Daniel Strategic Advisors — Data Privacy · AI Governance · M&A Data Risk
Data Privacy · AI Governance · M&A Data Risk

Guardrails, not roadblocks.

Texas has the first operative AI statute in America. Your privacy and AI infrastructure should be built by the counsel who lives under it.

Mid-market Texas companies · Private equity · Law firm white-label bench.
The Legal Engineer

"I'm not the lawyer who says no. I'm the engineer who builds the guardrails that let you move fast and defensibly."

TRAIGA
compliant AI deployment
TDPSA
privacy program design
M&A
data risk advisory
Houston
Local expertise
What we do

Three tiers. One discipline: privacy, data, and AI governance.

Tier 01 · Fixed fee
The Data & AI Governance Audit

The front door. A structured assessment of your privacy, data, and AI posture against TDPSA and TRAIGA, delivered as a defensible roadmap with prioritized remediation steps.

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Tier 02 · Retainer
Fractional Privacy & AI Governance Officer

Embedded governance leadership on a flat monthly retainer. Ongoing program management, policy architecture, vendor DPA oversight, and board-level reporting, without the full-time overhead.

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Tier 03 · Project
M&A Data Risk

Data due diligence and risk quantification for transactions. We map the target's privacy and AI exposure, surface liability, and structure representations before the deal closes.

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Also from DSA
DSA also offers Foundations, a fixed-fee service line for owner-operated service businesses. For founders launching, relaunching, or repositioning, Foundations stress-tests the plan, repairs the pricing, and builds the client systems, brand, and operations the business needs to run without heroics. Engagements are fixed-fee, built alongside the owner, and delivered with training so you run everything yourself. Every engagement is custom-scoped. Inquire for availability.
The Legal Engineer

Governance built like infrastructure.

Most governance work is reactive, written after the breach, the deal, or the regulator's letter. We build programs that are already standing when those moments arrive.

Operating principle
Guardrails, not roadblocks. The right program keeps the business moving, and survives scrutiny when it matters.
01

Build the guardrails

We map where privacy and AI risk actually lives, then architect the smallest set of controls that contains it, TDPSA- and TRAIGA-aligned from the first draft.

02

Design for the regulator

Every policy, DPA, and AI use-case register is written to survive a regulatory inquiry, not just an internal review. Defensibility is the baseline, not the goal.

03

Stay embedded

Governance work done once and shelved degrades fast. We operate as a standing function, with quarterly reviews, incident response on call, and board-ready reporting built in.

Why now

Three ways this becomes your problem.

These aren't hypotheticals. They're the calls we get.

Pillar 01
The Shadow AI Liability Gap

Your teams are running AI tools you can't see: never approved, never audited, never mapped to a vendor DPA. You don't know where the data is going or what you actually own. Under TRAIGA, that isn't a procurement question anymore. It's a legal infrastructure question, and the exposure exists whether or not you've found it yet.

Pillar 02
The Patchwork Penalty

TDPSA, TRAIGA, GDPR, CCPA, the EU AI Act. Every jurisdiction adds another rule, and handling each one separately turns compliance into whack a mole. Build once, deploy anywhere: a governance model designed around regulatory intent, not just the current statute, so a new law doesn't trigger a new fire drill.

Pillar 03
The Wait and See Trap

The legal landscape feels too unsettled to commit to an AI roadmap, so plenty of companies wait for clarity that isn't coming. Waiting is the highest risk position on the board. A governance program built on regulatory intent gives you the green light to move while your competitors are still standing in the waiting room.

Request Assessment

Start with a Strategic Assessment.

Complimentary 45-minute Strategic Assessment available for qualified organizations. We map your privacy and AI exposure against TDPSA and TRAIGA, no pitch, just clarity.

Houston, Texas
Midtown, by appointment
Direct line, not an inbox

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