Institutions adopt AI. People carry it.
Summer Studios 88 advises public agencies, health systems, foundations, and growth companies on technology adoption that the workforce can actually absorb — and on the wellbeing, governance, and communication that decide whether it holds.
Transformation fails on culture and process long before it fails on technology.
An organization rarely struggles with AI because the model is wrong. It struggles because nobody told staff what happens to their jobs, because the policy was written after the pilot shipped, because the people asked to change were the last consulted.
We came up inside public education, health services operations, and nonprofit administration before advising from outside them. That order shapes the work: strategy that accounts for the humans who have to carry it, sequenced so the first thing you ship is also the thing that earns internal confidence.
Four areas of work.
Each one stands alone. Most engagements draw on two.
AI Strategy & Responsible Adoption
Institutions adopt AI without losing the people inside them.
Organizational Wellbeing & Change Readiness
Transformation that people can actually survive.
Narrative & Brand Architecture
One story the whole organization can operate from.
Educational & Family Content
Material that families and classrooms actually use.
The thinking, in practice.
Documented engagements across the public sector, healthcare, mission-driven organizations, consumer brands, and technology.
Replacing paper with a citywide digital system for a public agency
A New York City public agency was capturing staff records and attendance on paper, borough by borough. Files went missing and submissions ran late. We designed and deployed the digital system that replaced the manual process across all five boroughs and standardized how data was captured.
Voice-first AI designed around lived behavior, not technical fluency
Most AI products are designed for people who already know how to use them. This one was not — a voice-first system built around the daily rhythm and trust patterns of an older adult who had never relied on technology before.
An authority and inbound system for a practicing physician
A physician needed a sustainable system for visibility, authority, and inbound patient and speaking interest in a market where credibility has to be earned rather than bought — without ads or cold outreach.
Four ways to bring this in.
Scope determines fee. We publish the shape of the engagement, not the price — because a three-month assessment and a nine-month program are not the same purchase.
Diagnostic Assessment
A scoped diagnostic — AI readiness, workforce wellbeing baseline, or narrative audit — delivered as a written assessment with prioritized recommendations.
- Stakeholder interviews and document review
- Written assessment with findings and risk register
- Prioritized recommendation set with sequencing
- Executive readout session
Strategy & Implementation Program
Full engagement across strategy and execution: governance, enablement, pilot design, and the measurement framework that proves it worked.
- Everything in the assessment, plus:
- Governance and policy development
- Staff enablement and training delivery
- Pilot design, execution support, and evaluation
- Outcome measurement and reporting framework
Institutional & Public-Sector Engagements
Prime and subcontract work for government agencies, school systems, health systems, and large employers. We respond to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs, and partner with primes seeking certified subcontractors.
- Multi-year and multi-phase scoping
- Subcontract and teaming arrangements
- Compliance, reporting, and deliverable schedules to specification
- Full certifications and registrations expected December 2026
Advisory Retainer
Standing strategic counsel for leadership teams navigating a transition that does not end when the project does.
- Monthly leadership strategy sessions
- Asynchronous counsel between sessions
- Quarterly review against outcome measures
- Priority access for urgent decisions
In their words.
Several engagements sit under confidentiality agreements. Named references with contract detail are provided to institutional buyers on request.
This is the most useful document I have ever received from an outside consultant. We are going to operate from this for the next year.
She does not just hand you a plan. She makes you see your business the way you should have been seeing it the whole time.
Every meeting after this one was easier, because we finally had the same words for what we were building.
The framework she built has paid for itself five times over in clarity alone.
Tell us what you are trying to change, and who it lands on.
That is usually enough to know whether there is a fit. Solicitations, teaming enquiries, and scoping conversations all start the same way.