AI governance, answered.

It's an audit-grade evaluation of your organization's AI posture against NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act. You receive a current-state assessment of your AI inventory and use cases, a control-gap analysis with severity and maturity ratings, a prioritized 30/60/90-day roadmap, an executive briefing, and a board-ready assurance artifact you can hand to auditors, customers, and regulators.

No — the pressure is already here. Regulators (led by the EU AI Act), enterprise customers, and boards are asking organizations to prove their AI is used safely and lawfully, and “shadow AI” is spreading faster than most policies. If you can't currently answer “are our AI systems safe, compliant, and monitored?” with evidence, that gap is a present risk, not a future one.

We work primarily from NIST AI RMF (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), ISO/IEC 42001 (the AI management-system standard), and the EU AI Act's risk-tier model. Wherever possible we map these onto controls you already run — NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, and your existing risk register — so you extend your program rather than rebuild it.

The priorities typically include data leakage and privacy exposure, prompt injection and misuse, hallucination and accuracy, intellectual-property and licensing issues, model and vendor (third-party) risk, bias and fairness, and the absence of monitoring or an audit trail. We help you identify which apply to each use case and put proportionate controls in place.

AI governance is an extension of your GRC program, not a separate silo. We reuse your control frameworks, risk register, third-party risk process, and identity controls, and map NIST AI RMF onto your existing NIST CSF or ISO 27001 baseline — so security stays a business enabler and you avoid duplicated effort.

The Act can reach US organizations whose AI systems or outputs are used in the EU. It classifies systems by risk tier (from minimal to prohibited), with documentation, transparency, and conformity obligations phasing in on set timelines, and meaningful penalties for non-compliance. We help you classify your systems and prepare the required evidence. (This is general guidance, not legal advice — we recommend confirming specific obligations with qualified counsel.)

Assessments are fixed-scope and fixed-fee. Typical tiers are a Rapid Readiness Snapshot ($3,500, ~1 week), a Standard Readiness Assessment ($6,500, 2–3 weeks), and a Comprehensive Governance Roadmap ($8,500+, 3–4 weeks). A 50% deposit begins the work, with the balance due on delivery — no open-ended billing.

Yes. Beyond the assessment we help you stand up the program — AI use-case inventory, policies and standards, a target operating model, control implementation, monitoring, and role-based training — so governance is operational and sustainable, not a document that sits on a shelf.

We apply proven third-party risk methods to your AI supply chain: due diligence and tiering of AI vendors, review of data handling and model provenance, contractual and security controls, and ongoing monitoring — so a model provider's weakness doesn't become your exposure.

Begin with a free 20-minute scoping call. We'll confirm fit, recommend the right assessment tier, and outline next steps — most engagements start within a week of a signed agreement. Reach out by phone or email to book.