Michael Beckrest

AI Governance

AI Governance Consulting

GENYS supports AI Governance by capturing AI usage, prompts, outputs, human review, decisions, outcomes, and audit records.

Platform
GENYS
Focus
Auditability
Executive Summary

GENYS helps organizations understand how AI is being used, who reviewed outputs, what decisions followed, and what evidence exists for audit, legal, compliance, and security review.

  • Captures prompts, models, outputs, human review, decisions, outcomes, and audit records.
  • Shows which tools, teams, workflows, prompts, outputs, and decisions carry the most risk or operational importance.
  • Supports legal, compliance, security, IT, and operating teams responsible for governed AI deployment.
  • Turns AI policy into evidence-backed review, escalation, and enforcement decisions.
GENYS positioning

How AI usage becomes auditable.

GENYS is AI governance software for capturing AI usage, prompts, outputs, human review, decisions, outcomes, and compliance evidence.

AI Governance ConsultingGENYS AI Audit ImplementationSystem of Record for AI ActivityCompliance Evidence and Audit Records
01Who used AI?02Which tool or model was used?03What prompt or instruction was submitted?04What output was generated?05Was there human review?06What decision or action resulted?07What outcome followed?08Can the organization prove what happened later?

How AI usage becomes auditable.

A traceable chain from AI activity to human accountability, business action, outcome, and permanent audit record.

01

Prompt

Original user input, task, instruction, or workflow trigger.

02

Model

AI system used, model provider, version, tool, or agent.

03

Output

Generated response, recommendation, file, summary, code, analysis, or decision support.

04

Human Review

Reviewer, approval, edits, rejection, escalation, or override.

05

Decision

Business, legal, operational, engineering, sales, or compliance decision made.

06

Action

Executed workflow, sent communication, updated system, approved document, or downstream task.

07

Outcome

Result, metric, exception, incident, completion, approval, or failure.

08

Audit Record

Permanent traceable record of what happened.

Business impact situations.

Examples of how commercial, operational, and AI governance systems can turn visibility into allocation decisions, execution, and decision traceability.

Example situation

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Current state
  • AI usage is spread across tools without unified auditability
Future state
  • Prompts, outputs, reviews, decisions, and audit records are captured
Potential value areas
GovernanceCompliance evidenceLitigation readinessRisk review prioritizationOperational learningDecision traceability

Next step: validate through assessment.

How GENYS work begins.

AI governance assessment, GENYS pilot, licensing, implementation, governance support, partner channels, and enterprise expansion.

2-6 weeks

AI Governance Assessment

Organizations using AI informally but lacking inventory, governance, or risk-review priority.

$10,000-$50,000 depending on organization size and complexity.
Scope
  • AI tool inventory
  • Department usage mapping
  • Workflow discovery
  • Risk classification
  • Data exposure review
  • Governance gap analysis
Deliverables
  • AI Readiness Report
  • AI Usage Inventory
  • Risk Map
  • Governance Roadmap
  • Recommended GENYS pilot scope
4-8 weeks

AI Governance Assessment

Organizations with AI policies, legal requirements, compliance exposure, or board-level concern.

$25,000-$150,000.
Scope
  • Policy-to-control mapping
  • AI usage control matrix
  • Audit-readiness review
  • Human-in-the-loop workflow review
  • Evidence gap analysis
  • GENYS deployment architecture
Deliverables
  • Governance Assessment
  • Control Matrix
  • Audit Architecture
  • Department Prioritization
  • Implementation Roadmap
90 days

GENYS 90-Day Pilot

A single department or workflow where AI usage needs traceability.

$25,000-$75,000 pilot fee.
Scope
  • Capture AI activity for selected workflow
  • Map prompt -> model -> output -> review -> decision -> outcome
  • Configure audit records
  • Build executive dashboard
  • Compare current AI workflow vs governed AI workflow
Example departments
  • Legal
  • Compliance
  • Engineering
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • Procurement
Deliverables
  • Live GENYS pilot workspace
  • Audit trail dashboard
  • Workflow baseline
  • Risk and productivity findings
  • Expansion recommendation
3-9 months

Enterprise Deployment

Organizations deploying AI across multiple departments or regulated workflows.

Implementation: $50,000-$250,000+. Annual platform license: $50,000-$500,000+. Pricing depends on users, departments, integrations, audit volume, and compliance requirements.
Scope
  • SSO
  • RBAC
  • Department workspaces
  • Retention policies
  • Audit reporting
  • Compliance workflows
  • Integration with existing systems
  • Executive reporting
Deliverables
  • Enterprise GENYS deployment
  • Governance dashboards
  • Department-level audit trails
  • AI usage reporting
  • Administrative controls
  • Integration roadmap
6-18 months

AI Governance Program

Organizations treating AI governance as an enterprise transformation initiative.

$100,000-$1,000,000+ multi-quarter or annual engagement.
Scope
  • Ongoing AI governance reviews
  • Steering committee support
  • Policy implementation support
  • Workflow redesign
  • Risk reporting
  • KPI design
  • Adoption monitoring
  • Quarterly executive reviews
Deliverables
  • Governance plan
  • AI risk dashboard
  • Department maturity scoring
  • Executive reporting
  • Annual AI audit package
  • Roadmap for scale

AI readiness levels.

A practical way to determine which AI workflows require review, which departments need controls, and which risks need escalation.

Level 0

No formal AI usage

AI usage is either absent, blocked, or happening outside official workflows.

Risks: Shadow AI, no governance attention, no policy alignment.

GENYS role: Baseline assessment and discovery.

Level 1

Uncontrolled AI usage

Employees use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or embedded tools without consistent tracking.

Risks: Sensitive data leakage, inconsistent outputs, no audit trail.

GENYS role: Usage inventory and audit capture.

Level 2

Policy without evidence

Company has AI rules, policies, or acceptable use guidance, but cannot prove compliance.

Risks: Legal exposure, compliance gaps, unenforceable governance.

GENYS role: Policy-to-control mapping and evidence infrastructure.

Level 3

Governed AI workflows

AI usage is captured, reviewed, approved, and tied to decisions and outcomes.

Risks: Operational complexity, scaling controls across departments.

GENYS role: Workflow governance and audit reporting.

Level 4

AI governance reporting

AI activity becomes a source of institutional learning, process intelligence, and operational improvement.

Risks: Requires ongoing governance, integration, and executive ownership.

GENYS role: Enterprise decision traceability and institutional memory.

Example situations.

Common AI governance situations that can be evaluated through assessment.

Situation

AI Currently Integrated - No Governance

A department uses AI for contract review, customer support, engineering analysis, sales content, or internal research.

Current state
  • AI is embedded in daily work
  • Outputs influence decisions
  • No consistent review trail
  • No central audit record
What improves
  • Map current workflow
  • Identify decision points
  • Capture prompt, model, output, and review evidence
  • Compare unmanaged cycle time vs governed cycle time
  • Measure rework, escalation, compliance risk, and decision latency
Situation

AI Not Yet Integrated - Deployment Planning

A company wants to introduce AI into engineering, sales, compliance, or operations.

Current state
  • Manual workflow
  • High review burden
  • Slow cycle time
  • No clear AI adoption plan
What improves
  • Map current process
  • Identify bottlenecks
  • Design AI-enabled workflow
  • Define human approval gates
  • Build governance controls before deployment
Situation

AI Integrated by Vendor Tools - No Unified Audit Layer

Company uses Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, Claude, CRM AI features, or internal agents.

Current state
  • AI activity exists across tools
  • Each tool has partial logs
  • No unified decision record
  • Executives cannot reconstruct full workflow
What improves
  • Inventory AI tools
  • Identify fragmented logs
  • Define system-of-record requirements
  • Create unified audit layer across tools

Process analysis for AI governance.

GENYS combines AI governance consulting with operations management, process analysis, and measurable control design.

Method

Process Mapping

Map every AI-assisted workflow from request to outcome.

Method

Bottleneck Analysis

Identify where human review, approvals, data access, or policy uncertainty slows AI deployment.

Method

Capacity Planning

Evaluate how AI changes workload, review capacity, throughput, and exception handling.

Method

Little's Law

Use backlog = arrival rate x flow time to evaluate AI review queues, approval bottlenecks, compliance review cycles, or support workflows.

Method

Control Matrix

Translate policies into measurable controls and evidence requirements.

Method

Decision Traceability

Connect each AI output to the human decision and business outcome that followed.

Method

Before / After Benchmarking

Compare manual workflow vs AI-assisted workflow vs governed AI workflow.

Potential value areas to be measured during assessment.
Cycle timeReview timeRework rateEscalation rateException volumeAudit completenessPolicy complianceDecision latencyHuman review loadOutcome quality

GENYS licensing structure.

Enterprise licensing structure for pilots, departments, AI governance deployments, and strategic implementation.

Pilot License

Scope: Single workflow or department.

Includes: Limited workspace, audit capture, basic dashboard, pilot support.

Term: 90 days

Included in pilot engagement or $2,500-$7,500/month.

Department License

Scope: One department or business unit.

Includes: User roles, audit trails, department dashboards, admin controls, standard support.

Term: Annual

$25,000-$100,000/year.

Enterprise License

Scope: Multiple departments.

Includes: SSO, RBAC, multi-department governance, executive dashboards, reporting, standard integrations.

Term: Annual or multi-year

$100,000-$500,000+/year.

Strategic Infrastructure License

Scope: Enterprise-wide deployment with custom integrations, governance architecture, legal/compliance controls, and institutional memory.

Includes: Custom integration, governance architecture, legal/compliance controls, institutional memory.

Term: Multi-year

Custom.

Partner delivery options.

Legal, security, systems integration, product, and advisory partners can use GENYS as the evidence layer around enterprise AI adoption.

Partner option

Legal Partners

Partner problem: Clients need AI governance, acceptable use policies, privacy review, regulatory exposure analysis, or litigation readiness.

GENYS role: GENYS provides audit records, decision provenance, and evidence infrastructure.

Delivery: Referral, joint delivery, or white-label deployment.

Commercial structure: Referral fee, reseller agreement, joint delivery, white-label deployment, strategic alliance.

Partner option

Security Partners

Partner problem: CISOs, cybersecurity firms, MSSPs, and incident response teams need to decide which AI tools, teams, data exposures, and workflows require review first.

GENYS role: GENYS captures tool usage, data exposure patterns, review activity, and governance exceptions.

Delivery: Joint delivery or embedded audit infrastructure.

Commercial structure: Referral fee, reseller agreement, embedded audit infrastructure, strategic alliance.

Partner option

Systems Integrators

Partner problem: Consultancies deploying AI into enterprise workflows need auditability, governance, and traceability infrastructure.

GENYS role: GENYS becomes the audit and control layer around AI-enabled workflows.

Delivery: Joint implementation or integration partnership.

Commercial structure: Joint delivery, reseller agreement, embedded audit infrastructure.

Partner option

AI Product Vendors

Partner problem: AI startups and workflow platforms need enterprise-grade audit trails and decision provenance.

GENYS role: GENYS provides audit records, review controls, and decision traceability around product usage.

Delivery: Embedded infrastructure or white-label deployment.

Commercial structure: Embedded audit infrastructure, white-label deployment, strategic alliance.

Partner option

Policy / Advisory Partners

Partner problem: Academic, policy, and advisory groups studying AI adoption, workflow impact, or governance need structured evidence.

GENYS role: GENYS supplies adoption evidence, workflow controls, and governance records.

Delivery: Assessment collaboration or advisory partnership.

Commercial structure: Joint delivery, strategic alliance, referral fee.

GENYS revenue path.

GENYS revenue is generated through assessment fees, pilot fees, annual licensing, implementation fees, advisory retainers, partner channel revenue, and enterprise expansion.

01AI Governance Content02AI Readiness Assessment0390-Day Pilot04Department License05Enterprise Deployment06Multi-Year Governance Program

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Use the assessment to inventory AI activity, map governance gaps, define a GENYS pilot scope, and establish audit-ready evidence requirements.

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