Senior Practitioners. No Junior Hand-offs. No Pitch Decks.
Tapestries Group was founded on a simple belief: organizations pursuing AI deserve direct access to senior strategy and engineering talent — not a firm that wins the work and staffs it with analysts who learned what a transformer is last quarter.
Why Boutique Beats Big Four for AI Strategy
Large consulting firms operate on a leverage model: senior partners sell the engagement, then hand it to analysts who are learning AI on your budget. You get billed at senior rates for junior execution — and a strategy document that won't survive contact with your actual engineering team.
At Tapestries Group, the consultant who scopes your engagement is the one who delivers it. Not a project manager relaying messages between you and an offshore team. The same senior practitioner who built your AI roadmap is the one in your backlog planning sessions and your architecture reviews. Direct access to expertise, from start to finish.
We stay through delivery. We don't hand a strategy to an implementation team that wasn't in the room when it was built. The same practitioners who created the plan build the system — and leave your organization more capable, not dependent on our next retainer.
Our Advisory Philosophy
The principles that guide every engagement, whether it's a three-week assessment or a year-long partnership.
Business outcomes over technical deliverables
An AI system nobody uses is a failure, regardless of how well it's built. We measure success by the outcomes your organization achieves — decisions made faster, processes that actually run better, capabilities your team can sustain — not by the number of models we shipped.
Honest advice, even when inconvenient
We'll tell you if AI isn't the right solution to your problem. We'll tell you if your data isn't ready to support the initiative you want to run. We'll tell you if the vendor you're evaluating won't survive contact with your environment. Our clients stay long-term because we tell them the truth.
Strategy and implementation are the same engagement
A strategy produced by people who won't build it tends to ignore implementation reality. We keep strategy and execution with the same team — which means the plan is constrained by what can be built, and the build is driven by what creates value. No translation layer, no hand-off failure.
Security and compliance are part of the architecture, not an audit
We integrate HIPAA, SOC 2, and relevant compliance requirements into every AI architecture from the first design decision. Security built in is cheaper and more effective than security bolted on — and compliance reviewers can tell the difference.
Build to transfer, not to retain
The goal of every engagement is for your organization to fully own what we build together. We document everything, train the people who will maintain the system, and design for maintainability — not consultant dependency. Our clients call us back because we're good, not because we left them with something only we can fix.
Experience & Credentials
Built through years of delivering AI systems in production. Not certifications earned for a proposal.
15+ Years Average Experience
Senior practitioners across AI, ML, and software engineering
Production AI Systems
LLM, agentic, and RAG architectures across regulated industries
Security & Compliance
OSCP, CISSP — HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP experience
Published Research
AI systems, prompt engineering, and security research
The Senior Fractional Model
Expert Access · Flexible Capacity · No Overhead
Our fractional model gives you access to senior AI strategy and engineering expertise at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire, without the overhead or ramp-up time.