Fixed-price cloud, security & identity
Cloud architecture, security & GRC, identity & IAM, AI enablement, and 6R migration — scoped and priced up front, delivered by working architects.
Explore consultingEnterprise AI consulting · cloud · security
Enterprise AI that moves beyond proof of concept —
built by the architects who run it.
Citadel designs, secures, governs, and operates production AI systems and agents for enterprises — and teaches the same craft in the open. Hire the expertise, or learn from it. No signup wall either way.
For enterprises
From AI strategy to production AI — fixed-fee consulting plus 425 governed managed agents across 8 domains. Secured, governed, and operated by design.
For individuals
17 free AWS, Azure & GCP courses and 320+ toolkits. Start in 60 seconds — no account needed.
No credit card. No account needed for free courses. Enterprise engagements scoped and priced up front.
17Free courses
320+Toolkits
54Countries reached
2024Founded
AWS · Azure · GCP certifiedGoverned AI agents — identity, tiers, full loggingFree courses used by engineers in 54 countries
For enterprises
Two ways Citadel ships production work
Senior, multi-cloud delivery with fixed-price scope — or governed AI agents run like employees, not chatbots.
425 agents, one governance model
Production-ready agents across 8 domains — each a first-class principal with its own identity, scoped credentials, and full action logging. Designed, secured, hosted, and monitored by Citadel.
See how SIAS worksTrusted enterprise partner
Deep expertise across the AI production stack
One team for the whole path — strategy, architecture, security, and governance — so AI ships to production and keeps running. Faster deployment, lower operating cost, and a governance model your risk team accepts.
- AI Platform Architecture
- Agentic AI
- LLMOps
- MLOps
- AI Security
- RAG
- DevSecOps
- Cloud Engineering
- Zero Trust
- Identity
- Governance
Consulting services
How Citadel takes AI to production
Nine ways we design, build, secure, and govern enterprise AI — each scoped to a measurable outcome, not billable hours.
Enterprise AI Strategy
A board-ready roadmap from where you are today to governed AI in production — sequenced by value and risk.
Enterprise AI Architecture
Reference architectures for agents, RAG, and MLOps that hold up under real load, security review, and audit.
AI Security Consulting
Threat modeling for LLMs, data pipelines, and model endpoints — plus the controls to close the gaps.
RAG Platform Development
Grounded retrieval on your own corpora, evaluated for accuracy and built to keep your data isolated.
LLMOps
CI/CD, evaluation, observability, and cost control so models ship and stay reliable in production.
AI Governance
Identity per agent, autonomy tiers, and audit trails your risk and security teams will actually accept.
Multi-Agent Systems
Fleets of governed agents coordinated around real workflows — not a demo that stalls after the meeting.
Fractional Chief AI Architect
Senior AI leadership on a retainer to steer strategy and delivery, without a full-time executive hire.
Cloud AI Modernization
Bring production AI to a multi-cloud estate — AWS, Azure, GCP — without a rip-and-replace.
Engagement pricing
Premium expertise, priced up front
Start free, then engage at a fixed fee scoped to the work. Ranges below are starting points — every engagement is priced after a discovery call.
Free AI Strategy Call
Free
30 minutes with a senior architect to find the highest-value first step. No pitch deck.
AI Readiness Assessment
From $1,500
A structured review of your data, workflows, and controls with a prioritized AI roadmap.
Architecture Workshop
From $2,500
A half or full day that leaves you with a governed reference architecture, not slides.
Fractional Chief AI Architect
From $8,000/mo
Senior AI leadership on retainer to own strategy and delivery direction.
Enterprise AI Transformation
Custom
A multi-quarter build to production, scoped and fixed-priced after discovery.
Ongoing consulting is available; enterprise engagements are fixed-fee, scoped after a discovery call — no hourly meter. See full pricing.
How SIAS is governed
Every agent is a first-class principal
Autonomy is set per agent, per action — with full logging behind everything.
T1
Autonomous
Read-and-report work — triage, analysis, drafting. Runs unattended.
T2
Supervised
Writes to systems of record within scoped credentials and change windows.
T3
Human-gated
Anything touching money, people, or legal is draft-only behind named approvers.
Learn
Learn cloud from architects who ship it
Structured roadmaps from foundation to mastery. Each path includes the tools, templates, and frameworks you need.
Cloud Architecture
Design scalable, fault-tolerant systems on AWS, Azure, and GCP with production-ready blueprints.
Cybersecurity & GRC
Master compliance frameworks, risk management, and security architecture for enterprise environments.
DevOps Engineering
Build CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment workflows.
AI & ML Engineering
Deploy machine learning models, build AI pipelines, and architect intelligent systems.
Career Development
Resume templates, interview prep, salary negotiation guides, and career transition roadmaps.
Leadership & Strategy
Management frameworks, team building, executive communication, and technology leadership.
Free Cloud Courses
Six of our 17 free courses, built by a Senior Multi-Cloud DevSecOps Architect. No signup wall.
FREE
AWS Cloud Certification
Master AWS services, architecture patterns, and earn your certification.
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Azure Cloud Certification
Build expertise in Microsoft Azure infrastructure, DevOps, and security.
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Google Cloud Platform
Learn Google Cloud core services, networking, and data engineering.
Start Free →FREE
DevOps & SDLC Mastery
End-to-end software delivery with CI/CD, containers, and automation.
Start Free →FREE
Cloud Security & Zero Trust
Protect cloud workloads with identity, compliance, and zero-trust models.
Start Free →FREE
Cloud AI & Machine Learning
Build intelligent cloud applications with ML pipelines and AI services.
Start Free →Featured Products
Enterprise-grade cloud toolkits, AI resources, and career accelerators.
How engagements run
Governed delivery, evidenced end to end
The scenarios below are representative of how Citadel scopes and governs work. Named client outcomes will be published here as engagements clear for reference.
SOC triage at T1, isolation human-gated
A mid-size provider runs phishing- and alert-triage agents at Tier 1 and evidence collection at Tier 2, cutting analyst time on routine triage while every isolate or disable action stays human-gated at Tier 3.
Fixed-price cloud migration, 6R assessment
A platform team gets a scoped 6R migration plan with cost and risk called out up front — delivered against a fixed price, not an open-ended time-and-materials meter.
Why Citadel
Why enterprises choose Citadel
The reasons a CISO, a platform lead, and a CFO all say yes to the same partner.
Governed by design
Every AI agent is a first-class principal — its own identity, scoped credentials, and full action logging.
Beyond proof of concept
We build for production: security review, evaluation, observability, and an audit trail from day one.
Fixed-fee, senior-led
Scoped and priced up front, delivered by working architects — not a bench of juniors on a T&M meter.
Multi-cloud by default
AWS, Azure, and GCP in production every day, with a clean handoff and runbooks — no lock-in.
Enterprise AI consulting — common questions
What executives ask before a first engagement — answered up front.
What does Citadel do?
Citadel is an enterprise AI consulting practice. We help organizations design, build, secure, govern, deploy, and operate production AI systems and AI agents — across AI strategy, platform architecture, security, LLMOps, RAG, and governance. We also run SIAS, a catalog of 425 governed managed AI agents across 8 domains.
How is a consulting engagement priced?
Engagements are fixed-fee and scoped after a free discovery call — from a $1,500 readiness assessment to multi-quarter transformations. You know what a phase costs before you commit; there is no open-ended hourly meter. Detailed pricing is on the enterprise page.
What makes Citadel different from a generic AI vendor?
Most AI projects stall in production because of governance, not the model. Every agent we deploy is a first-class principal with its own identity, scoped credentials, and full action logging, run at an autonomy tier you set. That is what lets a security team say yes.
Can you work inside our cloud and security constraints?
Yes. Agents run in or adjacent to your tenancy, grounded in your corpora, which stay under your control and are tenancy-isolated per engagement. We deliver against SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and FedRAMP-aligned controls depending on your requirements.
How fast can we start?
Most engagements begin with a free 30-minute discovery call, then a scoped, lower-risk first step — often a Tier-1 read-and-report agent or a fixed-price assessment — so there is a concrete deliverable early rather than a long ramp.
Who builds thisConnect with Kehinde on LinkedIn
Kehinde Ogunlowo
Founder · Cloud, Security & AI Architect
Citadel is built by Kehinde Ogunlowo — a cloud and security architect who designs, secures, and operates production systems, and teaches the same craft in the open. What reaches the storefront is drawn from real delivery work, not theory.
His work at Citadel spans the SIAS governance model (425 catalogued AI agents across 8 domains, each with per-agent identity, tiered autonomy, and full audit trails), the enterprise consulting practice, 17 free cloud courses and 320+ toolkits, and the technical writing across AWS, Azure, and GCP that engineers in 54 countries learn from.
Architect certifications
AWSAzureGCP
Frameworks we deliver against
SOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAFedRAMP-alignedCMMC
Proof, in code
The engineering behind the consulting
A sample of Kehinde’s open-source work — the governed-agent, RAG, MCP, AI-security, and multi-cloud systems the practice is built on. Every link is a live repository or demo.
Agentic AI
Citadel SaaS Factory
265 autonomous AI agents across 15 business domains — full-stack agentic platform.
github.com/Citadel-Cloud-Management/citadel-saas-factory PatternsAI Agent Specializations
Agent specialization patterns and prompt-engineering frameworks.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/AI-Agent-Specializations RAGRAG Hallucination Mitigation
Production RAG with a 5-layer hallucination-mitigation pipeline.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/rag-pipeline-hallucination-mitigation Multi-AgentLangChain Multi-Agent Framework
LangGraph orchestrator with supervisor / multi-agent patterns.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/langchain-multi-agent-framework MCPClaude MCP Platform
MCP platform orchestrator — server registry, routing, and governance.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/claude-mcp-platform AI SecurityAI SOC Triage Agent
AI-powered SOC alert triage with MITRE ATT&CK classification.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/ai-agent-soc-triage FinOpsAI FinOps Optimization Agent
Multi-cloud FinOps agent — cost-anomaly detection and rightsizing.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/ai-finops-optimization-agent LLMOpsAWS Bedrock Platform (Terraform)
Bedrock knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails as production IaC.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/terraform-aws-bedrock-platform CloudMulti-Cloud Landing Zone
Landing-zone architecture spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP.
citadel-cloud-management.github.io/multi-cloud-landing-zone