GreyguardIndependent AI governance advisory
AI is moving fast. Governance should keep up.
Know where AI is used, what it can access, and who is accountable. Greyguard helps organisations turn AI risk and regulatory requirements into practical, defensible governance.
European advisory. Enterprise technology expertise. Vendor-agnostic by design.
01 · The problem
You cannot govern what you cannot see.
AI has entered most organisations faster than governance has followed. The gaps we find are consistent, and they are fixable.
Shadow AI and ungoverned tools
Employees use AI tools that have never been approved, sharing company data with systems no one has assessed. We find them, document them, and give you a plan to bring them under control.
Exposed data and excessive permissions
AI tools surface HR records, legal files, and financial data to people who should never see them. The root cause is permissions that were never designed with AI in mind. We identify every exposure and tell you exactly what to fix.
Fragmented accountability
The EU AI Act expects a named individual accountable for every high-risk AI system. Most organisations cannot answer that question today. We define who owns what, with the authority and access to act on it.
Unmanaged agents and copilots
Agentic systems and Microsoft 365 Copilot act on your data at machine speed. Without oversight structures, small configuration errors become organisation-wide exposure. We put the controls in place.
02 · Compass
Start with a clear picture.
Compass is a guided AI governance assessment across 13 domains and 105 questions, mapped to the regulations that apply to your organisation. It shows you where you stand before you commit to anything.
Assess
Answer 105 questions across 13 governance domains.
Score
Responses are mapped to the specific regulations that apply to you.
Report
An automated readiness report, or a Verified Report reviewed by our compliance and legal specialists.
Roadmap
A prioritised path from findings to sustained compliance.
The Compass assessment is free to complete.
The Verified Report adds independent review and sign-off by our specialists. €799.
Free to complete · No credit card required
03 · Regulation
The EU AI Act timeline, as it stands.
Key application dates under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, as amended by the AI Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.
Obligations differ by role, system and circumstance. These are the general application milestones, not legal advice.
04 · Services
One connected path. From first assessment to sustained compliance.
Most clients start with Compass. From there, each step builds on what the assessment surfaces: a verified report, a fixed-scope remediation sprint, and ongoing support.
Compass Assessment
A guided AI governance assessment across 13 governance domains, with 105 questions mapped to the specific regulations that apply to you. The questions are grouped by category and tailored to your industry, whether finance, technology, healthcare or beyond, so each section goes to the person best placed to answer it. Different teams typically complete their parts over a few days or weeks. The result is a thorough readiness report showing exactly where you stand, not a generic checklist. Free to complete.
Verified Report
Your completed assessment, independently reviewed and signed off by our compliance and legal specialists. We validate every finding against the underlying regulation, prioritise your gaps by risk and enforcement deadline, and deliver a board-ready report you can act on.
Remediation Sprint
A fixed-scope engagement that turns your findings into the governance documents you actually need: policies, an AI inventory and risk register, lawful-basis records, and a board paper, tailored to your organisation and signed off by legal counsel. We close your top priority gaps.
Ongoing Governance Retainer
Monthly advisory and quarterly governance reviews that keep your programme current as enforcement dates arrive and regulations evolve. Regulatory monitoring, board-ready updates, and priority access to our specialists.
05 · Our approach
Discover. Assess. Implement. Govern.
Discover
Map every AI system, agent and data flow in your organisation, including shadow AI.
Assess
Score your exposure against the regulations and frameworks that apply to you.
Implement
Close priority gaps: policies, permissions, accountability structures, controls.
Govern
Keep the programme current with reviews, monitoring and board reporting.
06 · Why Greyguard
Advisors who have run the systems they govern.
Enterprise technology expertise
A decade of enterprise AI, cloud and data work across Europe and the Middle East, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem.
Regulatory understanding
Findings reviewed by a compliance specialist with 15 years of UK fintech experience and a lawyer with AI regulation expertise.
Practical implementation
We do not sell software and we do not take referral fees. Our only interest is an accurate picture of your exposure and a realistic plan to close it.
07 · From the field
What we hear from the field
CIOs, CISOs, and Heads of IT across Europe. Different industries. Same story.
“We rolled out an AI assistant to 4,000 people in two weeks. It took six months before anyone asked what it could actually see.”
“Every vendor is bolting an AI assistant onto their product. We are being asked to approve five new AI features a month and we have no framework.”
“Our legal team flagged the EU AI Act last summer. We are still arguing about who owns the response.”
“The honest answer is we do not know what our employees are pasting into ChatGPT. We blocked it once. They used their phones. So we unblocked it.”
Frameworks we map against
The full regulatory landscape, not just the EU AI Act.
Make AI governance a business capability.
Book a consultation. We will tell you honestly where your organisation stands.
info@greyguardconsulting.comWe work with mid-to-large enterprises across Europe. Our governance methodology covers every AI system your organisation uses.