About AI Implementation Group

AI Implementation Group was founded to help organizations navigate the gap between AI ambition and AI reality. Too many organizations invest in AI technology without the governance, compliance, and architecture needed to make it work at scale. We exist to close that gap.

Our practice spans regulated industries: healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and defense, and international nonprofits. In healthcare, we design AI governance frameworks, observability programs, and enterprise AI infrastructure for payers and health systems. In financial services, we bring nearly 15 years of experience building payment platforms, ML fraud detection, and compliance automation. In manufacturing, we build AI-powered production scheduling and multi-agent systems. In the nonprofit sector, we build ISAE 3402 compliance programs, data governance frameworks, and technology modernization strategies for organizations operating across 80+ countries.

We work with organizations directly and in partnership with consulting firms that need specialized AI governance, compliance, and implementation expertise for their clients.

About the Founder

Carl Tierney brings 28+ years of enterprise software experience across healthcare, financial services, and nonprofit sectors to AI Implementation Group. He was co-founder and CTO of Vision2 from 2012 to 2025, growing it from zero employees to a true multi-tenant, single-instance SaaS platform processing $1.6B+ in transactions with bidirectional near-real-time integration to commercial systems. At Blackbaud, he built an enterprise consulting practice from scratch to 70+ professionals and $20M in annual revenue. At Univicity, he delivered global health software in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Vision International, Catholic Relief Services, and the NetHope Mobile Health Initiative.

His recent work includes designing a complete ISAE 3402 control environment for an international granting organization managing $94M+ in donor-restricted funds across 20 offices, building an enterprise AI observability and governance framework for healthcare insurance companies, leading a 15-platform CRM evaluation for a global nonprofit, and architecting the decomposition of a legacy monolithic application into independent microservices.

Carl completed MBA coursework at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and holds US Patent US9262782B2 for cross-domain payment processing.

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