✓MBA Candidate · University of the People (Dec 2026)
- ✓B.S. Legal Studies · Florida Gulf Coast University
- 🎤Featured Speaker · AI in Legal Virtual Summit, Feb 2026
- ✓13+ years in legal ops at Apple, Amazon Lab126, Okta, Figma
Earn Your AI Readiness Badge™
Free. Under 10 minutes. No signup required. Your score and badge are delivered within 24 hours.
Your answers are never stored or shared. Ciph Lab is a Delaware PBC — your data protection is part of our mission.
The Access Tax Assessment
launches soon.
Be first in line. Early access users help shape the product — and get the dollar figure they need to defend the AI investment internally.