QConsul LLC — an Oregon Benefit Company. Portland, Oregon, USA.
Karen Michael's Professional Contributions
A responsible AI program & product leader who plans, governs, and designs towards ethical business outcomes through enterprise organizations and as the founder of QConsul.
What QConsul does — Responsible AI Program & Product Leadership
QConsul LLC is an Oregon Benefit Company delivering Responsible AI Program & Product Leadership using QConsul's signature Sprint-Governed AI methodology.
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Case study · Governed Fleet Command — governed AI agent fleets with published measures
QConsul's fleets on cloud-based Perplexity Computer and HyperAgent platforms. Snapshot of July 24, 2026 from QConsul's own Agent and Skill Registry: 14 agents across 4 tiers, 2 orchestrators, and 115 skills (86 active / 29 archived) in 9 categories — Governance, Evaluation & audit, Operational agents, Reference & knowledge, Orchestration, Nonprofit Vendor-Bid Lifecycle, Utilities & patches, Monitoring & logging, and Personal productivity & scheduling.
QConsul governs its two agentic AI fleets to map to the NIST AI RMF with measured coverage, documented RACI, agent and skill registries, evaluation & hardening, dry runs, monitoring, kill-switch documentation, and stated oversight modes and tiers per agent. Every agent and skill carries a tier, an owner, a data classification, a documented kill switch, and an oversight mode — HITL, HOTL, or HOOTL. The registry turns those attributes into completeness rates by category, so that governance maturity can be measured.
Governance coverage is published as recorded: agent-owner completeness 92.9% (13 of 14 active agents), oversight-narrative completeness 85.4% (76 of 89 HITL / HOTL-flagged skills), data-classification completeness 85.7%, skill-owner completeness 84.3%, kill-switch documentation rate 61.1% (11 of 18 agents), and evaluation coverage 14.3% (2 of 14 active agents with a golden-set pass rate). The two open gaps are named rather than hidden; this governance dashboard reports the status based on evidence.
Credentials & continuing education
Customer Voice
Customer Voice — Paid Training. For endorsements of the founder's prior in-house work, see recommendations for Karen Michael's previous work.
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.
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