Fellowship Intelligence is a founder-led advisory firm. It exists because the people responsible for AI decisions in most organizations are being asked to commit to outcomes they don't yet have the framework to evaluate. We help leadership decide. We don't sell what comes after.
The current AI advisory market sorts into three categories: platforms that need you to buy software, consultancies that need you to buy implementation, and individuals offering open-ended retainers. None of these are advisory in the strict sense. They are all selling something downstream of the decision.
Fellowship Intelligence sells the decision itself. We help you scope what AI should and should not do in your business, who owns each part of it, what controls verify it, and what happens when it doesn't work as expected. We hand that operating model back to you in a form you can run, audit, and defend.
Fellowship Intelligence is founder-led by design. You work directly with the principal, not a rotating team. The deliverable is an operating model your organization runs itself, documented to hold whether or not we are in the room. Continuity exists to keep that model current as the technology and the rules change.
AI governance analysis for organizations that haven't asked the right questions yet.
Read The Evolving MindsetThomas built Fellowship Intelligence in 2025 after more than 25 years inside organizations where accountability, compliance, and structured decision-making were non-negotiable. He began in regulated financial services, completing securities licensing and working directly with business owners on investment, retirement, insurance, and lending decisions, then moved into operational leadership in large-scale security administration, transportation and logistics, and technology. Every one of those environments shared a discipline: high stakes, low tolerance for improvisation, and a working understanding that businesses run on repeatable systems.
From 2017 to 2025 he formalized that experience into a systems-first methodology applied to operational structuring, accountability infrastructure, and strategic advisory. By 2025 the same pattern was appearing in every engagement: leaders adopting AI without an operating model to govern it. Fellowship Intelligence is the response. He is based in Las Vegas and works directly with COOs, General Counsel, Chiefs of Staff, and Compliance Officers. He owns every engagement: strategic direction, key decisions, and final sign-off. When trained operators handle execution, you will know who is doing what.
He publishes The Evolving Mindset, a briefing on AI governance for risk-sensitive organizations, and is the author of The Wrong Default: How Absence Becomes a Decision, and Who Pays the Cost, a forthcoming book on what gets installed inside organizations when no one is choosing. He also leads Still in Charge, a Fellowship Intelligence initiative teaching students and schools how to use AI without surrendering judgment, privacy, or accountability.
Good AI governance has to answer to standards that already exist. We didn't write our own definition of what counts as sound. We built a framework to deliver against the standards your board, auditors, insurers, and regulators already recognize.
Its four core functions structure how we identify, score, and assign ownership of AI risk: Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage.
The international management-system standard for AI. We structure ownership, controls, and continual review around it, so governance runs as a repeatable system rather than a one-time document.
Where your AI use or data touches the EU, we account for its risk-tiering and accountability obligations, so your governance is built to answer to them.
Our proprietary operating model for delivering against those standards. It structures how we assess risk, assign ownership, and build governance that holds up over time. Not a one-time document. A repeatable system.
Issued by AICT (Assurance | Intelligence | Certification | Trust). License 832335737. Thomas is one of the first practitioners certified in AI governance as a formal discipline.
Thomas is a Professional member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Everything starts with knowing where you are and deciding where you want to be.
Everything is agreed up front. No unknown costs. No open-ended retainers.
Governance has to evolve with the technology and the organization. We make sure it does.
We take a limited number of clients each quarter and decline work outside our scope. Quality depends on both.
Everything in AI moves fast. The first decisions shape everything that follows.
Our founder speaks to schools, parent groups, conferences, and podcasts on responsible AI use.
