AI Center of Excellence

See Where AI is Already Running. Then Govern it
With Confidence.

The DataPivot AI Center of Excellence brings together AI governance, cybersecurity, data protection, and risk management—so you can discover your AI environment, reduce exposure, establish guardrails, and enable responsible innovation.

Shadow AI Discovery | Governance & Guardrails | Secure AI Adoption at Scale

AI is already inside your organization

AI is Spreading Across Teams, Tools & Technology

Employees are using generative AI tools. Business units are evaluating platforms. Technology teams are connecting AI to internal applications and data. Vendors are embedding AI into products you already own.

In most organizations, that adoption is moving faster than governance, security, and risk programs can respond. The AI Center of Excellence provides the structure needed to answer the hard questions—and turn AI risk into a manageable business program.

We help you move forward deliberately: discover what’s in use, decide what’s acceptable, protect what matters, and scale the use cases that earn their place.

Organizations need visibility into:

  • Which AI tools are being used, and by whom

  • What business use cases are being pursued

  • What organizational data is being shared

  • Which applications and data sources AI can access

  • How AI vendors manage and retain information

  • Whether AI-generated outcomes can be trusted

  • Which controls are required before AI is deployed

Our Capabilities

Six Disciplines, One Accountable Program

Engagements can start anywhere—most begin with discovery, because you cannot govern what you cannot see.

We identify unauthorized, unmanaged, or unknown use of AI across users, departments, applications, browsers, cloud platforms, APIs, and third-party services—including the AI functionality quietly introduced by vendors you already use.
  • Public generative AI applications
  • AI-enabled SaaS applications
  • AI agents and automated workflows
  • Model Context Protocol servers and connectors
  • Business-led AI projects outside IT governance
  • Unsanctioned employee AI accounts
  • AI browser extensions and plugins
  • AI APIs and application integrations
  • Sensitive data entered into AI platforms
  • AI introduced through existing vendors
Client Outcomes:
A centralized inventory of known and suspected AI use, visibility into AI-related data exposure, identification of high-risk tools and use cases, prioritized recommendations for containment, and a foundation for an enterprise AI governance program.

The data underneath the model

Five Questions Every AI Program
Has to Answer

Most AI risk traces back to data access. These are the questions we help clients answer — and keep answering as the environment changes.

  • Where is the data?

  • Which AI applications and models can access it?

  • Which users, devices, agents, and workloads can initiate that access?

  • Is the data appropriate for the intended AI use?

  • Can access be verified and continuously monitored?

Our Approach

A Program, Not a Project

Six phases that take you from unknown AI usage to a governed, measurable capability the business can build on.

  • Discover

    Phase 01

    Identify AI applications, use cases, data flows, vendors, integrations, and the stakeholders behind them.

  • Assess

    Phase 02

    Evaluate current capabilities, identify control gaps, classify risks, and determine organizational maturity.

  • Govern

    Phase 03

    Establish policies, decision rights, ownership, intake processes, and oversight structures.

  • Protect

    Phase 04

    Implement guardrails across identities, data, applications, models, devices, APIs, agents, and connectors.

  • Operationalize

    Phase 05

    Embed AI governance into business processes, technology operations, procurement, security, and enterprise risk.

  • Continuously Improve

    Phase 06

    Measure effectiveness, monitor change, test controls, and adapt as AI capabilities and risks evolve.

What clients receive

Tangible Artifacts, Not a Slide Deck

Depending on the engagement, deliverables may include:

  • Enterprise AI Inventory
  • Shadow AI Findings report
  • AI maturity scorecard
  • Vendor assessment questionnaire
  • AI Guardrail architecture
  • AI security control framework
  • Prioritized implementation roadmap
  • Executive findings presentation

What Changes for the Business

  • Visibility into how AI is actually being used
  • Consistent security and governance requirements
  • Less sensitive data leaving your control
  • Reduced regulatory and third-party risk
  • Better-informed AI investment decisions
  • More trust in AI-generated outcomes
  • Faster approval of appropriate use cases
  • AI adoption that scales without surprises
  • Clear accountability and decision rights

Our Point of View

Build Trust in AI by Building
Trust in Data

AI success depends on more than picking the right model or application. It depends on confidence in the data, identities, applications, devices, integrations, and controls surrounding it. That is the layer DataPivot has always worked in.

Whether you are beginning your AI journey, responding to rapid employee adoption, or preparing to scale enterprise AI, the AI Center of Excellence provides the governance, security, and operating model to move forward responsibly.

  • Data

    Classified, mapped, and access-verified
  • Identity

    Users, devices, workloads, and agents
  • Applications & Models

    Approved, configured, and monitored
  • Governance

    Decision rights, oversight, and evidence

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