AI success starts with strong governance. Our AI Governance Consulting helps organizations reduce AI risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and build trusted AI systems that support long-term business growth.
Boards are told to worry about the EU AI Act. Meanwhile the concrete exposure sits inside the tenant you already own: Copilot reading files nobody meant to share, agents built in HR that no one owns, and licences billing every month for people who never open them. AI governance consulting only pays for itself when it reaches those three things.
Copilot inherits every permission in SharePoint and OneDrive. Years of "share with everyone" links mean salary files, board decks and contracts sit one prompt away from the whole company. Nobody granted that access on purpose.
Copilot Studio makes anyone an AI builder. Dozens of agents now touch customer data with no naming standard, no approval, no review date and no named owner. When one gives a wrong answer to a client, nobody can say who built it.
Copilot licences get assigned in a burst of enthusiasm and then sit idle. Typical mid-market tenants carry 30–45% dormant seats. That's a governance failure with a monthly invoice attached — and the fastest number to fix.
The large AI governance consulting firms are excellent at frameworks and slow at tenants. They will map you to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 and leave you with a PDF and a roadmap. That's genuinely useful — right up until an auditor asks you to prove a control is switched on.
We come at it from the Microsoft side. Same frameworks, same evidence pack — but the deliverable is a configured tenant: sensitivity labels applied, DLP policies live, restricted SharePoint search enabled, agent lifecycle enforced, Purview audit trail running.
Four layers. Most AI governance consulting delivers only the top one. Risk lives in the bottom three — which is where the work has to reach for governance to actually hold.
Proof for auditors, savings for the CFO
The layer nobody else governs at all
Enforced in your tenant, not written down
Necessary, but it is a document — not a control
Layers 02–04 are where an oversharing incident, a failed security review or a wasted licence bill actually originates. A policy document alone reaches none of them.
Six capabilities that take you from "we don't know what's out there" to a governed, evidenced, continuously reviewed AI estate. Buy them as one programme or start with the assessment alone.
Find out what Microsoft 365 Copilot can actually see, before somebody else does.
Bring Copilot Studio and Power Platform agent sprawl under a named, reviewable lifecycle.
Policy people actually follow, written for your industry and mapped to real controls.
Map your Microsoft controls to the standards your auditors and customers ask about.
The part most AI governance consulting stops short of: actually switching the controls on.
Governance decays the week you stop. A monthly retainer keeps it enforced as new agents appear.
Read-only access to start. No agents installed, no production changes without your written approval, no disruption to the people using Copilot today.
You grant read-only access to Microsoft 365 admin, Purview and the Power Platform admin centre. We confirm scope and sign-offs in writing.
Day 1We inventory exposed content, every Copilot Studio agent and flow, licence assignment and actual usage against paid seats.
Days 2–6A working session with your IT and compliance leads: what's exposed, what it costs, what to fix first, and the money you can recover.
Days 7–10We implement the controls, produce the evidence pack, then hold the line with a monthly review as new agents get built.
Week 3 onwardFixed fees, defined scope, no open-ended discovery phase. Most clients begin with the exposure assessment because it pays for itself out of recovered licence spend.
A self-serve read on where you stand, before you talk to anyone.
The full 10-day diagnostic across content, agents and licence spend.
Keep the tenant governed as your AI estate keeps growing.
Four questions. No email, no gate, no sales call. Answer honestly — the point is to find out, not to score well.
Answer all four to see your risk band and top priorities.
AI governance consulting helps an organisation set the policies, ownership and technical controls that decide how AI is built, deployed and used. In practice that means answering four questions: what AI is running here, who owns it, what data can it reach, and how do we prove any of that to an auditor. Our version is Microsoft-specific — we govern Copilot, Copilot Studio agents and Power Platform rather than abstract models.
The large firms are strong on framework design and built for enterprise-scale programmes. Their deliverable is usually a governance framework, a policy set and a roadmap. Ours is a configured tenant plus the evidence pack: labels applied, DLP live, agents inventoried and owned, restricted search enabled. If you need a global governance operating model across dozens of business units, use a large firm. If your AI lives in Microsoft 365 and you need controls switched on in weeks, that's us.
It's the ideal time. Governing before rollout costs a fraction of remediating afterwards, and the oversharing problem is far easier to fix before thousands of people start prompting against it. Pre-rollout clients typically run the exposure assessment, remediate permissions, then deploy Copilot into a tenant that's already safe.
NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 as the primary control frameworks, plus EU AI Act readiness for organisations serving EU customers, and data-handling alignment with India's DPDP Act and GDPR. We map your existing Microsoft Purview and Entra controls to these frameworks rather than building a parallel compliance programme from scratch.
Read-only access to the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Purview compliance portal and Power Platform admin centre. Nothing is installed in your tenant and no production change happens without your written approval. Access is scoped, time-bound and revoked at the end of the engagement.
Often, yes. Mid-market tenants commonly carry 30–45% dormant Copilot seats. On a 500-seat deployment, reclaiming even a quarter of those covers a typical assessment several times over. We report the recoverable figure explicitly so you can judge it against the fee rather than take it on faith.
India, UAE, Australia, Canada and the USA. Delivery is remote by default with working hours aligned to your timezone, and we're a Microsoft Partner operating through Empathy Technologies with a 31-person team.
No. We work alongside them. Your team keeps ownership of the tenant; we bring the governance model, the scanning capability and the Microsoft control depth, then hand over documented runbooks. Clients who want ongoing help take the monthly retainer rather than adding headcount.
Thirty minutes with a Microsoft governance consultant. We'll walk through your current Copilot and agent setup, name the three things we'd fix first, and tell you honestly whether you need us at all.
No obligation · Direct with Garry and the delivery team · India · UAE · Australia · Canada · USA
