AI Adoption Cost

Capital Allocation Size the security investment to the risk, not the benchmark.

Most AI security budgets are set by what peers spend or what a vendor quotes. Blacksite sizes the number from first principles instead: a floor that compliance and insurability make non-negotiable, a ceiling the economics will not justify exceeding, and a recommended figure between them, grounded in expected-loss math and the Gordon-Loeb model. The result is a per-initiative investment range a CFO can defend, because every figure traces to a formula and a sourced input rather than a gut call.

Resource and Staffing Cost Account for the people before the work lands on them.

AI initiatives stall when leaders fund the tools and forget the humans who have to run them. Blacksite prices that gap directly: for each role it compares the hours the AI work requires against the capacity the organization actually has, then puts a fully-loaded, industry-anchored cost on the shortfall. You walk into the budget conversation knowing the real monthly and annual cost of staffing AI properly, the line most business cases leave out.