Governance, Risk & Compliance
Engineering compliance for GDPR, the EU AI Act, the EU Data Act, and MiCA as the outcome of well-built cloud, data, and security. Powered by Praxis.
An Outcome of Cloud, Data & Security, Engineered Together
Engineering Compliance Into the Platform
Governance, Risk & Compliance is what falls out the back of a Cloud, Data, and Security platform that has been engineered correctly. It is an outcome, not a separate discipline.
Our GRC service draws on all three of our practices to land running controls, continuous evidence, and the audit-ready artefacts your supervisory authorities will look at. We focus on the EU regulatory frame that matters most to operational technology today: GDPR, the EU AI Act, and the EU Data Act. We treat them as one engineered substrate rather than three parallel paperwork exercises. For crypto-asset issuers and service providers in scope of MiCA, the same approach extends to the licensing, custody, and market-conduct obligations that regulation imposes.
The work is delivered by the same engineers who build your cloud, data, and security foundations, so the controls in your policies are also the controls in your code. Our public thinking on this approach lives in the Regulatory Stack series, the launch piece Engineered Compliance: Why the EU Regulatory Stack Belongs in Code, and our white papers.
Regulation translated into running controls
EU Regulatory Engineering
We engineer the controls demanded by GDPR Article 32, EU AI Act Article 15, and the EU Data Act’s access constraints into the running platform. Policies become configurations, configurations become observable, observability becomes evidence. For crypto-asset firms, the same approach extends to MiCA custody and market-conduct controls. The output is not a binder; it is a system a regulator can verify directly.
AI risk where the law and the platform meet
AI Risk & Agentic Governance
The EU AI Act forces AI risk out of the policy library and into the engineering review. We help leadership teams understand the action risk their AI systems carry, frame the scope-of-action charters that bound it, and wire human-in-the-loop checkpoints where the law and the technology both require them. Developed further in The Executive AI Playbook and the Trustworthy Agentic AI Blueprint.
Privacy by design, in code
Privacy Engineering & DPIA Support
Privacy is enforced by configuration, not by clause. We help you complete defensible DPIAs, embed Article 25 privacy-by-design controls in pipelines and models, and produce the ROPA evidence supervisory authorities now expect to see backed by technical artefacts rather than policy language.
Board-readable evidence from engineering reality
Governance Frameworks & Board Reporting
Sound governance is the layer above the technical controls. We help executive and board stakeholders understand the regulatory exposure they face, formalise the policies that anchor it, and translate engineering evidence into reporting their oversight committees can act on. We work with ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, and COSO ERM where they accelerate the implementation.
Ongoing attestation aligned to your platform
Continuous Attestation & Audit Liaison
Compliance is not a project with an end date. We run the ongoing attestation work that keeps your control posture aligned with regulatory text, supervisory authority guidance, and your own evolving systems. When regulators come asking, we provide evidence packs in the format authorities have already indicated they will accept, and we sit alongside your team during inspections, conformity assessments, and supervisory correspondence.
Agentic, continuous compliance, productised
Praxis: The Agentic Core
Praxis is the productised core of our GRC service. We deploy a domain agent into our engagements with the live regulatory corpus and your own systems loaded. It surfaces gaps continuously and produces audit-ready evidence on demand, so your compliance posture stays current rather than reconstructed at year-end. Explore Praxis.
How to Engage Us
Three Ways to Start
Three engagement shapes, each calibrated to your platform and the regulatory surface it carries. The thread across all of them: compliance engineered into the system itself, evidenced as a side effect of running it, and defensible the day a regulator asks.
Plan the Work
Roadmap
We scope the regulatory surface that applies to your systems, run an initial gap analysis, and produce a prioritised remediation plan with engineering effort estimates. The output is a document your CTO and your General Counsel can both sign. This is the front door for most engagements.
Build the Substrate
Delivery
We implement the plan. Sentinel for policy and runtime governance, Enclave for confidential processing where it is needed, the Praxis agent operating inside the engagement with your corpus loaded, evidence pipelines wired into your existing observability stack, and cross-framework control mapping documented and tested.
Keep It Current
Continuous
We run the agent against your platform on an ongoing basis and provide regulator liaison support when needed. Every deployment, every policy change, every model update triggers re-verification. Quarterly evidence packs go to your audit committee or your supervisory authority on request. Annual external review is supported but not driven by a year-end scramble.