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The AI workforce operating model · Invented by Mike Richardson
FTEai is a workforce operating model that manages AI team members as organisational units — named, mandated, rate-carded, bench-managed, and audit-trailed. Not tools. Not agents. Staff.
Each FTEai team member is a digital twin of a functional role in a consulting practice or enterprise organisation. They are assigned to engagements, tracked for utilisation, and governed under the same change control, acceptance gates, and financial transparency as a human workforce.
The FTEai model was developed, validated in production, and published as an eight-paper methodology series by Mike Richardson, Principal at Cassandra Consulting Practice.
Business consultancy using the FTEai model. Operating model design, workforce management, cost benchmarking, and governed delivery. Start in our building. Graduate to yours.
AI-native consulting platform — knowledge management, work order pipeline, compliance automation, institutional memory. Your own building on the campus.
From team architecture to the factory problem. The complete methodology for building and operating AI-native organisations. Validated at 98.2%.
Licence the FTEai model. Methodology papers, 18 governance patterns, rate card framework, and change control pipeline. Run AI-native teams under a proven, auditable governance model.
Validated across 20 work orders with certified human vs FTEai time badges.
20 FTEai at £350/yr. The same team at human rates: £1,311,361/yr.
Eight methodology papers. Eighteen governance patterns. Codified, not tribal.
AI provider fails? 40 lines of code, 4-hour swap. The building is ours.