AI Six Layers Framework

The AI Six Layers Framework™ by MountainSpirit.AI is a simplified model use to help organizations see the full AI landscape — not just tools or models. It breaks complexity into six essential layers that connect infrastructure, technology, applications, trust, and governance.


This clarity helps leaders understand where they are, what’s possible, and where to go next.

The Six Layers Overview

  • Infrastructure – The compute, connectivity, and foundational technologies supporting AI.

  • Models & Platforms – The intelligence engines, data sources, and tools that power AI solutions.

  • Applications – The practical workflows, automations, and decision-support capabilities built on top of AI platforms.

  • Services – Integration, assurance, training, and transformation activities required to successfully implement AI.

  • Influence & Discourse – The communication, trust, ethics, and culture surrounding AI adoption.

  • The State – Governance, policy, regulation, and national-level impacts shaping the AI environment.

This structure brings clarity to decision-making and ensures AI adoption is aligned, responsible, and grounded in real mission or business needs.. 

What Makes the Framework Unique

A clearer, calmer way to understand the AI ecosystem

AI conversations often focus on tools, models, or trends — but real progress requires a holistic view. The AI Six Layers Framework™ by MountainSpirit.AI is unique because it organizes the entire AI landscape into a simple, actionable structure that AI can actually use.

Instead of overwhelming teams with jargon or hype, the framework provides:

A Top-Down Strategic View

It shows how infrastructure, models, applications, trust, and governance all connect — making it easier to identify where value truly lies.

A Common Language

The framework gives executives, operators, analysts, and technologists a shared way to talk about AI without confusion.

A Decision-Centric Perspective

While most frameworks start from technology, this one starts from decisions, ensuring every effort supports outcomes that matter.

A Responsible, Mission-Focused Orientation

Ethics, trust, and governance are built directly into the model, not added as an afterthought.

A Practical, Lightweight Approach

It works for organizations of any size — from enterprise teams to small businesses — without requiring oversized budgets or technical complexity.

By simplifying the space and making the landscape intelligible, the AI Six Layers Framework™ helps leaders move forward with clarity, alignment, and confidence.

Decision Intelligence

Improving decisions, not just deploying tools

Artificial intelligence is powerful — but only if it enhances how people and organizations think, decide, and act. That’s why MountainSpirit.AI focuses on Decision Intelligence, the discipline of improving decisions using data, structure, and AI-enabled insight.

Decision Intelligence brings together:

Understanding the Mission or Business Need

Good decisions start with clarity about objectives, constraints, and context.

Mapping Decision Flows

Identifying who makes decisions, what information they need, and where delays, confusion, or inefficiencies occur.

Applying AI Where It Helps Most

Selecting tools or techniques that directly improve decision speed, accuracy, or situational awareness.

Structuring Information for Insight

Ensuring that the right people receive the right information at the right time.

Building Trust and Understanding

Decision-making fails when people don’t trust the tools. Decision Intelligence includes thoughtful change management and communication.

Closing the Loop

Evaluating results and refining systems as conditions change.

This approach ensures AI isn’t just “added on,” but is aligned with human judgment, organizational goals, and real-world mission outcomes.

Better decisions → better outcomes → better organizations.

Customer Orbit™

AI should orbit the customer’s mission — not the other way around

Customer Orbit™ is a defining philosophy of MountainSpirit.AI. It means that every strategy, recommendation, and solution revolves around the customer’s position, needs, and direction, not the capabilities of the latest AI tool.

Instead of forcing organizations to adapt to technology, Customer Orbit™ ensures technology adapts to the organization.

Know Where the Customer Is

Understanding the customer’s current capabilities, challenges, environment, and mission priorities.

Know Where They Need to Go

Clarifying long-term objectives, value targets, and the outcomes that matter most.

Know Their Trajectory

Recognizing internal momentum, cultural dynamics, and operational realities that shape what is possible.

Align AI to the Orbit

Tools, models, and processes are selected only if they fit the customer’s actual orbit — their mission, readiness, and constraints.

Support Their Movement Forward

Providing guidance that helps them move toward their goals without unnecessary complexity or unrealistic expectations.

Customer Orbit™ is ultimately about respect — for the customer’s context, mission, people, and pace of change.

It’s a customer-first approach to AI adoption that ensures solutions are sustainable, practical, and truly valuable.