AI Governance · Capability · Living Evidence

Your policies document the system.
Nothing documents whether your people can govern it.

Vivadence is the operating system for enterprise AI governance: continuously measuring organisational capability, correlating it with compliance evidence, and making proof visible in real time.

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Risk Amber Assured
Multiple Capability Assessment Dimensions
EU AI Act Compliance Aligned
SM&CR UK FCA/PRA Accountability
2×2 Capability-Risk Quadrant
78% of executives cannot pass an AI governance audit in 90 days — Grant Thornton 2026
74% of boards have only moderate or limited AI expertise — KPMG/INSEAD 2026
8% of directors rate their own board as having strong AI expertise — Governance Intelligence 2026
Real-Time Living Evidence Engine
The Problem

Compliance frameworks govern the system.
Nobody governs the humans.

Enterprise AI programmes fail not because the model failed, but because the people governing it weren't equipped. Regulations got passed. Policies got written. Audits got filed. And then real governance capability quietly collapsed under the surface.

Red Signal

High Compliance, Low Capability

Documentation is audit-ready. Teams lack the competence, confidence, or understanding to genuinely oversee AI. Risk is real, invisible, and growing.

Amber Signal

Partial Controls, Unknown Exposure

Some teams are on board. Others aren't. Governance gaps exist but haven't been measured. Regulators would find it inconsistent.

Green Signal

Capability Verified, Evidence Live

Governance capability is measured, correlated with compliance evidence, and made visible. Leadership can see real assurance, not just paper compliance.

The Vivadence Platform

Living evidence, at the speed of AI

Vivadence bridges the gap between technical compliance and human governance capability: the only platform that continuously correlates governance capability assessment scores with governance evidence across your AI estate.

Do leaders model it?

Whether leadership understands AI risk and actively models the governance behaviours the organisation needs to see.

Can they calibrate trust?

Whether your people can judge when to trust AI outputs and when to intervene. The quality of oversight depends on it.

Do they know their obligations?

Whether teams know what the EU AI Act, SM&CR, Consumer Duty, ISO 42001, or NIST AI RMF actually requires of them — and their specific role in it.

Is risk perception calibrated?

Teams who underestimate AI risk are as dangerous as teams who over-index on fear. Both create governance blind spots.

Is it safe to speak up?

Whether teams feel safe to experiment, disclose errors, and raise governance concerns — or fear suppresses the oversight you need.

Can they actually oversee it?

Whether your people have the AI skills to oversee the systems they're responsible for — and the mindset to keep pace as those systems change.

Does it hold under pressure?

Whether your workflows can actually accommodate AI oversight — or governance requirements break under real operational conditions.

Compliance Evidence →
↑ Capability Score
Governance Risk
High capability, low evidence. Humans ready, controls not documented.
Assured
Capability verified. Evidence current. Board-ready assurance.
Critical
Neither humans nor controls. Highest regulatory exposure.
Substantive Oversight Deficit
Evidence on paper. People not equipped to govern. The gap regulators will measure.

The AARI Index — Patent Pending

The AI Assurance & Responsibility Index is the world's first validated, evidence-based governance capability assessment instrument purpose-built to correlate human capability with regulatory compliance evidence, creating a single, continuous score that boards and regulators can actually trust.

From quadrant to action in minutes

Every organisation gets a 2×2 capability-risk position. Red, amber, or green, with specific interventions mapped to each dimension. Not a report. An operating signal.

Evidence that moves with your AI

Compliance evidence is live, not periodic. As your AI systems change, Vivadence updates the capability signal automatically, so your proof never falls behind your risk.

Vivadence Products

One platform. Two instruments.

Vivadence Governance is the operating layer. The AARI Index and AARI Integrated Method are the proprietary instruments that make it unlike anything else in the market.

CORE IP · PATENT PENDING
AARI Index + Integrated Method

AI Assurance & Responsibility Index

A validated, evidence-based assessment across the governance capability dimensions that determine whether your people can actually oversee AI. Delivers a calibrated capability score that directly maps to EU AI Act obligations, ISO 42001 controls, and real-time compliance evidence. Built on established psychometric methodology with patent-pending correlation to regulatory compliance evidence. Full methodology available under NDA.

  • Capability assessment scoring across several validated governance capability dimensions
  • Direct correlation engine: capability ↔ compliance evidence
  • Automated 2×2 quadrant positioning per business unit
  • Regulatory obligation mapping (EU AI Act, SM&CR, Consumer Duty, ICO/DUAA 2025, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF)
  • Board-ready AARI Summary Report in under 72 hours
Governance Platform

Vivadence Governance

The continuous AI governance operating system: bringing together risk registers, policy frameworks, governance capability signals, and human oversight evidence into a single auditable evidence layer.

  • Real-time governance dashboard with RAG status
  • AI system inventory and risk classification
  • Policy-to-control evidence mapping
  • Automated audit trail generation
  • GRC platform integrations (roadmap available on request)
About AARI Deployment
Who completes AARI?

Your AI governance ecosystem — not one person. AARI assesses the teams that oversee, operate, and govern your AI systems. Minimum 5 respondents per system; individual scores are never produced or stored.

5+
Min. respondents
Who completes AARI?

Your AI governance ecosystem — not one person. AARI assesses the teams that oversee, operate, and govern your AI systems. Minimum 5 respondents per system. Individual scores are never produced or stored.

Who It's For

Built for the people who own AI governance

Vivadence serves the four functions that AI governance actually touches, and makes them work together for the first time.

Chief Risk & Compliance Officers

Replace periodic audit snapshots with continuous, auditor-ready assurance across your entire AI estate.

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AI & Digital Transformation Leads

Identify exactly where human governance capability gaps are blocking AI value, and get targeted interventions to close them.

See the AARI demo

HR & Change Management

Quantify organisational capability for AI at the team level. Link people programmes directly to governance outcomes.

See the HR demo

Board & Non-Executive Directors

Receive a single, credible AARI score that translates complex AI governance into a signal boards can act on.

See a board-ready AARI report
"They govern the AI. We govern the humans governing the AI. And we show you what happens when those two don't align."
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Capability assessment + compliance correlation
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IP-protected AARI methodology
Current Status

Early access partners include regulated UK financial services organisations preparing for EU AI Act enforcement

Vivadence is actively engaging regulated enterprises preparing for EU AI Act enforcement and UK FCA/PRA AI accountability obligations (SM&CR, Consumer Duty, ICO/DUAA 2025). If your organisation deploys AI in financial services, healthcare, insurance, or any Annex III high-risk domain, we'd welcome the opportunity to run the AARI assessment with your team and share the results at no cost.

Compliance Deadline

The obligation didn't soften. Only the deadline moved.

Article 4 (AI literacy) has been enforceable since February 2025. Article 14 (human oversight) is untouched in substance by the Digital Omnibus, finalised in June 2026 — its application now follows the Annex III high-risk timeline: 2 December 2027. Dont treat this as a reprieve. It is the runway regulators gave you to close your Substantive Oversight Deficit before they start measuring it. Can your organisation prove it is meeting the obligations already in force?

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