Privacy & AI Governance — San Francisco
Risk leads.
Regulation follows.
Stay ahead of both.
Strategic privacy and AI counsel and implementation, right-sized for your venture. Helping innovators demonstrate their responsible use of personal data and AI technologies to customers, investors, and regulators, without getting in the way of business. Serving founders, startups, and small- to mid-sized technology companies in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and beyond.
At the forefront
of privacy and AI.
Navigate CCPA, GDPR, and other state, federal, and international privacy regimes with confidence.
Privacy compliance
AI due diligence
Due diligence to launch today, groundwork to scale tomorrow, strategy to guide the way.
Investor positioning
Smart governance strategies to gain credibility with investors and earn trust from consumers.
Keep compliance practical.
Most businesses treat compliance as an afterthought, until it transforms into a P0 fire drill. Early-stage tech startups rarely need fully formed governance programs, yet most can benefit from a limited, practical data compliance strategy that starts small and grows with business size, scope, and ambitions.
An effective strategy helps close deals with customers that demand strict data handling practices, removes uncertainty when communicating with individuals about their personal data, and empowers businesses to confidently respond to regulator inquiries—or avoid them all together. Even a lean, focused strategy can mean the difference between building training data right from day 1 versus deleting the model on day 100, or accepting liability for a fourth-party breach that should have stayed with your vendor.
A smart compliance plan preempts risk, streamlines development through clear and actionable guardrails, and stays lockstep with the company without growing too big or staying too small.
Regulations are never straightforward.
The privacy landscape is constantly shifting. AI guidelines are perpetually in flux. Instead of responding to every new twist and turn, anticipate them and build accordingly.
Some topics on my radar, and how I’m approaching them:
Experience you can trust.
Over ten years of advising companies, from stealth-modes to global institutions, through the design and implementation of responsible, business-enabling, forward-looking privacy and AI governance strategies.