AI Governance Consulting for Accountable and Auditable AI
Agilient provides independent AI governance consulting to Australian organisations: establishing accountability for AI use, assessing AI risk, building auditable controls, and giving boards the evidence they need to discharge their oversight duties. Agilient advises on the governance of AI. It does not build, sell or resell it.
What is AI Governance Consulting?
AI governance consulting is independent advisory work that establishes how an organisation governs its use of artificial intelligence: who is accountable for each AI system, how its risks are identified and treated, how meaningful human control is maintained over consequential decisions, and what records demonstrate all of it to a board, an auditor or a regulator.
It is not data science, and it is not systems integration. Agilient does not train models, select platforms or implement AI. The engagement produces governance: accountability structures, risk assessments, policy, controls, supplier obligations and board reporting.
Agilient works to AS ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO/IEC 23894:2023 and AS ISO 31000:2018, and folds AI risk into the governance an organisation already runs rather than standing up a parallel regime. For the standards and the current Australian government guidance, see the AI governance guide.
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Why Choose Agilient for AI Governance?
Agilient is an independent security, risk and resilience consultancy with more than 300 projects delivered and about 20 specialist consultants. It holds no AI product range, so the advice is shaped by your obligations rather than by anything we have to sell.
Independent and Vendor-Neutral
Agilient does not build, sell, resell or implement AI, and holds no product range. An organisation asking whether a control is adequate should not be asking the party that supplied it. That independence is the service.
Standards Heritage
Agilient’s founder, Mark Bezzina, is a former Executive Director of Standards Australia, and founded and was Executive Director of the National Centre for Security Standards. AI governance work is anchored in the standards rather than in a proprietary model.
Governance, Not Technology
AI governance is a risk and accountability problem before it is a technical one. Agilient applies the same governance method it has used across government, critical infrastructure, health and regulated industry for two decades.
The Importance of AI Governance
Boards remain accountable for the decisions their organisations make, whether or not a model was involved in making them. Most organisations underestimate their AI footprint, because much of it arrived inside tools they already licensed rather than through a procurement decision. Without an inventory, named accountability and evidence of testing and oversight, an organisation cannot answer the questions that follow an AI failure, and existing privacy, safety and directors’ duties still apply.
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What Agilient Delivers in AI Governance
Each service is scoped to stand alone. Most organisations begin with the maturity assessment, because it establishes what is actually in place before anything is committed.
AI Governance Maturity Assessment
A scoped, desktop-first diagnostic aligned to AS ISO/IEC 42001 and AS ISO 31000. Returns a maturity rating, a prioritised roadmap and a board-ready summary. The usual starting point.
AI Risk Assessment
Structured assessment of AI use cases across data, model, supplier, human oversight and resilience risk. Delivered as risk register entries and a treatment plan that integrate with your existing security risk management plan.
AI Assurance Review
Independent review of AI systems and governance against the standards and your stated risk appetite, written to be given to a board or an audit committee.
AI Procurement and Vendor Assurance
Governance support for selecting and contracting AI suppliers: due diligence checklists, contract clauses and ongoing assurance. For the AI you buy rather than build.
Board and Executive AI Advisory
Briefings and in-camera sessions on governance obligations, strategic AI risk and oversight responsibilities, pitched at directors rather than engineers.
AI Policy, Playbooks and Exercises
AI policy, acceptable use, data handling, human oversight and incident response, integrated into existing governance, plus scenario exercises for AI failure, misuse or regulatory breach.
Contact Agilient for Independent AI Governance Advice
Agilient is appointed to multiple Australian Government procurement panels and is a DISP member. It is independent and vendor-neutral, its founder led the development of national risk and security standards as a former Executive Director of Standards Australia, and it is licensed to operate in each state in which it works. Agilient has delivered more than 300 projects for Australian organisations.
Security Solutions Nation-Wide
With a national footprint, our security consulting services support organisations across Australia in managing risk, compliance, and security strategy. We combine industry expertise with a practical approach to deliver consistent outcomes across all states and territories.
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Frequently Asked Questions
AI governance consulting is independent advisory work that establishes how an organisation governs its use of artificial intelligence: who is accountable for each AI system, how AI risks are identified and treated, how meaningful human control is maintained over consequential decisions, and what evidence demonstrates this to a board, auditor or regulator. It is governance and risk work rather than data science or systems integration.
No. Agilient is an independent security, risk and resilience consultancy. It does not develop, sell, resell or implement AI systems and holds no product range. It advises on the governance, risk and assurance of AI. This independence is deliberate: an organisation asking whether a control is adequate should not be asking the party that supplied it.
No. Agilient is an advisory firm, not a certification body, and does not issue certification against AS ISO/IEC 42001. Certification is performed by an accredited certification body. Agilient establishes the AI management system, assesses the gap against the standard, and builds the controls and evidence so that a certification body has something to assess.
Yes, and this is the most common situation. Most organisations are AI deployers rather than developers, and much of their AI footprint arrived inside tools they already had. Accountability for outcomes cannot be outsourced to a supplier, so deployers still carry obligations for accountability, risk assessment, human oversight, transparency and record-keeping.
It extends it rather than replacing it. ISO/IEC 23894, the AI risk management guidance, is written to be used together with ISO 31000, so an organisation already running risk management to ISO 31000 owns the foundation. Agilient writes AI risk into the existing register and integrates AI failure scenarios into existing business continuity and crisis arrangements.
