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Pillar 04 — AI Governance

Govern the AI your firm already runs on.

AI is already in your firm — in note-takers, copilots, and research tools. AI governance is how you bring that use into a system you can monitor, document, and defend the moment a regulator asks.

3

modules

Firm-wide

AI visibility

Avery AI

intelligence layer
What it looks like

See AI use the moment it happens.

SurgeONE detects AI workloads across every endpoint — copilots, chatbots, transcribers — and evaluates each against your policy in real time. Governed use passes. Risky use is flagged or blocked, with a full record either way.

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AI Workloads Detected

Across 142 endpoints · last 24h
128 governed
3 blocked
M
Microsoft Copilot
Drafting client email · advisor J. Reed
● Governed
C
ChatGPT (web)
Research summary · Reg BI check passed
● Allowed
O
Otter.ai
Meeting transcript · client PII detected
⚠ Review
U
Unknown LLM tool
Bulk message generation · no disclosure
✕ Blocked
The modules

Everything in the AI Governance pillar.

Buy any module on its own, or run the whole pillar. All of it shares one data fabric and one audit trail.

MODULE 01 · CO-PILOT

Regulatory AI Co-pilot

Ask compliance questions and get answers grounded in your firm's own rules — never generic guidance. Every response traces to a source, and ambiguous questions route automatically to the right reviewer.

Answers grounded in your policies
Every response traces to a source
Auto-routing to the right reviewer
Decisions captured for the record

Who it's for: Advisors and staff who need fast, defensible compliance answers.

MODULE 02 · MONITORING

AI Use Monitoring & Defense

See how AI is being used across the firm, evaluate each use against policy, and build the documentation that proves supervision actually happened — the operational model regulators now expect.

Firm-wide AI use visibility
Policy evaluation on each action
Documented supervision
Defensible records on demand

Who it's for: Firms that have written AI policies but haven't operationalized supervision.

MODULE 03 · REPORTING

Compliance Risk Reporting

Every alert, recommendation, and risk score traces back to logic and policy. When an examiner asks why, the answer is already there — explainable, time-stamped, and exam-ready.

Traceable alerts and risk scores
Logic and policy behind every output
Time-stamped audit trail
One-click exam-ready export

Who it's for: CCOs who need to defend AI-assisted decisions to regulators.

In practice

How firms use the AI Governance pillar.

AI policy

You wrote an AI policy. Now what?

  1. Monitor where AI is actually used firm-wide.
  2. Evaluate each use against the policy.
  3. Document supervision automatically.
→  A policy that's operationalized, not just written.
Exam question

An examiner asks about your AI

  1. Show firm-wide AI use and controls.
  2. Every AI-assisted decision traces to a rule.
  3. Supervision is documented end-to-end.
→  AI use becomes exam evidence, not exam risk.
Advisor question

An advisor needs an answer fast

  1. Co-pilot answers from your firm's policies.
  2. Response cites the exact source.
  3. Ambiguity routes to a principal.
→  Fast answers that are actually defensible.
Expert services

Backed by Avery AI

The intelligence layer running underneath every SurgeONE module. The software does the heavy lifting; experienced professionals review where it matters most.

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"Human in the loop means a person saw it. Principal in the loop means a regulator will respect it."
— The SurgeONE difference
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