AI assurance · Defence, Government, CNI & Regulated Industry

Know whether your AI will survive scrutiny.

Most organisations cannot prove their AI would stand up to an audit. We score every use case against ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act and the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, and hand you the evidence pack that proves it. Where you need the tooling as well as the assurance, we deliver it, including Claude Enterprise, in an assured and secure manner.

The core discipline

AI Assurance

Why organisations bring us in: to know, and to prove, that their AI will stand up to a board, a regulator or an accreditor.

How it works

Know whether your AI will survive scrutiny.

Most organisations cannot answer a simple question: which of our AI use cases would fail an audit, and how badly? We inventory the estate, classify every use case against the regulation that governs it, and hand back a scored risk register with the evidence to defend it — to a board, a regulator, or an accreditor.

AI Assurance Diagnostic

Fixed fee

Scoped to your AI estate

Continuous Assurance

Monthly retainer

Re-assessed as the estate and the rules change

Diagnostic, then continuous

The diagnostic is a point in time. Your AI estate is not — models change, use cases multiply, and the regulation moves underneath you. Continuous assurance keeps the register live, so the answer to “is this still defensible?” is never more than a month old.

What's included

  • AI use-case inventory across the organisation
  • Risk classification against the EU AI Act
  • Control mapping to ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF
  • Assessment against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework
  • MoD Secure by Design alignment where applicable
  • Scored risk register with prioritised remediation
  • Evidence pack for auditors, regulators and accreditors
  • Board-ready summary in language leaders can act on
The supporting practice

Secure AI Adoption

Once the risk is mapped and the guardrails are agreed, we help you act on the findings — deploy, support, and embed AI on ground that survives scrutiny.

Get set up

Claude, configured for your organisation.

A fixed-fee deployment that gets the right product in the right hands — properly governed, integrated, and ready to use. We work with Anthropic's Claude Teams and Claude Enterprise, and handle everything from licensing through to first-use training.

Claude Teams

Fixed fee

Scoped to your team and seats

Claude Enterprise

Fixed fee

Scoped to size, security posture & integrations

Deployment & configuration

We configure Claude to your environment, establish governance guardrails, and onboard your team — so day one looks like month three elsewhere.

What's included

  • Licence procurement & account configuration
  • Organisational readiness assessment
  • Governance & acceptable-use policy
  • Role-based access & permission structure
  • Integration with existing tools & workflows
  • Administrator & end-user onboarding
  • First-use training sessions
  • Handover documentation
Stay supported

A retained partner, not a one-time install.

AI capability drifts without attention. Our retainer keeps your deployment current, your team confident, and your governance intact — month after month.

Monthly retainer

Ongoing advisory, governance oversight, and prompt optimisation — with a named Velinor consultant available throughout the engagement. Minimum three-month commitment.

Claude Teams

Monthly retainer

minimum 3 months · scoped on enquiry

  • Monthly governance review
  • Usage reporting & optimisation
  • Prompt library maintenance
  • Priority support access
  • Quarterly strategy session

Claude Enterprise

Monthly retainer

minimum 3 months · scoped on enquiry

  • Weekly governance touchpoint
  • Enterprise usage analytics
  • Multi-team prompt governance
  • Named senior consultant
  • Board-ready reporting
Build your skills

AI shaped to the work your team actually does.

Existing clients only

Engagement

Scoped per function

Generic prompts produce generic output. We design function-specific Claude Skills — structured, tested, and handed over ready to use — for every team that touches AI.

Sales

Pipeline analysis, call prep, proposal drafting, objection handling, and CRM summarisation.

Marketing

Campaign briefs, copy generation, brand-voice enforcement, and content repurposing workflows.

Operations

Process documentation, SOP drafting, meeting intelligence, and operational reporting.

Consulting

Research synthesis, framework application, client deliverable acceleration, and insight extraction.

Finance

Variance analysis, board pack drafting, commentary generation, and financial narrative synthesis.

Customer

Response drafting, escalation triage, FAQ management, and satisfaction insight summarisation.

Skills Design engagements typically run 4–12 hours per function. We scope, design, test, and document each skill — with a working demo before handover.

Embed expertise

Engineers who work inside your operation.

Sometimes the gap between AI capability and business value is not a tool — it is a person. Our Forward Deployed Engineers work inside your team, solving problems your way, at your pace. We draw on a vetted bench of specialist consultants, so the engineer you get is matched to the problem rather than to whoever happens to be free.

Forward Deployed
Decision Engineer

Embeds in your team to architect AI around your decisions — not around the AI's defaults. Applies Velinor's Decision Engineering methodology to every use case.

Engagement

Embedded day-rate engagement · scoped to your organisation

What they do

  • Map decision flows and identify where AI creates leverage
  • Design and build production-ready Claude integrations
  • Establish evaluation and quality-assurance frameworks
  • Train internal teams on AI-augmented decision processes
  • Produce handover documentation and future roadmap
  • Accelerate time-to-value on stalled AI initiatives

Forward Deployed
Safety & Security Engineer

Embeds to harden your AI deployment against real threats — prompt injection, identity abuse, tool misuse, and supply-chain risk — using a Zero Trust framework.

Engagement

Embedded day-rate engagement · scoped to your organisation

What they do

  • Threat modelling for agentic AI environments
  • Zero Trust architecture design and implementation
  • Prompt injection and adversarial input testing
  • Identity, access, and permission audit for AI agents
  • Data classification and boundary enforcement
  • Governance policy for human-in-the-loop controls
How we charge

Every engagement, one page.

We price to your organisation, not from a rate card. Book a free scoping call and we will scope the engagement — fixed fee, retainer, or embedded — before you commit to anything.

EngagementCommercial model
AI Assurance DiagnosticScored risk register & evidence packFixed feeScoped to the size of your AI estate
Continuous AssuranceThe register kept liveMonthly retainerMinimum 3 months
Setup & deploymentIncludes onboardingFixed feeScoped to seats, security posture & integrations
Monthly retainerOngoing advisory & governanceMonthly retainerMinimum 3 months
Skills DesignExisting clients onlyScoped per functionFixed scope, agreed up front
Forward Deployed Decision EngineerEmbedded in your teamDay rateTeams & Enterprise tiers
Forward Deployed Safety & Security EngineerEmbedded in your teamDay rateTeams & Enterprise tiers

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Partnership

We build on Claude, and we are accountable for what we build.

Velinor is a member of the Anthropic Partner Network. We do not simply resell a licence: we own the assurance that sits around it. Claude goes into environments where a wrong answer is not an inconvenience — defence, government, nuclear, and the regulated enterprise — and it goes in assured.

We are currently delivering an AI assurance and adoption programme for a UK critical national infrastructure operator, assessing the AI risk across its estate and rebuilding its security posture as a process rather than a function.

Built on Claude

Anthropic Partner Network member. We deploy on Claude and on client-controlled infrastructure, including AWS Bedrock, where sovereignty demands it.

Assured, not assumed

Every deployment is mapped to the standards the client is held to — ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.

Depth on demand

A vetted bench of specialist consultants and forward deployed engineers, brought in against the problem and cleared for the environment.

Start with a conversation, not a contract.

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