Governance. As a Service.
Governance-as-a-Service is not a report. It is a continuous control layer that runs before your first deployment, through every sprint, and long after the engagement ends. Your board can cite it. Your legal team can defend it.
Everyone is selling AI capability. Capability without governance is unmanaged operational exposure: shadow AI, single-model dependency, and workflows that can go dark overnight. We close that governance gap with rules before tools: governed inputs, governed outputs, and an auditable AI footprint in between.
Govern the data in. Govern the decisions out.
Data Governance
Controls the inputs
- Accuracy and quality: data that is fit to act on
- Secure access and usage: least-privilege by policy
- Lineage and traceability: provenance is known
- Classification and standards, enforced
Protects against poor-quality, incomplete, or unauthorized data entering the system.
AI Governance
Controls the outputs
- Explainability: decisions are legible
- Fairness, bias, and safety: guardrails hold
- Accountability: every action is auditable
- Compliance alignment: EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF
Protects against opaque decisions, bias, and uncontrolled automation.
Ten governance checkpoints inside every diagnostic.
Rules-before-tools enforcement is built into the audit pipeline itself. Each checkpoint produces an artifact that withstands a board review, a regulator, or your own future audit trail.
AI Readiness Score
An 82-point assessment scored 0-100. No engagement starts without a documented data hygiene and AI maturity baseline.
Stakeholder Configuration
Accountable owners required by role: executive, operations, customer-facing, finance. You cannot govern what no one owns.
Interview Data Capture
Structured stakeholder interviews covering pain, ideal state, constraints, and success metrics. Assumptions made explicit and contestable.
Document Evidence Base
Source documents auto-extracted into tagged excerpts. No recommendation without documented evidence.
Comprehensive Audit Pipeline
Four-stage audit: merge sources, validate findings, identify gaps, build strategy. Recommendations carry confidence scores.
Confidence Scoring
Six confidence dimensions on every audit layer. Investor-grade transparency baked into every output.
Contradictions Analysis
Documented vs. reality, with priority and supporting evidence. The gap between belief and evidence named explicitly.
ROI Benchmarks
Benchmark library with blended labor rates and cost ranges. Year-1 ROI, payback period, and 5-year net value on every recommendation.
Framework-Aligned Outputs
BCG AI Maturity, Deloitte Impact Matrix, Know-Do-Build Roadmap, BCG 10-20-70. External standards, not internal opinion.
Stakeholder Memos & Final Report
Role-personalized memos plus a signed, dated report tied to each accountability scope. Audit trail closed.
The full capabilities overview, including all ten checkpoints and the five practice areas they anchor, lives at ob1-deck.vercel.app.
One governance rubric per regulated industry.
Generic AI policy fails the first time a regulator asks a sector-specific question. Our governance library maintains a research-grounded rubric for each vertical we serve: the data landscape, the regulatory regimes, the vertical controls, and the procurement gates. Every capability is rated on a 0-4 maturity ladder against a ten-framework compliance crosswalk, with Tier 3 (Managed) as the defensible baseline for regulated data.
Insurance
GLBA, NAIC Model Law, state DOI (NYDFS)
Healthcare & Life Sciences
HIPAA/HITECH, 21 CFR Part 11, GCP
Banking & Financial Services
GLBA, SOX ITGC, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, NYDFS
Manufacturing
CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-171, IEC 62443
Legal
ABA Model Rules 1.6 / 1.1 / 5.3, Op. 477R / 483
Education
FERPA, COPPA, state student-privacy law
Real Estate, Housing & Lending
Fair Housing Act, ECOA, FCRA
Logistics & Transportation
TSA directives, MTSA, FMCSA, CISA CPGs
Non-Profit
PCI-DSS 4.0, state breach law, CAN-SPAM / TCPA
In development: HR & Staffing (EEOC, NYC Local Law 144), Professional Services (SOC 2, client DPAs), Retail (CCPA/CPRA), Construction, Hospitality, Restaurants & F&B, and Marketing Agencies. If your industry is not listed, the master rubric adapts: that is what it is for.
Where are you exposed if your primary model goes dark?
Start with the readiness diagnostic. Five minutes to a scored baseline, and a clear view of your governance gap. No pitch, no pressure.