AI Transformation · Enablement · Training

AI that pays for itself.

We help companies of every size put AI to work on real problems, measure what it saves, and build teams that keep the momentum going. Our promise is simple: we get paid when our clients save.

Keatron Evans, Co-Founder, CEO and Visionary of The EvanShaw Group
Keatron EvansCo-Founder, CEO and Visionary
Kylan Shaw, Co-Founder, Chief Finance and Operations Officer, and Finance and Investment Expert at The EvanShaw Group
Kylan ShawCo-Founder, CFO/COO
Finance and Investment Expert
Every AI dollar
tracked to measurable value
Every size
from small business to global enterprise
Secure by design
built on deep cybersecurity roots
Our promise

Outcomes first. Hype never.

Most AI projects stall between the pilot and the payoff. We structure every engagement around measurable results, so your investment and ours point in the same direction.

Aligned incentives

Where it fits, our fees are tied to the savings and gains we help you capture. If the value is not there, neither is our upside.

The 30% playbook

Our earliest wins almost always come from making the people you already have more effective. We start there, and we go further only when the business case is clear.

Real measurement

Baselines before we start, clear metrics while we work, and an honest scorecard at the end.

The full spectrum

From supporting people to agentic replacement, and everything in between.

We can take you all the way from AI that assists your people to agents that fully own a role. We lead with empathy, because experience has shown us that most early success comes from empowering people first. Where replacing a role with an agentic solution is the right call, we design it responsibly and see it through.

  1. SupplementEmpower your people

    AI assistants, copilots, and training that make every team faster and better. This is where most organizations see their first returns.

  2. RedesignRebuild the work

    Workflows reimagined around AI, with people focused on judgment, relationships, and the work only they can do.

  3. ReplaceDeploy agentic solutions

    Agents that fully own defined roles and processes when the business case, controls, and transition plan support it.

What we do

Three ways we help you win with AI.

Engage us for one, or bring us in end to end. Every engagement is shaped around your size, your industry, and where you are today.

01

AI Transformation

Strategy and execution that turns AI from scattered experiments into a measurable business advantage.

  • AI readiness and opportunity assessments
  • Use-case discovery and ROI prioritization
  • Roadmaps tied to cost and revenue targets
  • Workflow and process redesign
  • Agentic solutions, from copilots to full role automation
  • Value tracking and executive reporting
02

AI Enablement

The tools, guardrails, and operating model that let your people use AI safely, every day.

  • AI tool selection and rollout
  • Governance and acceptable-use policies
  • AI security and data protection controls
  • Vendor and model risk evaluation
  • Internal champions and centers of excellence
  • Adoption measurement and change management
03

AI Training

Practical, role-based learning that builds confidence and lasting capability across your workforce.

  • Executive and board AI briefings
  • Hands-on workshops for every team
  • Prompting and AI workflow skills
  • Technical training for builders and IT
  • Secure AI use for security and compliance teams
  • Custom curricula and train-the-trainer programs
  • Academic AI policy and curriculum integration for universities
Who we serve

Built for organizations of every size.

The fundamentals are the same at every scale. The pace, the budget, and the path are not. We meet you where you are, from growing businesses to global enterprises and the universities preparing their future workforce.

Small business

Get started right

Focused wins with the tools you already pay for, simple policies, and training that gets your whole team productive fast.

Mid-market

Scale what works

Move past one-off pilots to a portfolio of high-value use cases, with governance that keeps pace instead of slowing you down.

Enterprise

Transform with control

Enterprise-wide strategy, operating models, and security architecture that hold up across business units and regulators.

Higher education

Prepare the workforce

AI use policies for coursework, curriculum integration, and faculty enablement that prepare students for the roles AI is reshaping.

From boardroom to classroom

We help companies decide which roles to supplement, enhance, and replace with AI. We bring that same view to universities, so students graduate ready for the jobs as they will actually exist.

  • Assignment AI policyClear guidance on the right level of AI use, by course and by assignment.
  • Curriculum integrationAI knowledge built into existing programs, not bolted on as a single elective.
  • Workforce alignmentPrograms mapped to how employers are reshaping roles with AI today.
  • Faculty and leadership enablementBriefings and workshops that give educators confidence with AI.
How we work

From first conversation to measured results.

A disciplined, four-stage process that ties every initiative to a business outcome you can see on the balance sheet.

I

Assess

We map your workflows, data, risks, and costs to find where AI can deliver the most value.

II

Design

We build a prioritized roadmap with clear targets, guardrails, and a business case for each initiative.

III

Deploy

We implement, integrate, and train your people so the change sticks beyond launch day.

IV

Measure

We track savings and gains against the baseline and keep improving what is working.

Secure by design

Speed without the risk.

Our roots are in cybersecurity, so security is built into every engagement from day one, not bolted on at the end. AI agents should be treated like privileged users, and we design them that way.

  • Least-privilege agentsScoped access, approvals, and audit trails for every AI system that touches your data.
  • Data protectionClear rules for what data goes where, with enterprise-grade tools and contracts.
  • Governance that moves fastLightweight policies and review paths that enable teams instead of blocking them.
  • Testing and monitoringOngoing evaluation for accuracy, misuse, and emerging AI threats.
Leadership

Co-founders. Father and son. One shared standard.

Two leaders with complementary strengths: enterprise AI and security on one side, institutional finance, strategy, and investment discipline on the other.

Keatron Evans

Keatron Evans

Co-Founder, CEO and Visionary

Keatron is an AI enablement executive, product leader, and longtime cybersecurity leader. He led a full enterprise AI transformation, taking an organization from AI-curious to AI-driven, with the ability to track value to every AI dollar spent. His transformation work spans the full range: supplementing people with AI, replacing roles with agentic solutions where it makes sense, and building strategic partnerships with the world's largest AI providers and model developers.

As a product leader and engineer, Keatron has designed and built AI products from the ground up. He holds an AWS Machine Learning and Generative AI subject matter expert credential, has presented at RSAC, ISACA, and other major industry conferences, and is a widely followed cybersecurity instructor.

Keatron also provides thought leadership to universities on how to prepare today's college students to excel in an AI-driven world. He advises institutions on allowing the right level of AI use in assignments and on building AI knowledge into existing curricula.

He sets the firm's vision and leads its strategy, product, and security practice.

Kylan Shaw

Kylan Shaw

Co-Founder, Chief Finance and Operations Officer
Finance and Investment Expert

Kylan Shaw is Co-Founder of The EvanShaw Group, where he leads the firm’s strategy, finance, operations, commercial structure, and value realization discipline. He is responsible for ensuring that every transformation is grounded in a rigorous business case, tied to measurable financial outcomes, and translated into sustained enterprise value.

Outside the firm, Kylan is a strategy and operations leader within institutional real estate, supporting enterprise-level initiatives across a multibillion-dollar national platform and working closely with senior executive leadership and institutional investment partners. His experience spans enterprise strategy, financial and operational planning, portfolio performance, organizational transformation, procurement, revenue growth, investment management, executive reporting, and large-scale strategic initiatives. He operates across finance, operations, technology, and investment functions to translate complex business challenges into executable strategies and measurable financial outcomes.

At EvanShaw, Kylan brings that same institutional discipline to AI transformation. He leads client economics, financial baselining, ROI modeling, business strategy, operating-model strategy, value tracking, and executive-level performance measurement, ensuring AI initiatives are evaluated not by activity or adoption alone, but by their impact on operating leverage, margin expansion, revenue growth, and long-term enterprise value.

Kylan is completing graduate business studies at Brown University, with advanced coursework in management, leadership, strategy, and organizational decision-making. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Purdue University, graduating magna cum laude.

“We built this firm on a simple idea: AI should pay for itself, and we should prove it.”
Keatron Evans and Kylan Shaw
Contact

Ready to make AI pay off?

Tell us where you are and what you want to achieve. We will come back with an honest view of where AI can save you money and how we would get there.

hello@evanshawgroup.com