How it works

Your AI workforce, with a chain of command.

Think of every AI tool as a new employee. Each one has a job description, a manager, and limits it can't cross. Pick your industry below, then switch governance off to see what happens without it.

Your people · set the rules, approve what mattersnot in the loop
Leadership & managersNo approvals waiting
Governance layer · run by Data DefenseNo governance layer
PolicyAccessApprovalsAudit trail
Your AI workforce · each with a job descriptionYour AI tools · no job descriptions

Client Intake Agent

Reports to Office ManagerReports to nobody

Answering a new enquiry

Can
Answer common questions, book meetings
Asks first
Share any document with a client
Never
See billing or HR files

No limits set. It can do anything its account can reach.

Finance Agent

Reports to ControllerReports to nobody

Matching invoices to payments

Can
Reconcile invoices, draft reminders
Asks first
Any payment or refund
Never
Change bank details

No limits set. It can do anything its account can reach.

Document Agent

Reports to CEOReports to nobody

Drafting from approved templates

Can
Summarise, draft from templates
Asks first
Send anything to a client
Never
Upload files to outside AI tools

No limits set. It can do anything its account can reach.

IT & Security Agent

Reports to Data Defense vCISOReports to nobody

Watching devices and sign-ins

Can
Patch devices, flag risky sign-ins
Asks first
Grant new admin access
Never
Read or export passwords

No limits set. It can do anything its account can reach.

Audit trail · every action, on recordWhat actually happened · nobody saw it
  1. APPROVEDIT & Security Agent admin access for a new app · approved by Data Defense vCISO
  2. BLOCKEDFinance Agent tried to change a vendor’s bank details
  3. APPROVEDDocument Agent proposal sent to client · approved by CEO
01

Discover

Every AI tool and agent in your business goes on the chart. Nothing runs unseen.

02

Decide

Each one gets a job description: what it can do, what it must ask first, and what it may never do.

03

Control

The governance layer enforces it. Risky requests go to the right person, and forbidden ones are blocked.

04

Prove

Every action lands in the audit trail, ready for clients, insurers and regulators.

Reading the chart

Four layers. One chain of command.

01

Your people

Leadership and managers set the rules. When an AI wants to do something that matters, the request comes to the right person to approve.

02

Governance layer

Run by Data Defense. It checks every AI action against your policy, limits what each AI can reach, routes approvals, and records everything.

03

Your AI workforce

Every AI tool and agent in your business, each with a job description: what it can do, what it must ask first, and what it may never do.

04

Audit trail

A record of every action, approval and block, ready when a client, insurer or regulator asks how you govern AI.

The control model

Governance that runs every day.

These are the same principles we use to run AI inside our own operations. We now build them into yours.

A human signs off on what matters

AI can draft, sort and summarise freely. Sending, paying, deleting or sharing client data waits for a named person to approve it.

Every AI has only the access it needs

Each tool and agent gets the smallest set of data, systems and permissions that lets it do its job, and nothing else.

Every action leaves a record

Who asked, which AI acted, what data it touched and who approved it. Written down as it happens, ready when someone asks.

Approved settings stay approved

Your approved AI configuration is the baseline. When something drifts from it, it is caught and corrected, not discovered months later.

Secrets stay out of reach

Passwords, keys and regulated data are kept where no AI can read or repeat them, by design rather than by hoping.

Problems get fixed, then reported

Routine issues are corrected automatically and reported to you after. Anything that needs your decision reaches you in plain words.

Next step

See your own AI workforce on the chart.

In a briefing we map the AI tools your team already uses, who they should report to, and what each one should never do. You leave with a first draft of your chart.