AI Transformation & Model Governance

We build AI capability across the institution, with the governance and controls needed to support it with a regulator.

Readiness and strategy

Establishing what you have, what AI can do for you and in what order.

  • Data mapped and classified across the organisation with owners and sensitivity levels assigned
  • Infrastructure, tooling, skills and organisational appetite assessed
  • Use cases identified with your teams and ranked on impact against feasibility
  • A roadmap covering budget, ownership and sequencing

Proof of concept to production

Testing one use case before committing to it.

  • Scope, success criteria and tooling agreed in advance
  • Built and run in a controlled environment against real data
  • Measured against the criteria set at the start
  • A recommendation to scale, refine or stop

Enterprise AI deployment

Making general-purpose AI tools available to staff and supporting day-to-day use.

  • Knowledge systems that make internal reports, presentations and documents searchable
  • Internal assistants covering policies, products, procedures and regulation, available on intranet, portal or messaging
  • Agents for routine drafting, reporting and research
  • Local model deployment where material cannot leave the institution
  • Delivered with the training and change management that adoption requires

Training and capability building

Building the skills to run AI in-house.

  • Executive sessions on AI strategy, digital roadmaps and responsible AI decisions
  • Functional programmes for credit, risk, underwriting and digital finance teams
  • Data and AI foundations for all staff
  • GenAI and prompting workshops with banking use cases
  • Delivered through an online hub, workshops and a train-the-trainer model so it continues without us

AI governance framework

The policies, committees and controls for using AI in decisions that affect customers.

  • Enterprise AI policy, standards and controls aligned to regulatory expectations including CBUAE guidance
  • A central model inventory with models tiered by materiality and potential impact
  • Lifecycle standards from scoping through design, validation, deployment, monitoring, change control and retirement
  • Committee structure, decision rights, accountability and human oversight

Validation, monitoring and audit

Independent testing of models before deployment, while in production, and in review.

  • Pre-deployment and periodic validation for accuracy, stability, robustness and fairness
  • Explainability methods so risk, compliance and model owners can see how a decision was reached
  • Bias testing and drift monitoring with thresholds, alerts and escalation routes
  • Independent review of models already in use, covering where a model could cause harm: bias, mis-scoring, misclassification, compliance failure
  • Models mapped against Basel III, IFRS 9, ICAAP, GDPR and the EU AI Act
  • Assessment of emerging threats including data poisoning and post-quantum exposure
  • Reports and evidence packs prepared for supervisory review, with remediation tracked

Who it's for

CROs, CCOs, Heads of Internal Audit, CIOs, Chief Data Officers