Find Out If Your AI Is Actually Ready for Production

Review data handling, access controls, and audit trail against the frameworks your compliance team use, and identify what's missing before an incident does.

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A working AI pilot isn't automatically ready for production

AI pilots often reach production before anyone has documented what data they touch, who approved their access, or what happens when something goes wrong. This is what a real AI readiness assessment exists to catch: we review what's actually in place against what your compliance team, auditors, or applicable regulations require, so you know what needs to be addressed before scaling.

A clear picture of what AI is already running in your organization, sanctioned or not, the shadow AI discovery and detection work that most access-control reviews skip, what data it touches, and who has access to it.

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An assessment of your current policies, approval trails, and documentation against what NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and applicable regulations such as the EU AI Act's risk classification tiers require, including whether the system has a retained evaluation set, a named owner for ground truth, a documented passing threshold, and a regression process that runs automatically when the underlying model version changes. Without that, a system that's "working" today has no defensible way to prove it's still working after the next silent provider update.

A direct look at where access controls, data handling, or human-override points are missing, or exist but were never written down.

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What needs to change before the system is defensible, ranked by the risk each gap carries and the effort required to address it.

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Whether personal data is detected and redacted before reaching a model, and whether the system's data is processed and stored somewhere your regulatory obligations actually permit, including SBP requirements for Pakistani financial data and SDAIA/PDPL for Saudi-touching systems. Silence on either is a gap, not a clean result.
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What the review actually tells you

At the end of the review, each system is classified based on the gaps we find and what they mean for scaling.

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Ready to Scale

At the end of the review, each system is classified based on the gaps we find and what they mean for scaling.

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Needs Remediation First

The system works, but one or more gaps need to be addressed before it is ready to scale. We identify exactly what's missing and give you a realistic timeline for closing each gap.

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Not Ready

The gap is large enough that scaling now would be a real risk. You get a clear explanation of the risks involved and what would need to change before scaling makes sense.

Not sure where your AI stands?

Bring us what’s already running, and we’ll help you identify what’s ready to scale, what needs remediation, and what needs a closer look before it moves forward.
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DEPLOYMENT TIMELINE

From review to a documented, defensible system

A structured engagement that turns an unreviewed AI system into one your compliance team can actually stand behind.

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STEP 1

Inventory What's Running

We map every AI system in scope, including the shadow AI nobody's inventoried yet, what it touches, who approved it, and what's already documented versus what only exists as institutional knowledge.

STEP 2

Review Against the Frameworks

We check current policies, access controls, and audit trails against NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the regulations applicable to your industry and use case.

STEP 3

Identify the Gaps

We identify what's missing, whether that's a policy, access control, human-override point, or another control, and rank each gap by the risk it carries.

STEP 4

Build the Remediation Plan

We hand over a prioritized list of what needs to close before this is defensible, with a realistic timeline for each item.

STEP 5

Document & Handoff

The automation goes live with monitoring in place, and we hand over the documentation and access your team needs to operate and extend it.

How we handle data governance and compliance

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Data Residency

Your data stays inside boundaries you define, whether that's a zero-retention API, an isolated environment, or on-premises infrastructure, depending on what your governance requires.

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Access Control

Every system connection only reaches the data and actions your team has explicitly approved. Nothing is granted by default.

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Audit Trail

Every data movement is logged and traceable, so if something goes wrong, your team can see exactly what happened and where.

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Rollback & Recovery

A defined rollback path exists before any pipeline goes live, so a bad deployment doesn't become a data incident.

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Data Residency & Support Commitments

We state plainly where your data can be processed under your regulatory obligations, and what support tier and response commitment applies once a system is reviewed and live.

The checks every review covers

Every review assesses your systems against key governance, security, and compliance benchmarks to ensure production readiness.

Data & model risk
We evaluate what data the AI touches, where that data comes from, which models or providers are involved, and whether those dependencies are documented, approved, and governed. We also check whether sensitive data can reach a model or third-party service without the right controls in place.
Access & permissions
We review what the AI can see, what it can change, and what it can execute across connected systems. We check whether permissions are appropriately scoped, whether service accounts have only the access they need, and whether human approval is required for higher-risk actions.
Evaluation & reliability
We audit whether the system maintains a retained evaluation set, a defined passing threshold, and clear accountability for ground truth. We also check whether evaluations are rerun when the underlying model or prompt changes, so a system that worked at launch doesn't quietly degrade after the next provider update.
Human oversight & recovery
We verify whether approval checkpoints, override mechanisms, and kill-switches actually exist and are accessible to the people responsible for the system. We also check what happens when an automation or agent stops halfway through an action, including whether there's a documented reconciliation path for partially completed changes.
AI-specific security
Whether tool boundaries are enforced at the infrastructure layer or simply described in the system prompt. We check whether the system has been tested against instructions hidden inside the documents, tickets, messages, or other content it reads, including the prompt injection paths most likely to matter for an AI system with access to business tools.
Monitoring & incident response
We assess whether the team can actively detect when the AI behaves unexpectedly decisions, or failing to complete an action. We check what gets logged, what triggers an alert, who receives it, and whether there's a documented process for investigating and responding when something goes wrong.
Ownership & documentation
Whether someone is actually responsible for the system after it leaves engineering. We check whether the owner, model version, data sources, permissions, approval decisions, evaluation results, known limitations, and escalation paths are documented well enough that another team can understand and operate the system without relying on institutional knowledge.

Already have specific compliance requirements in place?

Tell us before the review starts. Most engagements build on your existing policies and controls rather than starting from scratch.
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Frequently asked questions

What is an AI governance and readiness review?

How do you find AI tools we don't already know are running?

What counts as a "high-risk" AI system under the EU AI Act?

Do you certify us as compliant with NIST AI RMF or ISO 42001?

How is this different from AI Strategy & Discovery?

How is this different from a formal AI compliance audit?

What if the review finds serious gaps?

How long does a review take?

Who owns the report and the remediation plan?

Do you need full access to review a system?

Can you help close the gaps you find, or just identify them?

What happens after the review

Once you know what needs to close, the next step is usually closing it. Depending on what the review found, our team can move into:

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