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One standard for AI, from the desktop to the enterprise.
Your people already use AI. Standardized AI Adoption replaces everyone doing it their own way with one way to build, govern and run it.
Two-page PDFs, one for State of California buyers and one for commercial buyers. No form required.
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In short: your staff already have Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT or Poppy on their desktops, and teams are building their own tools. Standardized AI Adoption gives you one way to build and run AI across the organization.
It brings an executive roadmap, a Center of Excellence that sets the rules once, Rescue Engineers who find the AI your staff already built and bring it under the standard, and forward deployed specialists who move department after department onto working agents. Once agents are live, 11:59 Operate runs them. IT oversees it, business units deliver it, and leadership can see it.
At a glance
How it fits together
The problem
The two ways AI adoption stalls
Most organizations are in one of two places, and both lead to the same outcome.
| The free-for-all | The lockdown |
|---|---|
| Everyone gets a license and organic use is called "adoption" | AI tools are blocked until policy, security and risk are settled |
| Shadow AI in every department: prompts, scripts and bots nobody governs | Business units build anyway, outside the controls, because the work doesn't wait |
| Pilots depend on one person; when they move on, the work stops | Nothing ships while the policy is drafted |
| Result: risk you can't see | Result: work that goes around you |
Both are missing the same thing: an operating model where direction comes from the top, delivery happens in the departments, and governance enables instead of blocking.
What's included
The components
| Component | What it does | What you have when it's running |
|---|---|---|
| Executive roadmap and steering | Leaders set the department sequence and the outcome each one is expected to deliver; a steering group re-ranks after every cycle | A plan leadership owns, and a clear answer to "where are we on AI?" |
| AI Center of Excellence | Stood up with IT: governance model, AI risk framework, approved tools and build patterns, data and security rules, a registry of what's running | Rules set once, so every department builds against the same standard |
| Rescue Engineers | Find the AI staff have already built, take the load off the people carrying it, and rebuild it inside the governed model | Shadow AI turned into governed AI, and the people who started it recognized |
| Forward deployed specialists | A small team that moves department by department: outcomes agreed with the department leader, agents built, tested on real cases, deployed and handed off | A department moved every cycle, with a pattern that gets faster each time |
| Enablement | Train staff to build small agents safely inside the approved patterns, group by group | Capability that stays after the program ends |
| Governed platform | Everything runs on tools you already own: Copilot, Claude, your cloud, or the Agent Foundation | No new platform to buy; many small agents instead of one large system |
Roles
Who owns what
IT owns how AI gets built. Business units own what gets built and why. 11:59 supplies the teams until your people can run them.
| Owns | Does not do | |
|---|---|---|
| Executive team and department leaders | The roadmap, the sequence, the outcome each department commits to | Pick tools or review individual agents |
| IT and the Center of Excellence | Governance, risk, security, approved patterns, the registry | Build department agents or approve them one by one |
| Business units | Defining outcomes, working with the specialists, adopting and operating their agents | Choose their own tools or run ungoverned pilots |
| 11:59 | The specialists, Rescue Engineers, enablement and the Center of Excellence build-out | Own your roadmap or your governance; both transfer to you |
How it runs
From kickoff to running it yourselves
The length of the program is set during scoping, based on how many departments you want to move.
Set direction
Roadmap workshop with leadership. Center of Excellence chartered with IT. Rescue Engineers start the inventory of AI already in use.
First department
The specialists move the first department onto governed agents; the most valuable shadow AI is brought under the standard.
Scale
More departments, staff training group by group, and a steering review after every cycle.
Hand over
The Center of Excellence runs under IT, your people lead cycles, and 11:59 Operate runs the agents.
Buying
How you buy it
| What it is | How it's priced | |
|---|---|---|
| AI Rapid Scan | The starting point: the AI already running, the governance gaps, and the first two departments to move | Fixed fee, scoped to the effort and quoted before we start |
| Standardized AI Adoption | The full program: roadmap and steering, Center of Excellence, Rescue Engineers, forward deployed specialists, enablement | Flat monthly fee for the program term |
| Firms edition | For organizations without an IT department to run a Center of Excellence: governance model, shadow AI inventory and rescue, and one practice moved onto governed agents | Flat monthly fee, then 11:59 Operate |
| Additional specialist team | A second team to move two departments in parallel | Flat monthly add-on |
| 11:59 Operate | We keep running the agents the program built, or step down to advisory as your team takes over | Monthly, at a lower rate as scope transfers to you |
Who it's for
How it works for your organization
Your programs are already building AI, and ITSD is asked to secure it and explain it to oversight bodies without slowing the programs down. Standardized AI Adoption gives ITSD a Center of Excellence to govern from, programs a team that delivers against outcomes their own leaders defined, and leadership a plan a legislature or auditor can see. It runs on the licenses and cloud you already pay for. State contracts may call it a Managed AI Center of Excellence, contracted through CMAS 3-24-01-1044 or the TDDC MSA #5-22-70-25-189, with 11:59 software also available through the Software Licensing Program (SLP).
Govern, fund and deploy AI across every program, with a model your own people run.
You bought the licenses. Usage went up, client data went into prompts, and nothing about how the firm works changed. The firms edition turns usage into adoption without asking you to staff a Center of Excellence: a governance model your clients can see, the shadow AI in your practices brought under it, and one practice moved onto governed agents. Then 11:59 Operate runs what we built.
Firm-wide AI your clients can trust, one practice at a time, and we run it from there.
Why 11:59
Why clients choose 11:59
- Built with a client, not in a workshop. The components come from an enterprise AI enablement engagement with a California state department.
- Oversight without the gate. We set up IT as the governor of AI without making it the bottleneck.
- Safe to scale. Every agent has an owner, tests and an audit trail, and runs in your own AWS account. 23+ years running systems that can't afford to be wrong, now applied to your AI.
- It transfers. The roadmap, the Center of Excellence, the patterns and the trained staff are yours; we keep running the agents only if you want us to.
Common questions
About Standardized AI Adoption
What happens to AI tools staff have already built?
Rescue Engineers inventory and assess them. Tools that meet the standard are kept and given an owner; the rest are rebuilt inside the governed model or retired.
Do we have to buy a new AI platform?
No. Everything runs on tools you already own, such as Copilot, Claude and your cloud, or on the Agent Foundation if you adopt it.
How do California departments contract for this?
As a Managed AI Center of Excellence SOW under CMAS 3-24-01-1044 or the TDDC MSA #5-22-70-25-189.
Next step
Start with an AI Rapid Scan focused on governance. With your executive sponsor and IT lead, we inventory the AI worth rescuing, sketch the Center of Excellence charter and pick the first two departments. It is scoped to the effort and quoted before we start.
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