The AI Governance Operations Platform
Govern AI without building an AI governance department.
Discover every AI system. Understand the risk. Apply the right controls. Keep the evidence. Monitor what changes. Run Norivo with your own team, or bring in our governance specialists to operate the programme with you.
Mapped toEU AI ActISO/IEC 42001NIST AI RMF
One 25-control methodology. One evidence base.
The problem
AI governance should not live in spreadsheets.
Your AI inventory is in one file. Risk assessments are somewhere else. Policies live in SharePoint. Evidence sits in email threads. Meanwhile teams are adopting new AI tools faster than governance can keep up, and the first time anyone sees the full picture is when an auditor, a customer or a regulator asks for it.
Norivo brings the operating pieces into one place: inventory, classification, risk assessment, impact assessment, controls, evidence, monitoring and reporting.
The operating model
Discover. Govern. Prove. Monitor.
Discover: know what AI exists.
Build a living inventory of AI systems, models, agents, vendors and use cases. Capture ownership, purpose, data flows, dependencies and deployment context, so governance starts with visibility.Govern: apply the right obligations.
Classify risk, assess impact and map the controls that apply across the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF. VALID gives every system the same governance methodology.Prove: keep the evidence.
Connect policies, assessments, model cards, decisions, approvals and supporting records to the systems and controls they belong to. Build a record you can hand to a reviewer.Monitor: know what changed.
Track AI systems, control status, risk signals and governance actions over time. Surface changes before they become audit findings.
Two ways to run it
One platform. Two ways to run it.
Self-Serve
Run it with your team.
Register systems, assess risk, create governance artefacts, work with Nora and maintain evidence using the platform.
Managed
Build it with ours.
Norivo specialists work alongside your team to establish the inventory, perform assessments, map controls, draft governance artefacts and prepare the evidence base. Same platform. You see everything as it is built.
Start self-serve and add managed delivery later, or start managed and take over at renewal. Either way, the programme and the data are yours.
Self-assessment
Where does your AI governance actually stand?
Twenty-five questions, five minutes, one indicative AI governance maturity level. Built on the published framework, scored on evidence, sent to you as a PDF.
Readiness Assessment
Not sure where to start? Start with a Readiness Assessment.
In five to ten business days we assess one AI system in depth, discover your AI estate and build the initial inventory, classify risk, score your VALID maturity, assess EU AI Act applicability, show your ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF gaps and hand you a prioritised risk register and a 90-day roadmap. Additional systems are quoted separately. £4,500, and the full fee is credited against a managed implementation agreed within 30 days.
If your scope is already clear and you are ready to proceed, we can scope a managed engagement directly rather than making the assessment an unnecessary gate.
How managed delivery compares to hiring or to a consultancy.
| Internal hire | Consultancy | Norivo managed delivery | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first evidence | 6 to 18 months, including hiring | 3 to 12 months | From 30 days, subject to scope |
| Framework basis | Whatever the hire brings | The firm's own methodology | VALID, published and cross-mapped |
| Ownership at the end | Yours | Set by the engagement terms | Yours, programme and data |
| Continuity when people leave | Depends on succession planning | Ends with the engagement | Held in the platform, not in a person |
| Platform included | No, licensed separately | Not usually | Yes |
| After year one | Internal capability, if the person stays | A report and a document set | A running programme and a live evidence base |
The internal hire and consultancy columns describe common patterns, not any particular firm or role.
Ownership
You own everything. We mean the whole programme.
Traditional consulting engagements often end with static deliverables that still need someone inside the organisation to maintain them. Norivo leaves you with the operating system as well as the outputs. Your inventory, assessments, evidence and governance history remain structured in the platform and can be exported whenever you need them.
- Your inventory, assessments and evidence export in standard formats.
- Managed customers can move to self-serve at renewal and keep running the same programme.
- There is no proprietary lock on your governance record.
- If you leave Norivo, you export the lot.
Frameworks
Govern against the frameworks that matter.
EU AI Act
Identify in-scope systems, classify risk, organise required governance activities and maintain evidence against the obligations that apply to you.ISO/IEC 42001
Establish and operate an AI management system with mapped policies, roles, risks, controls, objectives and evidence.NIST AI RMF
Operationalise Govern, Map, Measure and Manage with structured evidence across AI risk and trustworthiness characteristics.VALID
Norivo's 25-control methodology across five interdependent layers, published under CC BY-ND 4.0 and cross-mapped to all three. Visibility: you cannot govern what you cannot see. Accountability: governance without proof is intention. Lifecycle Monitoring: deployment is the beginning of governance. Integrity: governance without ownership is policy. Defence: governance that cannot survive failure is not governance.
Regulatory timing
The EU AI Act is live. The high-risk clock is now fixed.
The AI Act's general application date was 2 August 2026, and Article 50 transparency obligations applied from that day. Following the 2026 amendment, Chapter III requirements for Annex III high-risk systems apply from 2 December 2027, and the corresponding Annex I requirements from 2 August 2028.
The dates moved. The work did not. Inventory, ownership, classification, risk management, documentation and evidence take time to establish. The implementation window is for building the programme properly, not for waiting.
Early Access
Norivo Early Access
Norivo is working with a founding cohort of up to five organisations that want to build their AI governance programme now and shape the platform while they do it. Early Access members receive privately agreed founding terms, direct access to the founding team and a structured route to influence product priorities. In return, Norivo asks for honest feedback and, where agreed, permission to describe the outcome.
Built for organisations putting AI into real operations.
Norivo is designed for organisations deploying AI into products, internal processes, customer journeys and regulated decisions, across sectors including FinTech, HealthTech, LegalTech, InsurTech, GovTech and EdTech.
Agentic Defence
When AI can act, governance has to work at runtime.
AI agents call tools, move data and make decisions at machine speed. Norivo Agentic Defence provides authority boundaries, circuit breakers, kill switches, tamper-evident decision logging, shadow AI visibility and continuous monitoring, so autonomous behaviour stays inside defined governance boundaries.
Nora
Meet Nora.
Nora is Norivo's AI governance copilot. Self-serve customers work with it directly. In managed engagements, Norivo specialists use it alongside professional judgement and review. Nora supports governance work; it does not make compliance determinations, and every output is labelled AI-generated.
Build governance that can keep up with your AI.
Tell us what AI you are operating, which frameworks matter and where your governance stands today. We will scope the shortest practical route to an evidence-backed governance programme.