Human judgment,at scale.
Stop competing on hourly rate. Validated OS is the platform we run our own advisory practice on every day — and certification is the only way in. Score, defend, and charge a premium for every recommendation you make.
The system we use internally at AI Advisory Group — built on The Validated Mind® frameworkBetter decisions don’t come from more collaboration, better data, or sharper questions. They come from better validation — and VALID™ is the only framework built to deliver it.
Decision tools promise upskilling — faster meetings, cleaner data, smarter dashboards. Upthinking is different: training the judgment itself. The five VALID forces instrument the human side of the decision, where every strategy actually succeeds or fails.
And this isn’t theory we sell — it’s the system we run. Every engagement at AI Advisory Group moves through VOS: the diagnostics, the scoring, Val’s analysis. Certification hands you the same instrument we use ourselves, and it’s what moves a practice off the hourly-rate treadmill.
AI ADVISORY GROUP
Every client faces three inflection points. Your practice owns all of them.
Growth & Scale
Most companies plateau because their operating model can’t hold the weight of growth. VOS surfaces the structural constraints before they become ceilings.
Exit Planning
The best exits are built years before they happen. Diagnose readiness across every dimension — financial, structural, human — and build the gap-closure roadmap.
AI & Tech Disruption
The clients that survive disruption aren’t the ones with the most tools — they’re the ones who understood the risk to their model and made a deliberate choice.
Five forces act on every decision.
The VALID™ Framework maps the neuroscience of human decision-making into five measurable forces. Ignore any one and the decision carries a blind spot. Trace them all — none are missed.
Precision instruments for advisors who can’t afford to guess.
Every tool in Validated OS is purpose-built for the advisory engagement — and it’s the same build we run AI Advisory Group on. Structured diagnostics, our own trained Validated AI, and Val — the assistant inside every engagement.
Strong exit alignment across all three exit-readiness pillars; 12–18 month preparation window…
Val lives inside VOS, trained on the VALID™ framework and your engagement context. Ask it anything mid-engagement — it answers in the method.
Our own trained intelligence — company research, market position, disruption and exit signals, all scored through the framework.
PXT Select, Big 5, EJI™, and DiSC integrated into every engagement — decisions are made by people.
Real-time EV/EBITDA and SDE multiples with current market conditions — plus decision ROI reporting that shows, in dollars, what validated judgment is worth.
Every instrument produces a branded, defensible report. Flip through the samples — judgment, forces, blind spots, readiness, and the ROI that proves the work.
Emotional patterns — bias, reactivity, desire pressure — are likely influencing outcomes in ways not fully visible to the decision-maker.
Low regulation plus high defensiveness — judgment becomes unreliable under real-time pressure.
Group emotional states are absorbed and treated as the decision-maker’s own independent judgment.
FATHOM
HUBSPOT
CLICKUP
CALENDLY
GMAIL
GOOGLE CALENDAR
GOOGLE DRIVE
DROPBOX
SLACK
TEAMS
MONDAY
OTTER
ZAPIER+ MORE COMINGCall intelligence from Fathom, pipeline from HubSpot, delivery in ClickUp, scheduling through Calendly — VOS sits on top of the tools your practice already runs, and Val reads across all of it. New connectors ship every month.
Decision tools optimize the data. We validate the people.
Decision-intelligence platforms make meetings faster and dashboards smarter. But decisions aren’t made by dashboards — they’re made by people, under pressure, with bias. That’s the layer VALID™ instruments. No one else does.
Three steps. One standard.
Certify
Certify on the instruments — VALID™, EJI™, DI360™ — through the Validated Mind® program. The neuroscience, the framework, the casework; shortcuts not included.
Access
Your first VMCP™ credential unlocks the platform — diagnostics, decision tracking, valuation modeling, the full instrument set.
Deliver
Run engagements your clients can’t get anywhere else — validated, visible judgment they can interrogate and defend.
Each instrument carries its own Certified Practitioner credential (VMCP™). Hold all three and you’re a Validated Mind Master Practitioner (VMMP™). VMMA™ — the advisor certification — sits above it.
Trusted by leaders — from founders to the Fortune 500.
VOS was built inside a working practice, not a lab. These are reviews of Christopher M. Donaleski and AI Advisory Group — the advisory work every instrument in the platform comes from.
MANAGING PARTNER, FIELDBRIDGE ENERGY
HEAD OF DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, AMERICAS
CFO AT 11:59
CEO, GLADEGY CONSULTING
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
CEO, BLUE RAVEN INNOVATIONS
Choose your path. Earn your access.
Every option begins with VALID™ certification — there is no way into the platform without it. Cohorts are kept small by design.
VALID™ Certification
The Validated Mind® framework and methodology — full certification for practitioners building the credential.
- Full VALID™ framework certification
- The five-forces methodology & casework
- VMCP-VALID™ credential on completion
- Path to VMMP™ — stack EJI™ and DI360™ tracks
- Eligibility for platform access
Full Program
Certification plus the full Validated OS platform — the complete operational home for your practice.
- Everything in VALID™ Certification
- Full platform access — all modules
- Diagnostics, decision tracking & valuation
- People assessments per engagement
- Practitioner community & method updates
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Operate with validated intelligence.
If you’re a Master Practitioner or Strategic Partner, your credentials are ready. If not — the path starts with certification.