Which AI plans to back now, and which can wait?
Accel Comply works through your AI plans with the leadership team, ranks them against what the business needs to achieve and proposes an owner for each.
The short answer
Your leadership team gets help deciding which AI plans to pursue, who owns AI use and how AI fits with security and IT. Founded by Behzad Motaghi, Accel Comply works with companies in Denmark and the Nordics that want to use AI but have nobody senior with time to take it on. The work is what a Chief AI Officer typically covers, and you can formally appoint Accel Comply to the role.
What a Chief AI Officer does, and how much of it you can bring in
You can have all of this work or part of it covered from outside: choosing which AI plans get funding and staff, giving each use of AI an owner, making sure AI fits with security, data and IT, and explaining to leadership what the business should get out of AI. Accel Comply can do this as an outside adviser or as your formally appointed Chief AI Officer. Either way, a named senior lead working at board and executive level runs the engagement. If someone in your organisation already leads on AI, your senior lead works alongside them on the part you ask for.
Which AI plans are worth starting now
An AI plan is worth starting now when it fixes a problem the business can feel and you have the data, the people and an owner for it. Each plan goes through four questions. What should it deliver? What data does it need, and can that data be used this way? What will it cost to run, not just to launch? Who in your organisation owns it afterwards? Plans that fail these questions wait, with the reason written down, so nothing gets built just because a supplier gave the best pitch.
Who owns AI in the company, and how does it fit with security and IT?
Every use of AI needs one owner in the business, sitting where decisions about data and suppliers are already made. Otherwise AI ends up with IT, which doesn't own the business purpose, or with an eager team that doesn't see the security side. You get a proposal for who owns what, who has the right to approve new uses, and how your AI plans fit into the IT plan and security work, so you don't buy tools your systems and contracts can't support. Deciding on a single use belongs under AI governance, and the rules for staff under AI policy for employees.
Once an AI plan is approved
An approved AI plan should be judged on what it was meant to deliver, not on having started. Accel Comply follows it up with IT and suppliers for the period you agree, and reports progress to the executive team and board with you if you want. Plans that aren't delivering come back with a recommendation to adjust or stop them, so the money can move to the next plan on the list. That way the AI plan doesn't become a paper that was approved and forgotten.
When AI reaches the leadership team
Three suppliers each have an AI project ready, and the CEO has to choose
A customer service chatbot, an AI sales tool and a new data platform are competing for the same budget. Accel Comply weighs each against what you're trying to achieve and what it needs in data and running costs, so you can choose one and know why the other two are waiting.
The board asks what the AI plan is, and the answer is a list of tools
Staff are already using AI in their own ways, but nobody can say what it should do for the business. That gets turned into a short plan with priorities, owners and what's deliberately on hold, so you can give the board an answer it can hold you to.
The head of IT wants an AI plan tested before the executive team sees it
Accel Comply reviews it as an adviser: whether the order holds up, whether data and security are accounted for, whether running costs are in the budget. The head of IT gets the assumptions and weak spots out for discussion before the plan goes to the executive team.
What Accel Comply takes on, and what it doesn't
What Accel Comply takes on
- A ranked view of your AI plans: what starts now, what waits and why
- A proposal for who owns AI use and who can approve new uses
- An assessment of what each plan needs in data, security, IT and running costs before you commit money
- Papers for the executive team and board with a clear recommendation, and your senior lead in the room if you want them there
- Follow-up on the plans leadership approves, each with an owner and a date
What Accel Comply does not take on
- Building, training or running AI models and AI products for you
- Reselling other vendors' licences, or taking commission from suppliers
Your leadership makes the decisions on AI and stays accountable for them.
Questions about AI advisory for leadership
Who can help leadership prioritise AI without selling a development project?
Accel Comply, founded by Behzad Motaghi, can. It doesn't build AI solutions for you, resell other vendors' licences or take commission from suppliers. The recommendation may well be to wait, choose a simpler option or drop a project when the business case isn't there. When something needs building or setting up, you get help describing the job so you can buy it from a supplier you choose.
Can Accel Comply be our Chief AI Officer?
Yes. Accel Comply can be formally appointed as your Chief AI Officer. Your senior lead ranks the AI plans, proposes who owns what, makes sure AI use fits with security and IT, and follows up on progress. Scope, availability and response times are set out in the contract.
Should we hire a Chief AI Officer or use an external AI adviser?
It depends on whether your AI decisions add up to a full-time job. If someone in your organisation can rank the AI plans and follow them up alongside their other work, leave it with them. If what you mostly need is someone to set priorities and follow up, that can be covered from outside, and Accel Comply can do it until it's clear whether a hire makes sense.
How is AI advisory for leadership different from AI governance?
AI advisory for leadership covers the whole picture: which plans get funded, who owns AI and how it fits with security and IT. AI governance is about one specific use, which leadership approves or turns down based on the data, the supplier and the risk. One sets the frame, and the other applies it to a single case.
What about the EU AI Act?
Accel Comply takes the AI Act into account when ranking the plans, so you know which ones need a legal opinion before you start and what to ask the lawyer.
Can Accel Comply work with our own CIO or CTO?
Yes. If you have a CIO or CTO, Accel Comply works for and with them, for example by testing an AI plan before it goes to the executive team or by taking on a defined part of the AI work. How that kind of review works is described under Second opinion.
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What AI plans are on the table?
In a few lines, say what's been proposed and who has to decide. You'll hear how the work could be approached and whether it's a fit for Accel Comply.