AI governance installed where the work happens: usage policy, approved tools, role-based access, review gates, and monitoring across a company's own systems.

AI governance that makes adoption safe instead of slowing it down.

Your team already runs on AI. It just runs on ten personal logins, with company data spread across tools no one approved. Phos AI Labs sets the rules, the access, and the review gates that make AI safe to use company-wide, sized for a lean team.

AI governance is the set of rules, access controls, and review steps that decide who can use AI, on what data, and how it gets shipped. Here is what most companies miss: by the time leadership writes a policy, the whole team is already using AI on their own logins, and the real risk is not a future rollout, it is the ungoverned one running right now. Phos AI Labs closes that gap with governance a lean team will actually follow, so adoption speeds up instead of freezing.

OpenAI Select Partner and Claude Partner Network

Select Partner with CCA-F certified team

  • 40+ AI systems

    shipped to production in the last 6 months, each with access controls and audit logging built in

  • Zero data-privacy incidents

    across those builds, with governance set up inside the tools and data where the work happens

Trusted across 300+ builds

  • American Express
  • Coca-Cola
  • Sotheby's
  • Medtronic
  • Dataiku
  • Margaritaville
  • Zapier
  • Whitecoat Planning

Why does AI risk show up before any AI policy does?

Because adoption never waits for permission. One person finds a tool that saves them hours, tells two coworkers, and within a quarter half the company is pasting real data into logins IT never approved. The exposure is already live. The policy is still a draft.

  • Everyone is a builder now

    AI made building easy, so everyone is doing it. Teams spin up their own agents and workflows with no shared standard, and no one can see what was built or what it touches.

  • Company data on personal logins

    The best AI work is happening on free and personal accounts, with customer records and financials flowing through tools that were never reviewed for privacy or security.

  • Five people, five different ways

    Without a standard, every team uses AI differently. Output quality swings, nothing is repeatable, and what one person figured out never becomes how the company works.

  • No gate between built and shipped

    Things go live before anyone checks the data access, the accuracy, or the compliance exposure, and the first time leadership hears about a system is when something breaks.

Governance lives in the work, as the rails the whole company runs on.

A policy PDF no one reads changes nothing.

Phos AI Labs installs governance where the work happens: the tools people use, the data they can reach, and the steps every AI system passes before it goes live. Light enough for a lean team, firm enough to trust.

What you walk away with

  1. 01

    AI Usage Policy

    Plain-language rules for who can use AI, on what data, and where. Written so people actually follow them.

  2. 02

    Approved Tools and Model Standard

    The sanctioned stack: which tools and models for which jobs, and the ones that are off-limits for company data.

  3. 03

    Data Classification and Access Map

    What data is sensitive, who can reach it, and role-based access rules so the wrong person never sees the wrong record.

  4. 04

    Shadow AI Inventory

    Every AI tool and personal login already in use across the company, surfaced and sorted into keep, replace, or shut down.

  5. 05

    Review and Release Gates

    The checkpoints an AI system passes before production: data access, accuracy, security, and a clear go or go-with-conditions call.

  6. 06

    Audit and Monitoring Setup

    Logging and oversight so every AI action is traceable, and leadership can see what is running and what it touches.

  7. 07

    Compliance Mapping

    Your AI use lined up against the regulations and client requirements that apply to your industry.

  8. 08

    Rollout and Training Plan

    How the policy reaches every team, with the training that makes adoption stick.

  9. 09

    Governance Owner and Runbook

    Who owns AI governance internally, and the runbook that keeps it current as tools and models change.

What actually happens once you start?

One governance engagement, mapped to how your company already uses AI, run over 3 to 4 weeks. We find the real exposure first, then build rules around reality.

  1. 01

    Interviews, AI-powered and human

    Our voice interview agent and our consultants talk to leadership and the floor, capturing how people actually use AI today, including the tools and logins no one has admitted to yet.

  2. 02

    Shadow AI discovery

    We inventory every AI tool, account, and workflow already running across the company, and flag where real data is moving through unreviewed systems.

  3. 03

    Risk and data mapping

    We classify your data, map who can reach what, and rank the exposure so the highest-risk gaps rise to the top instead of getting lost in a checklist.

  4. 04

    Policy, access, and review gates

    We write the usage policy, set the approved tool and model standard, define role-based access, and stand up the review gates every future AI system will pass through.

  5. 05

    Rollout, training, and ownership

    We roll the policy out to every team, train them on it, and name an internal owner with a runbook, so governance holds after we hand it off.

What else does Phos AI Labs handle across the AI Consulting pillar?

Governance sits alongside the rest of the engagement. Each of these builds on the same foundation: a clear picture of where AI belongs and how it should run.

  • Generative AI Consulting

    Choosing the right model and prompt architecture for each job, so accuracy holds and the hours it saves actually show up.

    Explore → — Generative AI Consulting
  • Claude Consulting

    As an Anthropic partner, a real rollout: CLAUDE.md, MCP, and permissions set up so Claude works across the whole company.

    Explore → — Claude Consulting
  • OpenAI Consulting

    Products and internal systems built on OpenAI's models through the API: the right model for each job across text, voice, and images, wired into your own data.

    Explore → — OpenAI Consulting
  • AI Readiness Audit

    A fixed-scope audit of your tools, team, and data that prices every opportunity, with governance scored as one of its dimensions.

    Explore → — AI Readiness Audit

Why does AI governance look different in a regulated industry?

A law firm handling privileged files and an ecommerce brand moving customer data do not carry the same risk, even at the same size. The rules have to match what you actually handle.

Don’t see your industry?

If your work runs on drafting, summarizing, or answering from your own documents, there is a fit.

Book a call

What does this actually change?

Companies come to Phos AI Labs because AI is already everywhere and no one is holding the wheel. They leave with adoption that is faster, safer, and finally consistent across the whole team.

  1. 01

    Adoption speeds up, safely

    Governance stops being the thing that slows AI down. With clear rules and approved tools, people move faster because they finally know what they are allowed to do.

  2. 02

    One company, one way of working

    The scattered, five-different-ways problem is gone. Everyone uses the same approved stack the same way, so quality holds and what one person figures out becomes how the company runs.

  3. 03

    Leadership can see everything

    No more surprises. Every AI system and every login is accounted for, logged, and traceable, so you know exactly what is running on your data at any moment.

Does governance actually hold up in production?

It shows up in three places: systems that ship safe by design, the requirements rigor clients feel along the way, and results that prove safe and fast work together.

HRM Mexico

CONTEXT

HRM turned 16 years of Mexico labor-law expertise into an AI specialist that answers any employer at any hour. The governance story is in the build: it was architected so it cannot answer outside its verified knowledge.

This is the perfect example of the importance of moving forward with an AI strategy. We feel very fortunate to have chosen Phos AI Labs as our partner. It has been a positive game changer for us.

— Franklin Delano Frith II, Owner, HRM

Why Phos AI Labs over a compliance consultant or a policy template?

A template gives you rules with no teeth, and a traditional compliance firm has never shipped an AI system. Phos AI Labs governs AI the way only a team that builds AI can, and stays embedded as your stack changes.

  1. 01

    We build the systems we govern

    Most AI-governance advice comes from people who have never deployed an AI system. We ship 40+ into production a year, with access controls, audit logging, and review gates built in. We govern from the inside because we know where things actually break.

  2. 02

    Governance sized for a lean team

    Enterprise governance frameworks assume a compliance department you do not have. Phos AI Labs builds the version that fits a $5M+ company: firm enough to trust, light enough that your team will actually follow it.

  3. 03

    We stay as the rules change

    AI does not sit still, so governance cannot either. New models, new tools, and new regulations land constantly. Phos AI Labs stays embedded to keep your policy, your approved stack, and your review gates current as the ground shifts.

How much does AI governance cost?

AI governance with Phos AI Labs starts at $10,000 for the governance engagement and scales with the size and risk profile of your company. From there, staying embedded to keep it current is a monthly engagement, and most companies fold governance into the broader AI audit rather than buying it alone.

  • Governance Engagement

    from $10,000 fixed

    The full 3-to-4-week engagement: every deliverable above, from the AI Usage Policy to the review gates and the internal owner's runbook. Priced to the size and risk profile of your company. You own all of it.

    Book a strategy call
  • Governance Inside the Audit

    part of the AI Readiness Audit

    Governance is one of the four dimensions we score in the full audit. If you are already engaging Phos AI Labs to find where AI belongs, governance is built into that work.

    See the audit
  • Embedded, Ongoing

    Monthly retainer

    We stay on to keep your policy, approved stack, access rules, and review gates current as models, tools, and regulations change, as part of an embedded AI department engagement.

    Talk through scope

The real cost is not the engagement. It is one leaked customer file, one compliance miss, or a year of every team using AI a different way. Governance is the cheapest insurance a company running on AI can buy, and the fastest way to make adoption pay off.

Keep going

The tools and reads that sharpen the governance conversation before you ever book a call.

  1. 01

    AI Readiness Scorecard

    Ten questions, a personalized score. See where your company stands, including how exposed your current AI use already is.

    Explore →
  2. 02

    AI Readiness Voice Audit

    A three-minute voice-driven audit, the same interview method used in the full engagement, in miniature.

    Explore →
  3. 03

    AI Consulting

    The full picture: where AI belongs in your business, with governance as one of the four dimensions we score.

    Explore →
  4. 04

    Case Studies

    The full library of what Phos AI Labs has shipped, with the numbers behind each build.

    Explore →

FAQs

What is AI governance?
AI governance is the set of rules, access controls, and review steps that decide who can use AI, on what data, and how it gets shipped. At Phos AI Labs it is installed where the work happens, inside your tools and data, so it holds up where a policy PDF would sit unread. The goal is safe adoption that speeds the company up.
Do you just write a policy, or actually set it up?
We set it up. Phos AI Labs writes the usage policy, then stands up the approved tool standard, role-based access, review gates, and monitoring inside your actual systems. As a team that ships AI into production, we govern from the inside rather than handing you a document and walking away.
How long does a governance engagement take?
Three to four weeks, depending on the size and risk profile of your company. It covers a shadow AI inventory, data and access mapping, the usage policy, model standards, and the review gates, and ends with an internal owner and runbook so governance holds after handoff.
How much does AI governance cost?
The governance engagement starts at $10,000 and scales with the size and risk profile of your company. Staying embedded to keep it current is a monthly engagement, and many companies fold governance into the broader AI Readiness Audit rather than buying it on its own.
We already have people using AI on their own. Is it too late?
That is exactly when governance matters most. Most companies that come to Phos AI Labs already have teams using AI on personal logins with company data. We inventory what is already running, sort it into keep, replace, or shut down, and put real rules around it.
Will governance slow our team down?
The opposite. Ungoverned AI is what slows companies down, through inconsistent output, rework, and fear of using it wrong. Clear rules and an approved stack let people move faster because they finally know what they are allowed to do.
Do we own what you set up?
Yes. The policy, access rules, standards, review gates, and runbook all live inside your company and are yours to keep. There is no lock-in, and Phos AI Labs stays on only if you want us embedded to keep it current as tools and regulations change.

The fastest way to know whether we're the right fit, is a conversation.

STEP 1/2 · ABOUT YOU