TRIBALNET 2026 RESOURCE HUB
Expand What AI Can Do, On Sovereign Terms.
AT TRIBALNET: AI READINESS + GOVERNANCE
Before AI Does the Work, Set the Rules.
Know What You Have
Understand the data, systems, and information available across your organization, including what may be sensitive, restricted, or valuable for future AI use.
Define Access + Use
Choose Where AI Runs
Not every workload or dataset belongs in the same environment. Determine what can use cloud services and what should remain local and under your control.
TAKE YOUR AI READINESS ASSESSMENT
AI READINESS STARTS WITH CLARITY
Before expanding AI across an organization, it helps to understand where you are today. Synergy’s AI Readiness Assessment examines the data, governance, people, risks, and business priorities that shape how AI can be used responsibly and effectively within your environment.
Map Your Data Landscape
Strengthen Governance + Sovereignty
Identify Shadow AI + Risk
Assess Human Readiness
Prioritize High-Value AI Opportunities
OWN YOUR AI
FEATURING PILLARS LOCAL AI AT TRIBALNET
Put AI to work across the systems and data you already use. Some information simply should not leave your environment.
Pillars Local AI brings AI capabilities to locally controlled data, allowing organizations to analyze information, explore data, create outputs, and support operational decisions without sending sensitive information to public cloud AI platforms.
AI should expand what you can do with your data without forcing you to give up control of it.
Runs Entirely On-Prem
AI operates within your environment rather than relying on a public cloud AI service.
Zero Cloud Uploads
Keep sensitive information local and under organizational control.
Connects to Local Data
Put existing systems and information to work without creating another isolated data environment.
Built-In CVE Monitoring
Maintain visibility into known vulnerabilities affecting the environment.
Still Thinking it over?
Questions to Take Back to Your Team
Do we know which AI tools are already being used across our organization?
Who decides whether a new AI tool or use case is appropriate?
What data should AI be allowed to access?
What information needs to remain local?
Do team members know who to contact when they have a question or concern about AI use?
Are our policies and processes keeping pace with how quickly AI use is expanding?
MEET THE TEAM AT TRIBALNET
Experience Behind the Technology
Synergy’s team brings experience across casino operations, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI, and player development. Stop by the booth to talk through your organization’s questions, challenges, and next steps.
Good technology fits the operation, not the other way around.
Jonathan Eaton • 20+ Years
Jonathan is the Owner and CEO of Synergy, bringing 20+ years of experience at the intersection of Tribal gaming and technology. A CISSP-certified security professional and Harvard Business School alumnus with AI training from MIT, Jonathan focuses on where infrastructure, infosec, and AI meet for Tribes and their businesses.
- Enterprise Infrastructure
- AI Strategy
- Casino Technology
Ken Kuwabara • 15+ Years
Ken brings more than 15 years of casino experience across Caesars, PENN Gaming, and Choctaw Casino and Resort, along with an MBA from The Ohio State University. Ken now helps clients connect technology to the everyday realities of player development and daily casino floor operations.
- Player Development Tools
- Player Development Consulting
- Casino Operations
TRIBALNET 2026 RESOURCES
Continue the Conversation.
AI Readiness Assessment
Pillars Local AI
Previous TribalNet Resources
Shadow AI Presentation
Shadow AI
Research Analysis
External Resources
Disclaimer: External resources are provided for reference and do not constitute an endorsement by Synergy. Organizations should independently evaluate security, privacy, contractual, and operational requirements before adopting any product or service.
AI Security Standards/Controls
Vendor agnostic security frameworks around AI governance
NIST
ISO/IEC 42001:2023
Cloud Security Alliance AI Controls Matrix
AI Threat Intelligence Resources
MITRE ATLAS
knowledge base of adversarial tactics and techniques used against machine learning systems
AI incident database
Source of AI attack taxonomies
AI Leadership Podcasts
The Chief AI Officer Show
The CAIO Connect Podcast
Commercial Data Management/Prep Solutions
Alteryx
Databricks
Tableau Prep
Microsoft Fabric
Commercial Data Compliance Solutions (DSPM)
Varonis
CrowdStrike (Flow Security)
Microsoft Purview
Commercial SASE Solutions
Secure Access Service Edge products employ a cloud centric approach to unifying data controls and access
Low/No code AI enablement platforms
N8n
Powerful yet recommended for internal dev teams.
Microsoft CoPilot Studio
For organizations invested in the Microsoft Ecosystem and want to create LLM driven applications
Microsoft Power Automate
For organizations invested in the Microsoft Ecosystem that want powerful AI automation. This tool can also work well outside of Microsoft.
Google Vertex AI Agent Builder
Powerful cloud centric tool for building AI agents in a pre-built framework. Can require some coding.
Open Source Tools
For heavily independent internal dev and data teams
Open Refine
Clean data sets
Open Metadata
Find, trace, and monitor data sets
Datahub Core
Data discovery platform. Commercial cloud offering as well.
Lite LLM
Open source LLM proxy server for visibility, load balancing, failover and cost optimization.
SHAP
Game theory based AI explainability tool
Other tools
Gentrace
For internal dev teams to create a business feedback loop on AI outputs of their internal applications
Other Resources
FedRamp Marketplace
Fedramp is a list of cloud providers offering federal security standards. Products are available to tribal governments.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face is an online repository of open source models that can be downloaded and run locally. Exercise caution; anyone can upload to Hugging Face. Check the source.
Openrouter
Directly test open source LLMs your providers may be using. Note that this is marketplace, so data confidentiality needs to be considered. Check the end provider.
LM Studio
The easiest way to run open source LLMs locally on mac or PC
Talk With Our Team
Where Does Your Organization Stand Today?
Whether you are beginning to explore AI, already seeing AI use across your organization, or trying to determine how sensitive data should be handled, Synergy can help you identify a practical next step.
Talk with our team about AI readiness, data governance, Pillars Local AI, or the questions your organization is working through.
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