An advisory engagement with NSAG produces one thing: a governance audit your institution can act on. It is a documented, evidence-based picture of what your institution is currently producing, and a specific, implementable governance action plan for closing the gap.
20 minutes. No sales. One question: which module is most urgent for your institution? The call identifies the governance gap where change would matter most and whether an advisory engagement is the right response.
A written scope of work that specifies: which modules, which dimensions, what deliverables, what timeline, and what the engagement will and will not include. Signed before work begins.
NSAG conducts a structured governance assessment across the scoped modules. Includes assessment instrument review, documentation analysis, and institutional context research. Typical timeline: four to six weeks.
A written governance audit report with: your institution's scored tier across each assessed module, the specific governance gaps identified, an evidence-based action plan for each gap, and one metric per recommendation for measuring improvement within 12 months.
Every engagement ends with a written governance audit. This is the document your institution can bring to leadership, share with a board, build a quality improvement plan from, or use as the basis for a funding application. It contains six sections.
Your institution's scored tier across each assessed module, with a dimension-by-dimension breakdown. This is what your institution is currently producing — in measurable, documentable terms.
For each governance gap identified, the primary peer-reviewed evidence establishing why it matters and what the institutional standard should be. Every claim is cited.
The three to five highest-priority governance dimensions across your assessed modules, with specific documentation of what the gap looks like in your institutional context.
For each priority dimension: a specific governance change, the person accountable for implementing it, the measurable success metric, and the implementation timeline.
One metric per recommendation that would demonstrate improvement within 12 months — specific, observable, and appropriate to your institution's size and capacity.
A 90-day check-in included in every engagement. NSAG reviews progress against the action plan, identifies implementation barriers, and adjusts recommendations where needed.
$3,500/month · Ongoing governance advisory. Module monitoring, quarterly governance reviews, unlimited written Q&A, and access to all intelligence products. For institutions that want NSAG as an ongoing governance partner.
There is nothing to complete. The fifteen self-serve module assessments are retired and no tier report is produced. Reading the scope page for the module closest to your situation is the useful preparation — the discovery call goes faster when you already know which of the six governance dimensions you are worried about.
The core advisory engagement typically takes four to six weeks from scoping agreement to delivery of the governance audit. Extended advisory engagements with four or more modules take eight to twelve weeks. Workshops can be scheduled within three weeks of booking.
The person with governance decision-making authority for the domain being assessed. This might be a Chief Medical Officer (M9, M11), a Legal Director (M1, M2), a Chief People Officer (M8), or a Facilities/Operations leader (M5, M10). The call is a conversation. Come with the governance question, and we will work toward the answer together.
Yes. NSAG's governance audit is designed to work alongside your existing vendor and consultant relationships and inform them. The audit identifies what governance standards your institution needs to apply to those relationships — including AI demographic impact assessment requirements, built environment assessment standards, and evidence integration frameworks for CAM providers.
No. Seven of the fifteen modules address healthcare environments. Three address legal and justice settings. Three address civic and built environments, including urban planning, schools, and public spaces. Two address space governance and extreme environments — M14 (Space Governance and Interplanetary Jurisdiction) and M15 (Isolation, Confinement, and Extreme Environment Governance) — applicable to space agencies, commercial space operators, aerospace medicine programs, polar research stations, and any institution governing environments from which exit is impossible or constrained. The framework applies wherever institutions make design decisions that affect the physiological experience of the people inside them.
Yes, and the published material is free to read without contacting anyone. An institution that opens its doors to you takes on more than responsibility — it begins shaping your nervous system, whether it means to or not. If you are a patient, employee, student, or advocate rather than a decision-maker, start with the module scope closest to your situation: it gives you the evidence and the vocabulary to name what is being done to you, and to ask for better. There is no scored report; the argument itself is the deliverable.
A discovery call is free. No sales pitch. One question about your institution, one module, and one governance gap. That's the entire agenda. Book directly below.
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