Fortellar

Your team is already using AI. Nobody can tell you where, with what data, or who approved it.

Secure AI Activation gives you a defensible picture of every AI tool, agent, and model in your environment, and the governance to keep it that way as adoption accelerates.

Why This Matters

AI adoption moved faster than your governance did, and the gap is where audit findings live.

Every department wants an AI pilot. Most already have one running, on a personal account, a vendor tool nobody scoped, or a model call buried in a workflow. Your risk register doesn't see it. Your auditors will.

Regulators have stopped asking whether you use AI. They're asking where, with what data, and how you prove it stays inside your compliance boundary. Without a current inventory, a data-handling policy, and a review process your people actually follow, every new model is a potential disclosure event waiting to surface during your next audit.

What your risk register can't see
01

Inventory

Pilots on personal accounts, unscoped vendor tools, and model calls inside workflows.

02

Data boundaries

What each tool is allowed to touch, and what it can reach today regardless.

03

Review process

Who approves a new use case, on what criteria, and how the decision is recorded.

04

Evidence

What you would hand an auditor asking where AI touches regulated data.

Who This Is For

If any of these sound like your last conversation with your board, you're in the right place.

Situation 01

Already deployed, no governance

Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and a few vendor-embedded agents are already live. Nobody can produce a single document that says what data they touch or who signed off.

The outcomeA current AI inventory and a governance baseline you can show an auditor.
Situation 02

Regulator, customer, or board started asking

A board member asked about AI risk. A customer sent a vendor questionnaire with 40 AI-governance questions. Your CEO wants a one-pager by Friday.

The outcomeA defensible AI program narrative mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.
Situation 03

About to launch something high-stakes

You're about to put a model into claims, clinical, or customer-facing workflow. You need to prove it's safe before it ships, not explain it after an incident.

The outcomeA use-case review and control plan signed off before go-live.
What's Included

What you own at the end, not a deck,
but artifacts your team can run with.

Every output is something you can point to in a board meeting, hand to an auditor, or operationalize into your program.

An AI tool inventory and risk register

Every tool, agent, and model in your environment, with data classification, ownership, and a risk score mapped to NIST AI RMF.

A governance framework mapped to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001

Roles, review gates, acceptable-use, and decision rights, written for your organization, not a template someone downloaded.

Data-handling controls for AI workflows

DLP, prompt/response logging, PHI and PII boundaries, and vendor-processing terms enforced at the tool and network layer.

A use-case intake and review process

The form, the reviewers, the SLAs, and the decision log, so the next AI request doesn't land in someone's inbox and die there.

A board-ready AI risk narrative

One page your board can read, one appendix your audit committee can defend, and a set of metrics you'll actually report against.

A prioritized roadmap and investment plan

What to fix this quarter, what to build next, and what to outsource, costed and sequenced against business value.

How It Works

One operating model across the practice.

Phase 01

Secure the foundation

We harden the environment underneath every AI initiative: risk assessments and threat modeling, data classification and DLP, identity governance for AI tools, and shadow-AI discovery.

You walk away with
  • Risk assessment and threat model for AI workloads
  • Data classification and DLP scoped to AI-accessible data
  • Regulatory mapping to NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act
Phase 02

Govern the program

We stand up the program that keeps AI accountable: an acceptable-use policy, an approved tool catalog with vetting, data-handling standards, and an AI governance board.

You walk away with
  • Acceptable-use policy and approved tool catalog
  • AI governance board and shadow-AI monitoring
  • Continuous compliance evidence, not point-in-time attestations
Phase 03

Enable the people

We make AI usable by the people who actually do the work: role-based literacy training, department-level use case identification, and approved sandboxes by function.

You walk away with
  • Role-based AI literacy training by department
  • Approved sandboxes and change-management playbooks
  • ROI tracking that proves the program is working
Expertise This Work Draws On

Drawn from the capabilities underneath Fortellar's full practice.

Cybersecurity & Compliance

Compliance Framework Alignment

NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, HIPAA, and HITRUST mapped to your AI program, so one set of controls satisfies multiple audits.

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Cybersecurity & Compliance

Identity & Access Management

Agent identity, service-account hygiene, and human-in-the-loop approval gates for AI actions that touch regulated data.

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Cloud & Technology Infrastructure

Cloud Security Posture Management

The AI workloads live in your cloud. We make sure the surrounding network, secrets, and logging posture holds up to scrutiny.

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Technology & Security Operations

Logging & Audit Trail

Every prompt, response, and agent action captured, retained, and queryable, the evidence base an auditor will ask for first.

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The next AI question from your board shouldn't be the first time you can answer it.

We'll map where you are, what's exposed, and what to do about it, no slideware.