MagiqCircle
Fractional AI Leadership & Governance Advisory

AI leadership that keeps people, ethics, and outcomes at the center.

MagiqCircle LLC provides fractional Chief AI Officer leadership, AI governance frameworks, and knowledge graph architecture for healthcare, education, and other regulated organizations navigating AI adoption.

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30 yrs
Building enterprise AI, data, and knowledge graph systems at Cisco
80%+
Analyst time saved by GenAI interoperability automation on compliance reporting
1,000+
Documents processed in minutes through automated document workflows, vs. hours manually
Services

Fractional expertise, applied where it matters most.

01
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Ongoing AI leadership for organizations that need executive-level direction without a full-time hire — strategy, roadmap, vendor evaluation, and team guidance.
02
AI Governance & Risk Advisory
Charters, risk tiering, and monitoring frameworks aligned to NIST AI RMF and related standards — built for boards and compliance teams, not just engineers.
03
Knowledge Graph & Semantic Architecture
Design and implementation of knowledge graphs and semantic layers that make enterprise data queryable, explainable, and ready for AI.
04
GenAI Process Automation
Interoperability and document-automation workflows that cut manual analyst and compliance work from hours to minutes.
05
Technology Strategy for Regulated Industries
Advisory for healthcare, education, and public-sector organizations translating AI opportunity into a plan their governance bodies can approve.
Methodology

A five-phase governance engagement, built for audit and board review.

Every AI governance engagement follows the same disciplined path — from charter to continuous monitoring — so risk owners always know where a use case stands.

1
Foundation
Charter, board alignment, risk appetite
2
Inventory
Use-case catalogue, AI bill-of-materials baseline
3
Assess
Risk tiering, vendor review
4
Mitigate
Guardrails, human-in-the-loop, kill switch
5
Monitor & Scale
KRIs/KPIs, audit, roadmap
NIST AI RMF NIST CSF 2.0 NIST SP 800-53 / 171 FERPA (education sector)
Data Strategy & Policy
Catalog, classification, data quality, and data-flow controls.
Cybersecurity Alignment
Integrity, privacy, and supply-chain risk management.
Personalized Experience
Consent-bound analytics, prediction, and engagement.
Ethical AI Governance
Standards, monitoring, and change management.
Risk Register Governance Charter AIBOM & Provenance KRI / KPI Dashboard
Approach

Engagements sized to how much AI leadership you need right now.

Light Advisory
$4,500/mo
~6 hrs / week

Strategic check-ins and governance guidance for teams early in their AI journey.

Most common Standard
$6,500/mo
~10 hrs / week

Ongoing fractional CAIO leadership — roadmap, governance, vendor and team guidance.

Embedded
$9,500/mo
~15 hrs / week

Deep involvement for organizations scaling AI initiatives across multiple teams.

Focus areas

Sectors where AI adoption carries the most weight.

Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinical documentation, patient data governance, and AI adoption that satisfies compliance and clinical stakeholders alike.
Higher Education
AI governance for student success systems, CRM transformation, and FERPA-aligned data practices.
Legal & Compliance Tech
Document automation and knowledge graphs that turn dense regulatory text into structured, queryable data.
Financial Services & Startups
Governance frameworks and technology strategy built to scale with a growing organization, not slow it down.
“AI governance only works when it’s built around the people it affects — not bolted on as a policy after the fact.” Sima Yazdani, Founder, MagiqCircle LLC
About

Sima Yazdani

30 years at Cisco Systems
AI-enabled knowledge graphs, recommendation systems, product leadership
Fractional CEO experience
Innodez, Inc.
B.S., Computer Systems Engineering
Western Michigan University
Doctor of Behavior Health Management
In progress, expected 2027

Sima founded MagiqCircle LLC after three decades building enterprise AI, data, and knowledge-graph systems at Cisco — including high-performance AI recommendation systems and semantic layer architecture used across the business.

That systems background now shapes a different kind of engagement: fractional AI leadership for organizations — often in healthcare, education, and other regulated fields — that need senior AI direction and governance discipline, but not necessarily a full-time executive.

MagiqCircle engagements have included AI governance strategy for higher-education student-success transformation, technology-strategy advisory for AI-in-education partnerships, and GenAI automation work that cut manual compliance and document review from hours to minutes.

Let’s talk about your AI strategy.

Tell me where your organization is in its AI journey, and I’ll tell you honestly whether fractional leadership is the right next step.

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