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Apply governance where AI decisions are made
Decide & Govern


AI System Inventory& Risk Classification
Begin with the inventory when procurement records and actual AI use disagree, leaving system ownership, risk tiers, and review triggers unresolved.


AI GovernanceFramework Design
Framework design belongs where recurring AI decisions lack named lifecycle gates, evidence requirements, forum authority, and a shared exception route.


AI Policy &Acceptable-Use Design
Write the policy when employees cannot classify real AI tasks as approved, conditional, or prohibited or route unresolved cases to an owner.


AI Risk &Impact Assessment
Run an impact assessment when a named system may affect people and plausible harms still lack evidence confidence, mitigation owners, or residual-risk authority.


EU AI ActReadiness Assessment
EU readiness fits after your qualified authority defines the obligations, when sampled systems still lack current evidence, controls, owners, or remediation records.


ISO/IEC 42001 Readiness &AI Management System Design
Management-system design fits when governance activities exist but processes, retained records, interfaces, and backlog ownership do not yet form one accepted boundary.


Third-Party AI Risk& Vendor Governance
Vendor governance applies when supplier data use, subprocessors, model changes, contract conditions, monitoring triggers, and exit duties sit across separate reviews.
Why it matters
A governance document has to change a real decision
The useful moment is when a team can apply the rule to one named system, show the evidence, route an exception, and name who is left holding the remaining risk.
How we work
Begin with systems, owners, and unresolved choices
We start with intended use, affected people, data, and the authority already present. Then we design the smallest set of decision rights, controls, records, and review routines that can guide those choices without creating a second organization around them.
Scope and ownership
A rule earns its place when a team can apply it to one named system
We design the smallest set of decision rights and records that changes a real choice, not a second organization.
We identify the systems in scope, how they are used, who may be affected, which evidence exists, and who can make the consequential decisions, then shape risk tiers, decision rights, policy boundaries, lifecycle controls, and exception routes around those named systems rather than around a generic framework. Realistic decisions are run through the design to expose unclear wording, unsupported readiness claims, owners without authority, and controls that leave no usable evidence behind. The handoff records who decides, what stays open, which evidence must be retained, who is left holding the residual risk, and the date or change that brings the question back.
From AI use to an owned governance decision
Establish the system and authority
We identify the systems in scope, how they are used, who may be affected, which evidence exists, and who can make the consequential decisions.
Set proportionate rules and controls
Risk tiers, decision rights, policy boundaries, lifecycle controls, and exception routes are shaped around the named systems and use cases.
Try the design on representative cases
Realistic decisions expose unclear wording, unsupported readiness claims, owners without authority, and controls that leave no usable evidence.
Transfer ownership and review duties
The handoff records who decides, what stays open, which evidence must be retained, and the date or change that brings the question back.
Inside our own team
Five Zeo consultants on what AI is changing in their work
Every operational consultant at Zeo has secure LLM access and training, and AI sits inside the daily work. Five of them came through our AI Bootcamp and wrote down what they expect it to change.
Selected AI sessions
Talks from Digitalzone
Three speakers look at the pace of AI change and what it means for e-commerce and content teams.
People who ship the AI systems they advise on
Agents, chatbots, and RAG systems at Zeo are built by senior engineers who keep operating them after launch. The consultants below are those builders, matched to the work this page covers.
Tools we use
The AI engineering stack behind the work
Models, retrieval, evaluation and observability are separate layers of a working system. These are the ones we build and operate on.
Models and cloud platforms
- NotionThis page's hero says a governance document has to change a real decision, and Notion is where AI Governance Framework Design and AI Policy & Acceptable-Use Design both keep that document open and versioned, so it stays the reference people actually check rather than a kickoff deliverable nobody reopens.
- AirtableAcross AI System Inventory & Risk Classification, AI Policy & Acceptable-Use Design, and EU AI Act Readiness Assessment, Airtable is the working base that keeps each entry linked to a named owner and review status, which is what turns 'establish the system and authority', this page's first process step, into something that stays current between formal reviews.
- AnthropicAI Risk & Impact Assessment uses Claude to draft first-pass harm scenarios and regulatory cross-references, treated explicitly as a hypothesis the assessment team must challenge, not an answer, which matches this page's own standard that a governance claim needs evidence before it counts.
- OneTrustEU AI Act Readiness Assessment, checks scope against organized evidence, retained records, risk-tier documentation, control status, mapped directly to specific articles, and OneTrust's dedicated framework is what this page's account uses instead of reconstructing the obligation list from scratch each time.
- VantaISO/IEC 42001 Readiness & AI Management System Design needs evidence status current for every process inside a drawn boundary, and Vanta's framework automation is what keeps that current between formal assessments, so a later sampled-process check isn't starting from stale documentation.
Agent and automation frameworks
- Credo AICredo AI is the single most-used new tool across this page's governance services, reconciling AI System Inventory & Risk Classification's shadow-AI gap, giving AI Governance Framework Design's decision rights a policy-to-code engine, providing AI Policy & Acceptable-Use Design's regulatory policy packs, and mapping EU AI Act Readiness Assessment's obligations to specific articles, which is why it earns a page-level entry rather than staying scattered across four separate child notes.
- Holistic AIHolistic AI's own three-phase structure matches this page's process almost step for step, and its discovery-first scanning is what AI System Inventory & Risk Classification and AI Governance Framework Design both use to check a designed control against real AI usage rather than a diagram of intended authority.
Evaluation and observability
- DatadogAI Risk & Impact Assessment links each harm to available evidence and current controls, and Datadog's production logs are where that evidence for a live system gets pulled from directly, so a control's claimed behavior gets checked before it counts as evidence at the gate.
- LangfuseISO/IEC 42001 Readiness & AI Management System Design tests a sampled live process against its own evidence trail, and Langfuse's traces are what that specific process's real runs look like in practice, checking the management system's process description against logged behavior rather than intent.
Training, serving and MLOps
- Hugging FaceAI Risk & Impact Assessment's documentation of what a third-party or open model is intended to do starts with its published model card on Hugging Face, checked against the system's actual deployed use before the assessment accepts a vendor's own framing.
Safety and security testing
- GiskardFor the foreseeable-misuse half of AI Risk & Impact Assessment, Giskard's scanner runs directly against the system under review so a plausible harm is backed by a reproduced failure case before it enters the governance record.
- Guardrails AIMitigation accountability inside AI Risk & Impact Assessment requires a control to work, not just exist, and Guardrails AI is where that test happens, giving the record either a working control or a named open gap instead of an unverified promise.
- MindgardThird-Party AI Risk & Vendor Governance's exception list depends on knowing where a vendor's own disclosure undercounts the AI inside their product, and Mindgard's discovery scan is what surfaces that gap before the exception gets finalized.
- ISMS.onlineWhere ISO/IEC 42001 Readiness & AI Management System Design draws the AI management system's own boundary and connects processes to records, ISMS.online's dedicated ISO 42001 structure is what that boundary is modeled against, control by control, instead of invented from a blank page.
Data, labeling and development
- JupyterWhen AI Risk & Impact Assessment's harm ratings need more than a gut call, Jupyter is where that calculation actually runs against real usage or incident data, giving the rating a shown, rerunnable basis rather than an opaque number in a table.
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