Governed advisory system

AI governance advice, prepared by Conrad.

Conrad is an evidence-controlled AI governance adviser. Instead of an open-ended chat response, you get a structured briefing: grounded in a ranked source hierarchy, checked against advisory boundaries, rated for confidence, and reviewed before it reaches you. Built for boards, executives, risk teams, and transformation leaders who need governance guidance they can actually act on.

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Governance resource backed

Drawn from ranked legal, regulatory, and framework sources.

Not generic LLM memory

Evidence is pulled from curated sources and checked against an authority hierarchy before it gets used.

Confidence inferred

Every briefing carries a confidence level, worked out across ten source and context factors.

Human-reviewed pilot

A human operator reads every pilot response before it goes out to the client.

Why Conrad exists

A confident answer and a governed answer are not the same thing.

Boards and executives can already get a confident-sounding answer out of a general AI tool in seconds. That's not the gap Conrad fills. The real question is whether that answer is fit for governance use: sourced, current, bounded, aligned to recognised frameworks, and honest about what it doesn't know. Most of the time, it isn't. That's the gap Conrad exists to close.

Problem 01

Unverified answers

Generic AI produces confident statements that aren't tied to a source hierarchy, a governance framework, or a current regulator position. There's no way to tell a well-grounded claim apart from one that just sounds plausible.

Problem 02

No advisory boundary

Most tools don't separate general governance guidance from legal, financial, cybersecurity, employment, or certified compliance advice. That means responses often go further than any unregulated advisory service should.

Problem 03

No risk-controlled process

Governance decisions need a repeatable method: an evidence trail, a confidence level, a limitation statement, a review step. A raw model response gives you none of that. Whatever's missing becomes your problem to catch.

The awareness gap

AI adoption is moving faster than governance can keep up.

Most organisations picked up generative AI tools well before they built the policies, ownership, and review steps to govern them properly. That gap between how fast people started using AI and how ready the organisation actually is keeps widening. Conrad is built to help close it.

What the chart shows

Two curves, one widening gap

Adoption climbs fast because anyone can open a chatbot and start using it. Governance readiness climbs slowly because it depends on policy, training, and oversight actually getting built. The distance between the two is where the risk sits.

AI adoption (fast)
Governance readiness (slow)
The gap between them
Evidence to action to confidence
ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITYTIMEGovernance ReadinessAI AdoptionAI GovernanceAwareness GapPolicy awarenessAcceptable-use rulesControl clarityRisk-control gatesBoard visibilityAssurance & metrics
Where Conrad helps

Governance guidance for the people who hold accountability.

Conrad is built for the people who actually carry AI governance decisions: board members, risk executives, transformation leads, compliance officers, and the advisers who support them. The briefing lands in your inbox. No portal, no integration, just a sourced, structured answer to the governance question that matters today.

AI governance

Governance structures, accountability models, decision rights, AI registers, and oversight processes, all aligned to recognised frameworks.

Responsible AI

Turning responsible AI principles into policies and operating procedures that actually hold up under internal and external scrutiny.

AI risk

Spotting AI-related risks, control gaps, and mitigation actions, mapped to risk-management frameworks instead of general opinion.

Board oversight

Helping boards work out what to ask, what evidence to demand, and what controls need to exist before any AI use gets approved.

Policy and controls

Acceptable-use policies, use-case approval workflows, and review requirements built on real governance standards.

Vendor AI risk

Vendor governance, due diligence questions, procurement controls, and what ongoing monitoring should actually look like.

Advisory boundary: Conrad provides general AI governance and risk guidance. Where a question requires legal, financial, privacy, cybersecurity, or certified compliance advice, the briefing identifies that boundary and recommends qualified professional input.
Evidence standard

Not all sources carry the same weight.

Every claim in a Conrad briefing traces to a ranked source. Primary material is prioritised over commentary, and the tier is declared in the output so the client can assess the basis themselves.

Tier 1Law, regulation, official standardsLegislation, regulators, and official standards bodies. Preferred over everything else when it's available.
Tier 2Government and regulator guidanceGovernment agencies, regulator consultation papers, and recognised safety frameworks.
Tier 3Professional and institutional guidanceGovernance institutes and professional bodies, used when the primary sources are quiet on a topic.
Tier 4Research and advisory materialAcademic research and industry analysis, for topics that are incomplete or still emerging.
Tier 5News and market signalsGood for situational awareness. Never the primary basis for formal advice.

Read the full source-tier policy →

Confidence level

Uncertainty is made explicit, not buried.

Confidence is not a label appended to satisfy a checklist. Where confidence is medium or low, the briefing explains the specific reasons, so the client knows what additional input would change the assessment.

High confidence

Authoritative sources agree, the question sits clearly inside advisory scope, and the guidance is stable and settled.

Medium confidence

The direction is clear, but how it applies depends on organisational details you haven't given us yet. Directionally sound, still needs your judgment.

Low confidence

The topic is emerging, sources disagree, the question is too broad, or this is really something a regulated professional should weigh in on first.

Confidence weighs ten factors, including source authority, recency, and jurisdiction clarity. See all ten factors →

Application governance

Governance applied to the service that provides governance advice.

Controls are built into the advisory process itself. Each one exists because uncontrolled AI advice fails in a specific, predictable way, and the control is there to catch it. These are design decisions, not marketing language.

01

Source control

Advice is grounded in an approved source hierarchy. General model memory never counts as evidence for a claim.

02

Scope control

Every question gets checked against defined in-scope and out-of-scope categories before any analysis starts.

04

Unsupported-claim control

Material claims get checked against the evidence before a briefing is finalised. Anything unsupported gets flagged or cut.

07

Human review control

A human operator reads every pilot response before delivery. Nothing ships without sign-off.

See all eight application controls →

Advisory boundaries

Scope discipline is a governance control, not a disclaimer.

Scope is assessed before every briefing. Where a question approaches the boundary between general guidance and regulated professional advice, the briefing identifies it and recommends qualified professional input.

In scope

  • AI governance frameworks
  • Responsible AI principles
  • AI risk identification
  • Board AI oversight questions
  • Policy and control design
  • Vendor AI governance

Out of scope

  • Legal advice
  • Tax advice
  • Financial advice
  • Medical advice
  • Employment law
  • Cybersecurity incidents

See the full scope policy →

Pilot programme

One question. One briefing. Human-reviewed.

During the pilot, Conrad answers one AI governance question a day. The briefing lands in your inbox, structured, sourced, assigned a confidence level, and reviewed before it's sent. A lightweight sign-in (no password, no portal to integrate) is all it takes to try the service before committing to a full deployment.

EntitlementOne substantive AI governance question per rolling 24 hours
DeliveryStructured email briefing
IncludedSource-backed answer, scope check, confidence level, and next steps
ReviewHuman-reviewed before delivery
RequiredNo portal login, no integration, no confidential data
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