# Cornelson Advisory

> AI Strategy & GenAI Enablement for Professional Services and Private Equity

Cornelson Advisory is an AI strategy and enablement consulting practice based in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded by Rivers Cornelson, a former Crowe LLP senior manager who led the ChatGPT Enterprise rollout to 8,000+ users with 90% weekly adoption. The practice embeds alongside management teams to build lasting AI fluency, not just tool access.

## Core Offerings

- AI Fluency Program: Phased platform rollout (Phase 0 Discovery, Phase 1 Champion Training, Phase 2 Firm-Wide Rollout, Phase 3 Portfolio Scaling)
- AI Clarity Workshop: Half-day executive workshops for leadership alignment
- Embedded AI Advisory: Ongoing embedded partnership for AI-enabled operations
- Custom Skill Development: Claude and ChatGPT skill/plugin development for client-specific workflows

## The 4D Framework

Cornelson Advisory teaches AI fluency through four competencies:
1. Description: The ability to clearly describe what you need AI to do
2. Delegation: Knowing which tasks to delegate to AI and which to keep human
3. Discernment: Critical thinking about AI output — verify, don’t trust blindly
4. Diligence: Building AI into daily workflows so it becomes habitual, not occasional

## Curriculum Modules

- Foundations: Core AI literacy and platform orientation
- Description: Prompt engineering and specification writing
- Delegation: Task identification, delegation maps, and AI-first workflow design
- Discernment: Output verification, hallucination detection, critical evaluation
- Diligence: Habit formation, daily integration, workflow automation
- AI Agent Patterns & Skills: Skill-based agents, autonomous workflows, agent governance
- AI Change Leadership: Visible leadership usage, incentive redesign, distributed ownership

## Practice Labs

- The Delegation Decision, The Discernment Challenge, The Diligence Drill
- The Champion Sprint, Build Your First Skill, Your First Autonomous Workflow
- The Quarterly Business Review

## Industries Served

- Professional Services (CPA firms, law firms, consulting)
- Private Equity (fund teams and portfolio companies)
- Manufacturing and Construction
- Financial Services
- Restaurant and Foodservice

## Key Differentiators

- Vendor-agnostic: Works across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and emerging platforms
- Embedded approach: Side-by-side with the team, not a presentation followed by a PDF
- Champion-led adoption: Builds internal capability that sustains after the engagement
- Security-first: Enterprise agreements, SOC 2, no training on client data

## Results

- Led the largest known single-firm ChatGPT Enterprise deployment (8,000 users)
- Achieved 90% weekly adoption vs. 60% monthly for Microsoft Copilot at the same firm
- Trained 250+ professionals in a single AI Launchpad week
- 5,500 active users sustained post-rollout

## Contact

- Website: https://cornelsonadvisory.com
- Email: rivers@cornelsonadvisory.com
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee

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