AI practice

AI governance consulting — Voluntary AI Safety Standard, APRA, OAIC.

Practical AI governance for Australian businesses — policy, risk registers, board reporting, and the audit trail that satisfies both your CISO and your CEO.

AI governance is where most Australian organisations get stuck. The Voluntary AI Safety Standard, APRA's expectations, OAIC guidance, industry-specific obligations — the regulatory surface is real, but it's also implementable. Our AI governance practice produces governance artefacts your team can actually use: policies that map to specific obligations, risk registers with named owners, controls you can test, board-ready briefings that don't require translation. Implemented, not just documented.

What we deliver

Offerings inside AI Governance.

AI governance review (4 weeks)

Full AI governance baseline aligned to the Voluntary AI Safety Standard + your industry regulators. Policy, risk register, control framework, board pack. Productised offer with disclosed pricing.

Voluntary AI Safety Standard implementation

Mapping the 10 guardrails to your organisation. Where you already comply, where the gaps are, what implementing each one practically looks like. Output: a 6-month implementation plan.

AI policy + framework drafting

AI use policies, AI risk frameworks, AI ethics charters, AI procurement guidelines — drafted to fit your organisation, not generic templates dressed up.

Board + executive AI briefings

Independent AI briefings for boards, audit committees and exec teams. What's actually changing in the AI regulatory landscape, what it means for your business, what the board needs to ask management.

When to engage us

We’re typically the right partner when…

Stack

Tech we work with day-to-day.

Engagement-specific stack choices are always driven by your constraints. The below is what we have current production experience with.

Voluntary AI Safety Standard (DISR) NIST AI Risk Management Framework ISO/IEC 42001 (AI Management) APRA CPS 234 + CPS 230 Privacy Act 1988 + APPs OAIC AI guidance GovAI AI Assurance Framework (federal)

FAQ

Common questions.

Is the Voluntary AI Safety Standard actually voluntary?

Yes — for now. But it's the published expectation of the federal government and increasingly the baseline regulators and procurement bodies refer to. Treating it as if it were mandatory is the prudent move; aligning to it now costs significantly less than retrofitting in 12-24 months when it likely becomes the de facto compliance baseline.

What about APRA CPS 234 / CPS 230 for AI systems?

AI systems are in-scope for both. CPS 234 (information security) treats LLM APIs the same as any external data flow. CPS 230 (operational risk) treats AI systems as material service providers when they're critical to operations. Our APRA-regulated client engagements always map AI-specific risks back to the CPS frameworks explicitly — internal audit can adopt the documentation directly.

How do you handle the rapid pace of AI regulation change?

Our governance frameworks are designed to absorb change without rewrite. The pattern: policies stated at the principle level; risk register mapped to specific implementation evidence; controls testable. When new regulation arrives (e.g. a mandatory AU AI Act, EU AI Act-adjacent obligations), the policy frame absorbs it; you update the evidence layer, not the architecture.

Can you brief our board?

Yes. Independent AI briefings for boards and audit committees are a frequent engagement pattern. Typically a 60-minute prepared briefing + 30-minute Q&A; we provide a 2-page summary deck the company secretary can append to the board pack.

Next step

Talk to a senior partner about your AI Governance engagement.

Discovery calls are 30 minutes, no deck, no pitch. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right team for your specific situation.