AI is already inside your business.
Are you in control of it?
If you don't know, you have a governance gap.
Pragmatic AI advisory, governance and assurance for mid sized organisations. Helping leadership teams understand their AI exposure, manage the risks that matter and adopt AI responsibly.
AI adoption is moving faster than AI governance
AI tools are entering organisations from every direction. Employees are experimenting, software vendors are embedding AI into existing products and business leaders are under pressure to move quickly.
The opportunity is substantial. So are the risks when nobody has a clear view of what is being used, what information is being shared or who is accountable.
Unapproved AI
Do you know which AI tools your people are actually using?
If you don't, company information may be entering systems you've never assessed or approved.
Accountability
Who approves AI use and who owns the associated risk?
Without clear ownership, important decisions about AI can fall between IT, legal, risk and the business.
Data and Privacy
Do employees understand what information can safely be shared with AI?
If they don't, confidential, personal or commercially sensitive information can be exposed in seconds.
Governance
Do your policies, controls and training reflect how AI is actually being used?
If not, the organisation may have policies on paper while employees are operating to entirely different rules.
What you can't see, you can't govern
The risk isn't simply that people are using AI. It's that leadership may have little visibility of what is being used, what information is being shared, what decisions AI is influencing or where accountability sits.
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You don't need to stop AI adoption. You need enough visibility and governance to know where the material risks are.
Innovation without losing control.
Responsible AI shouldn't mean slower AI
AI governance isn't about stopping people experimenting or placing unnecessary barriers in the way of innovation.
EthicAlign helps organisations put proportionate guardrails around AI so that people can use it confidently, while leadership understands the risks, responsibilities and boundaries.
We bring together AI, technology strategy, cyber security, governance, risk and ethics to help organisations move from uncontrolled experimentation towards responsible adoption.
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DISCOVER → ASSESS → GOVERN → ADOPT → ASSURE
Experience behind the advice
Steve Cairns
Founder & Principal, EthicAlign
AI Strategy | AI Governance
AI Ethics, Regulation & Compliance
30+
Years of Experience
20+
Years in Senior Leadership
4
Continents
AI Contract Intelligence
Applied AI and contract lifecycle management
AI Healthcare Analytics
Cloud based analytics and intelligent decision support
Responsible AI Adoption
Governance, policy, risk and organisational adoption
AI Strategy & Advisory
Executive guidance on AI opportunity, risk and implementation
Expertise grounded in technology leadership
AI governance doesn't sit neatly within IT, legal, cyber security or risk. It crosses all of them.
Steve Cairns brings more than 30 years of international technology experience to the challenge, including senior CIO, CTO and CISO advisory roles alongside specialist study in Artificial Intelligence and AI Ethics and Regulation at Oxford University's Saïd Business School.
His approach combines an understanding of emerging AI capabilities with practical experience of technology strategy, cyber security, governance, risk and organisational change.