ZECH
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AI governance that your engineers can follow and your auditors can check.

We help you define who owns each AI system, what it may do, where people review its output, and how decisions are recorded — then build those controls into the systems themselves rather than leaving them in a policy document.

What we deliver
  • AI system inventory
  • Risk tiering and review rules
  • Human oversight design
  • Data and privacy controls
  • Audit logging and traceability
Tools & platforms
Model and prompt registriesStructured audit loggingIdentity and access managementPII detection and redaction tools

Where this helps

Policy exists, practice does not
There is an acceptable-use policy for AI, but no one can say which systems follow it, who approved them, or what data they send to which provider.
Shadow AI across teams
Different departments have adopted different tools and models on their own. Nobody has a full inventory, and sensitive data may be leaving through channels no one reviewed.
Hard questions arrive late
A customer, regulator or internal audit asks how an AI-assisted decision was made, and the answer requires reconstructing logs that were never kept.

What we deliver

01
AI system inventory
A register of the AI systems and tools in use, their owners, purpose, data sources, model providers and risk level, with a process to keep it current.
02
Risk tiering and review rules
A simple classification that decides how much testing, human review and sign-off each use case needs, so low-risk tools move fast and high-risk ones get scrutiny.
03
Human oversight design
For each higher-risk system, where a person reviews or approves output, what they see when they do, and how their decisions feed back into improvement.
04
Data and privacy controls
Rules and technical controls for what data may be sent to which model, redaction of sensitive fields, retention of prompts and outputs, and provider terms review.
05
Audit logging and traceability
Logging patterns that record inputs, model versions, retrieved sources, outputs and human actions, so any result can be traced after the fact.

How it works

  1. 01

    Map what exists

    We interview owners and review systems to build the inventory and understand current controls, contracts and data flows.

  2. 02

    Agree the framework

    With legal, security and business owners we set risk tiers, review requirements and decision rights that fit your organization's size.

  3. 03

    Embed controls in systems

    We implement logging, access control, redaction and approval steps in the priority systems, not just in documents.

  4. 04

    Test and rehearse

    We run review scenarios, including an incident drill and a mock audit request, to check the controls produce the evidence they should.

  5. 05

    Hand over operations

    Owners get runbooks, review cadences and templates so governance continues as new AI systems are added.

Design decisions we make with you

  • Proportionality

    Governance effort should match risk. An internal drafting assistant and a system that affects customer eligibility do not need the same process.

  • Decision rights

    Who can approve a new model, a new data source or a change in autonomy — written down, with a named backup.

  • Provider data terms

    Whether prompts and outputs may be retained or used for training by a provider, and which contract or deployment option controls that.

  • Evidence over attestations

    We favor controls that produce logs and test results over checklists that rely on people remembering to fill them in.

  • Regulatory alignment

    We map your controls to the frameworks and regulations you name, and flag where specialist legal advice is needed. We do not issue compliance certifications.

Questions buyers ask

No. We design and implement governance controls and help you produce the evidence reviewers ask for. Legal interpretation and formal certification remain with your counsel and auditors.

Done well, it speeds them up. Clear risk tiers let low-risk projects proceed with light review, and pre-approved patterns for data and models remove repeated debates.

Yes. The inventory, data rules and review requirements apply to purchased tools too. Where a vendor product lacks logging or controls, we note the gap and suggest mitigations.

Governance covers ownership, oversight and accountability; security covers access, threats and infrastructure. They overlap, and we coordinate with your security team. See trust and security.

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