Be ready to switch AI on, safely.

Before you widen AI across your business, you need to know your data is in order, your people know the rules, and you can show your board, your insurers and your customers that you have done your due diligence. AI Foundations puts that in place for a small or medium-sized business, so you can move with confidence instead of crossing your fingers.

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AI Foundations:
The groundwork that makes AI safe to use.

Each of these is groundwork, and groundwork is exactly what we do before anyone builds.

31%
of UK employers have a formal AI policy (CIPD)

62%
of staff already use AI tools nobody approved

1 in 3
of AI users get clear professional guidance at work (Google, UK research)

A complete, plain-language base for responsible AI.

We work to ISO 42001, the international standard for responsible artificial intelligence, so everything we set up is built to count towards certification later if you choose to go there. It also sits naturally alongside our IT compliance and risk management service, extending the same controls-and-evidence discipline to AI.

• A responsible AI policy written for your business, in language your team will read.
• Data classification: simple traffic-light tiers that tell everyone what may go into which tool.
• An approved tool register and a risk register, so AI use is recorded and reviewed.
• A clear incident route, so people know what to do the moment something looks wrong.
• A staff briefing and policy sign-off, so the rules are understood, not just written.
• Your own governance portal, where the policy, the registers and the evidence live.

We do not call it safe until it is.

Alongside the core setup we scope any make-safe work your assessment turns up: tidying data stores, correcting permissions, closing the gaps that would make wider AI risky, the same ground our cyber security and threat protection service works every day. The scope and the cap are agreed before any work starts, and you choose who does it, our team, yours, or both. One rule holds the promise honest: widening AI beyond your first users waits until that make-safe work is done. That is the point of Foundations, not the small print.

Every step counts towards what comes next.

AI Foundations is designed so that each artefact, the policy, the registers, the evidence, is a finished input to ISO 42001 alignment. If you go further, you build on this; you do not redo it. The natural next steps are Microsoft Copilot, done safely, and AI Assured to keep it that way.

Common questions

Start with a conversation, not a contract.

Book a free AI Discovery Call. We will show you where your quick wins are, what to address first, and how AI Foundations would set you up to switch AI on safely. There is no obligation to go further.

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