AI Governance and Assessment

You cannot govern the AI you cannot see.

Agents Stack finds the AI already running in your business, classifies what each use case puts at risk, and builds the oversight you can evidence to an executive team, an auditor or a regulator.

Fixed scope, dated output

A defined assessment with an agreed scope and a dated report. Not an open-ended advisory retainer.

Additive to your environment

Works with the identity, cloud, data and GRC platforms already in place. No wholesale rip and replace.

Findings stay with you

The inventory, risk positions and evidence pack are yours to keep, and can be credited against subsequent delivery.

The problem

Most AI risk is not in the model. It is in the parts nobody wrote down.

AI enters an organization faster than governance does. By the time anyone asks for an inventory, the estate already spans approved platforms, embedded vendor features, team-level tools and a growing number of agents acting on real systems.

No inventory

No single view of which AI applications, models and agents are in use, who owns them, or what data they touch.

Inconsistent approvals

Use cases approved at different thresholds by different teams, with no consistent measure of impact or autonomy.

Agents without boundaries

Agents granted standing permissions with no defined authority boundary, escalation path or safe shutdown.

Evidence rebuilt by hand

Policies that exist on paper while the evidence behind them is reconstructed by hand before each audit.

Unassessed supplier AI

Supplier AI capability switched on by default, with no assurance position on the model or the data behind it.

Boards without visibility

Boards asked to accept AI risk they have no instrumented way to see.

What it covers

Four things the assessment establishes.

01 / Visibility

A governed inventory of the AI estate

Discover approved, emerging and unapproved AI use, including shadow AI and vendor features already switched on. Connect each application, model and agent to its business purpose, accountable owner, data, users and the decisions it affects.

02 / Classification

Governance proportionate to impact

Classify each use case on impact, autonomy, data sensitivity, regulatory relevance and potential consequence. Higher-risk uses earn deeper assessment, testing and approval. Lower-risk uses follow a streamlined path rather than stalling in a queue.

03 / Agent oversight

Authority boundaries defined per agent

Define each agent's identity, purpose, owner, permissions, tools, knowledge sources and prohibited actions. Set confidence thresholds, approval gates, transaction limits, escalation conditions and safe shutdown before anything reaches production.

04 / Alignment

Policy and obligations mapped to evidence

Map your AI principles and policies to the standards and obligations you report against, so a change in requirement traces straight through to the use cases, controls, suppliers and approvals it affects.

How it runs

Three stages, scoped before it starts.

Lead with a measurable business problem, establish the baseline, and expand only once outcomes, governance and adoption are established.

01

Align

Confirm the business outcome, scope, risk appetite, stakeholders, obligations and success measures. You leave this stage with shared priorities and clear decision rights.

02

Assess

Establish the current-state baseline across AI use, governance maturity and priority controls. You leave this stage with evidence-based gaps, quick wins and dependencies.

03

Design

Define the target operating model, policy set, agent authority model and reporting line. You leave this stage with a deployable plan that has human oversight built in.

Deliverables

What you hold at the end.

  • A governed inventory of AI applications, models and agents, with named accountable owners.
  • Risk classification for each use case, with the thresholds and rationale behind it.
  • An AI policy and control framework, with the accountability model that makes it operable.
  • Agent identity, authority boundaries and human approval gates, defined per use case.
  • Supplier and model assurance positions, with exceptions tracked to resolution.
  • A prioritized roadmap from the current baseline to continuous assurance.
  • Executive and board reporting focused on material exposure and the decisions in front of them.

Mapped to the obligations you already report against

NIST CSF
ISO 27001
SOC 2
DORA
NIS2
MAS TRM
GDPR
HIPAA

Assessments are mapped to the frameworks and sector obligations that apply in your jurisdiction.

See where your AI estate actually stands.

A fixed-scope assessment that establishes the baseline, identifies material gaps and quick wins, and gives you a roadmap you can take to the board. Findings are retained by you and can be credited against subsequent delivery.