Blackbead AI Consultancy
Strategy and architecture for AI you can trust.
Senior practitioners who help you decide where AI creates value — and where it creates risk — before you build. Vendor-neutral, AI-native, and grounded in the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
What we advise on
From first decision to a defensible architecture.
AI readiness & maturity
Assess where your organisation stands on data, governance, and skills — and what it takes to adopt AI safely.
Use-case discovery
Identify and prioritise the AI and agent use-cases that move the business, ranked by value and risk.
Security architecture
Design an AI-native security architecture that covers both legacy systems and autonomous agents.
NIST AI RMF gap analysis
Measure your programme against the NIST AI RMF and get a clear, prioritised path to compliance.
How we work
Lean, senior, accountable.
Senior practitioners only
You engage directly with people who have built and broken enterprise security systems — no layers, no bloated overhead.
Vendor-neutral advice
We recommend what fits your business, not a licence we need to sell. Findings you can act on with any partner.
AI-native by default
Every recommendation starts from how agents actually behave — not human-centric assumptions retrofitted to AI.