Evidence into action. Community into strategy. Systems built to outlast whatever funded them.
As-I-Am Consulting Group is a translational strategy partner: we move evidence out of the research and into the room where decisions get made, for leaders who need a clear, evidence-based path forward, whether that's a nonprofit board, a foundation, or a town facing a problem no one's solved yet.
Sound familiar?
A funder or board asks if the program is working, and the honest answer is "we don't actually know."
You've got real data. It's sitting in a spreadsheet nobody trusts and nobody has time to touch.
The initiative that mattered ended when the funding did, and nothing was built to outlast it.
Why we exist
The solutions are often already known. What's missing isn't insight, it's the will to act on it before another generation inherits the same binder.
Problems that persist for decades usually aren't unsolved, they're unimplemented. Funding cycles reward activity over outcomes, and entire systems can end up sustaining the conditions they were built to fix. Nearly everyone benefits from that arrangement except the people living under it. We move evidence, and the will to act on it, across the borders where they usually stall: between data and decision, between community and institution, between commitment and design.
The Translation Stack: every engagement is scoped against these four layers
How we work
Three tiers, one journey
Every engagement ends with systems, skills, and tools your organization runs itself. We leave behind capability, not dependence.
Diagnose
Sprints that find where the plan and the practice diverge: strategic clarity, equity commitments, evaluation readiness, and knowledge infrastructure.
Explore diagnostics →Build
Measurement systems, program evaluation, engagement architecture, community-accountable strategy, narrative systems, and AI-augmented knowledge infrastructure, all built with your team, not for it.
Explore builds →Sustain
Advisory partnership, learning partner roles, and knowledge infrastructure stewardship that keep the systems you own current as your work evolves.
Explore partnerships →"Sweat equity, aimed at what actually moves the needle, beats thrashing around hoping to get lucky."
David Asiamah, Ph.D. · Principal, As-I-Am Consulting Group
Meet the Principal →Applied intelligence
The question every board eventually asks: will this survive staff turnover, a new funding source, or a new ED — or does it end up in the same binder as the last consultant's plan?
Most organizations use AI as a search bar. We build the operational layer.
Prompt libraries, workflow templates, and output pipelines designed for real teams doing real work, delivered by a practice with genuine equity and evaluation depth. Rigor that survives peer review. Tools that survive staff turnover.
- Prompt libraries your staff actually use daily
- Workflow templates for reporting and analysis
- Knowledge capture before expertise walks out the door
- Training and stewardship, not a handoff and a goodbye