PRI AI Advisory
We help boards and the leadership teams of small and mid-sized businesses decide what to do about AI, cyber and technology spend.
You set the direction. We diagnose before we prescribe, write the recommendation in language your board can act on, and stay accountable for what happens next.
Diagnosis before prescription.
01 / 09Positioning
What is PRI AI Advisory?
PRI AI Advisory is the advisory practice of PRI Technology, a division of Perennial Resources International and part of The Re-Sourcing Group. It advises boards, CIOs and the leadership teams of small and mid-sized businesses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, technology strategy and the workforce required to run them. Engagements begin with a diagnosis rather than a proposal: what is already running, what it costs, what the exposure is, and which decisions are genuinely reversible. The output is written for the people who approve budgets, not for a technology audience. The practice exists for the gap the large consultancies leave open: businesses that need senior technology judgment on a bounded question, in any industry, without a large-firm engagement attached to it. We do not resell tooling, we do not arrive with a solution, and nothing on our side depends on you buying more. Diagnosis before prescription.
02 / 09Trigger situations
When do companies call us?
The board wants an AI answer
A director asked what the company is doing about AI. The honest answer is "several things, none of them measured", and that will not survive the next meeting.
The risk picture has holes
Nobody can say what would actually be lost in an incident, which means nobody can say whether the security spend is right.
No senior technology voice
The seat is empty, or it is filled by whoever has been there longest. Decisions with seven-figure consequences are being made informally.
The programme is off the rails
Behind, over budget, or both — and each status update explains it differently. You need an independent read before you commit more.
Spend up, return unclear
Cloud, licences and AI tooling keep climbing. Finance can see the invoices. Nobody can attribute them to an outcome.
The plan implies people you do not have
The strategy is approved. The roles it requires have not been costed, sequenced, or checked against what the market actually charges.
03 / 09Differentiators
Why PRI Advisory?
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Diagnosis before prescription
No engagement starts with a solution. The first phase establishes what is running, what it costs and where the risk actually sits. If the finding is that you should keep what you have and change how you run it, that is what we write — there is nothing on our side that depends on you buying more.
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Written for the people who decide
Findings arrive as a board-ready diagnosis: what we found, the options, the recommendation, and the consequence of doing nothing. In plain language, short enough to be read before the meeting rather than tabled at it. Technical detail sits in the appendix, where it belongs.
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Delivery, only if you want it
The engagement ends with a document you own. If the plan needs people, PRI Technology can source them — permanently or on contract — so the recommendation does not stall at the hand-off. That is an option you take after the diagnosis, never the reason for it.
04 / 09The Re-Sourcing Group
What stands behind a small practice?
PRI AI Advisory is small by design: the person on the discovery call is the person on the engagement. What stands behind it is not small. PRI Technology is part of Perennial Resources International, one of the brands of The Re-Sourcing Group — a New York-headquartered professional-services group, founded in 2003, whose firms serve the offices of the CFO, the chief compliance officer and the CIO. When an engagement needs specialist depth in finance, compliance or legal, or reach beyond one region, that depth is already inside the group.
- Since 2003
Established, not assembled
The Re-Sourcing Group has been building long-term client relationships for more than two decades, from its headquarters in New York City.
- 20 offices · 10 markets
National reach
Its brands operate from 20 offices across 10 US markets, so an engagement that outgrows one region does not outgrow the firm behind it.
- CFO · CCO · CIO
The whole leadership table
Finance, compliance, legal and technology expertise under one group, working with clients from growing mid-sized companies to the Fortune 500.
05 / 09Practice areas
What do we advise on?
AI Strategy & Adoption
Decide where AI earns its keep. Then govern what you fund.
AI strategy and adoption advisory decides which AI work a business should fund, in what order, and under what controls. We inventory what is already running, price it, stop what will not pay, and return a sequenced roadmap with named owners — a plan a board can approve and engineers can start on.
Fractional CIO & CISO
Senior technology leadership at the table, without a permanent hire.
A fractional or interim CIO or CISO is an experienced technology executive who takes the seat part-time or for a fixed term. They run the technology agenda, own the decisions, and represent the function to your board, your auditors and your customers until a permanent leader is in place or is no longer needed.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Know your real exposure before someone else finds it.
Cybersecurity and risk advisory establishes what a business is actually exposed to, what that exposure is worth, and which controls are worth funding. It is a management exercise, not a scan: the output is a prioritised risk picture your board can act on, in language it can act on.
Technology & Transformation
Diagnosis before prescription. Always in that order.
Technology and digital transformation advisory diagnoses why a technology estate is not delivering before recommending what to change. It covers the large, expensive, hard-to-reverse decisions — platform replacement, cloud direction, ERP, architecture, delivery model — and the sequencing that keeps them from colliding.
Technology Talent & Workforce Strategy
Only at PRIThe decision layer above recruiting: build, buy, or staff.
Technology talent and workforce strategy is the decision layer above recruiting. It settles which capabilities you build in-house, which you buy as a product, which you staff with contractors, and how the technology organisation should be shaped to run what you have already committed to.
06 / 09Engagement model
How does an engagement work?
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Discovery call
You describe the situation. We tell you whether we are the right people for it, and say so when we are not. No deck, no discovery questionnaire.
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Rapid assessment
A bounded, fixed-scope review of the decision in front of you — what exists, what it costs, what the exposure is, and which constraints are real. Scope and price are agreed before it starts.
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Board-ready diagnosis
Findings, options, a recommendation and the cost of inaction, written for the people who approve the budget. You own the document and can circulate it without us in the room.
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Execution, or a clean hand-off
We stay on as advisers while the plan is delivered, or hand off to your team and step away. Your choice, and it is made after the diagnosis, not before it.
07 / 09Sector experience
Where does PRI already work?
- Banking & Brokerage
- Asset & Investment Management
- Insurance
- Energy & Utilities
- Media
- Consumer Product Goods
- Retail
- Managed Service Providers
- Real Estate
- Telecommunications
- Not-for-Profit
- Defense Contractors
- Manufacturing & Distribution
08 / 09Practitioners
Who you work with
Practitioner profiles are being finalised. Names, backgrounds and photographs are published here once confirmed — we would rather show a placeholder than a claim we have not verified.
09 / 09FAQ
Common questions
Start with a conversation, not a proposal.
Tell us what you are dealing with. If it is work we should do, we will tell you what a bounded assessment of it looks like. If it is not, we will tell you that too.
Diagnosis before prescription.