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Independent assessment firm Atlanta, Georgia

We find what is actually wrong, and what it costs to fix.

Technology, sovereign cloud and AI systems, examined from the outside. You get the real problems, ranked by what they will cost you, each one with the fix and the price of the fix. What you do next is your decision, and we have no stake in it.

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Assessment lines, each with a published rubric
2 to 6
Weeks from scoping call to the worklist
Every
Finding arrives with a fix and what the fix costs
Zero
Of our fee depends on what you decide to do

Why anyone calls us

Nobody inside the building is paid to tell you the uncomfortable version.

The vendor says the platform will scale. The team says the accuracy is fine. The integrator says the design is sound. Everyone means it, and everyone is describing the version of the system they are responsible for. Nobody is describing the joins, and the joins are where things break.

We come in from outside, open the system up, and write down what is actually there. Then we price the repair, in order, so you can decide what to fix now, what to fix later, and what you are choosing to live with.

What we find

Three findings we write in almost every report.

These are not unique to bad engineering teams. They are what happens when a system grows faster than the governance around it.

Found in most assessments

Data reaching places nobody intended

Customer records end up in logs, search indexes and vendor telemetry that nobody mapped. It stays invisible until an auditor asks or a breach makes it public.

The fix

Map every path, cut what is unnecessary, put retention limits on the rest. Four to six weeks of work.

Found in most assessments

An accuracy number nobody can source

The figure on the slide was measured on data the model had already seen, or supplied by the vendor, or nobody remembers. It has been used to justify decisions ever since.

The fix

Build a held-out evaluation set, run it, publish the real number internally. Two to three weeks.

Found in most assessments

Agents running on credentials far wider than their job

An AI agent that sends, approves or writes to systems is usually given whatever access made it work on day one. That access is still there.

The fix

Scope each agent to the minimum, log every action, put approval on anything irreversible.

How the three fit together

One evidence method, three lenses, one benchmarked worklist.

The assessments differ in what they look at, not in how they work. Evidence is gathered the same way, scored against the same five bands, benchmarked on the same Index, and priced into the same worklist. That is why running two together costs less than running them apart.

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The independence layer at the bottom is not decoration. It is the reason the output at the right is worth anything to a board, a regulator or a buyer.

In our clients' words

The sentences people say on the first call.

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We are three weeks from committee and nobody can tell me whether this platform survives ten times the load.

Partner, growth equity fund

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The regulator wants our data inside the country by next year. I have no idea what that costs us.

CIO, regulated lender

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We have agents writing into production systems and I cannot tell you what any of them can reach.

CISO, healthcare group

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Our own team did a review. I need someone outside to say whether they missed anything.

Chair, audit committee

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The vendor quoted the hardware. Nobody has quoted the three years after it.

Head of infrastructure, government supplier

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We are selling next year and I would rather find the problems before the buyer does.

CEO, software business

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Answer ten questions about how your systems are actually run. You get a score, the three problems most likely sitting in your estate, and what closing each one would take. The result is on screen straight away.

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In two minutes

How an assessment actually runs, from the people who run them.

A short walkthrough of what we ask for, what we do with it, and what lands on your desk at the end.

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How an assessment runs2:14 · Drop your file at media/how-an-assessment-runs.mp4

Start with your situation

Which assessment you need depends on what is keeping you awake.

We are about to buy or invest, and the technology is the asset.

THEN →

Technology Due Diligence

We have been told to bring AI in-house and keep the data in country.

THEN →

Sovereign AI Cloud Design and Run-Cost

We already run models and agents in production and nobody can vouch for them.

THEN →

AI Governance and Security

The three assessments

Three engagements. Each one ends with a worklist, not an opinion.

Different buyers and different evidence, but the same shape every time. We find the problems, rank them by what they cost you, and price the repair.

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Is the technology worth what you are about to pay for it?

Technology Due Diligence

We run the architecture at the load your model assumes and find the first thing that gives way. We read the code, price the debt that will slow every release, and identify the two people the company cannot afford to lose.

You get the remediation costed over eighteen months, so the number goes into the deal instead of into your first board meeting after it.

Who buys it

Investment committees, acquirers, lenders

Turnaround

2 to 4 weeks

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Can we run our own AI cloud, and what will it really cost?

Sovereign AI Cloud Design and Run-Cost Assessment

A private cloud you own, standing on your site or in a data centre you nominate. We profile the workloads, establish which residency rules actually bind you, and walk the floor to see whether your power and cooling can carry the design.

What comes back is a tenderable architecture and a three year cost model, including a measured cost per token and energy per result. No hardware vendor will put those two numbers in writing.

Who buys it

Regulated CIOs, government suppliers, data centre operators

Turnaround

4 to 6 weeks

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Cabling and indicator lights across the rear of a server.

Can you vouch for every AI system and agent you are running?

AI Governance and Security

We inventory every model, copilot and agent in production, including the ones a team stood up without telling anyone. Then we test them: what each agent can reach, what happens when someone feeds it hostile input, and whether the accuracy claim survives a held-out evaluation.

The output is a ranked worklist covering the systems, the practices around them, and the governance underneath, each finding carrying a costed fix.

Who buys it

Boards, risk committees, CISOs, acquirers of AI-heavy companies

Turnaround

3 to 5 weeks

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What makes the report reliable

The AuditTrax Index puts your score next to comparable estates.

A finding on its own is an observation. A finding placed against how similar organisations perform is a decision you can defend in a board meeting. Every assessment we run feeds the benchmark, and every report reads against it.

AuditTrax Index · illustrativePeer set n=214

Architecture

Data control

Security

Run cost

Governance

This estate Peer median

Scored against a published rubric

Every point on the index maps to a rule anyone can read before they hire us. Two assessors looking at the same estate land in the same place.

Compared to a real peer set

Matched on sector, size and stage. You find out whether a weak area is genuinely weak or normal for a company like yours.

Repeatable, so progress is visible

Run it again after the remediation and the movement is the proof. That is what turns an assessment into evidence for a buyer or a regulator.

How the Index is built →

Our standard

A finding without a fix attached is just somebody else's problem, handed back.

Every finding we write carries the repair and what the repair costs

How an assessment runs

Four steps, and we tell you on day one where the calendar goes.

Most of it is spent gathering evidence, because that is what makes a finding stand up when the team who built the system pushes back on it.

Scoping call

We agree in writing what is in and what is out before anything is billed. If we are the wrong firm for this, you find out here rather than four weeks in.

Days 1 to 3

Evidence gathering

Access to the systems, the documents and the people, with site visits where the work needs them. This is the long part and we do not compress it.

Weeks 1 to 3

Analysis, scoring and costing

Every finding gets scored against a published rubric and priced. Two of our assessors looking at the same system should land in the same place, and the rubric is what makes that true.

Weeks 3 to 4

Worklist and readout

You get the document, then we sit in the room and defend every finding in it, including in front of the team who built the thing.

Week 4 onward

Independence

The findings only mean something if we gain nothing from them.

So here is how ours is protected, on this page rather than at the back of the document.

The rubric is public

Every score maps to a published rubric that anyone can read before they hire us.

Every finding carries its evidence

The query, the test, the document, the measurement. You can check our work rather than take it on faith, and your engineers are welcome to argue with it.

Affiliations go on page one

If a firm connected to us could be engaged to do the remediation, it is disclosed on the cover. Not in a footnote, not in the appendix.

Assessors do not profit from the outcome

The assessor never joins the remediation team, and no part of assessor pay depends on what you decide to do with the report.

AuditTrax Labs IncATX-2026-041

Sovereign AI Cloud Design and Run-Cost Assessment

Prepared for the board of [client]. Confidential.

Disclosure of interest · page one

AuditTrax Labs Inc shares common ownership with a firm capable of executing the build described in this report. The assessors named below hold no economic interest in that outcome, and the client is under no obligation to engage any firm named here.

Findings17

Evidence items212

Pages68

Work

Two case notes rather than twelve grey logos.

Where a client cannot be named we say so and describe the sector instead. Nobody appears here without written permission.

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Technology Due Diligence

Investor-side diligence on a mobility platform

An investor needed the technology behind a workforce mobility business examined before committing. We reviewed the architecture, the engineering organisation and the operational risk, and handed back a costed worklist the deal team used directly in negotiation.

Outcome

Findings priced and taken into the investment committee

Sovereign cloud reference

A private cloud running twenty two teaching labs

An engineering college needed its own private cloud rather than rented capacity, sized for thousands of students working at once. We assessed the site and the demand, and the resulting design was built and handed over as an environment the college owns outright.

Outcome

22 labs live on client-owned infrastructure, 4,000 concurrent users

Start here

Two minutes on the readiness check, or thirty on a call. Either works.

The check tells you where to look. The call tells you whether an assessment is worth your money, and we will say no when it is not.

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