Governance baseline
3–5 weeks
Establish the inventory, decision rights, highest-risk gaps and a practical control roadmap.
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AI governance support
Translate AI policy and risk expectations into inventories, decision records, controls, evidence and operating responsibilities a team can actually maintain.
Where this starts
A good fit when…
- A company needs a practical inventory of AI use
- Teams need common release and review expectations
- Customer diligence asks for evidence that does not yet exist
- Legal, security and product owners need one operating model
The operating problem
The difficult part is rarely the headline technology.
The engagement focuses on the surrounding system: boundaries, evidence, permissions, exceptions, people and the decisions the implementation must support.
- 01
Policies describe intent without owners, evidence or review triggers
- 02
AI use cases are scattered across vendors and teams
- 03
Risk classifications do not change engineering or approval work
- 04
Legal advice is not translated into repeatable operating controls
What leaves the engagement
Concrete output, not advisory residue.
- 01AI system and use-case inventory
- 02Risk classification and decision workflow
- 03Control map, evidence register and named owners
- 04Review, incident and change-management procedures
- 05Implementation support alongside qualified legal counsel where needed
Ways to start
Choose the smallest engagement that resolves the next decision.
Control implementation
4–8 weeks
Build priority controls, evidence collection and workflows into the way teams already work.
Readiness support
As scoped
Prepare operating evidence for customer diligence, internal review or counsel-led legal analysis.
What Estma needs from your team.
- An executive or operational sponsor
- Access to product, security and legal stakeholders
- Existing policies and customer commitments
- A list of known AI tools and use cases
Service questions
What teams usually ask.
Do you provide legal advice?
No. Estma provides technical and operational governance support. Formal legal interpretation remains with qualified counsel, and we can help translate that advice into controls and evidence.
Do we need a large governance programme?
Usually not. Start with the actual use cases, the decisions that matter and the minimum evidence needed to operate them responsibly.
Start with context
Is this the work you need?
Describe the current system, the decision ahead and the constraint that is making progress difficult.