Every AI deployment borrows judgment it has not earned.
I help organizations that are already using AI see it, govern it, and scale it, without borrowing more than they can pay back.
Most organizations didn't decide to adopt AI. It just showed up.
Staff started using the tools before anyone wrote the rules. Data moved into systems nobody reviewed. Workflows outran the policies meant to govern them.
None of that is a failure of your people. It is what happens when access arrives before ownership.
The question now is not whether you use AI. It is whether anyone can see it, govern it, and answer for it.
Built for teams where AI arrived before the policy did.
Colleges and universities
Departments and IT teams that need AI guidance faculty and staff will actually follow, aligned to how campuses already handle data.
Nonprofits and mission-driven orgs
Small teams handling sensitive information who need clear rules without a compliance department to write them.
Growing businesses, 20 to 250 people
Teams already using ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude who need to know where the exposure is before a client or regulator asks.
Not theory. Work with a paper trail.
Everything below is public and linked. No client claims, no stock imagery.
Garnet AI Project Intake
Turns an early AI idea into a structured, policy-aware proposal for USC faculty and staff. Built on a four-tier data classification that routes sensitivity and compliance questions to the right offices.
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Wisdom Debt
What institutions borrow when they deploy systems before they understand them. Kindle and paperback.
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From Idea to Intake
Solo breakout session at the USC EdTech Symposium on moving AI ideas through a governed intake. Room at capacity.
Practical AI rules for your business
South Carolina Business Review with Mike Switzer on South Carolina Public Radio. Guardrails, data risk, and accountability.
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Darrell Davis walked through Garnet AI Project Intake. It takes an AI idea from any unit and turns it into a policy-aware proposal before anyone builds anything.
Also: analysis and data visualization for an EDUCAUSE 2026 Annual Conference poster on classroom network remediation, and poster judge at USC AI Day 2026.
"AI is not the product. Better decisions, trusted adoption, safer workflows, and faster execution are."
Darrell Davis, Wisdom DebtGovernance built for where you are now.
AI Governance Launch Pack
Your first governance layer in seven business days. For teams of 20 to 250 already using generative AI.
Founding-client rate
AI Readiness Audit
Where AI is used, where the exposure is, and which controls are missing. 10 days.
From $1,500
Governance Foundation
Framework, data policies, training structure, and an implementation roadmap. Custom build.
From $3,500
Fractional AI Governance Advisor
An owner for the question nobody else owns. Monthly sessions, policy upkeep, quarterly report.
Monthly retainer
Pay the debt down before it compounds.
Twenty minutes. No deck, no pitch. Tell me where AI already lives in your organization and I will tell you where the exposure is.