FAIrMind Advisory

Senior counsel for board-level AI governance.

Board briefings on The 5 Cs. Article 14 human-oversight design. Third-party AI risk. Every engagement is founder-led, anchored in the 5 Cs of AI Governance, and layered with the regulatory packs your jurisdictions require. You won't be handed off to a junior team.

The board question that has moved

"How do we govern AI?" now expects an operating model, not an intent.

Regulator

Conformity has moved from concept to evidence.

Whichever regulatory perimeter binds you — EU AI Act, RBI FREE-AI, CBUAE, SEC or MAS — the expectation is documentary evidence, not slide decks. Boards are being asked to produce it.

Audit Committee

"We are working on it" no longer holds.

Audit committees now want an operating model — accountability, oversight, testing, incident response — not a project plan. The 5 Cs is the vocabulary they can work with.

Director Liability

The standard of care is rising.

Directors who cannot demonstrate informed oversight of AI decisions face increasing personal exposure. Senior counsel who can architect the evidence — not just describe it — is now a board-level need.

Where the alternatives fall short

Three reasons most AI advisory misses the moment.

Big Four

Hands you to juniors.

You buy the partner's name. The work is delivered by a two-year analyst with a methodology PDF. The senior who sold the deck is rarely the senior who delivers it.

Legal boutiques

Excellent on one statute. Then it stops.

A boutique produces incisive advice on a single regulation — EU AI Act, DPDP, Colorado. You then need someone to translate it into a risk register, KRIs, board reporting and an audit-ready file. That is where they stop.

In-house teams

Are running BAU already.

Your CRO, GC and Head of Internal Audit are already at capacity. They need a senior hand they can lean on for a defined window — not a permanent hire, not a delegated project.

Three ways to engage

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Senior delivery throughout.

Sprint
6 weeks · Fixed-price

5 Cs Readiness Sprint

A jurisdiction-neutral operating model, ready to defend.
  • Inventory of in-scope AI systems and agents (Clarity)
  • Accountability, oversight and agent-governance architecture (Control)
  • Framework mapping to ISO 42001 · ISO 23894 · NIST AI RMF (Conformity)
  • Bias, drift and adversarial-testing plan (Confidence)
  • Incident-response and continuity playbook (Continuity)
  • Board readout and remediation roadmap
You finish with the 5 Cs operating model documented, evidenced and Board-approved.
Project
8–12 weeks · Project-based

Regulatory Pack Engagement

The 5 Cs, hardened for the specific regime that binds you.
  • Choose your pack — EU · UK · US · India · UAE/GCC · Singapore · Canada · Australia · China · Japan
  • Clause-by-clause mapping onto the 5 Cs registers
  • Regulator-specific impact assessments (FRIA · AIIA · RBI FREE-AI · MAS FEAT)
  • Technical documentation pack, indexed to the regulation
  • Board briefing on regulator-specific director exposure
For enterprises whose AI systems are exposed to a specific regulatory regime — with an audit-ready conformity file at the end.
Retainer
Monthly · Standing engagement

Board AI Advisor

For Boards and Audit Committees that need a senior voice in the room every month — not every quarter.

  • Monthly Board or Risk Committee briefing
  • Standing review of new AI deployments (all 5 Cs)
  • KRI dashboard review and refresh
  • Crisis support — incident, regulator inquiry
  • Director-level fractional advisor
  • Access to updates across all regulatory packs
What you walk away with

Operating artefacts, not just slides.

Auditable. Maintainable. Yours. Every deliverable maps to one of the 5 Cs, so the operating model holds together across regulators, audits and board cycles — without being torn apart every time a new regulation lands.

Clarity
AI System & Agent Inventory
Clarity
Datasets & Lineage Register
Control
Accountability & RACI Charter
Control
Human Oversight Procedures
Conformity
Framework Mapping (multi-standard)
Conformity
Impact Assessments (jurisdiction-tailored)
Confidence
Bias & Fairness Test Plan
Confidence
Adversarial-Testing (CTEM) Programme
Continuity
AI Incident Response Playbook
Continuity
Business Impact Analysis for AI
Governance
AI Risk Register
Governance
Board Reporting Cadence & KRIs

Thirty minutes with the person you'd be working with.

Tell us what is live, what is coming, and what your regulators are asking. We'll tell you plainly whether FAIrMind Advisory is the right answer — and if it isn't, what would be.