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AI Governance Assessment

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Client: [Anonymised — B2B SaaS, ~80 staff, UK-based]
Scope: AI use cases in customer support and sales enablement
Date: February 2026

Executive summary

We assessed [Client]'s AI use cases against five governance frameworks. Overall: solid foundations in security and data quality; gaps in GDPR documentation, AI ethics governance, and data sovereignty mapping. Three high-priority recommendations below.

Findings by framework

GDPR — Partial

DPA in place with primary AI provider. Lawful basis documented for support chatbot. Gaps:

  • No ROPA entry for AI use cases
  • Privacy notice does not mention AI processing
  • No process documented for subject access requests involving AI-held data

Recommendations

  • Add AI use cases to Record of Processing Activities
  • Update privacy notice; include AI in DPIAs for new use cases
AI Ethics — Gaps

No formal accountability for AI decisions. Support responses not tested for bias. Sales scoring tool uses historical data that may under-represent newer segments.

  • Define AI decision owner (e.g. Head of Support, Head of Sales)
  • Run bias check on support response samples before scaling
  • Add ethics criteria to AI procurement checklist
Data Quality — Good

Support tickets and CRM data are well-structured. Some duplicate accounts in CRM; recommend deduplication before feeding to sales AI. No major representativeness concerns for current use cases.

  • Run deduplication on CRM before scaling sales AI
  • Define quality metrics and baseline before next phase
Security — Good

Access control in place. Audit logs enabled. Provider has SOC 2. One gap: no prompt-injection testing documented.

  • Run OWASP LLM Top 10 checklist; document prompt-injection mitigations
Sovereignty — Partial

Provider offers EU region; currently using US default. UK/EU customer data may be processed in US.

  • Switch to EU region for support and sales AI; document in data residency matrix
  • Review contract for exit and data deletion clauses

Prioritised next steps

  1. Immediate: Switch AI provider region to EU for UK/EU personal data
  2. Within 4 weeks: Update ROPA and privacy notice for AI use cases
  3. Within 8 weeks: Assign AI accountability; run bias check on support samples