APPROACH · 01 · HOW WE WORK

Governance you can defend, built the way it will actually run.

Most compliance work is designed to pass an audit. We design for the day after, when a board, a client, or an incident tests whether the controls were ever real. That changes how we scope, build, and hand over.

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02 · PRINCIPLES

What we believe.

Four commitments that shape every scope, every control and every hand-over.

01

Senior-only, start to finish

The person who scopes the work does the work. No layered teams, no translation loss between the pitch and the delivery.

02

Operate, do not decorate

A policy nobody follows is a liability, not a control. We build governance into the operating rhythm so it holds up when it is tested.

03

Both regulatory worlds, one program

US and GCC frameworks mapped to a single control set, so you are not running two programs that drift apart.

04

Decision-ready, not acronym soup

Boards carry the accountability. We give them clear positions they can act on, with the reasoning behind each one.

03 · THE ROUTE

Four camps to the summit.

The same route runs whether the engagement is a single scoped project or a fractional mandate. Here is what happens at each camp, and what you hold at the end of it.

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01 · BASE CAMP

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Assess

We map every AI system, model and vendor you use, and measure it against the frameworks you answer to. We classify risk and surface the gaps that create real board, audit or deal exposure, not every clause in every standard.

WHAT YOU GET

  • 1.1AI system inventory, including models, agents and vendors
  • 1.2Gap assessment across the US and GCC frameworks in scope
  • 1.3Risk register and a board-ready read of where you stand today

NIST AI RMF MAP · ISO/IEC 42001 Plan

02 · CAMP TWO

02

Design

We set out who owns AI risk, the policies they enforce, and the controls that make them real: one control set mapped across every regime you answer to, with a named owner for each control.

WHAT YOU GET

  • 2.1AI governance policy, written to be followed
  • 2.2Accountability map (RACI) with named owners
  • 2.3Control design, one set mapped to every framework in scope

NIST AI RMF GOVERN · ISO/IEC 42001 Plan

03 · CAMP THREE

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Operationalize

We put the controls to work in your teams, your tools and your vendor contracts, and build the evidence trail a regulator or client will ask to see.

WHAT YOU GET

  • 3.1Implemented controls, with an operating rhythm your team can run
  • 3.2Runbooks for the people who operate the controls
  • 3.3Staff and board training

NIST AI RMF MANAGE · ISO/IEC 42001 Do

04 · SUMMIT

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Sustain

We monitor, test and report, so you can show your board or a regulator how it works at any time. A standing principal on call, reviews on a cadence, and a deliberate hand-off so the function lives with your people.

WHAT YOU GET

  • 4.1Monitoring and evidence pack, built for audit and client scrutiny
  • 4.2Board reporting, and a principal on call for board, audit and client questions
  • 4.3Review cadence and a hand-off plan, so your team takes the function in-house

NIST AI RMF MEASURE · ISO/IEC 42001 Check, Act

04 · WHY SENIOR-ONLY

What changes when a principal owns the work.

The difference between Sekena and a Big 4 or junior-staffed firm is not the frameworks. It is who does the thinking, and whether the result is built to run.

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05 · REGULATORY FLUENCY

One team. Both regulatory worlds.

Most boutiques know US frameworks or GCC frameworks. Buyers in the Gulf scan for their own regulators by name, not just NIST. We speak both, so a single program stands up on either side.

We map your obligations to one control set, then show how each control answers to every framework in scope. That is how a dual-market business avoids running two parallel programs that slowly drift apart.

Every framework, in plain English

UNITED STATES & INTERNATIONAL

NIST AI RMF
ISO/IEC 42001
EU AI ACT
NIST CSF
SOC 2

GCC

NCA ECC (SAUDI)
UAE IA
DIFC · ADGM
UAE AI CHARTER

The GCC also operates the UAE AI Charter, a set of guiding principles for responsible AI. We factor it into Gulf programs alongside the binding frameworks above.

06 · ILLUSTRATIVE ENGAGEMENTS

What a Sekena engagement looks like.

Shown without client identity. Clients are under confidentiality, so we prove the work through the shape of it, and provide references once we are in conversation.

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