The Standing Relationship
Retained Advisory
A standing advisory relationship — senior counsel close to you, available across the organization when decisions require it.
Monthly retainer · Six-month minimum · Outcome-focused
What it is
The hard part isn't knowing AI matters; it's making good decisions about it, repeatedly, under pressure, after the initial clarity is set. You want a senior thought partner who already understands your organization and will tell you what they see — including what's hard to hear. This relationship is earned in prior work; it follows an engagement, it doesn't start cold.
This is the engagement of access and thought partnership. I stay close to the problem, close to you, and useful across the organization when discovery or decisions require it. By the end of a term, your leadership team holds a clearer shared view of where AI creates real value, in what sequence, and with what investment. The work sharpens your point of view — not mine. I tell you what I see, including what you won't want to hear, and reason transparently enough that you can interrogate the logic rather than trust the conclusion.
What you get
What’s included.
Ongoing access
By phone, text, email, and async — to work through questions and decisions as they arise.
A standing bi-weekly
1–2 hrsA recommended working session, format and agenda at your discretion.
Selective participation
In executive meetings, leadership sessions, and on-site visits as the work requires.
Leadership engagement
Work with your leadership team at your direction, to surface information and advance specific decisions.
Time between touchpoints
Meaningful time spent on your specific situation between sessions.
1:1 tooling coaching
AI tooling and productivity workflows for you and your executive assistant.
I don't replace your internal teams or your vendors. I help you sequence, supervise, and course-correct their work so it adds up to the outcomes your board expects — vendor and RFP review, first AI-infused workflow design, board-session prep, exec-offsite facilitation.
What’s true at the end
A clearer, shared, durable view of where AI creates value and what to do next — owned by your team.
About Tyler
I’m Tyler Scriven.
I've spent my career designing powerful company cultures and operating at the messy intersection of innovation and real problems inside real organizations — large and small, as an operator, a CEO, a board director, and an investor. Now I'm fortunate to do it as an advisor to CEOs and leadership teams trying to make sense of the moment we find ourselves in.
I was employee #75 at Palantir, where I spent six years as Chief of Staff to the President & CTO — focused on how frontier technology actually gets adopted inside real organizations.
As Founder of Hazy Lane Advisors, I partner with CEOs and their leadership teams to bring operator-level clarity to what AI really means for their business. I act as a Forward Deployed Executive — working alongside you to cut through the noise, build internal capability, and execute a strategy that actually scales.
Retained Advisory typically follows the AI Diagnostic.
Begin with a Discovery Conversation.
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