Consulting
From awareness to practice.
Courses build the shared language. Consulting gets it into your policies, your workflows, and your team's daily habits. ReThink Higher consulting is led by practitioners who have run research enterprises — not a technology vendor learning your business on your dime.
Every engagement is grounded in the ReThink Higher AI Playbook for Institutions of Higher Education, our structured approach to responsible AI adoption in research.
AI Readiness Assessment
A structured review of your research office's people, processes, data, and policy posture. You get a clear picture of where AI can reduce burden now, where the risks are, and a prioritized roadmap.
Governance & Policy
We draft or refine your institution's AI-in-research policy — aligned to NIH, NSF, and agency guidance, workable for faculty, and defensible to auditors and boards. Includes guidance on reviewer restrictions, originality requirements, and data handling.
Workflow Implementation
We work with your team to redesign the specific processes that consume the most time — proposal intake, budget development, award setup, compliance review, reporting — and embed AI where it is safe and useful.
Training & Enablement
Custom workshops and office-wide training built on our courses but tailored to your institution's systems, policies, and culture.
How we work
Engagements are scoped to fit your office, from a focused readiness assessment to a multi-month implementation partnership. Many institutions can begin under their micro-purchase threshold without a competitive process.
Request a consultationIdeal fit
- Emerging research institutions building toward higher Carnegie classification
- R2 and R1 offices under new leadership
- Research offices with a mandate to “do something about AI” and no one to own it
- Institutions that have adopted tools but have no policy