Governance
Who signs for the algorithm?
Boards don’t fear AI; they fear unowned risk. A working oversight charter names the owner, the review cadence, and the kill switch — before the first pilot ships.
AI you can run, trust, and measure.
Aspire Ed & IT Solutions helps universities, health science centers, and public agencies adopt AI responsibly — strategy, governance, workforce, automation, and a return you can defend to a board.
20+
Years each — data strategy & engineering
8+
GenAI systems built & run in production
$22M
Restructuring analysis, board-delivered
24/7
Operations discipline, multi-cloud
Assess → Govern → Enable → Build → Measure
Five practice areas, one arc. Every engagement names its deliverable up front.
Assess
AI Strategy & Governance
Every engagement starts with what you have: data estate, policy environment, risk posture. We map where AI creates value in your institution — and where it should wait — against FERPA, HIPAA, and board expectations.
You get: a readiness assessment and a governance framework your general counsel can sign.
Govern
Leadership & Change
Adoption fails in the cabinet room before it fails anywhere else. We brief presidents, provosts, and boards in their language, and build the decision structures that keep AI accountable to the institution.
You get: an executive briefing series and a standing AI oversight charter.
Enable
Workforce Upskilling
Tools don’t upskill people; practice does. Role-based curricula for staff, faculty, and administrators — from prompt literacy to data stewardship — taught by people who run these systems daily.
You get: a role-based curriculum with certification checkpoints.
Build
Automation & Agentic AI
We ship. Production GenAI, workflow automation, and agentic systems — built and operated on whatever cloud you run, inside your compliance boundary, with the monitoring and rollback discipline of teams who carry the pager.
You get: a production system on your cloud, with runbooks.
Measure
Adoption Analytics & ROI
If you can’t measure it, you bought a demo. We instrument adoption from day one — usage, outcomes, cost — and report return in terms a procurement evaluator will accept.
You get: an adoption dashboard and a defensible ROI model.
Most AI consultancies have never presented to a board of trustees. Most higher-ed consultants have never shipped production AI. We are both people at once.
Dr. Irene Irudayam
CEO & Founder
A sitting university Chief Data Officer. Twenty years in higher-ed data strategy, institutional analytics, and board-level decision support. Ed.D.
Kranthi Deepak
CTO, COO & Founder
Twenty-two years from mainframe to cloud to production agentic AI — as engineer, site reliability lead, and head of operations. Systems designed, shipped, and kept running 24/7 across clouds; the teams who inherit them trained to run them. M.B.A.
Two careers, one firm. We founded Aspire — a 51% woman-owned small business — at the intersection of higher education and enterprise AI, because our clients kept hiring two firms to get one answer.
For contracting officers
Everything you need to verify us, on one page. Built to be scanned, printed, and filed.
Core competencies
- AI strategy & governance
- Executive advisory & change leadership
- Workforce upskilling & training
- Workflow automation & agentic AI
- Adoption analytics & ROI measurement
Differentiators
- 51% woman-owned small business
- Principal-led delivery — no bench handoff
- Sitting university CDO on every engagement
- Production AI, built and operated multi-cloud
- FERPA- and HIPAA-fluent by lived practice
Certifications & codes
Texas HUB — certification in progress
NIGP / NAICS codes published upon registration; available on request.
Contracting contact
Texas, USA · response within two business days
Working notes
Measurement
An ROI number that survives procurement
Adoption curves and anecdotes don’t clear an evaluator. Instrument usage, cost, and outcomes from day one, and the number defends itself.
Agentic AI
Agents need runbooks, not demos
An agent in production is an operations problem. SLOs, rollbacks, and audit trails are what make autonomy safe to keep.
Privacy
FERPA is not a blocker. It’s a spec.
Compliance constraints read like requirements when you’ve lived inside them. Systems designed to the spec clear review faster than clever workarounds.
Start the conversation
Location
Texas, USA
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