Four concrete engagement tiers for regulated buyers: intake & scoping, fractional vCAIO advisory, AGKL Foundation deployment, and AGKL Managed Curation. Pricing bands are published up front and scope is fixed before any engagement begins.
Scope, deliverable, engagement model, and pricing band in a single table. AGKL Foundation and Managed Curation align with the canonical AGKL pricing model; Intake & Scoping and Fractional Advisory cover everything before and alongside the deployment.
| Tier | Scope | Deliverable | Engagement Model | Pricing Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intake & Scoping | Fixed-fee discovery sprint: regulatory environment mapping, control and evidence-flow review, readiness gap analysis, and a written scope brief for the deployment that follows. | Written scope brief with explicit GRC gap list, evidence-flow map, and recommended engagement path. | 2–3 week sprint, single senior practitioner; remote or on-site. | $4,500 (bands $3K–$6K) |
| Fractional Advisory (vCAIO retainer) | Embedded vCAIO leadership — AI governance, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 framework work; HIPAA, CMMC, and SOX context where applicable. | Governance playbook, monthly strategy sessions, framework alignment, board-ready reporting. | 5 / 10 / 15 hours per week retainer; embedded with your team. | $3K–$10K / month (5 / 10 / 15 hr bands) |
| AGKL Foundation | One-time AGKL deployment on client infrastructure: OKF schema mapping, okf-grc conventions wired up, NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 control linkage, initial SSP and policy concepts authored in your bundle. | Live instance with SSP, policies, control map, and one full evidence cycle; written deployment handoff. | Fixed scope signed in writing; deployment on infrastructure you designate. | $45,000 fixed fee |
| AGKL Managed Curation | Ongoing retainer: monthly evidence review, control and POA&M updates, stale-item flagging, pre-assessment walk-throughs twice per year. | Assessment-ready knowledge layer maintained continuously; named Altiri curation lead. | Monthly retainer; named Altiri curation lead; flat against deliverables, not seat count. | $6,500 / month retainer |
Regulated buyers — defense suppliers, healthcare systems, financial-services compliance teams — can't buy governance the way they buy SaaS. They need scope fixed before payment, named deliverables instead of seat licenses, and pricing that ladders from scoping through deployment and ongoing curation.
AltiriOS engagements serve organizations where AI is a regulated activity, not a productivity experiment. That changes the pricing logic. A defense supplier pursuing CMMC Level 2 needs the scope of evidence work fixed in writing before the first artifact is authored — the assessment window has a hard date and the cost overrun risk falls on the supplier, not the consultant. A healthcare AI governance buyer needs a HIPAA-aligned governance program with audit-ready documentation, priced against deliverables rather than billable hours. A financial-services fair-lending team needs a fractionally embedded vCAIO who can carry standards-mapping, vendor-due-diligence, and board reporting — a model that doesn't translate cleanly to time-and-materials.
That's why the published tiers ladder from an Intake & Scoping fixed-fee discovery sprint ($4,500, bands $3K–$6K), to a Fractional Advisory vCAIO retainer for embedded leadership ($3,000–$10,000 / month in 5/10/15-hour bands), to a Foundation deployment for the AGKL knowledge layer (one-time $45,000 fixed fee), to a Managed Curation monthly retainer ($6,500 / month) that maintains the layer as controls, POA&M items, and SSP evolve. Each tier prices against named deliverables and a published engagement model, not against seat count or evidence volume. Engagement scope and any change in scope are agreed in writing before work begins.
Buyers whose scope doesn't fit a tier — multi-entity rollouts, novel regulatory exposure, hybrid vCAIO plus AGKL — start at the consultation intake. From there we scope the engagement before any commitment, on the same price-on-paper model.
50–500 employee defense suppliers with CUI scope needing NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 evidence and assessment-ready record.
Health systems and HIT vendors needing HIPAA-aligned AI governance, EU AI Act readiness, and clinical-grade documentation.
Banks, lenders, and insurance carriers building AI governance programs aligned to fair-lending, model-risk, and SR 11-7 expectations.
Five questions buyers ask most about the published tiers — and what the AGKL model actually delivers.
AGKL Foundation is a one-time, $45,000 fixed-fee engagement that stands the Altiri Governed Knowledge Layer up on client infrastructure you designate. It includes OKF schema mapping, okf-grc conventions wired up, NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 control linkage, and an initial SSP and policies authored in your bundle. The deliverable is a live instance with SSP, policies, control map, and one full evidence cycle, plus a written deployment handoff.
AGKL Managed Curation is a $6,500 / month retainer that keeps your compliance evidence layer current as controls, POA&M items, and SSP evolve. It includes monthly evidence review, control and POA&M updates, stale-item flagging, and pre-assessment walkthroughs twice per year, delivered by a named Altiri curation lead.
The fractional vCAIO retainer is priced in 5/10/15 hours per week bands at $3,000, $6,000, and $10,000 per month respectively. Buyers in regulated industries — defense suppliers pursuing CMMC Level 2, healthcare AI governance buyers, and financial-services fair-lending teams — typically select the band that matches their initiative velocity and board-reporting cadence.
Engagements that don't fit a published tier — multi-entity rollouts, novel regulatory exposure, or hybrid vCAIO plus AGKL scopes — start at our consultation intake at /consult.html. We'll scope the engagement in writing before any work begins, and any change in scope is agreed before it changes the price.
Intake & Scoping is a fixed-fee discovery sprint — a $4,500 (range $3,000–$6,000) engagement that maps your regulatory environment, evidence flows, and readiness gaps before any deployment commitment. AGKL Foundation is the $45,000 deployment that follows, once scope is fixed and the go-live infrastructure is selected. Intake is paid before deployment begins; Foundation is the deployment itself.