AI Consulting / Sioux Falls, SD

Adopt AI with a security firm in your corner.

Your team is already using AI. The question is whether it is governed, insured, and actually producing results. We bring the discipline behind our vCISO and incident response work to how your business adopts it.

Cyber liability renewal application Section 7: Artificial intelligence
  • 7.1Do you maintain a documented AI usage policy?Yes, attached
  • 7.2Which AI tools are approved for company data?Approved list
  • 7.3Have employees acknowledged AI guidelines?Signed off
  • 7.4Are AI vendors reviewed before use?Reviewed
What the AI section looks like after Readiness and Governance. Illustrative questions.

The AI questions are already on your desk.

01

Your insurer is asking.

Cyber insurance applications now include AI questions: which tools are sanctioned, what data is allowed in them, and whether employees signed an acceptable-use policy.

02

Your clients are asking.

Security questionnaires from your customers and partners increasingly include AI sections. Answering "no policy" can cost you the contract.

03

Your team is not asking.

Employees adopt AI tools on their own, often with company data. Without a sanctioned tool list and clear guidelines, your data is training someone else's model.

04

The vendors will not stop calling.

Every software vendor is now an AI vendor. Someone needs to vet what is safe before it touches your environment.

Three ways we help.

Start where the pressure is: governance for the questionnaire in front of you, training for the team, or implementation for the workflows you want automated.

Start here if a questionnaire is due

AI Readiness & Governance

A fixed-scope package that gives you a defensible answer for every AI question on an insurance application or client questionnaire. Delivered in weeks, refreshed annually.

  • AI usage policy: permitted data, sanctioned tools, employee guidelines
  • Security review of each approved AI tool
  • Employee acknowledgment and sign-off workflow
  • Questionnaire-ready answers for insurers and clients
Start here if your team already uses AI

AI Training & Enablement

On-site lunch and learns, half-day hands-on workshops, and executive briefings, all built around your team's actual weekly tasks. Your people leave with working prompts and workflows, not generic slides.

  • Lunch and learn sessions (60 to 90 minutes)
  • Half-day hands-on workshops
  • Executive briefings on risk and adoption
  • Safe-usage habits taught alongside every skill
Start here if you want hours back

AI Implementation Support

Ongoing help turning approved tools into working automation: rollout, configuration, data protection settings, and measured time savings, using commercial tools you already license.

  • Workflow automation with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, and similar
  • Tool rollout, tenant configuration, and pilot management
  • Time-saved baselines so you can see the return
  • Standing advisor for every new AI tool pitched to you

Why a cybersecurity firm for AI?

Most companies selling AI services cannot answer the security questions. We start there.

Cerulean Cyber Consulting provides fractional CISO leadership, incident response, and compliance program management to firms across the region. When we sanction an AI tool, we have reviewed how it handles your data the way an insurer and an auditor would. When we automate a workflow, it stays inside the guardrails your policy defines.

AI adoption and risk management are the same conversation, and we are already in it.

How it works.

  1. Discover

    A short intake covering your team, the tools already in use, and the renewals or questionnaires in front of you.

  2. Govern

    Your AI usage policy, approved tool list, and employee guidelines, reviewed and signed off by leadership.

  3. Train

    Sessions grounded in your team's real work, so adoption is safe and immediate.

  4. Implement

    Working automations with measured results, and a standing advisor for every new tool that gets pitched to you.

Who this is for: small and mid-sized businesses whose employees are already experimenting with AI, whose insurer or clients have started asking about it, or who want practical automation without handing company data to unvetted tools. Especially relevant for professional services, financial services, engineering, healthcare, and agriculture.

AI consulting questions we hear first.

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly.

Do small businesses really need an AI policy?

Yes, and increasingly it is not optional. Cyber insurance carriers and client security questionnaires now ask whether you have a documented AI usage policy, a sanctioned tool list, and employee sign-off. Beyond compliance, a policy prevents employees from putting sensitive company data into tools that may retain or train on it.

What does AI governance include?

An AI usage policy defining permitted data classes and employee guidelines, a security review of each tool your team is approved to use, an acknowledgment workflow so employees formally sign off, and mapped answers for the AI sections of insurance applications and client questionnaires.

Do you build custom AI models?

No. We are not a development shop. We help you govern, select, configure, and get value from commercial AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude, and automation platforms that connect them to your existing workflows.

What does AI training look like?

Before any session we collect your team's actual weekly tasks. Training then works those real tasks live: drafting, summarizing, analysis, and automation relevant to your business, along with clear guidance on what never goes into an AI tool. Formats range from a 60 to 90 minute lunch and learn to half-day hands-on workshops.

Does Cerulean Cyber Consulting offer AI consulting in South Dakota?

Yes. Cerulean Cyber Consulting is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and provides AI governance, training, and implementation support to businesses across the state and the broader Midwest region. Every engagement starts with a free discovery call and a written scope.

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes, no cost, no obligation. Tell us where AI is showing up in your business and we will tell you what we would do first.

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