AI GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE
AI Governance That's Provable, Not a Poster on the Wall
Independent AI governance, risk and compliance advisory for boards and regulated businesses. We assess the risk in the AI you deploy, design the governance that controls it, and build the evidence that passes the audit and satisfies the regulator.
EU AI Act and ISO 42001 readiness, AI risk review and register, board accountability, and vendor assessment. For the board, the CISO, the compliance and risk leaders who own the exposure.
THE REALITY
AI Gets Deployed Faster Than Anyone Governs It
Teams ship AI to keep up. The board signs off on the ambition, not the risk register, because there isn't one. Every model added without a control, every vendor onboarded without a review, is inherited risk that surfaces in an audit, a breach, or a lost deal. By then the fix costs more and the evidence you needed doesn't exist.
Ungoverned AI
- No inventory of the AI systems the business actually runs
- No risk register, so exposure is invisible until it isn't
- Vendors and third-party models onboarded with no review
- Policies that claim control the business can't evidence
- Governance that fails the first audit or due-diligence request
Governed and Provable
- Every AI system inventoried and classified by risk tier
- A living risk register with owners, controls, and review dates
- Vendor and ethics assessment before a model goes live
- Controls mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF
- Audit-ready evidence a board and a regulator can rely on
OUR APPROACH
Assess and Map, Design the Governance, Evidence and Audit
We work at three levels: Systems, Strategy, Execution. Assess and map the risk in the AI you deploy. Design the governance framework and operating model that controls it. Then evidence it, so the controls hold up when someone checks.
Assess and Map Your AI Risk
We inventory every AI system in your business, classify what each one does, and map the obligations it carries. EU AI Act risk tier, GDPR exposure, sector rules, and the gap between what you claim and what you can prove. You get a clear register of where the risk actually sits, ranked by what a regulator or a buyer would question first.
Design the Governance
We build the governance framework and operating model that fits how your business runs, not a template pulled off a shelf. Roles, decision rights, review gates, policies, and the controls that map to ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and the OECD AI Principles. Accountability that a board can sign off on and an auditor can follow.
Evidence It and Pass the Audit
Governance that lives in a slide deck fails the first audit. We build the risk register, the documentation, and the audit trail that turn your framework into evidence. When the regulator asks, the buyer runs due diligence, or the board wants assurance, the proof is already on file.
WHAT WE DO
Four Workstreams, One Governed System
We architect governance across four connected areas, each mapped to the standards that matter: the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, GDPR, and the OECD AI Principles. The output is governance you can operate and evidence you can show.
AI Governance Framework and Operating Model
We design the framework that governs how AI gets built, bought, and deployed across your business. Decision rights, roles, review gates, and policies, mapped to ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF. Governance you can actually operate, not a policy document nobody reads.
AI Risk Review and Register
We run a structured review of every AI system you deploy, classify the risk each one carries, and build the living risk register that tracks it. Bias, reliability, data protection, and third-party model exposure, all documented with owners, controls, and review dates attached.
EU AI Act and ISO 42001 Readiness
We map your AI systems to their EU AI Act risk tier and the obligations that follow, then close the gap to ISO/IEC 42001, the first AI management-system standard. You get a readiness assessment, a prioritised remediation plan, and the documentation that stands up to a certification audit.
Vendor and Ethics Assessment
Most AI risk enters through a vendor. We assess the third-party models and tools you rely on, review the ethics of how each system makes decisions, and give your board the evidence to accept, mitigate, or reject the risk. This is the discipline behind the book Ethical AI, applied to your supply chain.
We apply this hardest in sectors where a wrong AI decision carries legal or reputational cost. See how it lands for financial services, healthcare, and B2B SaaS.
Governance is the foundation under everything else we build. When you're ready to act on it, our AI Transformation practice automates the right workflows with the controls already in place. We advise your board, and we can deliver the programme in-house with your people or alongside trusted partners.
WHY US
Responsible AI Practitioners Who Make Governance Provable
This is the core of what VerityAI is. We're Responsible AI practitioners who know exactly how AI systems fail and how regulators read them, so the governance we build stands up to scrutiny. The thinking behind this work is set out in three books by our founder.
PRIMARY
Ethical AI
Frameworks that turn responsible AI from an abstract principle into governance and controls business leaders can actually operate and prove.
ON ADVANTAGE
AI Moats
How governed processes and earned trust become an advantage competitors can't copy by buying the same model.
ON TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORM
A practical framework for taking an organisation through AI adoption with governance built in from the start.
Go deeper on the thinking across the AI governance knowledge base, and start with our free AI risk register template.
Or check your exposure directly with the EU AI Act readiness tool.
QUESTIONS
What Boards and Risk Leaders Ask First
What is AI governance?
AI governance is how your business decides what AI it deploys, who is accountable for it, and how the risk gets controlled. It covers the framework, the roles and decision rights, the policies, and the evidence that proves the controls work. Done well, it lets you move fast on AI while staying inside the law and your own risk appetite. Done as a poster on the wall, it fails the first audit. We build governance you can operate and prove.
Do we need ISO 42001?
ISO/IEC 42001, published in 2023, is the first management-system standard for AI, and certification against it is becoming a signal buyers and regulators look for. You need it when a customer's due diligence asks for it, when you sell into regulated sectors, or when you want independent assurance that your AI governance holds up. We assess where you stand against the standard, close the gap, and prepare the documentation a certification audit requires. If certification isn't your goal yet, the same framework still gives you defensible governance.
How do you assess AI risk?
We inventory every AI system you deploy, then classify each one against the obligations it carries: EU AI Act risk tier, GDPR exposure, sector rules, and the ethical risk in how it makes decisions. Each system gets an owner, the controls that manage its risk, and a review date. The output is a living risk register, ranked by what a regulator or a buyer would challenge first, so remediation goes to the highest exposure before anything else.
What does an AI governance review include?
A full picture of where your AI risk sits and what to do about it. We map your AI systems and their risk tiers, assess your current governance against ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act, review your vendors and the ethics of each system, and build the risk register and audit trail. You get a prioritised remediation plan and the documentation that turns governance from a claim into evidence a board or an auditor can rely on.
Are we EU AI Act ready?
The EU AI Act has been in force in staged phases since 2 February 2025, and the obligations depend on your risk tier. A high-risk system carries requirements a minimal-risk one does not. Readiness starts with knowing which tier each of your AI systems falls into, then closing the gap to the obligations that follow. We run that assessment, give you a remediation plan ranked by exposure, and build the evidence. Start with our free EU AI Act readiness tool to see where you stand.
Do you deliver the programme or just advise?
Both, and you choose. We advise your board and your teams on the governance you need, and we can deliver the programme in-house with your people or alongside trusted partners. The diagnosis, the framework, the risk register, and the audit-ready evidence are all work we own end to end. You get a governance partner who makes the risk provable, not a report that leaves the hard part to you.
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Make Your AI Governance Provable Before Someone Checks
Pass the audit, satisfy the regulator, win the deal. Assess where you stand with our free EU AI Act readiness tool, or speak with us about an AI governance, risk and compliance review built on evidence.
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