The gap is already there
Growing companies accumulate risk, AI exposure, and regulatory obligations faster than they can manage them. The question is not whether the gap exists -- it is how much it costs before someone closes it.
Fractional GRC · AI Governance · Security Programme · Privacy
Your organisation is running. Someone needs to make sure governance is keeping up.
Most companies between 50 and 500 employees carry real risk, AI exposure, security obligations, and privacy requirements without a dedicated officer for any of it. GOVERNANCE Ltd. provides that expertise as a managed engagement -- built around your actual environment, not a template.
Start with a free consultation call to talk through where you are and what you actually need.
Frameworks do not govern themselves
Policies only work when someone owns them, maintains them, and makes sure they connect to what is actually happening in your operations. That requires a person, not just a document.
Bespoke, not templated
No two organisations have the same risk environment, the same regulatory obligations, or the same operational constraints. Governance that works is governance built for your specific situation.
Services
Four modules. One coherent programme.
Risk & Resilience
The foundation of every engagement. We assess your risk posture, govern your vendors, manage your audit processes, and build a continuity plan that holds up under real conditions. Every other module builds on this one.
AI Governance
When clients, insurers, or regulators ask about your AI use, you need a documented, defensible programme. We build and manage it -- policy, vendor AI review, governance structure, regulatory alignment, and ongoing oversight.
Security Programme
A compliance checklist is not a security programme. We provide fractional CISO leadership that owns your security architecture, manages incidents, holds vendors to a defined standard, and gives leadership real visibility.
Data Protection
Privacy laws are multiplying at the state level and your clients are asking harder questions. We map your data, build your privacy programme, manage your obligations, and put a breach response in place your team can actually execute.
Industry expertise
Domain-specific governance for regulated teams
Healthcare & Health-Adjacent
AI governance, risk, and privacy programme leadership for organisations handling clinical data, health communications, medical coding, and patient-facing operations.
- Patient data protection and obligations
- HITRUST readiness and audit management
- Clinical AI oversight and accountability
- Vendor oversight for health technology
Professional Services
Controls that protect client confidentiality while enabling responsible use of AI-assisted work across legal, financial, consulting, and advisory practices.
- Client data and confidentiality obligations
- Professional standards and licensing considerations
- Payment data controls and oversight
- Multi-jurisdictional practice exposure
Public Sector
Transparent, accountable AI governance for agencies, public services, procurement functions, and records management with heightened accountability obligations.
- Public accountability and transparency requirements
- Procurement oversight and documentation
- Citizen privacy and service delivery obligations
AI Federalism
Governance happens at more than one level.
GOVERNANCE Ltd. uses an AI Federalism lens to coordinate board expectations, business ownership, technical controls, legal duties, and front-line judgement without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
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Managed service modules
Foundation — required
Risk & Resilience
Risk posture assessment, vendor oversight, audit management, policy governance, continuity and recovery planning
From $3,500 /mo
Add-on module
AI Governance
AI policy, vendor AI review, governance structure, regulatory alignment, staff training, ongoing oversight
From $2,500 /mo
Add-on module
Security Programme
Security programme ownership, incident response, vendor security review, architecture guidance, security awareness
From $4,000 /mo
Add-on module
Privacy
Data mapping, privacy programme management, vendor data review, breach response planning, regulatory alignment
From $1,500 /mo
Full Programme
Risk & Resilience + AI Governance + Security Programme + Privacy
Save $1,500/mo
$10,000 /mo
GRC consulting rates
- Overages, months 1–6
- $200/hr
- Out-of-scope projects, month 7+
- $200/hr
Security Programme rates
- Contract / project work
- $200/hr
- Base hourly or overages
- $275/hr
- Emergency / incident response
- $350/hr
- Expert witness / regulatory
- $350/hr
Every engagement is scoped to your environment. Pricing shown reflects starting rates; final pricing is set in consultation. All rates USD. Contracts billed monthly.
Why GOVERNANCE Ltd.
Expertise that runs from infrastructure to policy.
GOVERNANCE Ltd. is led by Tim Brewer -- M.S. in Information Management from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business, nine consecutive clean audit cycles across PCI DSS and HITRUST frameworks, and the author of the AI Federalism methodology that underpins every engagement.
Effective governance requires understanding technology from the ground up. That means hands-on infrastructure, network, and security experience alongside specialised AI policy, data governance, and regulatory expertise. The result is advice that works in practice for real teams under real constraints -- not language that looks good in a policy document and fails in the room.
Every GOVERNANCE Ltd. engagement is bespoke. The frameworks exist. The methodology is proven. The work is built around your organisation.
Process
A straightforward path to clarity
Discovery and assessment
Understand the organisation, systems, risks, obligations, stakeholders, and current controls. You cannot govern what you have not assessed.
Programme design
Define ownership, policies, evidence, control objectives, reporting, and escalation paths -- scoped to your environment, not a generic framework.
Ongoing ownership
Put governance into practice and sustain it as regulations, systems, and your organisation change. This is not a one-time engagement.
Case Studies
Governance that works in practice
Healthcare Communications
TAS United
A Texas-based healthcare communications company carrying HITRUST i1 certification, PCI DSS obligations, and a growing AI footprint. Nine consecutive clean audit cycles across both frameworks.
Risk & Resilience
Security Programme
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Additional case studies coming soon.
Additional case studies coming soon.
Contact
Schedule a free consultation call.
Use the contact page to request a no-cost initial call. We will talk through your environment, your obligations, and what an engagement would actually look like for your organisation. The message goes directly to the GOVERNANCE Ltd. inbox.
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