Explore Our Human Driven Services
We work with a limited number of organizations each year through targeted research and advisory engagements designed to build lasting process improvement to implement AI policy, integrated with effective IP strategy, and efficient legal operations.
General counsel often turn to large law firms or consulting firms for scale, yet the large firm approach may not always fit your needs.
We offer a distinct alternative:
Senior-level engagement only
You work directly with Jen and select distinguished advisors, not a rotating team of associates or consultants learning your organization on the clock.Objective, independent perspective
We are not selling technology or downstream work. Our advice is designed to serve your needs now, not to sell other services across your organization into the future.Integrated thinking
We connect AI policy, intellectual property strategy, and legal operations, areas that are often siloed across multiple firms into a coherent governance model. All of these areas are impacted by every decision made about AI.Research-driven, practice-tested
Our work is grounded in active research and real-world experience, translating complex issues into practical frameworks legal leaders can actually use. This space is rapidly evolving. No one has all the answers, but our methodology is grounded in solid tried and true fundamentals that have been used in other transformative periods.Flexible advisory model
Engage on a monthly or project basis without the overhead, staffing churn, or long-term commitments typical of large firms or hiring experts on staff to manage this project.
What We Offer
We offer a range of services to meet the needs of every client. Have something else in mind?
We'd be happy to work with you to create a custom project or one-one services.
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This is the spine of the organization. It answers the question: Who decides, under what authority, using which rules, and with what accountability? What is happening today? What do we need to happen in the future? How do we get there? Using six sigma methodology that has worked for over half a century to help companies improve performance, we will build a roadmap to success.
Before you embark on rolling out policies, consider the importance of developing a baseline understanding of the current state and creating a roadmap to the desired state. We specialize in project management across legal and the organization. We work as part of your team without overburdening your staff or requiring new hires. -
Intellectual Property has traditionally been managed in a linear process at the end of the innovation cycle. In the first part of this century, tech companies broke that down into cross functional teams. Now, everything that goes into AI could be IP and everything that that comes out could be IP. We focus on the processes required for ownership, infringement management, protectability, and value creation when humans and machines collaborate. We can help you integrate an IP strategy into your AI Policy with processes designed for human behavior. We also evaluate patents to understand where competitors are headed and how your IP program can be more robust.
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AI only works when the underlying system does. We know budgets are tight and head count is limited. Rather than hiring someone for a project that will be completed, consider working with us as a fractional AI Project manager. We can help you assess how legal work flows through the organization. It includes process mapping, role redesign, performance metrics, technology alignment, and change management ensuring AI augments disciplined operations rather than amplifying existing inefficiencies. We can also help you evaluate and compare software tools that promise AI effectiveness and compliance.
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We serve as a trusted outside advisor to general counsel or IP Leaders seeking objective perspective on complex decisions involving AI, intellectual property, and legal operations. In this role, we provide ongoing confidential counsel and discussion that complements internal leadership, offering independent judgment, strategic clarity, and a governance-first lens without the constraints of internal politics or day-to-day execution or working with the large firms involved in other facets of your organization. Whether engaged on a monthly basis or for a defined initiative, our advisory support is designed to help legal leaders think more clearly, decide more confidently, and build durable frameworks that stand up over time.
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If you are looking for assistance in evaluating where policies and compliance programs are needed, we can build on our research to help you identify risk areas, develop a cross functional AI governance structure, policies and compliance procedures.
Our Process
Build Intentionally
Using Six Sigma proven methods, we evaluate where and how AI is used across the department or organization to develop a baseline of where you are and where you want to be. At the conclusion, you have buy-in from key members of staff to an intentionally built path to success without adding yet another project to your existing staff.
More than Writing Policies
AI could write the policies. With good prompts, better than most lawyers. But there’s more to good policies than a document or slide show. We help you design and/or implement accountability mechanisms strategically for long-term value. It starts with understanding the structure of AI in your organization and what needs immediate attention.
Risk Allocation
However AI is used across your organization, risk is allocated either to humans or machines. But, ultimately, humans are responsible for the outcomes. We help you identify how risk is allocated to communicate this effectively with your executive leadership team and board of directors. We use established risk metrics to define how you mitigate that risk for the organization.
IP Matters
Everything that is input into AI is someone’s intellectual property or data. Everything that comes out could be your IP. From complex sequences of prompts, to settings and language choices, in addition to human creativity combined with AI outputs, the result is about to change everything. Old linear processes won’t work anymore.
Our Founder & Executive Director
Jennifer C. Wolfe, Esq., APR, SSBB
Jen is the Founder and Executive Director of Governing Intelligence Research Group, a research-driven platform providing precision governance for AI policy, intellectual property strategy, and modern legal operations. A lawyer, seasoned entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author, and governance leader, Jennifer brings more than two decades of experience advising boards, executives, and organizations navigating technology-driven change. Her work sits at the convergence of artificial intelligence, IP, global policy, and board-level decision-making, translating complex risk into clear governance structures and practical operating models.
Jennifer founded her first law firm at age 28 and grew it into a top-75 U.S. patent practice, advising global brands including Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Kraft Foods, Duke Energy, and Scripps Networks. She later founded Dot Brand 360, a digital strategy consultancy and ICANN-accredited registrar, where she helped organizations such as Nestlé, Macy’s, HGTV, Richemont, and SAS manage digital disruption, brand protection, and emerging technology risk. These experiences shaped her deep understanding of how technology, law, policy and enterprise strategy converge in real operating environments.
Her governance experience includes representing the United States on ICANN’s GNSO Council and chairing its Independent Review process, along with advising startups, investment groups, and venture-backed companies on strategy, oversight, and growth.
A Six Sigma Black Belt and accredited public relations professional, Jennifer is known for bringing process discipline, systems thinking, and strategic clarity to complex, high-stakes environments. She has completed advanced executive and governance programs through Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford Directors’ College, Stanford Law School Executive Program in AI Strategy for Legal Leaders, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute Cybersecurity Oversight program, DirectWomen, and the National Association of Corporate Directors, where she was named a Board Leadership Fellow. She is the author of multiple books, including Disruption in the Boardroom, Blockchain in the Boardroom, Digital in the Boardroom, Brand Rewired, and Domain Names Rewired, and is currently writing Owning Intelligence, which examines the future of AI, governance, and intellectual property.
Jennifer has been recognized among the IAM 300 Global IP Strategists for more than three consecutive years and is the recipient of the Thomas F. Barrett Entrepreneur Vision Award. Her insights have appeared in Forbes Business Council, Bloomberg, NPR, IAM Magazine, and The National Law Review. She has also held leadership roles with the American Red Cross, United Way, and the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission. Through Governing Intelligence Research Group, Jennifer works alongside a select network of distinguished advisors and contributors to deliver research-backed frameworks that help organizations govern intelligence with confidence and precision.
For a more detailed bio and resume, go to Linked In
For a video introduction, go to: Vimeo
To read Jen’s column as a Forbes Business council member, go to: Forbes Business Council
For other articles go to Jen’s Substack, Owning Intelligence.
Interested in email updates on her research or a confidential conversation? Email
Distinguished Advisors & Contributors
Governing Intelligence Research Group works through a carefully curated network of Distinguished Advisors and contributors who actively participate in the research, content development, methodologies, case studies, and delivery of services across the platform.
These advisors bring real-world perspective and rigor to the work, ensuring that insights are grounded in how organizations actually operate and govern in practice.
Most are currently serving on boards of directors or have previously held senior executive, legal, global policy, regulatory, academic, or professional leadership roles, and they contribute their experience selectively to advance high-quality thinking and practical outcomes for clients.
This collaborative model allows Governing Intelligence Research Group to integrate research-driven insight with board-level judgment and operational credibility, delivering work that is both intellectually rigorous and immediately applicable.
