AI is reshaping work.
The people inside your organization
should stay in control of it.
RiskGov helps organizations govern the data, decisions, and risks flowing through their AI systems — so the people inside those organizations keep their footing.
"We're not here to make AI safe for organizations. We're here to make organizations safe for the people inside them."
The gap between AI adoption and AI governance is where RiskGov works.
RiskGov was built for exactly this moment — where AI is inside organizations, making real decisions, and governance is still catching up.
The human cost
AI systems are making hiring decisions, performance reviews, loan approvals, and medical recommendations — often without human review, explainability, or accountability.
The data exposure
Sensitive organizational and personal data is flowing into AI tools without governance. Employees using shadow AI, unreviewed models, and third-party tools create exposure that grows daily.
The regulatory moment
EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2026. NIST AI RMF is the federal standard. Organizations without governance frameworks face penalties, liability, and — most importantly — uncontrolled AI impact on their people.
Governance as an act of protection.
Not compliance theater. Not checkbox auditing. Governance that actually protects the people inside your organization.
You cannot govern what you don't understand. Before any policy, any framework, any control — RiskGov maps exactly what your AI systems are doing to your data, your decisions, and your people. That intelligence is the foundation of everything that follows.
Every AI deployment is a choice about who benefits. The economists, scientists, and historians studying this technology most carefully — Acemoglu, Autor, Hinton — agree: AI built without governance serves the powerful, not the people inside your organization. RiskGov designs governance that keeps the people inside your organization accountable, informed, and in control.
You cannot eliminate AI risk. But you can build organizations resilient enough to govern it — where when something goes wrong, people are equipped to respond, adapt, and recover. That's not a compromise. That's the only honest strategy.
What flows into your AI systems, what decisions come out, and who is accountable for the outcomes — that is the full lifecycle RiskGov governs. Because behind every data point is a person whose livelihood, opportunity, or safety may be affected.
We didn't arrive at this position alone.
The scientists who built AI, the economists who study its impact on workers, and the historians tracking the concentration of tech power all point to the same conclusion: governance is the variable that determines whether AI serves humanity or diminishes it.
RiskGov exists to act on that conclusion.
There is nothing automatic about new technologies bringing widespread prosperity. Whether they do or not is an economic, social, and political choice.
We're using AI too much for automation and not enough for providing expertise and information to workers. We currently have the wrong direction for AI.
AI, if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market that has been hollowed out by automation. The unique opportunity AI offers is to extend the relevance, reach, and value of human expertise.
I want to make sure that if there's a very good reason to think AI could be very dangerous, this gets a lot of attention. The people creating this technology have a responsibility to understand its impact on humanity.
Technology is too important to leave to the billionaires. We need to renegotiate the balance of power between public interest and private wealth — before that window closes.
These are not warnings to fear. They are arguments for governance — and for the organizations and the people inside them.
Governance across the full AI lifecycle.
From traditional GRC to AI-specific governance — and the platform to operationalize both.
AI Data Exposure Assessment
A 30-day assessment of your full AI data footprint. We map what data is flowing into AI systems, where it's going, what controls exist, and where human accountability is missing. Findings documented directly in our proprietary GRC platform for ongoing tracking and audit readiness.
AI Governance Program Build
End-to-end AI governance — policies, controls, human oversight frameworks, audit infrastructure, and regulatory alignment. Built around your people and your risk appetite. Your governance framework operationalized in our proprietary GRC platform — policies, controls, and audit trails from day one.
Fractional CAIRO
Chief AI Risk Officer advisory — monitoring data exposure, ensuring human oversight is maintained as you adopt new AI tools, and providing board-level accountability reporting. Ongoing advisory supported by our proprietary GRC platform — continuous visibility, not periodic check-ins.
GRC Advisory
Traditional GRC engagements built on 20+ years of federal and enterprise compliance expertise. NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, FedRAMP readiness — the governance foundation your AI risk program builds on.
Findings tracked in our proprietary GRC platform for continuous compliance visibility.
GRC Platform Access
Subscribe to RiskGov's proprietary GRC platform — built to federal compliance standards. Policies, risk registers, controls, and audit trails in one system. Available as a standalone subscription for organizations managing their own compliance program.
Commercial deployment — architecture designed to federal compliance standards.
We don't just build your governance framework. We give you the platform to run it.
Most governance consultants deliver a document. RiskGov delivers a living system.
Our proprietary GRC platform — built in 2017 to federal compliance standards — operationalizes the governance frameworks we design. Your policies, controls, risk registers, audit trails, and compliance evidence live in a platform built for exactly this purpose.
That's the difference between advice and infrastructure.
- Continuous compliance monitoring — not point-in-time snapshots
- AI risk register, policy management, and audit evidence in one place
- Built to federal compliance standards — architecture designed for the most demanding governance environments
Built on frameworks designed to protect people first.
The EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF were both designed with human rights, human oversight, and human accountability at their core. So is RiskGov.
EU AI Act
The EU AI Act classifies AI by risk tier. High-risk systems — those making decisions about hiring, credit, healthcare, and critical infrastructure — face strict human oversight and data governance requirements. Article 14 mandates meaningful human control. RiskGov maps your AI systems to their tier and builds the governance required to comply — and to protect the people affected by those systems.
- Article 10 — Data governance & quality
- Article 13 — Transparency obligations
- Article 14 — Human oversight requirements (mandatory)
- Article 17 — Quality management system
- Penalties: €35M or 7% of global turnover
NIST AI RMF
NIST's AI Risk Management Framework puts GOVERN first — because without human accountability structures, you cannot measure or manage AI risk. RiskGov's methodology follows the RMF sequence, ensuring your governance is recognized by federal agencies and enterprise procurement teams — and that people remain at the center of every risk decision.
- GOVERN — Human accountability & oversight policies
- MAP — Categorize AI risks in human context
- MEASURE — Analyze AI impact on people & operations
- MANAGE — Prioritize and treat risks to the people inside your organization first
- Aligns with ISO 42001, NIST CSF 2.0, EU AI Act
Built different. On purpose.
Twenty years of GRC expertise applied to the problem that matters most — keeping people in control of AI.
Federal-grade credentials, human-centered philosophy
CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CGRC, CGEIT, CASP+. Trained in FedRAMP, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 42001 — the most demanding compliance environments on earth. Applied here to protect people, not just organizations.
Advisory AND platform. Not just advice.
Most consultants leave you a framework. RiskGov operationalizes it in a proprietary GRC platform built in 2017 to federal compliance standards. Your governance lives in a system, not a binder.
Sector depth across regulated environments
Federal agencies, financial services, healthcare, enterprise — we speak the regulatory language of every environment where AI decisions affect real people's lives.
You work with our founding principal. Directly.
Not a junior analyst. Not a project manager. The person who built the frameworks is the person governing your AI. That's what boutique means.
Three phases to human-centered AI governance.
Map
We identify every AI system touching your data and your people. We map data flows, human decision points, accountability gaps, and regulatory exposure.
Govern
We build the governance framework — policies, human oversight controls, audit infrastructure, and data lifecycle governance — tailored to your sector and the people inside your organization.
Sustain
AI doesn't stop evolving. Neither do we. Ongoing monitoring, governance updates, and board-level reporting ensure people stay in control as your AI footprint grows.
Built for environments where AI decisions affect real lives.
Federal & Government
Protecting federal employees and citizens from unaccountable AI systems. FedRAMP, NIST AI RMF, CMMC, FISMA.
Financial Services
Human oversight of AI in credit, risk, and investment decisions. SEC AI disclosure, model risk management.
Healthcare
Keeping clinicians and patients in control of AI diagnostic and administrative tools. HIPAA, FDA AI/ML guidance.
Enterprise
Protecting people from AI decisions made without accountability. EU AI Act, board-level human oversight reporting.
Founding Principal
RiskGov's founding principal has spent over two decades at the intersection of cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance. She built a federal compliance firm from the ground up and architected a proprietary GRC platform in 2017 to federal compliance standards — before AI governance was a recognized discipline. She brings both the advisory expertise and the platform infrastructure to operationalize it. RiskGov clients benefit from that platform directly.
RiskGov is the next chapter — built on a simple belief: in a world where AI is reshaping work, organizations need governance that protects the people inside them, not just their liability exposure.
“The hardest part of governance was never the framework — it was getting someone to own it.”
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