Oxbow Ridge Advisory

Oxbow Ridge Advisory works with HR technology vendors and the mid-sized employers that buy from them, covering the overlap between New York City's Local Law 144, the Colorado AI Act and the voluntary frameworks their enterprise customers ask about. The firm has twenty-six staff between a Manhattan office and a smaller group in Toronto, which is why Canadian clients appear regularly on its roster. Work usually begins with a gap analysis priced between five and fifteen thousand dollars, scoped to a named set of AI systems and producing a control matrix that cross-references NIST AI RMF functions to ISO/IEC 42001 clauses. From there clients choose either a fixed-fee implementation project, typically four to six months, or a monthly retainer in which Oxbow Ridge staff run the AI governance committee, keep the inventory current and draft the policy updates as laws change. Bias audits under LL144 are delivered by a separate statistics team so the people writing policy are not the people signing the audit summary. The firm does not offer legal advice and pairs with outside counsel when a client needs an opinion on scope. Spanish-speaking consultants handle engagements for employers with large bilingual workforces.