Operational AI for SMBs
Automation, training, governance, and implementation support for businesses ready to move beyond experimentation. GuardXID helps SMBs in Lincoln, Omaha, and across Nebraska adopt AI responsibly, manage risk, and strengthen identity security without unnecessary complexity. Remote or in-person.
Built for businesses that handle data they cannot afford to lose.
AI services
AI Training
Workshops that turn AI from a question mark into a tool your team can use.
Two-hour workshops, half-day intensives, or the two-session eight-hour Governance Workshop for the person responsible for AI in your business.
AI Governance & Assessment
The five documents your business needs to use AI without exposing itself.
A formal assessment that produces your tool inventory, acceptable use policy, data classification guide, risk register, and onboarding/offboarding procedure — plus business framing and automation recommendations.
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 — at a fraction of what an internal hire would cost.
AI Automation & Systems
From first workflow to fully managed AI operations.
Designed, built, and handed off in your tenancy — with the governance scaffolding that keeps the system defensible six months later. Single workflow, custom build, or ongoing maintenance.
Security & compliance
SMB Guardian Plan
Ongoing identity monitoring and Microsoft 365 hygiene.
A subscription that keeps an eye on your identity surface — external monitoring through Nordstellar, IAM hygiene, basic M365 checks, quarterly review.
Compliance Readiness
Vanta partner
SOC 2 and HIPAA posture, made manageable.
For SMBs pursuing SOC 2 or HIPAA attestation, or that need to demonstrate governance to clients, insurers, or regulators. Monthly 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 — and we never will. 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.
Operational experience across today's major AI platforms.
Microsoft 365 Copilot · ChatGPT Business · Google Gemini Enterprise · Anthropic Claude
Hands-on current experience with all four major business AI platforms across multiple environments and business contexts.
For Microsoft 365 Copilot specifically: administering deployment for 30+ enterprise users and 450+ Copilot Chat users, designing governance frameworks, and building automated workflows and agent systems with measurable business outcomes.
When we discuss tool selection, governance, and risk in your business, we're describing tools we actively use. Not tools we read about.
Working with platforms small and mid-size businesses can actually use
Practitioner, not vendor.
Most AI consultants are people who watched videos last quarter. Nathan Francis runs an active AI program at the University of Nebraska College of Law — leading the institution's AI committee, governance documents, license rollout, training, risk assessment, and tool inventory. The work GuardXID brings to small and mid-size businesses is the same working pattern, applied at the right scale.
More about Nathan →Have or want AI in your business and no playbook for it?
A free consultation is the right place to start. We'll talk through what you have, what's at risk, and which engagement actually fits — including telling you when no engagement is the right answer.
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