Board-readiness rebuild, 25 August 2026. Four short documents. Read the memo first; the appendices support it and are not required to decide.
One-page ask: approve a fixed-fee $2,000, roughly 60-day pilot. Problem, deliverables, scope box, responsibility matrix, success headline, exit, and terms if it succeeds.
Staged run (shadow, supervised, live, report), the full acceptance scorecard with baselines and targets, and the initial proof-of-concept observations.
Architecture, before-and-after examples, escalation by severity, and the data-governance and cybersecurity schedule.
Managed-service scope and service levels, term and 10% renewal cap, hardware ownership with a standing buyout option, insurance both sides, governance, and IP.