Scale AI you can defend.
Independent AI governance and compliance advisory for large enterprises across Europe. We take an AI estate from inventory to a defensible position, and leave you with evidence and a plan you own.
EU AI Act · ISO/IEC 42001 · NIST AI RMF
The situation
Companies deploy AI faster than they can govern it. Use cases multiply, often without central oversight, while AI regulation keeps expanding. The constraint is not to do less AI, it is to keep doing it at scale without exposing the organisation.
Our stance
Governance is not a brake on AI: it is what lets you deploy fast and defend what you deployed. Not a race against a deadline, but a repeatable way of shipping AI that withstands scrutiny.
Who we are
A firm specialised in AI governance and compliance.
We work with large enterprises across Europe: organisations running AI at scale, where the size of the AI estate, not just its regulation, is what makes governance hard. Our job is to make that estate governable.
Strategy and delivery
Practitioners who have run enterprise AI programmes end to end.
Law and regulation
AI regulation, data protection and sector rules.
Operational compliance
Running AI compliance inside large groups, day to day.
Specialised boutique. AI governance and compliance are all we do, so you get senior specialists focused on your problem, not a generalist team stretched thin.
Audit-first. An audit that ends in a formal opinion you can defend, the same logic as a financial audit.
Builders, not just reviewers. Our team builds models, data pipelines and agents itself, so we audit with a working grasp of the technical complexity, not just the documentation.
Services
Six services, organised as a journey.
From mapping your systems to reinforcing your teams. You can engage at whichever stage matches your maturity.
AI system registry and inventory
Every AI system in the organisation, shadow AI and vendor-embedded AI included, mapped into a single registry: owner, purpose, data used, provider or deployer role, regulatory risk level. The authoritative inventory the rest of the programme builds on.
AI system compliance audit
An independent audit of a given AI system, covering both compliance and risk: bias, robustness, explainability, security. You receive a formal opinion, a per-dimension risk scorecard and a prioritised remediation roadmap, with no access to the model required.
AI regulatory compliance
We execute the post-audit action plan and close the identified gaps: technical documentation, risk classification, provider and deployer obligations, human-oversight design and compensating controls.
AI governance and compliance framework
Your permanent governance operating model, committee, policy corpus, RACI, decision and monitoring processes, with a control framework mapped once to your overlapping obligations, so one set of controls satisfies all of them.
AI governance platform selection
Your GRC platform selection run end to end: requirements matrix, RFP, comparative proof-of-concept, TCO and ROI business case. We are tied to no tool vendor and resell no software.
AI governance experts on demand
Vetted AI governance experts embedded in your teams under your steering, fast to mobilise, with guaranteed replacement: added capacity without added governance debt.
Each service stands on its own, but the six compound: the inventory feeds the audit, the audit reveals the gaps, remediation resolves them, the governance framework sustains it.
In focus
The AI system compliance audit.
Our flagship service, and often the best entry point: an independent diagnostic that tells you where you stand and what is left to do.
Why independent
Regulation allows a self-assessment of conformity for most higher-risk systems, but a self-assessment is hard to defend when an authority, a client or a committee later challenges it. An independent view and a formal opinion, the same logic as a financial audit, is what makes your position defensible.
What we audit
Eight pillars, and not as a checklist of documents: what we test is whether each one actually holds in practice.
Dedicated stream
Discovery and inventory. A living registry of every AI system, shadow AI and vendor-embedded AI included, running as its own workstream and feeding the audit continuously.
How we run it
- Framing and risk appetiteWhat the audit must decide, the focus, and the materiality threshold that defines what we flag.
- Classification and roleEach system gets one tier on our three-level risk scale, Light, Medium or Maximal, rolling up its AI-regulatory, privacy, cyber and ethics exposure, plus a provider or deployer qualification. The tier sets the depth of the audit.
- Proportionate reviewA Light case passes on a light-touch survey; a Maximal case gets an in-depth DPIA and FRIA, bias and robustness testing, and a review of documentation, data governance, human oversight and logging.
- Gap analysis, today and +18 monthsMeasured against current obligations and what is most likely to affect you next, so remediation is future-proof.
- Formal opinion and reportAn independent opinion, a board-ready readout and an audit evidence pack.
- Action planPrioritised remediation steps, sequenced by risk, effort and deadline, with clear owners.
Deliverables
In run
Beyond a one-off audit.
We bring the operating model that governs AI use cases in run, with the depth set by each use case's risk tier.
Frameworks
One control programme, three frameworks.
Rather than run three parallel compliance exercises, we build a single set of controls that answers all of them at once.
EU AI Act
The binding regulation covering risk classification, provider and deployer obligations, technical documentation and human oversight.
ISO/IEC 42001
The AI management-system standard, and the only one of the three offering formal third-party certification, increasingly requested as a vendor-qualification requirement.
NIST AI RMF
The widely adopted risk framework, useful as a common control language across teams and geographies.
A single human-oversight control satisfies all three at once. We map each control back to the obligations it discharges, so the same evidence serves every audience.
Across Europe, and beyond
National implementations, supervisory authorities and sector regulators differ from one European country to the next, and the United Kingdom and Switzerland regulate AI through existing sector rules rather than a single horizontal statute. We map each onto the same library of obligations, and extend it to your other jurisdictions, so a system deployed in several countries is governed once, not many times.
Europe
EU member states, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway
APAC
China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Singapore
North America
United States, federal and state level, Canada, Mexico
MEA and South America
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brazil
Contact
Request a scoping call.
Every engagement is senior-led, fixed in scope and independent: you know who is doing the work, what you will receive and by when. Tell us which system or which estate is in scope, and we will come back with a proposed scope, a duration and a fixed fee.
contact@aicompliancepartners.comInclude your organisation, your role, the countries in scope, and which system or estate you want us to look at. We reply from a named senior contact, and we sign a mutual NDA before any detail is shared.