AI Governance and Remediation as a Service
AIGRaaS: the 90-day path from exposed AI program to review-ready board brief.
A 90-day engagement for organizations whose AI programs are about to be examined by a board, an auditor, a regulator, or the public. A senior cross-functional team enters the program, exposes what is missing, remediates the gaps, and leaves the executive with gates, evidence, controls, and a board brief built to withstand serious review.
Why AIGRaaS exists
The pain is not uncertainty. It is invisible accountability. Vendor claims sound confident. Internal teams sound busy. The release date keeps moving. Nobody wants to be the person who slows innovation, yet nobody wants their signature attached to a preventable failure. Somewhere in the program, a vendor demo is being treated as readiness evidence — and someone, eventually, will have to explain that decision.
AIGRaaS exists for the gap between those two sentences. The engagement gives executives a governed path forward: clear gates, accountable owners, remediation workstreams, staff readiness, and a concise board brief that separates real progress from theater. The executive is not alone in front of a room that already knows the hard questions.
Nobody wants to slow innovation. Nobody wants their signature on a preventable failure. AIGRaaS lives in the gap between those two sentences.Three patterns that bring AIGRaaS in
The engagement starts when a real decision is approaching and the evidence behind it isn't ready. There are three patterns that come up most often. They share a pattern: leadership can feel the pressure, and the picture they have isn't ready to commit on.
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Pattern 01 · Procurement
Procurement is moving faster than control
Contracts harden before controls, testing, ownership, and review gates become visible. Once the signature page is dated, the leverage to ask for redlines, named owners, or a rollback clause drops sharply. AIGRaaS uses that leverage while it still exists.
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Pattern 02 · Languages
Teams are speaking separate languages
Security, legal, finance, data, delivery, and product each hold part of the truth. Nobody has the whole map. The engagement brings those teams to the same table — not in another status meeting, but in a working forum where the truth gets reconciled.
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Pattern 03 · Gate
A governed gate would change behavior
Funding, release, and remediation are still tied to optimism. The team needs to tie them to evidence instead. The engagement makes that change concrete, gate by gate, with named conditions for each release.
Five service lines, one operating system
Pick the point of pressure. Build the control layer there. AIGRaaS is the flagship 90-day rescue, and four narrower service lines plug into specific moments — before funding, after impact, during delivery, or where policy meets execution.
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AIGRaaS — 90-day rescue
The flagship engagement. A cross-functional squad, executive playbook, board brief, staff training, and operating cadence support for sustained delivery. Buy this when an AI program is funded, in flight, and review pressure is less than six months away.
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Gatekeeper — Pre-award
Vendor bid review, readiness scoring, release-of-funds gate, and decision record before the organization becomes locked into a fragile path. Gatekeeper scores architecture, data access, security, privacy, operations, and training as one decision surface — and ties approval to readiness thresholds and ownership clarity. Buy this when a vendor selection or platform contract is close to signature and readiness evidence is thin.
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Incident Post-Mortems — After impact
A visible failure can become operating memory. Structured analysis with an external lesson release and an internal controls package that turns the incident into durable operating discipline. The engagement separates facts from blame. Buy this when a visible AI failure needs an external lesson release and an internal controls package.
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Decision Cadence Labs — Decision rhythm
Clearer ceremonies make sharper decisions. The lab integrates structured decision-framing routines into existing agile ceremonies — a short reset and risk framing before difficult review moments, decision pauses and escalation language during the sprint, and retrospectives that capture decision pressure and operational facts together. Buy this when delivery teams are making consequential AI calls under sustained pressure.
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Policy-as-Code Accelerator — Executable control
Policies gain power when systems can execute them. The accelerator translates written policy into testable rules, dashboards that show blocked exceptions and unresolved owners in one view, exception workflows, and staff training that turns controls into daily behavior instead of compliance language. Buy this when AI policies exist in documents but engineering cannot execute them in delivery.
How the ninety days run
AIGRaaS moves from diagnosis to remediation in three phases. Each phase has a clear hand-off. Engineering, legal, procurement, and delivery sit at the same table the entire time — that is what makes the rhythm work.
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Days 1-15
Expose the truth
Map the AI use cases, vendor promises, data paths, policy gaps, human review points, and business decisions that carry real risk. Most programs already contain the answer; the work pulls it together so the executive can see it in one place.
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Days 16-60
Remediate the system
Stand up gates, controls, dashboards, training, incident rituals, team reset routines, and evidence trails. This is the longest phase by design. It is where the operating model actually changes — not in language, in artifacts.
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Days 61-90
Hand over control
Deliver the board brief, playbook, training artifacts, operating cadence, and release criteria. On day ninety, the executive walks into the next review with a brief that holds up to questions.
Seven artifacts, none of them theater
Concrete artifacts, not governance theater. Each item below ships as a named file with an owner and a date.
Executive board brief
The document the executive takes into the next review, written for the room and backed by the evidence pack.
Governance playbook
The operating model in one place: gates, owners, escalation, exception, and review.
Release criteria and gate definitions
What "ready" actually means, with thresholds the team can operate against.
Evidence pack
Decision records, control owners, exception log, and the dated artifacts behind every claim.
Staff training artifacts
The materials that turn controls into daily behavior, not compliance language.
Operating cadence and dashboard
The recurring forum and the live view that keeps it honest between meetings.
Optional incident response ritual
The structured handling for the failure mode the program is most exposed to.
Without a gate vs. with AIGRaaS
Two operating realities sit side by side in most programs: the one that exists today, and the one a serious reviewer expects. The engagement closes the gap between them.
Optimism is the operating model
- Vendors define readiness in their own language.
- Controls arrive after funding, contracts, and deadlines harden.
- Training becomes a checkbox after people are already exposed.
- Incidents produce blame, not reusable operating memory.
- The executive ends up explaining decisions made elsewhere.
Evidence is the operating model
- Every decision has an owner, gate, artifact, and escalation path.
- Funding decisions can be tied to readiness evidence instead of optimism.
- Staff training is planned before the riskiest workflows go live.
- Lessons are packaged as external guidance and internal controls.
- The executive walks into the room with a brief, not a story.
Nobody wants to slow innovation. Nobody wants their signature on a preventable failure. AIGRaaS lives in the gap between those two sentences.Operating principle
Three principles every engagement runs on
Evidence over reassurance
Every claim in the brief ties to a dated, named artifact. If a claim doesn't have an artifact behind it, it goes into the gap register, not the readout. That preference is what makes the executive defense work.
Owners named on day one
Every gate, control, and exception has a name attached before the engagement is two weeks old. Without a name, the gate is a wish. The engagement treats it that way.
You keep the call
We bring the evidence, the gate language, and the operating cadence. You sign off, fund, and own the rollout. The engagement makes the executive decision visible — it does not move the decision away from the people accountable for it.
What stays with you, and what this isn't
You stay in control of every decision and every rollout. The line between what we deliver and what we don't is short and explicit, so there are no surprises during procurement or delivery.
- What we deliver
- Executive board brief, governance playbook, release criteria, evidence pack, staff training, operating cadence and dashboard, optional incident ritual.
- Not a formal audit
- Not an attestation. Your auditor still owns that opinion. The brief reads alongside an audit, not in place of one.
- Not legal advice
- Counsel still owns that call. We organize evidence; legal interpretation is theirs.
- Not vendor certification
- We do not certify vendors. Gatekeeper assesses one packet against one decision, on a date.
- No outcome guarantees
- No guarantee of regulatory approval, insurer outcome, board sign-off, or vendor performance. We guarantee the artifacts are honest, dated, and review-ready.
- You provide the inputs
- Cross-functional access, executive sponsor presence, vendor cooperation through procurement, and a willingness to act on what the engagement surfaces.
Where this leads next
AIGRaaS often surfaces a specific decision that lives outside the 90-day window. When it does, the follow-on path stays scoped and evidence-driven, not open-ended.
- Governance & Risk Cadence — keep the brief, gates, and evidence pack current after the 90 days end.
- Vendor Gatekeeper — stress-test a specific vendor packet before the next signature, renewal, or escalation.
- 9-Day Build Sprint — ship one missing control fast when the engagement points to a single fix.
- Regulatory / Insurer Evidence Pack — wrap the AIGRaaS artifacts into a packet ready for an external reviewer.
Companion deck: the slide brief carries the same content in a presenter format. Use the slides for the room; use this brief for the executive sponsor and the procurement file.