Govern AI
that can act.
You already know that AI systems capable of acting need real controls, not just policy. The harder question is whether your specific control set holds: whether it satisfies MAS AIRG, the IMDA Framework, and the EU AI Act at the same time, whether the model-based controls in it are reliable, and whether you can produce evidence of any of it under scrutiny. Aivance assesses your enforcement layer against the frameworks that apply to you and produces the evidence your board or a regulator will ask for.
Enforcement Gap Review
In a complimentary 30-minute session, we identify which of three assurance questions your organisation cannot currently answer: does your control set satisfy the frameworks that apply to you, is it technically reliable, and can you evidence it.
Within 48 hours, you receive a written diagnosis mapped to your applicable frameworks, ready to share with your CIO, CRO, or audit committee.
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01Who engages Aivance
Governance work is rarely proactive. Something changes, and the question becomes urgent. These are the situations Aivance is built for.
Financial Services & Insurance
MAS AIRG is finalising, and the transition clock starts the day it is issued.
Banks, insurers, and payment providers deploying AI agents for underwriting, claims, or customer-facing decisions face MAS AIRG, MGF v1.5, and PDPA at the same time, not one after another. Aivance assesses whether your existing controls satisfy all three simultaneously, and where the evidence would fail under an incident review or an examiner's questions.
This is the core of Aivance's practice: CROs, CISOs, and Enterprise Architects who need a control set that is technically defensible, not just procedurally documented.
Technology and SaaS
Enterprise customers are asking about AI governance before they will sign.
The product works. Whether your governance posture will clear a large regulated customer's due diligence is a separate question, and it is usually the one holding up the deal.
02What we assess
What most organisations already have
What few have
Every assessment starts by locating your controls on this line, then testing whether the ones on the right actually hold under pressure.
03The layer under test
A system that only generates output can be reviewed before anyone acts on it. A system that executes does not wait. That is why the third layer below exists in your programme in some form already. What we test is whether it holds.
Yesterday
AI generated content
Output went to a person. A human read it, judged it, and decided whether to act. The model suggested. The organisation still decided.
Today
Every AI governance programme has three layers: policy, process, and enforcement. By now the real question is not whether you have a third layer, but whether the one you have actually holds, and whether you can prove it.
01
POLICY LAYER
Documentation, oversight committees, regulatory frameworks
02
PROCESS LAYER
Approval workflows, post-hoc audits, monitoring dashboards
WHERE MOST GOVERNANCE PROGRAMMES STOP
03
ENFORCEMENT LAYER
Technical controls, deterministic control points, runtime guardrails
RUNTIME OUTCOMES
APPROVED
Executes within authority
BLOCKED
Prevented by control
ESCALATED
Held for human approval
04How we help
Each addresses a different starting point: the audit, the stalled pilot, or the override question from a regulator or board. Each produces specific, auditable outputs.
Diagnoses enforcement gaps across IMDA, MAS AIRG, PDPA, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act, separating controls that exist on paper from controls that are technically real.
Diagnoses why each AI pilot stalled and designs the governance scaffolding that gets it to production.
Designs who holds the kill switch and what happens when they use it, including the Suspended Handoff State that halts an agent until a human ratifies.
05What you receive
The deliverables are concrete and auditable. You know exactly what you are buying before the work begins.
AI system inventory with risk rating
Every AI system mapped, each with a traffic-light risk rating against its actual authority to act.
Regulatory gap analysis
Your controls mapped to MAS AIRG, the IMDA Framework, ISO 42001, PDPA, and the EU AI Act, with paper controls separated from technically enforced ones.
Enforcement architecture
The technical controls and execution boundaries that close the gaps, specified at the level your team can operate.
Override authority design
Who can halt the system, and what happens when they do, including the Suspended Handoff State for high-risk decisions.
Prioritised remediation roadmap
The actions that close your gaps, ranked by risk and effort, so the sequence is defensible.
Board-ready executive summary
A non-technical summary written to be read by your CIO, CRO, or audit committee.
06Why Aivance
Most governance consultants come from legal, risk, or policy. Arjen comes from enterprise infrastructure: more than 30 years building large-scale systems, including nine years as Director of Advanced Consulting Services for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Akamai Technologies. That background is why Aivance can specify a control that is technically real, rather than one that is only procedurally described.
Featured insights
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Read article →Start with the complimentary 30-Minute Enforcement Gap Review. We identify which of three assurance questions your organisation cannot currently answer: does your control set satisfy the frameworks that apply to you, is it technically reliable, and can you evidence it. Within 48 hours, you receive a written diagnosis mapped to your applicable frameworks.
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