Protection
Helping your business reduce operational risk and protect what matters most - AI governance, data, compliance, procurement and the hosting and continuity work that keeps the business running.
The perspective
As you adopt more AI and software, the risk surface grows with it
Protection is the pillar most agencies quietly skip. As you adopt AI, plug in more tools and put more of the business online, the risk and compliance surface grows with it. This pillar covers AI governance and responsible-AI policy, risk and compliance refreshes, software and vendor procurement, data management, hosting and maintenance, and the business continuity work that keeps you running when something goes wrong.
Services in protection
AI governance and responsible AI
- -AI use policy, acceptable-use, and data-handling rules
- -Risk register and tiered approval workflows
- -Vendor and model assessment criteria
Risk and compliance
- -AI-specific risk register and treatment plan
- -Updated controls, policies, and approval workflows
- -Board reporting packs and risk dashboards
Software procurement and licensing
- -AI model access (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, open-source)
- -Core SaaS renewals and tier rightsizing
- -Multi-vendor consolidation and rationalisation
Procurement and vendor review
- -Vendor consolidation and rationalisation
- -Licensing optimisation and renegotiation
- -Build-vs-buy assessments
Data management
Get your customer, operational and product data organised, governed and useful.
Learn moreHosting and maintenance
Managed hosting, security patching and ongoing maintenance for your web and app stack.
Learn moreBusiness continuity
Backups, disaster recovery and incident response so the business keeps trading through the unexpected.
Learn moreHow we work
Identify
We map the AI, data, vendor and continuity risks sitting inside the business - and the gaps between your current controls and where they need to be.
Prioritise
Board-defensible priorities: what to fix now, what to accept, what to insure and what to defer - written for a leadership team, not an auditor.
Solve
Policies, procurement, hosting, backups, monitoring and incident response - put in place so the business keeps trading and stays defensible.
What good looks like
Defensible
Governance and oversight built into every AI workflow
Continuous
Backups, monitoring and DR so a bad day isn't a bad quarter
Lower spend
Software and vendor costs cut without losing capability
Board-ready
Reporting packs that stand up to a risk and audit committee
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