Governance is a posture that drifts the moment you stop watching
Someone ships a new agent. A policy quietly stops matching reality. Guidance shifts. None of it announces itself: you find out during the examination, or when an agent does something confidently wrong in front of a customer.
The point of the retainer is that someone is checking what your agents do after they say hello, not just that they enrolled.
What's Included
Agent Registry
Monthly discovery of new and modified agents, risk assessment, and ownership verification, so nothing runs that nobody owns.
Compliance Monitoring
Tracking against current regulatory obligations, evidence collection (logs, policies, evaluations), and a watch on the deadlines that matter to your sector.
Posture Reviews
Defender for Cloud alert triage, Purview DLP effectiveness checks, and policy-drift detection, before drift becomes a finding.
Pre-Flight Reviews
Technical and compliance review of any new agent or model before it reaches production. Nothing goes live ungoverned.
Reporting
A monthly executive dashboard covering agent count, risk trend and compliance status, plus a quarterly steering review with your leadership.
Incident Readiness
An annual tabletop exercise on agent incident response and the regulatory notification workflow, so the first rehearsal is not the real thing.
Agents in production, and multiplying
Organisations running agents in production, roughly three or more, or heading there fast, that need continuous oversight without building an in-house AI governance function.
And regulated firms that need current, monthly audit evidence on hand, not reconstructed in a panic when the examiner writes.
Requires a governed landing zone: ours, or an existing one we can review and validate.
No compliance surprises: drift is caught before it becomes a finding
Evidence that is always current, ready to hand to an examiner
A named person who knows your estate, not a scramble at crisis point
Visibility on cost, reliability and risk, month over month
Monthly retainer, tiered by estate size
Up to 5 agents
5-15 agents
15-25 agents (additional agents quoted)
12-month term, with a discount for annual commitment. Service levels, response times and a monthly advisory-hours budget are agreed up front, so both sides know exactly what the retainer covers.