Apex, NC · Research Triangle · Wake County
A part-time CIO for Apex, NC software and life-sciences firms.
Western Wake software and life-sciences firms already measured against a quality system, now being asked to show a rule for AI too.
Systems common in this market. The figure is city population.
The market
What Apex looks like from here.
Apex holds software companies, life-sciences suppliers, and professional services firms on the western Wake edge, with much of the workforce commuting into RTP and Raleigh. If you supply a life-sciences customer, you already answer to a quality system and a customer audit. The next audit will have a question about AI in it. Your team is already using assistants to draft documents that fall under that quality system, and nothing says whether that is allowed.
An Apex firm typically runs Microsoft 365, a sales system, project and time tracking, and finance reporting produced by export. We write the AI rule to the standard you are already measured against, so there is one set of rules and not two. Then we connect the sales, project, and finance systems into a dashboard in your own Microsoft cloud account. The numbers your customers and your board ask for come from one place.
What we would expect to find here. Life-sciences suppliers and software firms answer to quality systems and customer audits. We design the AI rule to the standard you are already measured against.
One rule, the existing standard
Apex firms on the western edge of Wake County already answer to a quality system and a customer audit. Customer audits are starting to ask about AI.
We write the AI rule to that existing standard, so the firm keeps one set of rules. Sales, project, and finance figures can then meet in one place.
Apex is a service area, not an office. One team, based in North Carolina, works in your own systems.
Where this has run
A profile close to this setup.
The firm asked for automation, but its systems were not ready for it.
Professional services firm · ~30 staff
Industries in Apex
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- AI security & governance assessment — Advisory review
- Applications assessment — Assessment
Where we work
Around Apex and across NC.
Where are you based and do you work remotely?
Third Shift Group LLC is based in North Carolina and works with firms across North and South Carolina. Most of the work runs remotely, against your Microsoft cloud account and your systems. Policy meetings and leadership sessions can be on site where that helps. See where we work for the regions and towns we cover.
Do you support quality-system documentation requirements?
Yes, Third Shift supports quality system documentation requirements. We document the review, the AI Use Policy, and the reports the same way every time. And we work to the standard your customer audits you against, not a new one of our own, so an auditor finds what they expect.
Can the AI rule match the quality system we are already audited against?
Yes. We write the AI rule to the standard the firm is already measured against, so staff follow one set of rules. Life-sciences suppliers and software firms in western Wake County meet that audit.
What do customer auditors usually ask about AI use?
An audit can include a question about AI, because assistants are already drafting documents that fall under the quality system. We write the AI rule to that standard so the firm can show one set of rules.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Apex as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.