Lydonia, a Westwood, Mass.-based AI advisory firm, has launched a new business unit and acquired the operating assets of International Cognitive Initiative as the company expands its capability to deliver enterprise deployment and management of agentic AI systems.
According to the company, the Enabuild AI division will focus on helping organizations move AI projects from pilot programs into production by combining advisory services, engineering and managed operations. The acquisition adds International Cognitive Initiative’s AI Advisory and AI Operator methodologies, which Lydonia said complement its existing automation and business transformation capabilities.
The new division adopts what Lydonia describes as an “above the model” approach, emphasizing governance, workflow orchestration, security, data readiness and human oversight alongside AI models. The company also introduced AI Orchestration Managed Services (AIOMS), a managed service intended to monitor and manage AI agents operating in production environments.
“The industry has reached an inflection point,” said Jamie Shepard, who founded International Cognitive Initiative and will serve as president of Enabuild AI. “Organizations no longer need more agents, they need the operating system that lets people and AI agents work together safely, accountably, and at scale. That is what Enabuild AI exists to deliver. Roughly 80 percent of the work required to scale agentic AI successfully lies in everything around the models, from workflow orchestration and data readiness to security, human oversight and continuous improvement. Getting that right is what turns a promising pilot into a production-ready workforce that elevates what people can do.”
Lydonia said the new division will operate with a Claude-first engineering strategy while extending the company’s platform-agnostic consulting practice for enterprise AI deployments.