The Governance Accelerator
Your AI policy is a PDF. Governance has to be the operating system.
If you cannot answer "Have you classified this under the EU AI Act?" with evidence in under 90 seconds, the answer is no. We embed NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A controls into your agentic revenue motion in 90 days. A system that runs the business and passes the audit, not a binder that sits in legal's shared drive.
Built on
NIST AI RMF 1.0
EU AI Act
ISO/IEC 42001:2023
OECD AI Principles
The Problem
Boards are asking the question. Most teams cannot answer.
Agentic systems are moving into pipeline forecasting and lead scoring. The board asks: "Have you classified this under the EU AI Act?"
Most teams answer with a vendor brochure. Or with a 2023 policy memo. Before the EU AI Act entered into force, before NIST published the Generative AI Profile, before ISO/IEC 42001 became the management system every procurement team now asks about.
The gap is operational. Without an EU AI Act classification checklist, you cannot ship the agent. Without NIST AI actor harm mapping for RevOps, the audit committee will not approve the rollout. Without Annex A evidence, your enterprise customer's procurement team will not finish the security review. Governance is not the brake on agentic deployment. It is the steering.
Stress-Test Your Position
Five questions to answer before your next board meeting.
If any answer requires a hedge, your governance is narrative. The Accelerator replaces narrative with evidence. Click each question to see what passes and what fails.
The Accelerator
Three deliverables. Ninety days. Bounded by design.
Each artifact is built to be used in production, not filed. Each maps to a specific decision the business needs to make.
01
EU AI Act Classification Playbook
A defensible, auditable workflow for classifying every agentic use case in your revenue motion. Decision tree mapped to Article 6 and Annex III. Risk-tier matrix with downstream obligations spelled out by tier. Template for the EU database registration that high-risk providers must file under Article 49.
Artifacts you keep
- Article 6 + Annex III decision tree
- Risk-tier obligations matrix
- Annex IV technical documentation template
- EU database registration template
02
NIST Actor and Harm Register
A lifecycle-mapped register of every AI actor in your revenue workflows (developers, operators, deployers, evaluators, end users) cross-indexed against the three NIST AI RMF harm categories: harms to people, organizations, and ecosystems. Connected to the four NIST AI RMF functions: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage.
Artifacts you keep
- Actor register across the AI lifecycle
- Harm taxonomy by NIST category
- Govern-Map-Measure-Manage control mapping
- Continuous monitoring cadence
03
ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A Gap Analysis + Evidence Dashboard
Section-by-section gap analysis against ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Annex A reference controls. Each control mapped to the artifact that proves it: policy, log, dashboard query, training record. Evidence dashboard your auditor (or board, or insurer) can read without a translator.
Artifacts you keep
- Annex A control-by-control gap analysis
- Evidence-to-control crosswalk
- Live evidence dashboard
- Quarterly review cadence with named owners
How it connects
Governance becomes the operating system.
Not a parallel track. The same evidence layer that powers your forecast and your pipeline also satisfies your auditor through a single governance overlap matrix across NIST, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.
ForecastIQ
Forecasting models become governed AI systems with documented training data, monitored variance, and a paper trail your CFO and your auditor can both read.
Pipeline Modernization
Lead scoring, deal scoring, and stalled-deal playbooks operate inside documented autonomy boundaries. Every agent action has a traceable chain back to policy.
AI Advisory
The Fractional AI Officer engagement gets a governance backbone. Board updates stop being narrative. They start being evidence.
Investment
$45,000 to $75,000 one-time. Optional retainer at 50% uplift.
Range reflects scope: number of active agentic use cases, EU AI Act risk posture, and depth of existing evidence infrastructure. Quoted after the 30-minute classification diagnostic.
90-Day Accelerator
$45,000 to $75,000
one-time, fixed scope
- EU AI Act Classification Playbook + decision tree + database registration template
- NIST Actor and Harm Register, lifecycle-mapped
- ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A gap analysis + live evidence dashboard
- Board and audit-committee briefing pack
- Procurement-ready security questionnaire responses
6 to 12 Month Retainer (Optional)
+50% uplift
monthly, after Accelerator
- Quarterly re-classification of new agentic use cases
- Annex A evidence dashboard maintenance
- Harm register updates as models and data drift
- Board and audit-committee briefings
- On-call governance review for new agent proposals
Resources
The artifacts. Some free. The ones operators license, gated.
These are the working documents the Accelerator produces, in template form. The free ones are baseline. The gated ones are what governance practitioners actually pay to license. Start with the flagship playbook below.
Governing Agentic Velocity
The flagship Sophizo playbook on running agentic deployment and governance as a single operating cadence, not a parallel track. Covers velocity loops, evidence-by-default architecture, bounded-autonomy patterns by use case, and the board-language framing that lets governance accelerate shipping instead of slowing it.
- Velocity-and-governance unified operating cadence
- Evidence-by-default architecture patterns
- Bounded-autonomy patterns mapped by use case
- Board-language framing for agentic risk
NIST AI Actor & Harm Mapping Template
Pre-populated NIST AI RMF 1.0 actor taxonomy and three-harm-category framework, mapped to the most common RevOps and agentic AI systems in B2B SaaS.
- Full AI actor taxonomy with RevOps equivalents
- Three harm categories pre-populated with nine RevOps scenarios
- Responsibility assignment matrix: actor x NIST function
Agentic Governance Overlap Matrix
Twelve rows mapping NIST AI RMF functions to ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A controls and EU AI Act articles, with the high-performer revenue lever and the agentic failure mode for each.
- NIST function x ISO 42001 Annex A x EU AI Act crosswalk
- Revenue lever per row, written in board language
- Agentic failure mode if the row is skipped
RevOps-Specific AI Risk Register
Ten pre-populated risks across all three NIST harm categories. ICP scoring bias, SDR scoring, AI outreach manipulation, forecast drift, RAG data exposure, prompt injection, and more. Likelihood x impact scoring with control gaps and residual risk.
- Ten pre-populated risks across NIST People / Org / Ecosystem
- L x I scoring with inherent and residual risk
- OWASP LLM Top 10 cross-references on every entry
EU AI Act Registration Playbook for B2B SaaS
Eight sequential steps from full AI inventory through EU database registration, with the master enforcement timeline (Feb 2025, Aug 2025, Aug 2026, Aug 2027) and national competent authority contacts for the five largest EU markets.
- Master enforcement timeline with B2B SaaS actions per date
- Eight-step registration and compliance process
- NCA contacts: Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland
Engineering Agentic Velocity
The companion playbook to governance: how operators ship agentic systems quickly without producing recall risk. Velocity loops, throughput math, and the bounded-autonomy patterns that let governance run in parallel with deployment instead of behind it.
- Velocity loops mapped to NIST Govern-Map-Measure-Manage
- Throughput math: agents shipped per quarter without incident
- Bounded-autonomy patterns by use case
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Questions you should be asking
The objections we hear, answered.
Built on NIST AI RMF 1.0 and the Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1, July 2024), EU AI Act final text (Articles 3, 6, 49, Annex III, Annex IV), ISO/IEC 42001:2023, and OECD AI Principles (2019, updated May 2024).
Your board is going to ask the question.
Be the team that answers it with evidence, not narrative.