Modernization & Migrations
Move off legacy platforms into modern cloud infrastructure with compliance maintained at every stage.
Is Your AI Built for Tasks,or for Outcomes?
Most AI is focused on saving time.
Ariad is built for competitive advantage.
The business operating model for the agentic age
Why it matters
AI That Moves the Needle.
Hundreds of billions are being spent on AI, and it's not that AI isn't working. It's that the places it's working don't move the needle.
The work that moves your numbers is the high-consequence work. Ariad puts people and AI on that work, inside your walls, and proves every step.
Increase top-line revenue
Modernize technology platforms
Improve operating efficiency
Business impactreading: task tools
Doesn't move it
- Chat assistants and drafting
- Meeting notes and summaries
- Code autocomplete and slide decks
Real effort, local value. Nothing finance can find.
Moves it
- Regulated processes
- Systems of record
- High-volume operations
High-consequence work, run and proven. Finance can book it.
Source of workTask tools
Impact12
Finance can find itNo
How Ariad moves the needle
1Put AI on your most impactful and high consequence work
2Run it with your people as one workforce, inside your walls
3Prove every step, so finance can book the result
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Outcomes, delivered.
Outcome: $24 million in legacy platform costs eliminated for F500 healthcare payer
How it works
Four Steps to Build It. Six Parts That Run It.
One workforce, one outcome.
For every outcome, Ariad builds a purpose-built workforce: the people and AI agents, the workflow, the tooling, the deliverables and the evidence to produce it, measured and proven.
How we engage
01Agree
Define the Outcome
Pick one measurable result of high consequence. Your business signs the definition of done before any agent starts.
- One outcome, named and owned by a person
- Acceptance criteria the business signs
- Service levels for anything that keeps running
Outcome ownerRisk and auditBSC Outcome Desk
Definition of DoneDraftSigned
OutcomeClient issue resolution, verified
AccountableMRMaria R., Head of Client Operations
Acceptance criteria
Issue resolved in the system of record, not just marked closed
Resolution verified against the client's account before it counts
Every step evidenced; credits and complaints go to a person
ScopeRetail client issues across four servicing systems. Credits above threshold and regulatory complaints are decided by a person.
Service levelresolve within 5 business days
signed by the businessSIGNED
Illustrativeno agent starts before this is signed
02Design
Map the Work
We map the work, the systems it touches and the decisions that stay human.
- Every step assigned to a person or an agent
- The systems each step touches, named up front
- The decisions that stay human, marked before anything runs
Outcome DeskIntegration DeskYour operations team
Work mapclient issue resolution · 6 steps
Systems
CRMCase systemDoc storeLedger
Steps
AIntake
AResearch
ADraft
HApprove
AUpdate
HClose
Decision stays human: credits, complaints with regulatory exposure, the final client response
StepWhoTouchesEvidence
IntakeAintake-agentCRM, Case systemsigned
ResearchAresearch-agentCase system, Doc storesigned
DraftAdraft-agentDoc storesigned
ApproveHMaria R.Ledgerdecision recorded
UpdateAupdate-agentCRM, Ledgersigned
CloseHJames T.CRMverified
AAI agentHPersonHuman gate
Illustrativeagents 4 · people 2 · gates 2
03Run
Run It as One Workforce
Your people and AI agents run it together, inside your environment.
- Every agent cleared: its own identity, rules checked before it acts
- People and agents on one roster, one piece of work
- Human gates hold safely until someone decides
Your peopleCleared agentsAI Ops Center
Running · inside your wallscase 48213
Roster
MRMaria R.Owner
JTJames T.Analyst
Aintake-agent-07cleared · own identity
Aresearch-agent-02cleared · own identity
Adraft-agent-11cleared · own identity
Aintake-agent-07 classified the issuerules checked · signed
Aresearch-agent-02 pulled account historyread only · signed
Adraft-agent-11 drafted the resolutionsigned
MRWaiting for Maria R. to approve a credithuman gate · holds safely
MRMaria approved · $0 credit, apology sentdecision recorded · signed
Illustrativeany model · your identity provider
04Prove
Prove It and Scale
Every step is evidenced as it happens. The next outcome runs on the same model.
- Signed evidence for every action, approval and change
- Your reviewers verify it themselves, without trusting us
- The second outcome reuses the same six parts
Your auditorsOutcome ownerAudit Desk
Evidencecase 48213 · 5 of 5 criteria met
09:14:02Issue classifieda81f…c2✓
09:14:40Account history read7d03…9e✓
09:16:11Resolution draftede5b2…41✓
10:02:35Credit approved by Maria R.c9aa…08✓
10:03:07Verified against the account31fe…d7✓
Outcome provenEvidence your reviewers can verify themselves
Next, on the same model
Modernization & Migrationssame six parts
Compliance & Remediationsame six parts
Illustrativesigned evidence · not reported
What you get
The Ariad platform. Three parts, six dimensions.
The work, the control and the proof: six dimensions every outcome runs on. AI agents where they are strong, deterministic logic everywhere else, because enterprise work at scale needs both. It is more than an agent doing something.
The Work
The Control
The Proof
Most operating models are a PowerPoint slide. Ariad is a running platform.
Ariad · Runningclaims-intake
PeopleAI agentsRule checkOutcome
1,284 steps signed37 decisions by people
Ariad Complete
Launching AI Is the Easy Part. Running It Is the Job.
Ariad Complete is the operating model: the platform plus an AI Ops Center to service your enterprise. Models change. Connections break. Auditors ask for evidence. Our specialists sit beside your team so every outcome stays built, running, proven and optimized.
We Keep It Built
Outcomes designed, connected and kept current.
We Keep It Running
Rules, permissions and connections, managed every day.
We Keep It Proven
Evidence on schedule, ready when your auditors ask.
We Keep It Optimized
Cost and model choices tuned as you run, so the bill goes down, not up.
We Keep You Ahead
Our Research Desk tracks what changes in AI so your team does not have to.
AI Ops Center2:00 AM
Illustrative overnight activityYour people: off shift
What breaks at 2am is machinery. Our team handles it. Business decisions wait safely for your people.Accountability stays with your people. The machinery is ours.
The choice every head of AI faces
Democratized Adoption Is a Recipe for Disaster.
We've seen this movie before. When cloud arrived, enterprises let every team adopt on their own. Runaway cost, shadow systems and control failures followed. The stakes with AI are higher, and so is the opportunity.
Democratized
Everyone builds and runs their own agents.
- No one owns the outcome, so no one can prove it
- Agents act with no rules checked and no gate for the decisions that matter
- Security and compliance exposure in every team
- Runaway cost, discovered on the invoice
Fast to start. Impossible to defend in front of a regulator, an auditor or a CFO.
Serviced by an AI Ops Center
Bring an outcome. We run it to a result you can prove.
- Agree the return, approve the outcome, define what done means
- Build, test and integrate it, then put it into production
- Run and monitor it, with human gates for the calls that stay yours
- Metrics, proof and governance on every outcome, on one operating model
Control does not mean slow. It is what lets a regulated enterprise go fast.
The safety system
The brakes are what give you the confidence to go fast.
A car with no brakes is not fast. It is undrivable. Ariad is the safety system for running AI agents at scale in your enterprise: the rules, the gates, the evidence and the people that let you go fast without taking on more risk than you need.
Rules checkedbefore any agent acts
Human gatesfor the decisions that stay yours
Signed evidenceas the work happens
Cost in viewtuned by people who run it every day
Security and control
Runs Inside Your Walls. All of It.
With our team at the helm, all of it runs in your environment, on your identity provider, on the models you choose. Every agent works under rules checked before it acts, and every action is recorded with signed evidence.
Your environment
Your identity providerevery agent gets its own identity here
Your modelsany model, your choice
Your systems of recordread and write under contract
Ariadrules checked before every action
No hosted service. No hybrid. Nothing runs outside.
outside your walls: nothing
Signed Audit Trails
Every agent action, approval and system change is recorded as it happens, with signed evidence your reviewers can verify.
agent action · case update✓ signed
approval · reviewer✓ signed
system change · connector✓ signed
Least-Privilege Execution
Every agent has its own identity and works under a contract checked before it acts. The decisions that stay human wait for a person.
Identity
Tool grants
Contract
= what an agent can reach
How the Controls Work
Eight controls, built in, not bolted on.
Your Walls
Any Model
Own Identity
Contract First
Human Gates
Signed Evidence
Your IdP
Least Privilege
Certifications
NIST 800-53
NIST 800-53
FedRAMP
FEDRAMP
PCI-DSS
PCI-DSS
HIPAA / HITECH
HIPAA / HITECH
HITRUST
HITRUST
SOC 2 Type 2
SOC 2 TYPE 2
ISO 27001
ISO 27001
GDPR
GDPR
Outcomes Across the Enterprise
Targeted, governed solutions delivered as committed outcomes across the domains that matter most to regulated enterprises.
View Outcome
M&A Integration & Governance
Post-merger system integration and unified compliance, delivered as a committed outcome with full traceability.
Process Transformation
Re-engineer business and technology processes across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments with identity-aware governance.
Compliance & Remediation
Continuous compliance monitoring, automated remediation, and audit-ready evidence generation across regulated environments.
IT Operations
Automate ITSM workflows, incident response, and operational processes with governed AI agents and full audit trails.
Kubernetes
Governed Kubernetes at scale — provisioning, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management for regulated enterprises.
