AI Governance
Ready for the EU AI Act.

Inventory, risk classification and ISO/IEC 42001 readiness — mapped to the AI systems your teams actually run, with evidence an auditor can follow.

Trusted across Europe

Industries we serve.

Engineering teams in regulated, mission-critical industries — every engagement audited, documented, and production-grade.

Banking & Payments

FinTech

PCI-DSS compliant payments and core banking infrastructure — sub-100ms p99 latency, end-to-end audit trail, and tokenization at the edge.

PCI-DSS · ISO 27001
Patient Data

Healthcare

HIPAA-aware patient data pipelines

HIPAA · SOC2
5G & Networks

Telecom

5G core network observability at scale

NFV · ETSI MANO
Retail & Marketplaces

E-Commerce

99.99% uptime during peak traffic events

PCI-DSS · GDPR
Sovereign & Public

Government

Sovereign cloud with full audit trails

eIDAS · FIPS 140-2
Fleet & IoT

Logistics

Real-time fleet tracking & IoT ingestion

MQTT · OPC-UA
4Frameworks: EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS
Annex IIIHigh-risk deadline: 2 December 2027
15+Years building and securing software, since 2011
GDPRApplied to AI data flows

What we deliver

Our AI governance services

From a complete AI inventory to audit-ready evidence, mapped to the frameworks regulators and customers ask about

You cannot govern what you have not listed. We build a register of every AI system you develop, buy or embed — including AI features switched on inside tools you already pay for — and classify each one under the EU AI Act: prohibited, high-risk, transparency obligations or minimal risk. Each entry records whether you act as provider or deployer, because the obligations differ.

AI system register · risk class per system · provider or deployer role

Governance has to reflect how AI systems are actually attacked. We threat-model your models, RAG pipelines and agents against MITRE ATLAS tactics and techniques — prompt injection, data poisoning, model theft, exfiltration through tools — and turn the findings into controls with a named owner.

MITRE ATLAS · threat model per critical system · control owners

We map your practices to the four functions of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — Govern, Map, Measure, Manage — so decisions about AI risk follow a documented method instead of individual judgment. Useful when US customers or group policies ask for it, and a solid backbone for the EU work.

Govern · Map · Measure · Manage

ISO/IEC 42001 is the management-system standard for AI. We run the gap analysis, help you design the AI management system — scope, policy, roles, risk and impact assessment, controls — and prepare the evidence for the audit. Privum prepares your organization; the certificate itself is issued by an accredited certification body.

Gap analysis · AI management system design · audit preparation

Most AI risk starts with a well-meaning employee and a free tool. We write the AI acceptable-use policy, the list of approved tools, the data categories that must never reach a prompt and the anonymization rules for everything else, plus the training that makes the policy stick — short enough that people actually read it.

Acceptable-use policy · approved-tool list · staff training

Every AI vendor processes whatever your teams send it. We review vendor contracts, DPAs, training-on-your-data terms, data residency and sub-processors, and map where personal data enters your AI systems — prompts, fine-tuning sets, RAG indexes, logs — so your DPIAs and records of processing reflect reality.

Vendor assessment · DPA review · DPIA input
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Who we help

Teams that need clear answers

The four situations where an AI governance assessment usually pays back fastest.

Companies Building AI into Their Products

You ship features built on LLMs or your own models and sell into the EU. We establish, system by system, whether you are the provider or the deployer, which risk class applies and what documentation that role demands.

Organizations Using AI in High-Risk Areas

You use AI in recruitment, credit scoring, education or access to essential services. Annex III obligations apply from 2 December 2027 — enough time to build risk management, data governance and human oversight properly, not enough to start late.

Enterprises Rolling Out ChatGPT or Copilot

Your staff already use generative AI, sanctioned or not. We put an acceptable-use policy, an approved-tool list and reviewed vendor terms in place, so the productivity gain does not come at the cost of a GDPR breach.

Teams Facing Customer or Auditor Questions

A procurement questionnaire asks about your AI controls, or your board wants to know where AI is used and who is accountable. We give you the inventory, the policies and the evidence to answer in writing.

EU AI Act timeline

The dates that apply to you

The EU AI Act applies in stages. The Digital Omnibus on AI, in force since 27 July 2026, postponed the high-risk deadlines — a delay, not a rollback. The prohibitions, the general-purpose AI rules and the transparency obligations already apply.

  • 2 February 2025 — Prohibited AI practices apply — social scoring, manipulative techniques and emotion recognition at work or in education, among others.
  • 2 August 2025 — Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models apply.
  • 2 August 2026 — Transparency obligations (Article 50) apply: people must know when they deal with an AI system, and AI-generated content must be marked. For systems already on the market, watermarking has a grace period until 2 December 2026.
  • 2 December 2027 — Stand-alone high-risk systems (Annex III) — recruitment, credit scoring, education, access to essential services, law enforcement and more.
  • 2 August 2028 — High-risk AI in regulated products (Annex I) — medical devices, machinery, vehicles and other products under EU product legislation.
Outcomes & method

AI governance that holds up to scrutiny

Governance only works when it is grounded in the systems you actually run. We start from a real inventory, classify against the regulation and leave you with controls and evidence your teams can maintain. This is not legal advice: where a question turns on legal interpretation, we work alongside your legal counsel and bring the technical facts they need.

Business outcomes
  1. 01

    A defensible position

    Every AI system documented, classified and justified, so you can answer a regulator, an auditor or a customer with evidence rather than intentions.

  2. 02

    Deadlines planned, not chased

    Obligations mapped to the dates that actually apply to you, with a roadmap sequenced around them instead of a last-minute scramble.

  3. 03

    Safe adoption, not a ban

    Clear rules on tools and data let teams keep using AI productively, without customer data ending up in services that have no DPA.

How we implement
  1. 01

    Inventory

    We find every AI system in use — built, bought or embedded in SaaS — through interviews, procurement records and technical discovery, and record its owner, purpose and data.

  2. 02

    Classify

    Each system gets a risk class under the EU AI Act and a role (provider or deployer), plus a GDPR view of the personal data it processes.

  3. 03

    Gap analysis

    We compare current practice with the obligations that apply, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF, and threat-model critical systems with MITRE ATLAS.

  4. 04

    Remediation roadmap

    A prioritized plan — policies, technical controls, vendor contracts, documentation — sequenced by risk and by the dates that apply to you.

  5. 05

    Evidence & monitoring

    We set up the register, the records and the review cadence that keep your evidence current as models, vendors and use cases change.

Engagement model

How we work

From first call to production — a proven 4-step engagement model that keeps the conversation transparent and the velocity honest.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We audit your current stack, identify gaps, and align on business goals.

  2. 02

    Assessment

    A detailed roadmap with priorities, effort estimates, and quick wins.

  3. 03

    Delivery

    Our engineers embed with your team and execute sprint by sprint.

  4. 04

    Support

    Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and knowledge transfer to your team.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Practical answers about scope, timelines, and how engagements with our AI Governance team usually look.

Very likely, if you build, sell or use AI systems in the EU — the Act also reaches companies outside the EU whose AI output is used in the Union. What it requires depends on two things: your role (provider, deployer, importer or distributor) and the risk class of each system. Many everyday uses carry light obligations; uses such as recruitment, credit scoring or education are high-risk. The inventory and classification are how you find out. This is not legal advice — where the answer turns on legal interpretation, we work alongside your legal counsel.
The Digital Omnibus on AI, in force since 27 July 2026, postponed the high-risk deadlines: stand-alone high-risk systems (Annex III) now apply from 2 December 2027, and high-risk AI in regulated products (Annex I) from 2 August 2028. It is a delay, not a rollback. The prohibitions (since February 2025), the obligations for general-purpose AI models (since August 2025) and the transparency obligations (since August 2026) already apply. The extra time is best used to build risk management, data governance and documentation properly.
ISO 27001 defines an information security management system (ISMS); ISO/IEC 42001 defines an AI management system (AIMS), covering risks specific to AI such as impact on people, data quality, transparency and human oversight across the AI lifecycle. Both share the same management-system structure, so an AIMS can be integrated with an existing ISMS instead of running beside it. Privum prepares your organization — gap analysis, design, evidence — for the audit, which is performed by an accredited certification body.
Yes, under the same rules as any other processing: a lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimization and a contract (DPA) with every vendor that processes the data. LLMs add specific questions — whether the vendor trains on your prompts, where data is stored, how long prompts and logs are kept, and how you honor an erasure request when the data sits in a RAG index or a fine-tuning set. Where the processing is likely to be high-risk, a DPIA comes first. We map these data flows and work with your DPO and legal counsel on the assessment.
Yes — on business or enterprise tiers with a signed DPA, no training on your data and admin controls, under a written acceptable-use policy that names the approved tools and the data that must never be pasted. Free consumer versions offer no DPA, so putting customers' personal data into them is very likely a GDPR breach; where only a free tool is available, anonymize before you prompt. We write the policy, review the vendor terms and train your teams so the rules are understood, not just published.
It depends mainly on how many AI systems are in scope and whether you build AI or only use it. The work runs in a fixed order — inventory and interviews, then classification, gap analysis and the remediation roadmap — and ends in a written report. The first conversation is free and is where we scope the work and agree the timeline.
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