AI safety & governance consultancy
AI fluency for people who refuse to outsource their thinking.
Calibrant Consulting is an independent AI safety and governance consultancy. It trains teams and cohorts, consults 1-on-1, and advises organisations, turning frontier-AI risk into judgment you can own and defend.
Founded & led by Vilija A. VainaiteBig4 consulting · AI safety facilitator · MSc Read the story →cal·i·brant /ˈkalɪbrənt/
noun - a standard of known value used to calibrate an instrument, so its measurements can be trusted. The same discipline, applied to decisions about advanced AI.
Background spans
- PwC
- Deloitte
- Leiden University
- University of Cambridge
Find your starting point
Start where your work sits
Teams and cohorts, individuals, and organisations each start somewhere different. Pick the closest fit and the matching engagement surfaces, one step from a conversation.
A team, cohort or programme
Team, group & cohort training
For teams, cohorts, and programmes
Training is built for a specific room: an executive group that needs a shared read on AI risk, an engineering team that needs the governance picture, a mixed department where both sides need to talk to each other, or an education cohort working through the field in structured sessions. Drawing on experience facilitating international cohorts, sessions are designed to include structured discussion and frameworks which can be used for specific team cases. Delivery scales from a single half-day workshop to a multi-week programme across several cohorts, depending on the need. It also covers the staff AI-literacy obligations that are now live under the EU AI Act.
Formats
- In-house team programmes
- Group workshops & executive briefings
- Cohort design & facilitation
- Guest teaching & talks
- Train-the-trainer handover
What’s delivered
- A programme scoped to the group's work, risk exposure, and live decisions
- Live facilitation for technical, strategic, and mixed audiences
- Applied frameworks (incentive mapping, kill chains, defence-in-depth) run against real cases
- Curriculum framing and cohort design where the format calls for it
- Materials, prompt packs, and a follow-up cadence the group keeps
Outcome
A group that reasons about AI risk in one shared language and applies it to its own work.
Format
Half-day workshop to multi-session programme or full cohort · remote or on-site
An individual
1-on-1 AI safety consultation
For individual professionals
Consultation covers the substance of AI safety and governance work, and career direction is one topic among several: a researcher pressure-testing an evaluation design, a governance lead drafting a position for a regulator, a technical professional weighing a move into policy, or someone testing whether the field fits at all. Each session works through the question you bring and returns a considered answer with the reasoning behind it. Sessions can be booked one at a time or as a recurring block, depending on the need.
Common topics
- Technical AI safety questions
- Governance & policy positions
- Research direction & review
- Career direction in the field
What’s delivered
- Sessions on the AI safety or governance question you bring, from technical alignment to policy positioning
- A second opinion on decisions, drafts, submissions, and research direction
- Field navigation across research, policy, and industry routes when career direction is the question
Outcome
A clear read on the question in front of you, and the reasoning to defend it.
Format
Single session or recurring block · remote
An organisation
Frontier AI governance & strategy advisory
For organisations adopting AI
Advisory work sits alongside the people doing the deciding: a policy that has to survive a regulator, an adoption plan that has to survive an incident, or a board paper that has to survive questions. The work produces the artefacts, frameworks, controls and decision records, along with the reasoning behind them, so the position holds once the engagement ends. Scope runs from a fixed project to a standing retainer, and pairs with the training track where capability is the gap as well as policy.
Typical scopes
- AI governance framework build
- EU AI Act & NIS2 alignment
- AI adoption strategy
- Board & executive decision support
What’s delivered
- Governance frameworks and risk-management methodology
- AI strategy: incentive mapping, threat analysis, defence-in-depth
- Regulatory alignment (EU AI Act, NIS2, ISO 22301), including staff AI-literacy duties
Outcome
Governance you can defend to a board, a regulator, and yourself.
Format
Retainer or fixed-scope project · remote or on-site
Services
Focused engagements, defined outcomes
For teams, cohorts, and programmes
Team, group & cohort training
AI safety and governance training for groups: in-house team programmes, group workshops, executive briefings, and full cohort design and facilitation for education programmes.
For individual professionals
1-on-1 AI safety consultation
Direct 1-on-1 consultation on AI safety and governance questions: a technical safety problem, a position you have to defend, a research direction, or where your career goes next.
For organisations adopting AI
Frontier AI governance & strategy advisory
Advisory for organisations adopting AI responsibly, translating frontier-AI risk into defensible governance and decisions.
Let’s calibrate your approach to AI.
Outline your context and you will get a clear read on whether and how Calibrant Consulting can help.
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