Network Kings

Managed AI and security for Washtenaw County firms

Ann Arbor firms adopted AI fast. Now someone has to run it.

Your people use AI every day: in code, in grant drafts, in client work. We run those tools on one monthly plan, keep client data where it belongs, and help you answer the security questions your customers send.

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The AI tools multiplied. Nobody owns them.

In a small Ann Arbor software shop or lab spinout, AI tends to arrive one login at a time. An engineer pays for a coding assistant on a personal card. A scientist pastes assay notes into a chatbot to tidy a report. Then a hospital system sends a long security questionnaire, and one question is simple: which AI tools touch our data?

You can't answer it with confidence, and that bothers you. You hired sharp people and you trust them. But nobody has listed what's running, what it costs each month, or where the prompts end up. The job lands on you or your most senior engineer, who should be building the product.

A firm that lives on its ideas shouldn't have to choose between good tools and protecting what it knows. Running AI well is ordinary operations work, like payroll or backups. It deserves an owner, a written record, and a monthly check. It shouldn't be a guess made the night before a customer call.

We get why AI showed up before the policy did

Small technical firms move fast on purpose. So AI shows up long before anyone writes rules for it. That isn't a failure. It's what happens when capable people have deadlines. What's missing is someone whose job is to keep the tools steady and the data rules on paper, so your people can stay on their real work.

Network Kings is a Kalamazoo-based firm, and our security work is CISSP-led. The CISSP is a security certification that takes years of hands-on work to earn, and our lead engineer has 15 years in regulated financial services. Our work is controlled, scoped, and auditable: you approve a written scope first, and there's a record of what we did. If AI isn't the right fix, we'll say so and point you to a simpler one.

Where we fit in a tech or research firm

Ann Arbor managed AI services should fit how small software, life-science, and engineering firms here work. Good Ann Arbor AI automation usually starts with the tools you already have. Most firms start with one of these four.

One owner for the AI tools you already pay for

Picture a 30-person software company with coding assistants, a chatbot plan, and a model in its help desk. We list each tool, its cost, and where its data goes, then run them all on one monthly plan. You get a short report each month and one named engineer to call.

See Managed AI Services

AI for lab data and client files, kept private

A medical device startup may want AI to summarize test reports or supplier files without sending them to a public chatbot. We set up the AI on private hosting, in your account or managed by us. Each person gets their own access, and every use is recorded.

See Private AI Agents

AI inside the tools you already run

An LLM (large language model) is the kind of AI behind ChatGPT. For an engineering consultancy, we might connect one to years of past project reports so staff can ask questions in plain English. We set cost limits and plan for what happens when it's wrong.

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Ann Arbor penetration testing before a buyer asks

When a health system or large customer wants proof, a penetration test helps. With your written permission, we try to get in, including through AI features you ship. A security professional approves each stage. You get a ranked fix list and a retest.

See Agentic Penetration Testing

Three steps to AI you can explain to a customer

  1. Tell us what you run. Send a rough list of the AI tools your people use, or book a short call. No prep needed.

  2. Get a written plan. We map your tools, your data, and your weak spots, then send a scope and a price. If a settings change beats a new project, we'll say so.

  3. We run it and report back. We keep the tools working, watch cost and access, and send a plain report each month. Plans are month to month.

Why this matters in Washtenaw County

Ann Arbor runs on knowledge work. Government is the largest employer group here, and that count includes the public university and its health system. Around it sits a dense ring of small software companies, lab spinouts, engineering consultancies, and medical device makers. Many sell to large, careful buyers: hospital systems, automakers, and federal research programs.

That mix shapes where AI helps and where it adds risk. Firms here try new tools early, so AI arrives fast. Their customers ask hard questions about data, because they handle patient records, product designs, and research results. Security has local roots too: Duo Security grew up here and sold to Cisco for $2.35 billion in 2018. Buyers in this market know what good security looks like, and they expect proof in writing.

We don't pretend to be down the street. We serve Washtenaw County remotely, from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti out to Saline, Chelsea, and Dexter. If your project needs someone on site, raise it when we scope the work.

We work from Kalamazoo, about 97 miles from Ann Arbor in a straight line, and remotely with businesses across the Ann Arbor area.

Questions from Ann Arbor businesses

Our engineers already understand AI. Why pay someone to manage it?

Knowing the tools isn't the same as owning them. Your engineers can judge a model's output. Tracking spend, access, and data rules every month is a separate job that pulls them off product work. We take that job. If your setup is small enough that a written policy covers it, we'll tell you that instead.

Can you help us answer a customer's security questions about AI?

We can give you the written record those answers depend on: which AI tools you use, where the data goes, and who can see it. If a buyer asks for a recent penetration test, we can scope one. We won't help you claim anything your setup can't back up.

We handle patient or research data. Can AI touch it at all?

Often, yes, with the right setup. For data covered by HIPAA (the federal health privacy law) or by a research agreement, we start by mapping which rules apply. Then we pick hosting and models that fit those rules and record every use. Some data shouldn't go into any AI tool, and we'll say which.

You're in Kalamazoo. Does the distance slow anything down?

Not for this kind of work. Monitoring, updates, audits, and testing all run remotely, and we reply within one business day. If your project needs someone on site, raise it when we scope the work.

What does a managed plan cost?

Plans are quoted to fit, based on how many tools we run and how much they do. You see the monthly number in writing before anything starts, and plans run month to month. Projects start at $4,999. Our pricing page explains how we quote.

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Find out what AI your firm is really running

Send us a list of the AI tools your people use, even a rough one. We'll reply within one business day with what to keep, what to fix, and what a monthly plan would cost.

No long contract. Managed plans are month to month, and we'll tell you if you don't need one.