Defensible AI governance, aligned to ISO/IEC 42001.
For boards and executive teams that need a credible, auditable AI Management System. We design, implement, and operate an ISO/IEC 42001-aligned program — from gap assessment to certification readiness — so your AI moves faster, with risk under control and regulators, customers, and partners satisfied.
Why AI without governance is now a board-level risk.
AI velocity has outrun policy. Boards, regulators, customers, and insurers are catching up — and they are asking questions your team currently cannot answer with evidence.
Regulatory exposure
The EU AI Act, Canada's AIDA, OSFI's model risk guidance, and a growing wave of U.S. state-level laws converge on the same demand: a documented AI Management System. Without one, fines, restrictions, and forced retrofits follow.
Shadow AI
Employees are already piping customer data, financials, and IP into public GenAI tools — usually with no policy, no logging, and no consent boundary. The first incident is usually the one that gets disclosed publicly.
Procurement & RFP friction
Enterprise customers now ask for AI governance attestations alongside SOC 2 and ISO 27001. With no answer, deals stall in procurement for weeks — or pivot to competitors who have one ready.
Unowned model risk
Production AI behaving badly — bias, hallucination, data leakage — with no owner, no incident playbook, no audit trail. When the board asks 'who approved this?', there is no clean answer.
From gap to certification, in four phases.
Built on ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — the international AI Management System standard — and harmonized with NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act. Designed for executives who need governance their auditors trust and their teams can actually run.
Assess your AI posture
Where are you today against ISO/IEC 42001 — and where is the regulatory clock pointed?
- AI system inventoryEvery model, agent, vendor, shadow tool
- Gap assessmentClause-by-clause + Annex A control gaps
- Risk & impact baselineAIIA per system, harms + likelihood scoring
- Regulatory landscapeEU AI Act, AIDA, OSFI, sector-specific exposure
Design the AI Management System
A right-sized AIMS — policies, roles, controls — that fits the business, not a template binder.
- Policies & standardsAI policy, acceptable use, model lifecycle
- Roles & accountabilityAI risk owner, ethics committee, RACI
- Annex A controlsScoped, written, mapped to evidence sources
- AIIA frameworkRepeatable impact assessment for new systems
Embed controls in your stack
Operationalize the AIMS — controls in code, evidence collected by default.
- Model & agent registrySource-of-truth for every system in production
- Data lineage & consentTracked from intake to inference to retention
- Evaluation & drift gatesQuality + bias evals wired into CI/CD
- Third-party AI controlsVendor reviews, DPIAs, contract clauses
Audit, certify, improve
Stand up internal audit, prepare for certification, and run continuous improvement.
- Internal auditIndependent review against the AIMS
- Certification readinessPre-audit, gap closure, certification body engagement
- Incident & breach playbooksTested response for AI-specific failure modes
- Management reviewQuarterly board-grade reporting
Engineered. Auditable. Defensible.
We build AI Management Systems that pass audit on the first attempt — and that your engineering, legal, and product teams can actually run on a Monday morning. Not a binder full of policies nobody reads.
ISO/IEC 42001-aligned by design
Every artifact — policy, register, control evidence — maps to a clause and Annex A control. Certification readiness is a byproduct of the design, not a separate program.
Harmonized with the rest of your stack
We integrate with what you already run — ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act conformity assessments — so AI governance is one program, not five overlapping ones.
Engineered, not paperware
Controls embedded in code: model registry, lineage, evaluation gates, prompt versioning, incident hooks. Evidence is produced automatically, not assembled by hand the week before an audit.
Co-built with your CISO, legal, and product
We do not drop a binder and leave. Your security, legal, and engineering leads co-author the AIMS so they own it confidently after we step back.
Brief → Assess → Implement → Certify.
Most engagements run from an executive briefing to a signed scope in two weeks. Gap assessment in a month. Certification readiness in two to three quarters, depending on AI surface area.
Book an executive briefing- 01Executive briefing (Week 0)90-min session with your CEO, CISO, GC. Output: shared map of AI exposure and a fixed scope.
- 02Gap assessment (Weeks 1–4)Clause-by-clause and Annex A review. Output: written AIMS gap report and roadmap.
- 03Design + implement (Weeks 5–20)Policies, controls, evidence pipelines. Co-built with your CISO, legal, and product.
- 04Audit + certify (ongoing)Internal audit, certification body engagement, surveillance support, continuous improvement.