We map decision ownership before automation runs. For every AI or automation initiative, we figure out who owns each decision, what boundaries apply, when someone needs to escalate, and where human judgment adds the most value. You get a framework your teams can build against and your board can approve.

Most AI governance work focuses on ethics policies, risk assessments, and compliance documents. We focus on operational control: the specific decisions automation will make and who owns them. Policies tell you what you should do. Decision mapping tells you who decides, when, and within what limits.

The Big 4 serve enterprise clients at $500K+ per engagement with 6–12 month timelines. Their frameworks assume you have 10,000+ employees and a billion-dollar IT budget. For owner-operated and growth-stage businesses, that is overbuilt, overpriced, and takes too long.

Mesa Point delivers the Diagnostic in 2–3 weeks at a fraction of the cost. Our engagement platform automates the documentation and reporting work that makes traditional engagements expensive — producing board-ready and developer-ready deliverables simultaneously from a single source of truth.

No. We define who decides. Your internal teams or implementation partners build the systems. We create the governance framework, decision boundaries, and technical specs they need to build it right. We stay involved through deployment to make sure what gets built matches what was approved.

They can, if they have the time, methodology, and organizational standing to interview stakeholders across departments and make binding governance decisions. Most internal teams are building, not governing. We come in as a neutral third party with a proven process and engagement platform. What would take your team 6+ months, we finish in weeks.

Because governance defined after deployment is remediation. When AI systems are already making decisions without clear ownership, the cost to establish that clarity runs 3-5x higher than defining it upfront. The organizations that get this right define authority before the first system runs.

There is no pause button once your AI is running.

The Diagnostic is Mesa Point's primary engagement. Structured stakeholder interviews across your organization. Decision flow documented. Authority structure designed. Three deliverables produced simultaneously in 2–3 weeks: the Authority Blueprint (shared visual decision authority map), the Executive Brief (board-level translation — organizational risk, authority structure, automation readiness), and the Architecture Brief (developer-level translation — decision logic, authority rules, integration requirements, build sequencing).

Both the Executive Brief and Architecture Brief emerge from the same engagement. Your board and your technical team receive deliverables written for their specific context — from one source of truth. Your organization owns everything produced. No ongoing dependency on Mesa Point to operate it.

The Authority Sprint is Mesa Point's scoped engagement for organizations with a specific, bounded problem already identified. One decision domain, end to end, in four weeks. It begins with the Precision Brief — a structured scoping methodology that converts your specific situation into a precisely defined scope before any work begins.

Three deliverables are produced: the Domain Blueprint (shared visual wire frame of the decision domain as it will be automated), the Delivery Brief (executive translation — what is being built, the business outcome, success criteria), and the Build Specification (the construction document — decision logic, system architecture, integration points, data flows, build sequencing). A build team can begin work on day one after delivery. The Sprint can follow a completed Diagnostic or stand alone for organizations with a specific, well-defined problem.

The Mesa Point Diagnostic runs 2–3 weeks. The Authority Sprint runs 4 weeks. The PE Portfolio Assessment — the Diagnostic deployed across three to five portfolio companies in a single coordinated engagement — runs 8–12 weeks. Timeline in all cases depends on the number of decisions being mapped and the number of departments involved. Every engagement is scoped before work begins and priced at a fixed fee.

A Diagnostic produces three named deliverables: (1) The Authority Blueprint — the shared visual decision authority map, accessible to every stakeholder level and the source of truth both other documents reference. (2) The Executive Brief — board-level translation covering organizational risk, authority structure, and automation readiness by domain. No technical content. (3) The Architecture Brief — developer-level translation with decision node mapping, authority rules, data dependencies, integration requirements, and build sequencing. Specific enough to build from immediately.

An Authority Sprint produces three parallel deliverables: the Domain Blueprint, Delivery Brief, and Build Specification — one visual, one executive, one construction document — all scoped to the specific decision domain identified in the Precision Brief.

You own everything Mesa Point produces. Every deliverable is fully portable — build with your internal team, any third-party developer, or Mesa Built if you need a capable build partner. Mesa Point's engagement ends when the deliverables are in your hands. There is no ongoing license, no retainer, and no dependency on Mesa Point to operate what we create.

Mesa Keystone is Mesa Point's proprietary decision architecture tool. It does not arrive as a generic product your team configures after the fact — it is configured from the Architecture Brief produced by your Diagnostic, with every decision node, authority rule, and escalation path specific to your organizational structure. It is deployed inside your environment and owned entirely by your team after configuration is complete. No ongoing license. No SaaS subscription.

Mesa Keystone is available as an optional add-on within any Diagnostic engagement, or as a standalone configuration engagement for organizations that already hold an Authority Blueprint and Architecture Brief. Standalone configuration starts at $22,000 and runs approximately three weeks.

You own everything we create. We transfer capability to your team so you can maintain and evolve decision governance on your own. We offer optional quarterly reviews if you want ongoing validation, but the goal is self-sufficiency, not dependency.