AI GOVERNANCE
Bring your AI systems, use cases and risk assessments into a shared workspace. Defensiq helps teams record how AI is used, who is accountable and what needs to happen before an internal approval.
Start with an inventory and structured assessment. With AI Governance Advanced, connect controls, policies and evidence to review decisions and follow-up work.
Free forever · Basic plan limits apply
AI GovernanceAEOverview of your AI governance posture
START WITH THE SYSTEM AND ITS USE
Create a record for each AI system and describe its purpose, owner, supplier, deployment context and use of data. Record its lifecycle stage and next review date.
Maintain use cases alongside systems. A customer-support drafting assistant and a tool that makes operational decisions may need different oversight, even when they use the same underlying technology.
The result is an inventory your team can maintain and review together.
A STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT
Work through questions about data sensitivity, autonomy, human oversight, security exposure, reliability and supplier dependency. Save the assessment results and the methodology used to produce them.
Review the recorded inherent and residual risk, control coverage, assurance confidence and findings. These results structure the discussion; the responsible people still make the governance decision.
AI GOVERNANCE ADVANCED
The full decision, control and evidence workflow requires the AI Governance add-on on an eligible Business or Enterprise GRC plan.
With Advanced, assign controls to AI systems, record their implementation and verification, and connect supporting policies and evidence. Link relevant risks to your wider programme where shared GRC access is enabled.
For a support assistant, that might mean a human-review requirement, an AI-use policy, a documented review and a risk record covering sensitive customer information.
Advanced supports human assessment decisions, including approval with conditions, remediation required and a decision not to approve. Keep the decision with its rationale and the assessment it concerns.
Give conditions an owner and due date. Create follow-up tasks from findings and revisit the assessment when the system or use case changes. Your team can see the earlier record and the later review.
Record autonomy levels, permitted actions, human-approval requirements and review dates. Use lifecycle and policy settings to support your internal review process.
These records document how oversight should work. They do not, by themselves, control the behaviour of an external AI service.
ADVANCED · A WORKED EXAMPLE
Illustrative workflow · Support Drafting Assistant
Advanced access, relevant shared modules and authorised reviewer permissions are required.
The result is a system record connected to its assessment, findings, supporting records and human decision.
MANAGEMENT VISIBILITY
Use report views to review your AI inventory, assessment decisions, suppliers and systems needing attention. Advanced adds board-summary and maturity views based on the information recorded in the workspace.
Keep the detail close to the summary so a reviewer can open the system or assessment behind a result.
CHOOSE THE DEPTH YOU NEED
Sign up for the free-forever basic plan. Add Advanced when you need the full governance and review workflow.
AI Governance Free is a free-forever plan with limited system inventory, basic assessments, starter policy drafting and basic report views. Sign-up is open. No paid GRC subscription is needed for the Free plan; its usage limits apply.
AI Governance Advanced is an add-on for eligible Business or Enterprise GRC subscriptions. It adds the full assessment decision workflow, assigned and verified controls, policy and evidence lifecycle, shared-risk links, AI supplier assessments and advanced reporting.
Related GRC modules and shared records have their own access requirements. Confirm the base plan, add-ons, roles and limits for your team during a demo.
AI Governance helps your organisation govern its use of AI. Nova is an assistant within Defensiq that can help with project questions, drafts and supported actions that you review.
They have separate access requirements. AI Governance access does not automatically include Nova.
CLARITY STARTS HERE
Details to help you decide where Defensiq fits.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Sign up for AI Governance’s free-forever plan and start with one system, its owner and a basic assessment. You can request a demo to explore the Advanced workflow.
