Services
DersCo LLC provides AI governance consulting. Legal services are provided separately by Anders Almgren, Attorney at Law. They are different engagements, and both are described here so you can see which applies to your situation.
DersCo LLC helps US small and mid-sized businesses build the governance infrastructure that gives leadership a real picture of what the organization is doing with AI and why. The work is consulting on AI deployment, policy, and governance frameworks, not legal services.
A structured review of how your company is using AI today, what your current governance posture actually looks like, and where the gaps are between what leadership believes is happening and what is. Delivered as a written report with prioritized findings your team can act on.
The assessment is a fixed fee of $7,500, agreed in writing before any work begins, and it is conducted personally by an attorney rather than delegated to a junior team. There is no hourly billing and no scope surprise.
What tools are in use across the organization, who authorized them, and how they were adopted.
What company data is moving through AI systems, and whether that movement is understood and intentional.
What your AI vendors have agreed to do with your data, and whether your agreements reflect what you think they say.
Where the organization sits on the governance maturity spectrum, by category, with the specific evidence behind each rating.
The gaps that matter most for a company at your stage of AI adoption, ranked by significance rather than alphabetically.
A document leadership can read, discuss, and act on without a consultant in the room to interpret it.
The policy infrastructure that lets your team use AI deliberately and consistently. Built for how your organization actually operates, not for how it would operate if everyone had unlimited time to read policy documents.
Framework engagements are fixed fee as well, typically $15,000 to $25,000 depending on scope, and the number is set in the engagement agreement before work begins. Companies that want the program maintained after delivery can retain DersCo for $2,500 per month, which covers monitoring, policy updates, vendor reviews, and a quarterly governance review.
What AI tools employees can use, for what purposes, and with what restrictions, written in language your team will actually follow.
What categories of company data can and cannot flow through AI systems, with clear rules for edge cases.
How new AI tools get evaluated and approved before adoption, so governance keeps pace with the speed at which your team adopts new tools.
Who owns AI decisions at each level of the organization and how those decisions get made and documented.
How questions about AI use that fall outside existing policy get resolved without creating a bottleneck or leaving employees to improvise.
When policies get reviewed, when vendor agreements get audited, and how the governance program keeps current as AI tools evolve.
Executive leadership and boards are being asked to make decisions about AI without the information infrastructure to make them well. These briefings give leadership the specific picture they need: what the organization is doing with AI, what decisions have been made and by whom, and what oversight exists.
What the organization is actually doing with AI, translated out of technical language into the terms leadership needs to govern it.
The significant AI decisions the organization has made, who made them, and what the rationale was. That is the record leadership needs and usually does not have.
An honest assessment of where the governance program is not yet where it needs to be, and what closing those gaps requires.
A presentation designed for directors who are not AI experts but are accountable for oversight, focused on the questions they need to be asking and the answers they should expect.
How the board can fulfill its oversight role on AI without requiring technical expertise, including what information to request and how often.
Legal services are provided separately by Anders Almgren, Attorney at Law, a California attorney. Clients who need legal review alongside governance consulting engage him separately from their DersCo consulting work.
Legal review for the agreements, policies, and decisions that carry legal weight. The attorney-client relationship in these matters is with Anders Almgren, Attorney at Law, not with DersCo LLC.
Legal review of AI vendor agreements, terms of service, and data processing agreements, with attention to the provisions that most companies sign without reading: data use, training rights, confidentiality, and liability allocation.
Identification of provisions that warrant negotiation and guidance on what changes are realistic to obtain from major AI vendors versus where the leverage lies elsewhere.
Legal review of AI acceptable use policies, governance frameworks, and related internal documents to identify provisions that create unintended legal exposure or that would not hold up if tested.
Assessment of how applicable regulatory requirements bear on a company's specific AI program, for companies operating in regulated industries or jurisdictions with AI-specific requirements.
Most engagements start on the consulting side, with the assessment or the governance framework, and involve legal review only for the specific agreements or policies that warrant it. Use the form to describe your situation and we will tell you what makes sense.
If you have already completed the free assessment, reference your score and tier in the message and we can skip straight to what your findings mean for your specific situation.
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