From scattered AI tools to an AI program your business runs
Most businesses have AI tools turned on. Few have an actual program — automations built and deployed in your own accounts, a team trained on them, governance that holds, and someone accountable for what they can reach. We build and run that program, for small and mid-size businesses in Lincoln, Omaha, and across Nebraska, remote or in-person.
Free and about 30 minutes. No pitch. If we're not a fit, we'll tell you.
Built for businesses that need AI done right, not just turned on.
AI services
AI Training
AI training grounded in the tools your business is actually using.
Custom training, governance workshops, and operational AI sessions built around your environment, your workflows, and your team's actual adoption needs.
AI Program Assessment
Find out where you stand before you build the program.
A structured audit of how AI is actually used in your business, what it can reach, and where the gaps are. Optional follow-on: we turn the findings into written policies your team can actually follow.
Fractional AI Officer
Your AI lead, without the full-time hire.
A standing engagement for businesses that need ongoing AI advising, governance maintenance, and automation work — without the cost of a full-time hire.
AI Automation & Systems
The repeat work in your business, done by systems you own.
Client intake, invoice follow-up, document chasing — built to run in your own accounts, with a person approving before anything sends.
Security & compliance
SMB Guardian Plan
Continuous external threat visibility for SMBs.
We watch for leaked passwords, look-alike websites pretending to be your business, and weak spots visible from the internet — and a human reviews everything we find.
Compliance Readiness
Vanta partner
SOC 2 and HIPAA readiness, made manageable.
For SMBs pursuing SOC 2 or HIPAA compliance, or that need to demonstrate governance to clients, insurers, or regulators. We support the governance work and collect the proof auditors ask for — an ongoing engagement built around the Vanta platform.
We assess the container, not the contents.
GuardXID examines who has access to AI tools and what those tools can reach inside your business. We do not read your client files, patient records, or matter documents. This is what makes the work appropriate for law firms, medical practices, and any business where the contents of the work are protected by professional duty.
Accounts, tools, access, permissions — what we assess
Your client files, patient records, matter documents — we never look here
Practitioner, not vendor.
Nathan Francis
Founder, GuardXID · Verify on LinkedIn ↗
Active AI Program Lead
Running governance, training, deployment, and automation in a regulated environment.
20+
years across military, defense, and security
The U.S. Army and defense world taught Nathan Francis to operate where the cost of being wrong is high and there is no room for theatrics. After that, he ran networking and security for small and mid-size law, medical, financial, and ag firms. Those are the same kinds of businesses GuardXID serves now. He has been in your seat.
That experience now runs live. The AI program he leads at the University of Nebraska College of Law is the laboratory where the governance, training, and automation GuardXID delivers get pressure-tested before they reach your business.
GuardXID brings that working pattern to small and mid-size businesses that need a program, not a vendor.
More about Nathan →Working with platforms small and mid-size businesses can actually use
Bringing on AI tools is easy. Running an AI program is the hard part.
A free consultation is where we figure out what operational AI should actually look like for your business — automation, training, governance, security, or something simpler. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you directly.
Book a free call
We map what you have and what a program could look like
You get a straight recommendation — even if it's "you don't need us."
Free, about 30 minutes. No pitch.