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Operational control for AI systems

AI Governance & Evaluation

Make AI systems measurable and governable through explicit ownership, risk classification, evaluation evidence, human review, monitoring, and change controls.

When this is the right conversation

An AI demonstration is not an operating model

Teams can move from experiment to use without defining acceptable performance, harmful failure, accountable ownership, review, monitoring, or retirement. Governance must connect to the real task and system rather than remain a policy document beside it.

  • AI use cases have no accountable operational owner.
  • Quality is described subjectively without representative evaluation.
  • Human review and escalation rules are inconsistent or invisible.
  • Model, prompt, data, or provider changes are not governed in production.

Who this is for

Organisations piloting or operating AI without consistent evaluation, ownership, monitoring, or human-review rules.

Scope and next step

AI governance and evaluation focus on controls, evaluation and human review. Readiness precedes implementation; these services do not provide legal certification.

Engagement model
A fixed governance and evaluation assessment followed by implementation support.
Indicative timeline
Typically 4–8 weeks for the initial assessment and operating framework.

Delivery approach

How Algoza operationalises AI governance

  1. Inventory

    Map use cases, systems, owners, data, providers, users, consequences, and current controls.

  2. Classify

    Define risk, unacceptable outcomes, human authority, evidence, and governance proportional to the use case.

  3. Evaluate

    Create representative tests, thresholds, review procedures, and decision evidence.

  4. Operate

    Implement monitoring, incidents, change review, feedback, reassessment, and retirement rules.

Technology considerations

Governance capabilities

Inventory
Use cases, models, providers, prompts, data sources, integrations, owners, and users.
Evaluation
Representative datasets, quality measures, thresholds, adversarial tests, and review evidence.
Controls
Access, privacy, human review, escalation, audit events, vendor and change management.
Operations
Monitoring, feedback, incidents, drift, cost, reassessment, and retirement.

Responsible outcomes

What operational AI governance provides

  • Accountable use

    Each use case has an owner, purpose, boundaries, human authority, and review path.

  • Measurable quality

    Performance claims are tested against representative tasks and defined thresholds.

  • Controlled change

    Production monitoring and change governance make evolving AI dependencies more visible.

Commercial engagement

What the engagement includes

Pricing approach
Fixed assessment; phased control and evaluation implementation.

Typical deliverables

  • AI use-case and system inventory
  • Risk classification and control model
  • Evaluation suite and acceptance thresholds
  • Monitoring, incident, change, and retirement process

Success measures to baseline

  • Use cases with owners and evaluation evidence
  • Unacceptable-error and escalation rates
  • Monitoring and review coverage
  • Control exceptions closed

Timelines and pricing methods are indicative. Algoza confirms scope, dependencies, procurement requirements, responsibilities, and commercial terms before delivery begins. Success targets are agreed against a client-specific baseline; they are not guaranteed outcomes.

Related pathways

Frequently asked questions

AI governance and evaluation FAQs

Is this legal or regulatory advice?
No. Algoza provides technical and operating-model guidance. The client must involve appropriate legal, privacy, risk, security, and sector specialists for applicable requirements.
Can Algoza evaluate a third-party AI product?
Potentially. The review depends on access to representative tasks, outputs, provider information, integration behaviour, data handling, and the decisions the product affects.
What should an AI evaluation measure?
Measures depend on the task and consequence. They may include correctness, completeness, harmful failures, false positives or negatives, human-review burden, latency, cost, and user outcomes.
Does governance slow down experimentation?
Proportionate governance should help teams stop unsuitable ideas early, define useful evidence, and move credible use cases forward with clearer boundaries.

Make AI quality, ownership, and change inspectable

Share the use cases, systems, users, data, current controls, and decisions affected. Algoza will define a proportionate governance and evaluation scope.

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