[ AI Transformation for Regulated Operations ]
From AI Pilot to Production, Without Losing Control.
We help banks, health systems, and manufacturers deploy agentic AI with governance, traceability, and teams that actually adopt it.
What a Transformation Manager Actually Does
The gap between a promising model and a reliable operation is not a prompt-engineering problem. It is a translation, governance, and adoption problem.
[ 01 ]
Assess the Gap
Map where AI is being used, where it is fragile, and where regulatory or operational risk is accumulating before it becomes visible.
[ 02 ]
Design the Harness
Build the architecture, checkpoints, and human-in-the-loop review that let agents operate safely inside regulated workflows.
[ 03 ]
Drive Adoption
Turn the transformation into operational habit through workshops, documentation, standards, and teams that understand what they are running.
Sectors We Serve
Regulated environments share one trait: the cost of failure is not just technical, it is legal, reputational, and operational.
Financial Services
Lending, mortgage, and fintech workflows hardened against CFPB enforcement and model drift.
Explore →Life Sciences & Manufacturing
Data integrity and procedural consistency for cGMP, FDA, and laboratory automation.
Explore →Specialized Verticals
Custom frameworks for high-compliance niches where rules are strict and precedents are few.
Explore →Service Ladder
Start with a low-friction diagnostic. Scale to deeper implementation and ongoing advisory as the work proves value.
48-Hour Risk Scan
Targeted diagnostic identifying failure modes in your AI infrastructure before they affect compliance or operations.
$1,500 – $3,000
AI Transformation Roadmap
Scoped plan for workflow prioritization, architecture, governance, and adoption across a 90-180 day horizon.
$5,000 – $12,000
Implementation Sprint
Hands-on build of agentic infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, and human-in-the-loop controls for one critical workflow.
$10,000 – $30,000
Quarterly Advisory Retainer
Ongoing governance cadence: architecture review, risk monitoring, team enablement, and roadmap updates.
$2,500 – $5,000 / month
[ Engagement Model ]
Embedded advisory, not slide decks.
Most AI engagements fail in the handoff: a strategy is written, then nobody builds it. Steel Puddles works more like a forward-deployed architect — embedded inside your team, shipping the systems that make the strategy real.
That means assessing the real risks, designing the architecture and controls, building alongside your engineers, and leaving behind a repeatable operating model your organization owns. The service ladder above is how we start; the embedded work is how we make it stick.
Engagements are typically fractional — a few days a week over a focused sprint or retainer — so you get senior deployment capability without adding a full-time headcount before the value is proven.
[ System Status: Operational ]
Built by a 25-year software veteran with five years leading regulated engineering teams.
Steel Puddles is the advisory practice of Jeff Krase — 25+ years shipping full-lifecycle systems, five years leading distributed teams, and now building agentic AI infrastructure on local and cloud inference.
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