Artificial intelligence is reshaping how students learn, how faculty teach, and how institutions operate. CBT helps you move beyond the noise - first by getting your people fluent, then by building strategy grounded in your mission, your culture, and what your own team tells us.
Our position
AI is not a technology project. It's a governance, learning, and culture question - and it deserves senior leadership's attention.
Most "AI consultants" are technologists who've never run a department. We bring former provosts, CIOs, and faculty leaders who understand institutional change - paired with technical expertise where it matters.
We start with what your institution exists to do - and let that shape every decision about AI policy, pedagogy, and procurement.
We don't resell software. We don't take referral fees. Our recommendations are built around your context, not a partnership pipeline.
Our team includes former tenured faculty and academic leaders. We can sit at the table with your senate and earn trust on day one.
We help you build what's defensible, ethical, and actually usable - not a 60-page strategy that sits on a shelf.
Every CBT AI engagement spans these four dimensions - assessed, prioritized, and sequenced for your institution. We don't deliver a generic playbook. We diagnose where you actually need to start.
Codes of conduct, academic integrity standards, data & privacy posture, IP and authorship, accessibility, and the governance bodies that own each.
The capability and confidence of the people who will use, oversee, and teach about AI on your campus.
How AI shows up in classrooms, research, and student success - designed by educators who know how good pedagogy actually works.
The technology decisions, vendor contracts, and operational practices that turn strategy into infrastructure - without lock-in or surprises.
Before we write a word of strategy, we bring your people to a shared baseline - then we ask them what should be in it. Two programs, included in every engagement.
A self-paced video program that takes any leader, faculty member, or staff member from uncertain to conversant - without tech jargon.
Once your team finishes Foundations, we don't hand them a strategy - we ask them what belongs in it. A short conversational assessment, in their own words.
Both programs are delivered privately to each client institution. We're happy to walk you through the modules and share access.
A typical engagement runs 12–20 weeks, beginning with foundational training so everyone shares a common language. We can also enter at any phase - many institutions come to us mid-rollout, or after a policy false-start.
AI Foundations: eight short, self-paced modules that give leaders and staff a shared, jargon-free understanding of AI.
AI Voices gathers candid input from everyone who trained - alongside stakeholder interviews, document review, and current-state assessment across all four pillars.
Readiness scorecard, gap analysis, peer benchmarks, and prioritized recommendations.
Draft policies, faculty development plan, governance charter, and a phased roadmap.
Senate & board adoption support, pilot oversight, and a cadence for ongoing review.
Curious what a finished plan looks like? Download an anonymized sample - the same format and depth we deliver to presidents and cabinets.
"They helped us think clearly about AI without pushing tools or trends. Mission first. That's rare in this moment - and it's exactly what we needed to bring our faculty along."- VP of Enrollment · Public Research University, Missouri
A 30-minute call is enough to share where you are and surface where to start. No pitch deck. No vendor agenda.
