AI Advisory · Strategy · Implementation

We see
what others miss.

A boutique AI advisory practice that installs institutional brains into businesses. We enter through consulting. We stay through The Augur — a living AI system that learns your operation and never stops getting smarter.

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Headquarters
Los Angeles, Calif.
Methodology
The Augur Protocol
Focus
SMB & Mid-Market

The Augur Protocol, applied.

Every engagement — from a five-day Lite to a six-month Overhaul — runs the same five-phase protocol. It is how we think, how we scope, and how we deliver.

  1. I Diagnose

    Interviews, data readiness, the leak points.

  2. II Synthesize

    The findings condense into a working Augur.

  3. III Architect

    Local stack, data contract, agent surfaces.

  4. IV Deploy

    On-premise install. Training. Playbook.

  5. V Retain

    Augur grows. You keep the brain.

The Augur · In Session

What your first morning looks like.

A composite drawn from real Augur deployments. No simulations. No demos. This is what the system actually does.

Moment i. · 6:47 AM Augur · Session /001
Owner

What needs my attention before the team arrives?

Augur

Overnight revenue: $4,212 across 38 orders — 12% above Tuesday average. One flag: margin on the Trailhead II shell dropped 3.2 pts over 14 days. Traced to a supplier invoice delta — Meridian Textiles raised unit cost on Apr 3 without notice. Additionally: your largest wholesale account's renewal is in 12 days with no follow-up scheduled. And the Q2 forecast deck hasn't reflected the pricing change you approved last Thursday. Recommend addressing Meridian first.

Response · 2.1s shopify_orders.db · zendesk_reviews.json · gcal/owner.ics
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Moment ii. · 7:12 AM Augur · Session /001
Owner

Pull the Meridian contract. Do we have leverage?

Augur

MSA retrieved — executed June 14, 2024. Section 4.2: price-lock clause active through June 30, 2026. Meridian's increase violates this clause by 47 days. Additionally: Section 7.1 performance penalty applies — Meridian has been 3+ days late on 4 of the last 6 shipments. Combined leverage is strong. Draft negotiation email ready for your review — tone matched to your prior correspondence with their ops team (94% voice match).

Response · 3.4s contracts/meridian_msa_2024.pdf · fedex_shipping_log.csv · outlook/meridian_ops
Moment iii. · 7:38 AM Augur · Session /001
Owner

Why did returns spike last month?

Augur

Returns increased 34% MoM. Cross-referenced 847 return records with customer service transcripts. Finding: 73% of returns cited "sizing inconsistency" — isolated to batch SZ-0212 from your Shenzhen supplier, shipped February 12. Remaining inventory from this batch: 142 units across 3 SKUs. Recommended action: pull from active listings, issue QC notice to supplier, draft customer communication. All three documents staged for your review.

Response · 4.8s returns_db.sqlite · zendesk_tickets_mar.csv · shenzhen_po_sz0212.pdf
Moment iv. · 8:15 AM Augur · Session /001
Owner

Am I ready for the 9am board meeting?

Augur

Board deck updated — revenue, margin, and pipeline numbers current as of 11pm last night. Three talking points prepared based on material changes since the March meeting: the Meridian cost issue (resolution in progress), the Q1 CAC improvement (down 18%), and the new product line timeline (on track for June soft launch). One calendar note: Sarah Chen cancelled this morning — rescheduled to Thursday 2pm. Quorum still met. You have 22 minutes.

Response · 5.1s gdrive/q1_board_deck_v4.pptx · gcal/owner.ics · quickbooks_p&l_mar.xlsx
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Everything above would require a CFO, an operations manager, a legal assistant, and an executive assistant.
The Augur did it before breakfast.

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Practice Areas · Index

Eight engagements,
one methodology.

Every engagement runs the Augur Protocol. We diagnose the gap, design the solution, deploy the system, and install The Augur.

The Augur Lite

A five-day diagnostic. You keep the Augur.

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Single-System Build

One AI system, deployed and documented.

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The Augur Install

Your institutional AI brain. Locally deployed.

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Ongoing Advisory

Augur maintenance and strategic guidance.

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The Augur Full

The complete diagnostic. Ten business days.

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Operations Overhaul

Full audit plus implementation across workflows.

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Private AI Deployment

A bespoke, firewalled AI stack on your terms.

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Fractional AI Leadership

An embedded AI partner in the org chart.

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The consultation is not a document you hand over. It is the first output of a living system. The client doesn't receive a report that sits in a drawer — they receive the brain that generated it, and keeps generating insights every day after.
The Augur Protocol · Corviden Advisory
Consultations

If your operation is leaking,
we find it.

The initial consultation is complimentary. Forty-five minutes, on the record, no slide deck. You leave with either a scoped engagement or a written next step.

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Duration
45 Minutes
Format
On the record
Outcome
Scope or next step
Practice · Index

Eight engagements,
one methodology.

We install a private AI brain into your business — one that learns your operations and gets smarter every month. We call it The Augur. Every engagement runs the Augur Protocol, and the deliverable is the same: a working Augur that carries your institutional intelligence forward. The scope and timeline scale to your operation.

I. The Studio Practice Focused engagements for founders, small teams, and growing brands.
Diagnostic

The Augur Lite

A focused diagnostic engagement. We learn your business, identify the highest-impact AI opportunities, and deliver a strategic roadmap — generated by your Augur, which you keep regardless of what happens next.

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Build

Single-System Build

One AI-powered system, deployed and documented. Chatbot, lead automation, e-commerce rebuild, review responder, reporting dashboard — whatever the diagnostic reveals as your highest-leverage move.

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Install

The Augur Install

Your institutional AI brain. A knowledge system that lets you query your entire business in plain English. Runs on your hardware. Data never leaves your building. Gets smarter every month.

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Retainer

Ongoing Advisory

Augur maintenance, performance reporting, strategic guidance, and priority access for new initiatives. Your AI operations layer, on retainer.

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II. The Advisory Practice Strategic and operational engagements for established businesses.
Diagnostic

The Augur Full

The complete diagnostic. Structured assessment, stakeholder interviews, data readiness scoring, and a comprehensive strategic roadmap — all generated through a working Augur prototype connected to your live data.

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Overhaul

Operations Overhaul

Full operational audit plus implementation across your core workflows. AI deployment, custom agents, automated reporting, and team training. The Augur serves as the central nervous system of the engagement.

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On-Premise

Private AI Deployment

On-premises AI infrastructure for organizations where data privacy is non-negotiable. Hardware specification, model deployment, custom training on your proprietary data, and a secure API gateway.

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Fractional

Fractional AI Leadership

Executive-level AI guidance on retainer. Vendor evaluation, architecture review, team development, and board-ready presentations. A fractional Chief AI Officer for organizations not ready to hire one full-time.

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Engage

Begin with a consultation.

Every engagement starts with a 45-minute complimentary consultation. You leave with either a scoped engagement or a written next step — no obligation either way.

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The Augur · Instrument

Your business
has a brain.
It just hasn't
been built yet.

The Augur is a living AI system installed during every Corviden engagement. It learns your operations, remembers your history, and gets smarter every month. Built on local infrastructure. Your data never leaves your building.

Nodes 120 Edges 286 State Learning
From Graph to Console

That's what your business brain looks like.
Here's what it feels like to use it.

Augur · Ridgeline Supply Co.
Session 04.21.26 · 09:44 PT
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01

Built during, not after

The Augur isn't a deliverable at the end. It's the medium we work in from day one. Every conversation, every finding, every data point feeds it in real time.

02

Query in plain English

“Which shift is costing me money?” “Is the Halliday pitch on track?” “Draft the Q2 supplier letter.” Your data, your context, your answers — in the language you already speak.

03

Runs on your hardware

Local knowledge vault. Local language model. No data sent to cloud providers. No API costs. No external dependencies. You own the brain.

04

Gets smarter every month

Every transaction, every conversation, every decision becomes part of the Augur's knowledge. Month 1 is useful. Month 12 is indispensable.

05

Can't be outsourced

A social media manager can be replaced in a day. Your Augur cannot be replaced without losing years of accumulated institutional intelligence.

06

Evolves to execute

Today: answers questions. Tomorrow: monitors inventory, flags anomalies, generates reports, drafts communications. From advisor to operator.

The Brain · Over Time

Month 1 is useful.
Month 12 is indispensable.

The Augur is not a product shipped on day one. It is a brain that grows with every document indexed, every conversation captured, every decision logged. The graph below is the same system at four stages of a typical engagement.

I.Month 01

Scaffold. First fourteen nodes.

II.Month 03

Connected. Departments talk to each other.

III.Month 06

Dense. It begins to anticipate.

IV.Month 12

Institutional. It cannot be replaced.

Architecture · Plain Language

A private knowledge vault,
connected to a local AI.

No cloud. No vendor lock-in. No training data leaving your building. When the power goes out, The Augur goes out with it — and nobody else ever had a copy.

01 · Vault

A private knowledge vault.

Your contracts, emails, transactions, policies, and customer history — indexed locally. Structured data, documents, and voice notes all live in one searchable memory that only you can access.

02 · Brain

A local language model.

An open-source language model tuned on your voice and your operation. It lives on hardware you own, behind your firewall. No API calls. No subscription that can be revoked.

03 · Surface

A console you speak to.

Plain-English queries. The Augur reads from the vault, reasons with the brain, and responds with grounded answers — citations included. Over time, it learns to act, not only answer.

In Practice

What owners ask
their Augur.

Real queries pulled — and anonymized — from live deployments. The range is a feature of the system, not a limit.

Ridgeline Supply · Margin

Why did margin on the Trailhead jacket drop this quarter?

Stonegate Kitchen · Labor

Which location is overstaffed on Tuesday lunches?

Copperline Agency · Pipeline

What's the status of every active pitch, in one line each?

Ashford Mfg · QC

Show me every batch with a defect rate above 2% this year.

Westbrook Partners · Clients

Which clients haven't received a check-in in 60 days?

Harbor Goods · Inventory

What am I about to stock out of based on April's velocity?

Halvorsen Legal · Contracts

Pull every contract with a price-lock clause expiring this year.

Caldera Foods · Finance

Draft the monthly investor update. Use last month's structure.

Install Your Augur

Begin with a consultation.

Every Augur is built from zero during a Corviden engagement. It cannot be bought off the shelf. Start with a complimentary 45-minute consultation and we'll tell you what yours should look like.

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The Augur Protocol

The brain is built
during the engagement.

We install a private AI brain into your business — one that learns your operations and gets smarter every month. We call it The Augur. Every Corviden engagement runs the same five-phase protocol. Each phase produces knowledge. The knowledge does not sit in a drawer — it is written into the Augur as the engagement unfolds. What you keep is the instrument, not the report.

I.
Phase One

Diagnose.

Structured interviews with your leadership. Data readiness scoring. We map where your operation leaks — information, time, margin — and identify the highest-leverage points of intervention.

What you experience

A calm, non-invasive audit that feels more like a conversation than a discovery. Your team keeps working.

Augur learnsOrg chart, systems of record, communication patterns, your vocabulary.
II.
Phase Two

Synthesize.

Findings condense into a working Augur prototype. The deliverable of this phase is not a slide deck — it is an early version of your institutional brain that you can already query.

What you experience

The first moment of "wait, it knows that?" A working console wired to your data, answering questions your team currently spends hours answering.

Augur learnsHistorical transactions, documents, customer records, first-pass voice tuning.
III.
Phase Three

Architect.

Local stack designed for your hardware. Data contract drafted. Agent surfaces — the interfaces where your team touches the Augur — mapped to existing workflows, not bolted on.

What you experience

A one-page architecture document, a hardware spec, and a signed data contract. No mystery about what will live where.

Augur learnsPermission boundaries, retention policies, the shape of every future interaction.
IV.
Phase Four

Deploy.

On-premise install. Hardware racked or desktop provisioned. Team training. A written playbook for day-to-day operation of the system.

What you experience

A go-live day. Your team queries the Augur in plain English from their laptops. No cloud dependency, no vendor login screen.

Augur learnsReal-time queries, corrections, preferences — the system begins writing itself.
V.
Phase Five

Retain.

Ongoing advisory, monitoring, and capability expansion. New data sources added. New agent surfaces built. The Augur accumulates institutional memory month over month.

What you experience

A quarterly review. New capabilities shipped. Month 12 answers questions you couldn't have thought to ask in Month 1.

Augur learnsEverything. Forever. The compounding asset.
Start the Protocol

The first phase begins
with a conversation.

Diagnosis is already happening in the consultation. By the end of the call, we'll know whether the protocol fits your operation — and you'll know exactly what the first phase would look like.

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The Firm

Built for operators,
by an operator.

We install a private AI brain into your business — one that learns your operations and gets smarter every month. We call it The Augur. Corviden Advisory is a boutique AI practice with a single product: the installation of that institutional brain. We are not an agency. We are advisors who build. Based in Los Angeles. By appointment only.

The consultation is not a document you hand over. It is the first output of a living system. The client doesn't receive a report that sits in a drawer — they receive the brain that generated it, and keeps generating insights every day after.
The Augur Protocol · Corviden Advisory
The Firm

Built for operators,
by an operator.

Corviden Advisory begins where most consultancies end: with business outcomes. We do not sell hours of advice, and we do not deliver slide decks that age in a shared drive. We diagnose the specific places a business leaks — information, time, margin — and we build the system that closes the gap.

Our work is deployed AI that runs locally, privately, and permanently. Data stays on your infrastructure. Models live behind your firewall. The knowledge you accumulate compounds in a vault you own, not a vendor's cloud.

We are not an agency. We are advisors who build. Every engagement installs The Augur — the institutional brain that carries our thinking forward long after the engagement closes.

Mission

To give every business owner the intelligence layer that only Fortune 500 companies could afford — private, permanent, and built on their terms.

Vision

A future where every business has its own AI brain — one that knows its history, understands its operations, and grows sharper with every decision. We are building that future one company at a time.

Founder · Principal

R. Corviden

Operator, technologist, and founder of the practice.

Twenty years of operating experience across consumer goods, hospitality, and services before founding Corviden. Built and sold two operating companies; spent the intervening decade as a fractional COO for mid-market founders. The practice exists because the work of an operator became inseparable from the work of a technologist, and nobody else was doing both honestly.

Consultations

If your operation is leaking,
we find it.

The initial consultation is complimentary. Forty-five minutes, on the record, no slide deck. You leave with either a scoped engagement or a written next step.

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Duration
45 Minutes
Format
On the record
Outcome
Scope or next step
Selected Engagements

Case studies,
in preparation.

We install a private AI brain into every engagement — one that learns the client's operations and gets smarter every month. We call it The Augur. Every engagement is bound by a confidentiality agreement. Case studies are published only with written client consent, and only after the Augur has been in service for at least one fiscal quarter. The first case studies of MMXXVI are being prepared now.

CASE · 001Q3 2026

The Multi-Brand Consumer Co.

A four-brand consumer products holding group — one Augur, four distinct vocabularies. How we modeled separate tone profiles on shared operational data, and what the portfolio CFO asked it first.

Consumer · PortfolioRead →
CASE · 002Q4 2026

A Specialty Restaurant Group.

Three locations, one set of P&Ls, and a labor model that nobody quite trusted. The Augur rebuilt the trust in six weeks, then the scheduling system.

Hospitality · Multi-unitRead →
CASE · 003Q1 2027

An Independent Agency.

An advertising shop that closed every pitch but missed every deadline. Where the Augur surfaced the pattern nobody wanted to admit: the founder was the bottleneck.

Services · CreativeRead →
References

Off-record references on request.

Private references from past clients are available under NDA. Request them as part of the consultation.

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From the Practice

Thinking,
in public.

Notes from the desk of the practice. Published when a pattern repeats often enough in our work to be worth writing down — not on a schedule. Subscribe through the consultation.

ESSAY · 001Draft

Why every business will have an AI brain by 2030.

The thesis: the competitive moat of the next decade is not access to AI — that will be commoditized. It is the institutional memory that the AI is trained on. And that is built only once.

Foundational · 18 min readRead →
ESSAY · 002Draft

The cost of not knowing what your business knows.

Every mid-market operator we speak with has a version of the same problem: critical institutional knowledge stored in three people's heads and a Slack channel. Here's what that actually costs.

Operational · 12 min readRead →
ESSAY · 003Draft

What we mean by institutional intelligence.

A definition that has taken us three years of practice to arrive at. The short version: intelligence is not the model. It is the model plus the memory plus the mandate to act.

Definitional · 9 min readRead →
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Email
hello@corviden.ai
Location
Los Angeles, Calif.
Engagement
By appointment only. No walk-ins, no cold outreach. We do not take on more than twelve active engagements at any time.
What to expect
One call. No slide deck. We ask about what is leaking. You ask whatever you want. No follow-up unless you request one.