Governance in a Box

Confidently Adopt and Scale Responsible AI with Robust Governance

Governance in a Box empowers organisations to adopt and scale AI confidently by establishing robust, practical governance for Responsible AI. Delivered by an award‑winning Microsoft partner, this offering tackles the ethical, regulatory, and operational challenges that can impede AI adoption or expose organisations to unmanaged risk.

Supporting confident Azure AI adoption
Governance in a Box provides a structured entry point for customers starting with Azure AI, and a governance reset for those scaling—ensuring Responsible AI, trust, and compliance are embedded as Azure use expands. Governance in a Box helps organisations gain confidence to adopt and scale Azure AI by embedding Responsible AI, trust, and compliance into their foundations. This enables teams to move beyond isolated use cases and expand Azure AI with greater consistency, control, and assurance.

Gain insight into your organisation’s current state across governance, ethics, trust, human‑centred design, and integrity, aligned with Kainos’ frameworks and recognised global standards.

• Review of existing strategies, risk frameworks, assurance processes, and AI initiatives.
• Evaluation of roles, accountability structures, controls, training, and documentation quality.
• Mapping current practices to key standards including EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF), UK DSIT guidance, and ISO/IEC 42001.
• Stakeholder engagement through 1:1 interviews or small group sessions.
• Assessment of team and leadership readiness against Responsible AI goals.

Business Outcomes

• Independent Responsible AI maturity review benchmarked against latest standards and industry best practices.
• Structured plan to enhance your governance approach, building on your existing foundation and embedding improvements into current practices.
• Increased confidence in governance controls to accelerate Responsible AI adoption and build stakeholder trust.

What’s Included

• AI maturity assessment
• Gap analysis and assessment report
• Bespoke Responsible AI strategy, including a governance framework covering both organisational (strategic) and project‑level AI initiatives
• Prioritised list of actions to inform a future Responsible AI roadmap

Exclusions

This offering is advisory and assessment‑led. Activities outside the defined scope may be delivered under a separate statement of work.

Customer Responsibilities

• Provide access to relevant business, technical, and governance stakeholders
• Respond to information requests in a timely manner
• Supply documentation where required
• Participate in workshops, interviews, and validation sessions
• Ensure availability of appropriate representatives throughout the engagement

Our Responsibilities

• Deliver the engagement in line with agreed timelines, scope, and professional standards
• Clearly communicate assumptions, constraints, and dependencies throughout the engagement lifecycle

Duration

Typically delivered over a 12‑week period on a part‑time basis, with flexibility to compress timelines depending on organisational availability and capacity.

Cost

Starting from £30,000.

Final pricing depends on organisational size, number of stakeholders engaged, depth of regulatory and standards mapping, and delivery timeframe. A detailed statement of work and commercial proposal will be agreed following scoping.