Layer 03 — AI governance

Your team is already using AI. Now govern it before it governs you.

A fixed-scope engagement that inventories every AI use case in your business, tiers the risk, and builds the policy and oversight framework your board can actually sign off on.

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Fixed-scope · $240,000+ · Delivered in 12 weeks
AI use-case inventory — sample
Customer support copilot
Medium risk
Internal meeting notes tool
Low risk
Automated credit decisioning
High risk
Marketing copy generation
Low risk
Every AI tool in use, tiered by risk and mapped to a control.
12wk
Avg. delivery
$240K+
Fixed scope
3
Risk tiers, one framework
What we build

Three deliverables, handed to your team — not left in a slide deck.

Deliverable 01

AI use-case inventory & risk tiering

  • Every AI tool in use across the business, sanctioned or shadow
  • Each use case tiered by risk to the business, customers, and regulators
  • Distinguishes usage governance from model governance, so effort goes where the risk actually is
Deliverable 02

Model, vendor & data-use policy

  • Acceptable-use policy for commercial AI tools and vendors
  • Data handling rules for what can and can't go into an AI system
  • Approval path for new AI tools and use cases going forward
Deliverable 03

Board-ready oversight framework

  • Governance structure and reporting cadence for AI risk
  • Board-level summary your leadership can present with confidence
  • Your team trained and running it without us in the room
The engagement

Audit, design, hand off — the same discipline every time.

Stage 1 — Weeks 1–2

Audit

We inventory every AI use case in the business — sanctioned and shadow — and tell you plainly where the risk sits.

Stage 2 — Weeks 3–10

Design & build

We build the risk tiering model, policy, and oversight framework directly with your team and legal counsel.

Stage 3 — Weeks 11–12

Hand off

Documentation, training, and a board-ready framework in place — so it keeps running without us.

Who it's for

Companies deploying AI faster than they can oversee it.

Series B & later startups
PE portfolio companies
Healthcare & life sciences
Financial services
B2B SaaS scaling past $10M ARR
Manufacturing & logistics
Insurance
Public sector & education
Pricing

Fixed scope, fixed price — no hourly clock.

Layer 03

AI governance

For companies deploying AI faster than they can oversee it.
$240,000+
one-time, 12 weeks
  • Everything in Layer 02 (data governance)
  • AI risk tiering & policy
  • Board oversight framework
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Layer 03 is the natural point to move into an ongoing Fractional CDO / CAO retainer, keeping senior data leadership at the table as the AI landscape shifts.

"We were rolling out AI tools faster than legal could review them. The governance framework gave the board something to actually sign off on."

Priya Anand
Partner, Orchard PE

Give your board something
to sign off on.

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