AI Governance • AI Security • Data Risk

AI governance that holds up under examination.

Advisory for banks, fintechs, and regulated organizations adopting AI — led by a former Wells Fargo security governance leader with 21 years of regulated-industry control, audit, and examination experience.

NIST AI RMF & ISO 42001 EU AI Act Fixed-fee, fixed-scope engagements Evidence an auditor can validate
21
Years in bank security governance
550+
Regulatory deliverables closed
2.5M
Digital certificates governed
5
Patents in security automation
The Problem

AI arrived faster than your control framework

Examiners, enterprise customers, and boards are asking AI questions that existing GRC programs were not designed to answer.

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Questionnaires now have an AI section

Bank and enterprise buyers are adding AI governance questions to vendor due diligence. Vague answers stall deals; inconsistent answers create contractual exposure.

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Existing risk programs have an AI gap

Model risk, third-party risk, and data governance programs rarely cover generative AI, embedded vendor AI, or agents that take actions. The gap shows up at examination time.

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Data is leaving through prompts

Shadow AI and unclassified data flowing to third-party models are now the fastest-growing data exposure. Few organizations can say what reached an LLM last week.

Services

Fixed-scope engagements with published starting prices

Each engagement produces documented, evidence-ready deliverables mapped to the frameworks your auditors and customers use.

AI Security

AI Security Assessment

Threat model and control review for an LLM application or AI agent: prompt injection, data exfiltration, tool permissions, and model supply chain.

2–4 weeksFrom $12,000
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Data Governance

Data Governance for AI

Classification with LLM handling rules, lineage for AI data flows, and approval and retention controls for the data that feeds models and prompts.

4–6 weeksFrom $20,000
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For vendors

AI Vendor Trust Package

For fintech and SaaS vendors selling to banks: an AI questionnaire answer library, policy set, and evidence binder your sales team can use immediately.

2–3 weeksFrom $10,000
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Ongoing

Fractional AI Risk Officer

Run the AI governance committee, use-case approvals, key risk indicator reporting, and examination preparation — without a full-time hire.

Monthly retainerFrom $5,000/mo
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Cryptography

Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness

Cryptographic inventory, quantum risk prioritization, vendor readiness, and a migration roadmap aligned to NIST's post-quantum standards and timelines.

6–8 weeksFrom $25,000
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Already know the gaps and need it built? Secure AI Implementation — AI agents and automations with governance controls built in.

How It Works

Clear scope. Documented evidence. No surprises.

1

Free gap check

A 30-minute conversation about your AI footprint and obligations, followed by a one-page written readout.

2

Fixed-scope proposal

A statement of work with deliverables, timeline, client responsibilities, and a fixed fee.

3

Evidence-ready delivery

Weekly status, named owners for every gap, and deliverables formatted for auditors, examiners, and boards.

4

Sustain

Optional fractional oversight keeps the program current as AI use, regulation, and vendors change.

The Platform

Every engagement is delivered on comply

comply is Automate 48's AI governance program platform: 26 controls across the NIST AI RMF Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions, crosswalked to ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, and NIST SP 800-53.

Clients leave an engagement with a working program — policies, procedures, evidence checklists, and audit narratives — not a slide deck.

Explore the Platform
26
Controls
6
Framework crosswalks
156
Audit artifacts per program
L1–L5
Maturity scoring
Who You Work With

Dave Cooper, Founder

Dave spent 21 years in information security at Wells Fargo, 19 of them as a Vice President, building governance and compliance programs from the ground up. He co-led remediation of a federal regulatory consent order to 100% closure across more than 550 deliverables, served as NIST and FedRAMP domain delegate, and led a 50-person organization to top-1% Gallup engagement company-wide.

Since 2022 he has built and operated production AI systems, including the comply governance platform, and publishes practitioner research on AI security and governance.

Full background →
  • Owned enterprise security policy across data protection, cryptography, and identity and access management
  • Served as second-level approver for security deviations and risk acceptance
  • Led 12 years of reverse audits of third-party service providers
  • Governed 2.5 million digital certificates across 80,000 servers
  • Cut encryption deployment time from 16 weeks to 1 by shifting security left
  • 5 patents in security automation
Insights

Practitioner research on AI risk

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Know where your AI governance program stands

A free 30-minute gap check with a written one-page readout. No sales deck.

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