Tercet Advisory was founded by Niranjan Seshadri on a conviction the market has been slow to absorb. AI governance cannot be separated from the clinical, legal, and technical realities it claims to govern. Most oversight work in this space operates at the altitude of principles and frameworks, necessary but insufficient for the organizations that need the most help, the ones deploying AI where human outcomes hang on decisions made by systems that cannot explain themselves and institutions that have not yet learned to oversee them.

Niranjan Seshadri is a physician, an attorney, and the founder of a healthcare AI company. That combination represents an integrated vantage point developed through years of working inside clinical decisions, legal structures, and the engineering realities of building AI products for regulated industries. The clinical background means the stakes of AI-assisted decisions carry weight beyond the theoretical, and the legal training means the liability questions surrounding those decisions land as professional obligations rather than academic exercises. Because the AI company is a current venture, the gap between an oversight aspiration and a production deployment is something we navigate in real time rather than recall from a previous career.

What the Name Means

A tercet is a three-line unit in poetry, the architecture of Dante's terza rima, where each tercet interlocks with the next to sustain forward motion across a continuous argument. The name reflects both the three disciplines that converge in our work and the conviction that governance, like verse, must cohere as a structure or it does not hold.

How We Are Different

Most advisory firms in this space approach AI from a single discipline, carrying the blind spots that come with it. A law firm will map your liability exposure without understanding how the underlying system actually makes decisions. A technology consultancy will build your monitoring infrastructure without anticipating what a plaintiff's attorney will request in discovery. The organizations we advise need someone who can hold all those considerations in a single conversation without losing altitude. That is what the convergence of clinical, legal, and technical experience makes possible, and it is what allows us to carry an engagement from strategic design through operational implementation rather than handing off a framework and walking away.

Tercet Advisory operates as a boutique practice by design. Every engagement draws on direct senior judgment applied to the specific clinical, legal, and technical context of the client's problem. All advisory work flows directly through the principal. For engagements that require specialized technical implementation or domain-specific research, we draw on a vetted network of collaborators, but the intellectual direction and client relationship remain with Dr. Seshadri throughout. We take on fewer engagements than our capacity might allow because the depth of each one is what generates the outcomes and the referrals that sustain the practice.

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Working with clients nationally, with engagements conducted remotely or on-site, depending on the scope.