High-Risk AI Readiness Sprint
Assess one high-risk AI system and build your AI Act readiness baseline in 4 weeks
Guardian's Readiness Sprint helps teams evaluate one real AI system, identify governance and monitoring gaps, and leave with a practical evidence baseline for EU AI Act readiness.
How Guardian works as software — short product overview for stakeholders who need the “what is it” story. Background reading: how to monitor high-risk AI systems.
Offer at a glance
- Fixed scope — 1 high-risk AI system already live or close to production
- Fixed timeline — 4 weeks from kickoff to executive readout
- Fixed outputs — assessment, gap summary, evidence baseline, monitoring framework, roadmap
- Focused team — a compliance or risk lead, a legal or governance stakeholder, and a model, data, or ML owner
This is designed to be buyable quickly, without turning into a broad transformation programme.
What you get after 4 weeks
- A structured assessment of one high-risk AI system
- A governance and control gap summary
- A first audit-ready evidence baseline
- A monitoring and incident framework for the selected system
- An executive readout for internal stakeholders
- A roadmap into continuous Guardian monitoring
Why teams buy this now
- A live AI system is already under internal or regulatory scrutiny
- Documentation exists, but monitoring and evidence are fragmented
- Leadership wants a concrete readiness baseline before scaling governance further
- The team needs a fixed-scope first step, not a broad transformation programme
What becomes easier after the sprint
- Explaining the status of one system to compliance, legal, and leadership
- Showing what monitoring and evidence already exist versus what is missing
- Moving from scattered documents to a more structured operating baseline
- Deciding whether to extend the same model to more systems
- Responding faster to regulator or audit questions
Why one system first
Most AI governance programmes become too abstract too early. They create policies, committees, and broad ambitions before one live system has a credible monitoring and evidence baseline.
The sprint reverses that. It starts with one real system, one real set of risks, and one concrete operating baseline. That makes the work more practical, more defensible, and much easier to expand later.
What the executive readout includes
- System summary and scope definition
- Key governance and monitoring gaps
- Priority evidence gaps by workstream
- Recommended alert and incident structure
- Immediate next steps for the next 30 to 90 days
- Recommendation on whether to move into ongoing Guardian monitoring
How the sprint works
The structure is the same for every client; the content is always about your one priority system.
Scoping
Select the system, confirm stakeholders, define the review perimeter
Assessment
Review documentation, controls, monitoring, oversight, and incidents
Gap mapping
Identify missing evidence, unclear ownership, weak thresholds, and workflow gaps
Baseline design
Define the initial evidence structure, incident register, monitoring logic, and operating cadence
Executive handover
Deliver readout, outputs, and a roadmap for the next phase
Who this is for
- Compliance or risk leads who need a credible AI Act starting point now
- Organisations with one live or near-live AI system under scrutiny
- Teams that want practical outputs, not another policy-only exercise
- Buyers who need a fixed-scope first step that can be approved quickly
FAQ
- Is the High-Risk AI Readiness Sprint a conformity assessment?
- No. The sprint is a time-boxed readiness and operational-baseline exercise around one in-scope system. A conformity assessment, where you need one, is a different process. The sprint is built to produce outputs you can use in product and in internal governance, not a certification packet.
- Is this a consulting project or a path into software?
- Nordic AI Integrity runs the sprint. Guardian is the product for continuous monitoring. Most teams use sprint outputs to fund and scope an initial Guardian rollout. The sprint is the practical commercial entry into that path.
- Do we have to be sure the system is legally “high-risk” before we start?
- No. You pick the system you are running as in-scope for the sprint. The work clarifies likely exposure, criticality, and what level of evidence and monitoring you should build, whatever label you use internally.
- Why only one system?
- One system is easier to approve, faster to execute, and the only way to get concrete evidence and a credible story inside your organisation. Programme-wide efforts without that first proof point usually stall.
- What happens when the four weeks end?
- You have a baseline, models, and a readout. The usual next step is to move the operating pattern into Guardian: same owners, same record, now continuous. We align that handover in week four.
- Is the sprint fixed-price?
- The sprint is structured as a fixed-scope, fixed-timeline offer designed to be easy to evaluate and approve.
Start with one system. Book a readiness call.
The sprint is the main commercial entry: fixed length, one in-scope system, and a handover that points straight into how you will run monitoring and evidence in Guardian week after week.