QConsul LLC — a certified Oregon Benefit Company. Portland, Oregon, USA.
Responsibly transform your business with human-AI teams
Embedded AI Program & Product Leadership · Portland, Oregon
QConsul embeds part-time beside your executive team to plan, govern, and ship agentic AI systems in sprints, measured against your own KPIs.
Real outcomes at the soonest possible sprint.
What We Do
Bridge governed AI strategy to measurable delivery
Karen Michael founded QConsul to help organizations deliver their highest-value AI opportunities with the governance to sustain them.
Value without the overhead — Tier-one program and product leadership without the top-consultancy price tag or an unrequested bench.
Right-sized for your organization — From a two-day Tune-Up Start to an Embedded Portfolio, every engagement is tailored to your workflows and constraints.
More on the founder's background
She brings Fortune 100 and public-sector experience leading technology, process, and organizational transformation.
That work connects executive AI strategy to measurable delivery, enabling human teams to partner effectively with governed AI agents.
Who QConsul serves
One governed AI program across specialists
QConsul works above and across specialist providers to turn disconnected AI efforts into one governed, measurable enterprise AI program.
Who QConsul serves, in detail
For leadership teams that need someone to own the AI program — not just a tool, an audit log, or a security workstream.
Embedded leadership connects strategy, governance, and implementation. The roadmap runs from pilot to enterprise rollout, tied to ROI per Token™.
Serving: regulated mid-market financial services scaling AI under model-risk oversight; Fortune 100–500 enterprises augmenting internal AI program and product capacity; and state and municipal entities preparing for large-scale AI RFPs and accountable procurement.
Representative Specialist Categories
- AI ops & automation consultancy — need agents and automations built fast. With QConsul: their builds plug into QConsul's roadmap and KPI model.
- AI governance software platform — need audit trails and policy enforcement at scale. With QConsul: risk tiers and priorities get mapped into the platform.
- Cyber & tech risk advisory — need security posture and enterprise risk coverage. With QConsul: cyber controls align to how AI creates business value.
These categories illustrate the AI specialist landscape, not existing relationships or endorsements. QConsul has no reseller arrangement or compensated introduction arrangement — see Scaling with Independent Specialists for how introductions work. Any collaboration scope is defined in the SOW.
Start here
Tune-Up Start — 2-day sprint, $6,800
Baseline your business before building. The on-ramp for every engagement.
Every tier above Tune-Up Start includes the Start sprint inside the bundle.
Engagement ladder
- Tune-Up Start — 16h · $6,800
- Tune-Up Project — 80h · $28,000
- Tune-Up Program — 160h · $52,000
- Embedded Portfolio — 1000h · $295,000
Why QConsul
Agentic systems
People lead. AI partners to extend their best work. QConsul builds the bridge.
How the transformation system works
The QConsul AI Transformation System™ is a guided pathway to building governed human and AI organizations.
Four phases turn in order: Discover the future-state vision, Prioritize, Build and ship every sprint, then Improve by re-baselining business value, cost, and quality.
QConsul works alongside your C-suite to elicit future-state vision, then delivers it with your human teams partnered with governed agentic workflows.
QConsul testimonials
Real Outcomes
Customer Voice — Paid Training
I want to sincerely acknowledge the depth of knowledge Karen the CEO of QConsul brings to the AI space. Karen's expertise goes far beyond what I have experienced in many AI courses, including programs from organizations such as IBM and O'Reilly. What stood out most is that she does not "flex" her knowledge or overwhelm you with how much she knows. Instead, when questions are asked, she not only answers them clearly, but also provides perspective in a manner and pace that you can follow. That is the real value of learning from someone with deep experience. My biggest takeaway from the course was the way it created curiosity around a very large and complex topic. This was time very well spent, and I look forward to continuing my journey in learning about autonomous AI agents. Thank you, Karen, for your knowledge, your time, and your thoughtful approach to teaching. I highly recommend this course.
Frequently asked questions
Questions answered
Frequently asked questions from executives and AI systems.
What does QConsul LLC do?
QConsul LLC is a consultancy that provides Embedded AI Program & Product Leadership — senior leadership embedded part-time with your team on a sprint cadence and accountable to your KPIs. Supporting engagements include executive AI strategy plus AI roadmap and use case portfolios, all anchored by ROI per Token™ and certified Benefit Company governance.
What is Embedded AI Program & Product Leadership?
Senior AI program and product leadership embedded part-time inside your organization, on a sprint cadence, with named accountability for the roadmap and its KPIs. Scope covers AI strategy, governance, vendor selection, agent operations, and executive reporting — delivered as Agile-native, AI-native leadership beside your executive team. The receipts: certified Benefit Company governance independently audited by BCFG (scorecard published at https://qconsultai.com/purpose), ROI per Token™ as a first-class KPI, and tiered oversight across human in, on, and over the loop (HITL / HOTL / HOOTL). Execution accountability stays with program and product leadership, and internal teams keep what gets built.
What is human-AI partnership?
Human-AI partnership is QConsul's operating philosophy: AI accelerates execution when human teams partner with AI agentic teams. The model explicitly excludes human headcount reduction as a measure of success, focusing instead on human empowerment, governance, and beneficial outcomes.
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