Your customers are asking about AI. Your board wants a policy. The EU AI Act needs a practical response.
AI governance is no longer optional. It is a prerequisite for enterprise deals, board confidence, and regulatory compliance. The question is whether to figure it out yourself or bring in someone who has done it 12 times.
Three things that bring companies here.
A customer sent an AI questionnaire
Enterprise buyers now ask how you develop, deploy, and govern AI. They want policies, controls, and evidence. Your CTO should not be writing this from scratch on a weekend.
The board wants an AI policy
Your board or PE investors are asking what your AI governance looks like. They want a framework, not a slide. They want to know who owns it and what happens when something goes wrong.
The EU AI Act is now enforceable
If you deploy AI systems in the EU, you have deployer obligations under the EU AI Act. Risk classification, transparency requirements, human oversight. The prohibited-practices ban and AI literacy obligation (Art. 4) are already in force. GPAI model obligations applied from August 2025. High-risk deployer obligations take full effect August 2026.
12 AI advisory mandates since 2019. Two examples.
Insurance, 2,400 employees
AI governance framework: initiative approvals from 16 weeks to 6
Built an AI governance and model-risk framework from scratch for a mid-tier insurer. Data usage policies, human sign-off requirements, third-party model controls, explainability standards, incident response procedures. Designed to unlock production use, not just document risk. Initiative approval time dropped from 16 weeks to 6. Claims cycle time fell 21% once AI-assisted triage went live under the new governance controls.
6 wk
Approval cycle
21%
Claims cycle faster
PE platform, 9 portfolio companies
AI diligence across 9 portfolio companies. Roughly €8M first-year value.
Led AI diligence and value-creation planning for a PE platform. Produced an AI readiness heatmap, quantified priority use cases, and launched 2 programmes delivering the first-year value shown above. Same operator across pre-investment, value creation, and exit readiness.
€8M
First-year value
9
Companies assessed
Start with a fixed-fee AI Governance Review.
A 5-7 business day assessment covering your current AI landscape, EU AI Act deployer gap analysis, and a prioritised readiness plan. Fixed fee: 25-30K DKK. No commitment beyond that. If the work needs to continue, it moves into a scoped retainer or an execution sprint.
- Map your current AI usage, third-party models, and internal tooling
- Classify risk under the EU AI Act deployer framework
- Gap analysis against your governance, documentation, and controls
- Prioritised roadmap: what to fix first, what can wait, what is already covered
- Decision point: stop here with a clear plan, or continue into execution
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