ORDINARA
Fractional AI Advisor · sample edition

Your QA is independent of the project.
Nobody inside is independent of the company.

The outside answer key, rented monthly: a monthly evidence review, a rehearsal before every customer gate, AI-governance guardrails, and a memo written to be forwarded to the board. Four hours a week alongside a VP. Exits monthly. Sold as a follow-on to the sprint or the audit, never cold.

FROM US$3,000 · MONTHLY 4 H / WEEK EXITS MONTHLY FICTIONAL CLIENT · SIMULATED DATA
60-second verdict · one month, one client

Meridian Drivetrain Systems, a fictional Tier-1 powertrain supplier, month 1 of the advisory. Every figure is simulated; the method is the product.

214
interface boundaries enumerated, engineer-signed
1 / 4
FMEA maturity gates closed in month one
51 h
engineer-hours returned vs manual baseline
$3,041
all-in month cost, inference included
1 severity-9 failure mode with no test behind its detection rating
found in week 4; fault injection ranked #1

CONTEXT, DATED: SOFTWARE SHARE OF NHTSA RECALLS ~15% BY 2023 (WARDSAUTO/ENVORSO) · 54% OF SOFTWARE RECALLS TRACE TO INTERFACE-LEVEL FMEA GAPS (PEER-REVIEWED, 2022) · ENGINEERING INTERPRETATION OF PUBLIC DATA

The memo · condensed sample
ToVP, Powertrain Software · Meridian Drivetrain Systems (fictional) FromAgustín Carrillo · Fractional AI Advisor, Ordinara LLC ReMonth 1 of 12 · written to be forwarded as-is

Verdict

One maturity gate of four closed. FMEA scope for two ECUs is complete and signed: 214 boundaries. One severity-9 failure mode still carries a detection rating with no test evidence; it is the month-3 fault-injection priority. Two decisions need you.

What moved

  • Interface register signed by systems engineering and software architecture leads.
  • Failure-mode derivation started on the torque path: engineers accepted 20 of 40 AI candidates, rewrote 9, rejected 11. The rejection rate is the proof the review has teeth.
  • AI-governance guardrails 1 through 4 adopted in writing.

Cost accounting

  • Fee $3,000 · inference $41 on client accounts · 9 engineer-hours spent vs 60 estimated manually: ~51 hours returned.

Decisions needed

  1. Name the change-impact process owner (Gate 3 requires one).
  2. Reserve the HIL bench window for month-3 fault injection.
CONDENSED SAMPLE · THE FULL EDITION HOLDS THE COMPLETE MEMO SET AND THE ADVISOR CADENCE · ISSUED IN THE MEETING
What the retainer contains

Evidence review · monthly

The sprint's method, continuously: every audit-relevant item graded missing, partial or found, deltas reported, regressions flagged with an owner.

Rehearsal · pre-gate

Before every customer assessment or milestone: the assessor's questions asked first by the coach, on your evidence, with time to fix what fails.

Guardrails · standing

Six written rules on what your copilots may generate unattended vs what requires a human why. Audited quarterly against behavior.

Memo · board-forwardable

One page a month: verdict, deltas, cost accounting, decisions. Your sponsor forwards it, they never rewrite it.

Method, inspectable
Coach, not referee. No assessor certification is held or claimed; referees grade you, the coach makes sure you pass. Standards language here is engineering interpretation.
Zero egress, by construction. The working instruments are single readable HTML files your security team can inspect line by line. This page itself makes zero network calls; view source and check.
Independence, structural. Your AI grades with your own answer key and your QA reports to your VP. The outside answer key cannot be in-sourced; renting it monthly is the fix, and the monthly exit re-earns it every 30 days.
Blind probe, on request. Your QA lead picks the threads, the advisor gets two hours. No real finding, no fee. The method survives hostile selection or it is not a method.
The AI-era edge: consistency is not correctness. Your documents agree with each other; the question is whether they agree with your system. That is the finding your own AI cannot make about itself, and it is the advisor's entire job.
Fee and next step
Book a call From US$3,000 · monthly · exits monthly. Follow-on to the Audit-Readiness Sprint or the AI Leverage Audit. The full edition (complete memo set + the Advisor Cadence) is opened in the meeting.