Runtime AI Governance Control Plane

When AI acts,
someone is accountable.

Your agents are already calling APIs, moving data, and making decisions. GIA sits between your AI systems and your operations — classifying every action, holding high-stakes ones for named human approval, and writing an immutable record auditors, regulators, and your board can trust.

Model-agnostic · Deployed inside your perimeter · SDVOSB certified · Built on Claude

ForensicLedger · live event Governing
01 · Action Agent initiates $48,200 vendor payment Mandatory
02 · Gate Held — exceeds authorized scope Pending
03 · Approval W. Storey · Principal · Finance scope Approved
04 · Evidence Written to hash-chained ledger SHA-256
0x9f2a·c41e·77b0 Block 184,402 · Verified
Aligned & certified SDVOSB Certified UEI FDAXNNAV6N24 NIST AI RMF ISO 42001 EU AI Act SOC 2 FedRAMP pathway
§ 01 The accountability gap

AI is already acting inside your organization. Nobody owns what it does.

What was a controlled procurement decision two years ago now happens inside every department — agents taking real actions in production, faster than policy, security, and risk teams can see. When a regulator, auditor, or plaintiff asks who authorized this, most enterprises cannot answer.

01

Unscoped authority

Agents take consequential actions with no documented owner and no policy boundary on what they may do.

02

No approval gate

High-stakes decisions execute autonomously — no human in the loop on the actions that actually carry risk.

03

No defensible record

When something goes wrong, there is no tamper-evident trail of what the model did, why, and who signed off.

04

Audit on demand

Compliance evidence is assembled in a panic the week before an audit — not produced continuously as work happens.

Advisory

The question every executive is now being asked: when your AI makes a decision, can you prove it was governed?

§ 02 What GIA is

A governance control plane that sits between your AI and your operations.

GIA is not a chatbot and not a dashboard bolted on after the fact. It is the enforcement layer every AI action passes through. It classifies each action, gates the consequential ones for a named human, governs which models and tools may be used, and writes a court-defensible record — without changing the AI systems you already run.

Your AI systems
Agents & copilots
Claude · OpenAI · Gemini
Internal / fine-tuned
Action
GIA Control Plane Runtime
Classify
Mandatory · Advisory · Informational
Gate
Block until a named human approves
Deliberate
Multi-model reasoning before execution
Evidence
SHA-256 hash-chained ledger
Governed
Your operations
Vendor APIs & payments
Customer & regulated data
Production systems
§ 03 The accountability triangle

Authority. Oversight. Evidence.

Governance is not a policy document. It is three things enforced at runtime — every AI action gets a documented owner, the high-stakes ones block for a human, and all of it is written to a record you can defend.

01 · Authority

Every action has an owner.

Each AI action is tied to a charter — a documented scope of what this system may do, under whose authority, and within which policy. Nothing acts outside its scope.

CharterFinance Agent · v4
OwnerCFO Office
Scope limit≤ $25,000 / txn
ClassMandatory
02 · Oversight

Humans gate the risk.

Actions classified Mandatory block until a named, authorized human approves. The Deliberation Engine runs multi-model reasoning first, so the approver decides with evidence — not a coin flip.

Action$48,200 payment
VerdictGate raised
ApproverW. Storey · Principal
DecisionApproved
03 · Evidence

The record is immutable.

Every action — approved, blocked, or informational — is written to the ForensicLedger as a SHA-256 hash-chained entry. Tamper-evident, time-stamped, and exportable as audit-ready evidence on demand.

Entry#184,402
Hash0x9f2a·c41e
ChainIntact
IntegrityVerified
§ 04 See it work

Every AI action — classified, gated, and recorded as evidence.

This is the governance surface your security and compliance teams operate. Each row is a real AI action; the right rail shows a Mandatory action being held, deliberated, and approved before it ever reached production.

GIA · Governance Console Production · governing
EntryActionClassVerdict
#184,402 Vendor payment — $48,200finance-agent · 14:22:07Z Mandatory Held
#184,401 Export customer dataset to vendordata-agent · 14:21:54Z Mandatory Approved
#184,400 Draft renewal email to clientcs-copilot · 14:21:30Z Advisory Cleared
#184,399 Summarize support ticket threadcs-copilot · 14:21:12Z Informational Logged
#184,398 Modify production access policyops-agent · 14:20:48Z Mandatory Blocked
Entry #184,402 Gate raised
Why it gated
$48,200 exceeds the Finance Agent's authorized scope of $25,000 per transaction.
Deliberation
ClaudeConcur · gate
ReviewerConcur · gate
Policy checkScope breach
Human approval
W. Storey · Principal
Finance scope · 14:22:19Z
SHA-256 · chain intact 0x9f2a·c41e
§ 05 Model-agnostic by design

One governance posture across every model you run.

Vendor choice is your decision. The governance stays constant — the same classification, the same approval gates, the same evidence — whether the action came from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or a model you host yourself.

Claude Agentic actions, tool use, and enterprise deployment support — GIA is built natively on Claude. Governed
OpenAI GPT family, function calling, and usage controls under the same policy and ledger. Governed
Gemini Google model family, multimodal, and Workspace integrations — same gates, same record. Governed
Internal Self-hosted, fine-tuned, and open-weight models governed inside your own perimeter. Governed
Same controls · same evidence · same governance posture across every model.
§ 06 Regulatory alignment

Mapped to the frameworks your auditors already use.

NIST AI RMFGovern · Map · Measure · ManageAligned
EU AI ActHigh-risk obligationsReady
ISO 42001AI management systemAligned
CMMC 2.0Defense supply chainAligned
HIPAAPHI handling controlsAligned
FedRAMPAuthorization pathwayPathway
SOC 2Trust services criteriaAligned
NIST 800-53Security & privacy controlsAligned
§ 07 Federal & procurement

Federal-grade governance from an SDVOSB-certified firm.

GIA is built and delivered by Advanced Consulting Experts — a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business with the credentials, vehicles, and operator background federal program offices and primes look for.

Procurement profile SAM · Active
Set-asideSDVOSB · Sole-source eligible
CAGE8RKG5
UEIFDAXNNAV6N24
NAICS541512 · 541611 · 541618
Authority38 U.S.C. § 8127 · FAR 19.1406
CeilingSole-source eligible at the VA up to $6M
Compliance508 compliant
Leadership

William J. Storey III

Founder · Principal Architect

A 17-year Information System Security Officer who spent a career securing accredited systems across DoD and federal-aligned programs. The same evidence discipline that survives a classified-system audit is the discipline GIA applies to every AI action.

17 yr ISSO U.S. Army Veteran DoD-aligned NIST AI RMF ISO 42001
Accepting engagements · Q3 2026

Govern AI before it becomes enterprise risk.

A 30-minute capability brief is the fastest way to see how GIA puts a documented chain of accountability behind every AI action your systems take — with the evidence your legal, security, and executive teams require.

Email
operations@aceadvising.com
Phone
(706) 619-2594
Procurement
SAM.gov · UEI FDAXNNAV6N24