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AI Governance Advisory.

AI Governance Advisory, built on ISO/IEC 42001: for businesses that need AI implementations they can stand behind. Led by a certified Lead Implementer, not a generic framework.

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AI is already part of your business. Is your governance keeping up?

Governance isn't one document. It's how your organization tracks AI use, assigns responsibility, manages risk, and can explain a decision after the fact.

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AI Use

What AI is actually being used, across every team, not just the tools IT approved.

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Responsibility

Who owns each AI use case, and who's accountable if something goes wrong.

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Risk

What could actually go wrong, assessed honestly, not assumed away.

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Controls

The safeguards that keep AI use inside what's actually acceptable.

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Evidence

A record of what was considered and why, not a memory of it.

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Review

How governance keeps up as your AI use, and the standards around it, keep changing.

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The credential behind this service

Pascale is a certified ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer

ISO/IEC 42001 is the international standard for AI management systems. Why it matters: the governance you get is benchmarked against a recognized global standard, not a checklist built for the occasion.

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What this actually gets you

Three reasons governance is an investment, not an overhead cost.

ACCOUNTABILITY

AI decisions you can stand behind

Most AI deployments still don't have mature governance in place. Good governance makes AI decisions explainable: what was considered, who was responsible, what controls applied, and why a decision was made, evidence you can stand behind with your board, your clients, or a regulator.

GROWTH

Scale without rebuilding later

Governance built in from day one means you're not forced to pause, retrofit, or rip out your AI systems when regulations tighten or you enter a new regulated market. You grow into new use cases instead of accumulating debt you'll pay down eventually.

ADVANTAGE

An asset when it's asked for

Documented AI governance increasingly comes up in RFPs, enterprise contracts, and partner reviews. Governance work you've already done becomes evidence the moment that question is asked, not something you have to scramble to produce.

What's included

Four parts, scoped to how much of this you actually need, see how scope adapts.

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Governance readiness assessment

A structured look at your current AI use, responsibilities, and gaps, benchmarked against ISO/IEC 42001, not a generic checklist stretched to fit.

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AI governance framework

Practical policies, roles, decision processes, and risk controls designed around how your organization actually uses AI, not an enterprise binder nobody on your team will read.

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Implementation support

Hands-on work with your team to put the governance into practice, not a set of documents handed over and left there.

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Ongoing governance support

Periodic reviews to keep governance current as your AI use, technology, and regulatory environment evolve.

You may need this if

A quick way to self-check before reading further.

You're already using AI across your organization

You're deploying AI into products or services

You're developing AI-enabled solutions

Customers or partners are asking about your responsible AI practices

You're preparing for procurement or regulatory requirements

Your AI use is growing without a formal governance structure

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions that come up before someone reaches out.

Is this for us?

What is AI Governance Advisory?

AI Governance Advisory helps you establish the policies, processes, roles, and evidence needed to use AI responsibly and consistently, using ISO/IEC 42001 as the foundation, scaled to your organization's size, AI use, and risk profile. It's not a compliance document you file away; it's a working system for how AI decisions actually get made and reviewed.

Who is this service for?

Organizations already using AI, introducing it into their operations, or building AI-enabled products, and increasingly, organizations that need to demonstrate responsible AI practices to customers, partners, or leadership, or that are preparing for tighter regulatory or procurement expectations. You don't need to be a large enterprise: the framework scales down as readily as it scales up.

How is this different from an AI policy or a risk assessment?

An AI policy tells people what they should or shouldn't do. A risk assessment identifies risk at a point in time. AI governance connects those pieces into an ongoing system: responsibilities, decision rights, controls, documentation, monitoring, and review, so a policy your legal team wrote doesn't sit disconnected from how decisions actually get made.

Do we need to be pursuing ISO/IEC 42001 certification?

No. You can use ISO/IEC 42001 as a practical governance framework without ever pursuing formal certification. Most clients do exactly that. Cebean provides advisory and implementation support based on the standard; certification itself is issued by an independent certification body, and where that's a future goal, we can help prepare you for it.

We're already using AI. Where do we start?

That's a common starting point, not an unusual one. You don't need to stop using AI, or have anything figured out, before engaging us. We start by understanding what's already in use, where responsibility currently sits, and what governance, if any, already exists. From there, we identify the highest priority gaps and build from them.

What would we actually get?

What does Cebean actually deliver?

Four things, scoped to what you need: a governance readiness assessment, a framework sized to your business, hands-on implementation support, and ongoing governance support as your AI use grows. See the full breakdown in What's Included above.

How does the engagement work?

The same scoped process behind every Cebean engagement: Assess, Recommend, Research & Propose, and Lead the Implementation, see How Scope Adapts for the full picture. Most governance engagements only need the first two or three stages; a smaller number go all the way through implementation.

How does the approach adapt to our organization?

The scope is set by your actual AI use, your existing governance environment, and your objectives, not a fixed template. The goal isn't to create bureaucracy; it's governance that's proportionate enough to actually get used.

What does ISO/IEC 42001 mean here?

Why does Cebean's ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer certification matter?

It means the framework you get is grounded in the actual international standard for AI management systems, led by someone certified to implement it, not an internal framework improvised for the occasion. Verify the credential directly on Credly.

Not sure how much governance you actually need yet?

That's exactly what a readiness check is for. No proposal required to find out.

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