CAIO as a Service

Executive ownership for safe, effective AI

Put a Single Accountable Leader Over AI Strategy, Risk, and Results

AI touches product, data, security, legal, and operations—yet many programs stall without clear ownership. Forgepath’s CAIO as a Service embeds an executive who unifies vision, policy, and delivery: set the direction, decide what’s allowed, choose the right controls, and ensure teams can ship safely.

Your CAIO partners with business and technical leaders to define use-case intake and approval, governance and risk criteria, model/vendor choices, and operational signals that show whether guardrails hold. The outcome is a program that moves fast and stands up to scrutiny—guided by a single leader who can make decisions and drive execution.

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Strengthen Your AI Security

We operate as part of your leadership team, with the scope and cadence you need—hands-on with product teams, visible to executives, and aligned with security and compliance.

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Focus AI on outcomes that matter.

What we do: define AI vision and principles, prioritize the use-case portfolio, and align investments with revenue, efficiency, and risk tolerance.
Why it helps: avoids scattered pilots; concentrates effort on high-value, defensible use cases with clear success criteria.

Make “can we” and “how should we” consistent.

What we do: stand up lightweight policies, use-case intake, risk/impact screens, and control selection; ensure decisions are documented and repeatable.
Why it helps: reduces ambiguity for teams and creates a defensible record for customers, regulators, and the board.

Choose foundations you can trust.

What we do: evaluate models, APIs, and platforms; set expectations for security, privacy, provenance, regionality, and SLAs; guide data sourcing, minimization, and retention.
Why it helps: prevents lock-in surprises and data exposure while keeping options open for future capability.

Know whether AI is safe and delivering value.

What we do: define executive reviews, delivery cadences, and practical signals (policy violations, leakage events, drift alerts, tool side-effects, adoption metrics).
Why it helps: gives leaders a clear line of sight—what’s shipping, what’s risky, and where to intervene.

Bring the organization along.

What we do: publish do/don’t guidance, manager talking points, and awareness; coordinate with legal/comms on disclosures and provenance.
Why it helps: raises the baseline across teams and reduces accidental misuse.

Right-sized for your stage.

Options: part-time executive sponsorship, interim leadership during hiring, or ongoing co-lead with your CISO/CTO/Chief Data Officer.
Cadence: standing exec updates, product reviews, vendor checkpoints, and board-level briefings as needed.

Why teams choose Forgepath

Key Benefits You Can Expect

Clear Ownership

One accountable leader to unify strategy, risk, and delivery.

Faster, Safer Decisions

Consistent rules for what’s allowed and which controls to apply.

Better Vendor & Data Choices

Structured evaluation that reduces security, privacy, and lock-in risks.

Measurable Program Health

Signals and cadences that show whether guardrails and outcomes are on track.

Aligned Teams

Simple guidance and communications that raise the floor across engineering, product, legal, and operations.

Cloud Systems & Security Manager

Zero.health

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.
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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

Chief Executive Officer

parsysco.com

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.
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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.