Ariva AI — Advisory & Product
We help enterprises
see operational risk
clearly — and govern
their AI — before
both create incidents.
Two practices. One firm. The Operational Intelligence Practice serves apparel and supply chain organisations. The AI Governance Practice serves any enterprise deploying AI at scale. Both lead to Arbiter.
Operational Intelligence Practice
Apparel & Supply Chain Resilience
For apparel and supply chain organisations facing operational blind spots — knowledge dependencies, shadow systems, data gaps, and AI readiness. We map what’s invisible before it becomes a crisis.
AI Governance Practice
Enterprise AI Governance & Control
For any enterprise where AI is already making operational decisions — without defined boundaries, cost controls, or audit trails. We design the governance model. Arbiter enforces it automatically.
Both practices converge here. The AI governance control plane — one URL change, full enforcement active. Budgets enforce, models are controlled, outputs intercepted, everything audited.
Who We Are
Practitioners.
Not theorists.
Ariva AI is built from the inside out. Our team has spent decades running operations, implementing enterprise systems, and sitting with the consequences when things went wrong. The methodology comes from pattern recognition — not frameworks borrowed from elsewhere.
40+
Years of Domain Expertise
Apparel, fashion supply chain, ERP, PLM, EDI, 3PL, manufacturing, and demand planning — built from decades of hands-on operational experience across global organisations.
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Distinct Practices, One Methodology
The Operational Intelligence Practice serves apparel and supply chain. The AI Governance Practice serves any enterprise deploying AI at scale. Both are built on the same foundation: pattern recognition that comes from experience, not theory.
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Product — Arbiter
Both practices ultimately lead to Arbiter — the AI governance control plane that enforces the architecture we design. It sits between your applications and your AI providers, governing every request automatically.
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Generic Frameworks
We don't apply standard consulting methodologies to your specific problems. Every engagement starts from your actual operation — your systems, your people, your dependencies, your AI footprint. The insight comes from pattern recognition, not templates.
Operational Intelligence Practice
For apparel and supply chain organisations.
The risks that bring apparel companies down are rarely surprises. They show up as patterns — key person dependencies, shadow systems, data trust gaps, and AI exposure that nobody has mapped. We’ve seen these patterns repeat across hundreds of organisations. We know where to look because we’ve seen what’s there.
AORA is the structured engagement that makes every critical dependency, knowledge gap, and system risk visible — with a 0–100 resilience score, a risk heatmap, a dependency map, and a 90-day roadmap to address what we find.
AI Governance Practice
For any enterprise deploying AI at scale.
AI is already making decisions in enterprise systems right now — recommending, routing, flagging, executing. Without a governance architecture, there are no defined boundaries, no cost controls, no audit trail. The organisations that address this now will have a structural advantage when regulators catch up.
We design the governance model — decision boundaries, approval chains, cost controls, enforcement rules, audit requirements. Arbiter deploys that model at the infrastructure level automatically.
AI Governance Architecture Design
$25k – $75kTwo tracks: AI Governance Audit (4–6 weeks) for organisations mapping current exposure, and Governance Architecture Design (3–6 months) for organisations ready to build the model Arbiter enforces.
See full service detailsFree AI Governance Score
Free · 10 minTen questions across Visibility, Governance, and Control. Instant results with gap-specific recommendations mapped to exact Arbiter modules. Designed for CTOs, CISOs, and Risk leaders.
Take the scoreArbiter · The Product
Both practices
converge here.
Arbiter is the AI governance control plane. It sits between your applications and your AI providers — every request passes through it. One URL change. Full governance active. No other code modifications required.
Via AORA: operational resilience work surfaces AI governance gaps and AI Readiness Assessment scopes the Arbiter deployment.
Via Governance Architecture: the governance model we design becomes the enforcement logic Arbiter runs at the infrastructure level.
Before — No governance
base_url = "https://api.anthropic.com"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer sk-ant-..."
}# No limits. No audit trail. No guardrails.
After — Full governance active
base_url = "https://api.arbiter.ariva.ai/v1/anthropic"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer sk-ant-..."
"x-arbiter-api-key": "arb-..."
}✓ Provider API key forwarded, never stored
✓ Request format unchanged — no other code modifications
✓ Fail-open guaranteed — Arbiter failure never blocks requests
Free · Instant · No Account
Two practices. Two free scores. One honest look.
Both assessments are free, take under 10 minutes, and deliver an honest view of your current exposure. No account. No sales call. Start wherever makes sense for you.
Operational Intelligence Practice
Free Operational Resilience Score
5 questions across knowledge, process, systems, data, and AI readiness. Scored 0–100. Your highest-risk blind spot identified. Shareable with leadership.
AI Governance Practice
Free AI Governance Score
10 questions across Visibility, Governance, and Control. Scored 0–100. Gap-specific recommendations mapped to Arbiter modules. Designed for CTOs and CISOs.
Take the free score first