Service Overview

Turn AI, security, and technology risk work into decision material.

Fragment Practice helps organizations clarify issues, review points, responsibility boundaries, assumptions, and next actions across AI governance, security governance, internal rules, and technology risk.

A concise overview for introductions, partner proposals, referrals, and early scope discussions.

Best-fit situations

Useful for upstream advisory, review, and governance design.

Best suited when the issue is real, but review points, responsibilities, assumptions, and decision material are not yet organized.

AI governance and generative AI usage rulesInternal policy and security guideline updatesThird-party security review for major system replacementCloud, SaaS, and AI security risk reviewSecurity requirements and confirmation pointsDecision material before reporting or explanation

Value provided

From unclear issues to reviewable structure and decision material.

The core value is not additional PMO work. It is structuring technical, risk, governance, and stakeholder concerns into material for approval, explanation, review, and next-step work.

01

Unclear issue

AI use, internal rules, security requirements, vendor roles, and decision points matter, but are not yet structured.

02

Reviewable structure

Review points, assumptions, boundaries, open questions, and confirmations are organized into a usable structure.

03

Decision material

The output connects to reporting, explanation, review comments, opinions, roadmaps, or handoff.

Common state

Scattered issues can stall approval, explanation, and next steps.

Useful before implementation expands or stakeholder discussions become too broad.

  • AI or security initiatives move faster than governance and review structures.
  • Rules, policies, guidelines, or requirements are outdated or hard to use.
  • Responsibilities across business, IT, risk, legal, and vendors are unclear.
  • Management reporting is needed, but decision material is not ready.

Support provided

Organize viewpoints and material for review, approval, and explanation.

  • Issue structuring and review viewpoint design
  • Security requirements and confirmation points
  • Responsibility and role clarification
  • Assumptions, decision points, and open questions
  • Management and stakeholder explanation material

Outputs

Material for decisions, reviews, explanations, and handoff.

  • Issue-structuring memo
  • Decision-material memo
  • Review viewpoints and confirmation items
  • Assumptions and decision considerations
  • Responsibility boundary map
  • Explanation material and next actions

Engagement boundaries

A focused advisory role for key review and decision points.

This work supports judgment, explanation, and handoff. It does not replace internal ownership, implementation, legal judgment, audit assurance, certification, or daily PMO operations.

  • Suitable for: structuring, review logic, responsibility boundaries, and decision material.
  • Suitable for: low-to-mid utilization advisory, short sprints, and third-party review.
  • Not the main role: resident PMO, daily progress management, or implementation ownership.
  • Not a substitute for: legal opinion, audit assurance, certification, or final accountability.

Engagement options

Start with the smallest format that matches the uncertainty.

Scope and fees depend on deliverables, review volume, meeting cadence, stakeholder complexity, response expectations, and responsibility boundaries.

Initial structuring session

From JPY 150,000

For clarifying the issue, stakeholders, review points, and next actions into a usable issue-structuring note.

  • Early issue framing
  • Before internal reporting
  • Before a larger engagement

Decision-material sprint

From JPY 800,000

For turning existing materials and interviews into material for review, explanation, and alignment.

  • AI or security governance structuring
  • Management or stakeholder material
  • Third-party review of existing material

Ongoing advisory

From JPY 400,000 / month

For monthly or biweekly review and decision-material work as a low-to-mid utilization external advisory role.

  • Monthly or biweekly review support
  • External advisory role
  • Repeated decision or review cycles

Selected experience

Representative support patterns across AI, security, and governance.

Client names and details are generalized. The emphasis is on the advisory pattern.

AI governance and decision material for a financial institution

Clarified use cases, input information, human review, approval, recordkeeping, and management-facing material.

Security governance, rules, guidelines, and vendor management

Structured requirements, vendor assessment, education, operating flows, incident response, and IT-BCP.

Security confirmation points for cloud and AI environments

Organized points across permissions, logs, data protection, operations, and responsibility boundaries.

Operating model review for AI-enabled security services

Clarified customers, service model, AI tools, SOC roles, responsibilities, cost structure, and viability conditions.

Advisor profile

Yasuhiro Shinsho / Fragment Practice LLC

Yasuhiro Shinsho is an independent advisor supporting upstream issue structuring, review, and decision-material creation across AI governance, security governance, internal rules, and technology risk.

He previously worked at BIPROGY, KPMG Consulting, Nomura Research Institute, and NRI Secure, covering systems development, vulnerability assessment, CSIRT, IT risk, security governance, IT-BCP, incident response, cloud and AI risk review, and management-facing explanation material. He is based in Takamatsu, Japan.

AI governanceSecurity governanceTechnology riskThird-party reviewResponsibility boundariesDecision material

Next step

Start by confirming the appropriate scope of involvement.

Even when the request is not fully defined, the first step is to review the current situation, available materials, expected deliverables, meeting cadence, decision timeline, and expected utilization.

Helpful information for the first discussion

  • Current situation
  • Available materials
  • Expected deliverables
  • Meeting cadence
  • Decision timeline
  • Expected utilization