Evolved360 Strategy
AI Is a Double-Edged Blade.
Hold It by the Handle.
AI Governance. AI Risk. AI Compliance. Built for How Your Team Actually Uses It.
Your team is already using AI — in Copilot, in ChatGPT, in the browser extension nobody approved. The same AI is in the hands of the people attacking you. AI governance is how you get the productivity without handing over your data, your reputation, or your compliance posture. We build it so it holds.
Your Strategic Partner
The blade cuts both ways. The question is who's holding it.
Used well, AI takes hours of repetitive work off your team every week. Used without rules, it pastes client records into public models, drafts confident answers that are wrong, and gives attackers a cheap way to sound exactly like your CEO. Most businesses are getting both edges at once — the productivity and the exposure — because nobody has decided where the line is. We help you draw it, enforce it in the systems your team already uses, and prove it to the people who ask.
SOC 2
Type 2 certified team
PIPEDA
& PHIPA privacy expertise
NIST
AI RMF-aligned program
Copilot
M365 governance specialists
Two Edges, One Blade
Both sides are already in your business. Only one of them has rules.
The edge you're holding
AI your team uses
The edge pointed at you
AI attackers use
Banning AI doesn't fix either edge — people just use it on their phones. Governance does: clear rules, enforced technically, with your team trained for the attacks that no longer have spelling mistakes.
What Changes
Get the upside of AI without the downside landing on you.
Your Data Stays Yours
Clear rules and technical controls on what can go into which AI tools — so client records, financials, and IP never end up training someone else's model.
Shadow AI Comes Into the Light
You know which AI tools your team actually uses, which are approved, and which are blocked — instead of finding out from an incident.
AI-Powered Attacks Don't Land
Voice-clone calls, AI-written phishing, and fake vendor emails are caught by process and training — not by hoping someone notices.
You Can Prove It
When a client, insurer, regulator, or auditor asks how you govern AI, you answer with documented policy, controls, and evidence — not a shrug.
What We Cover
Everything an AI governance program needs to be real.
AI Acceptable Use Policy
Plain-language rules for which tools are approved, what data is allowed in them, who can use them for what, and what happens when someone gets it wrong. Signed, trained, and enforced — not filed.
AI Risk Assessment & Register
Every AI use case in the business — approved or not — assessed for data exposure, accuracy risk, privacy and legal exposure, and vendor dependency. Tracked in your risk register alongside everything else.
Shadow AI Discovery & Control
Find the AI tools your team is already using, approve the ones that make sense, block the ones that don't, and keep the list current as new tools appear every week.
Copilot & Data Governance
Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces anything a user already has permission to see. We fix oversharing, label sensitive data, and tune Purview and Conditional Access before Copilot goes live — not after.
AI-Enabled Fraud Defence
Callback rules for payment changes, voice-clone and deepfake verification procedures, AI-phishing simulations, and staff training built for attacks that sound exactly like your people.
AI Compliance Mapping
Where AI touches PIPEDA, PHIPA, Quebec's Law 25, SOC 2, client contracts, or professional-body guidance — we map the obligations, document the controls, and keep the evidence ready.
Your team is already using AI. The only question is whether there are rules. Let's write them.
Book Free ReviewRelated Services
AI governance is enforced where your team actually works.
We run your IT, your security, and your AI rollouts. That's why AI governance from us isn't a policy binder — it's enforced in Microsoft 365, on your endpoints, and in the tools your team opens every morning.
What Changes
What your business looks like with AI governance that actually holds.
What we find most often
Typical findings from ETG AI governance reviews. Every one is fixable within weeks.
The Case for AI Governance
Why “we'll deal with AI later” is already costing you.
AI is the first technology most businesses adopted bottom-up. Nobody approved ChatGPT; a few people started using it, it worked, and within a year it was in sales emails, client deliverables, and HR letters. That is the first edge of the blade: real productivity, arriving through tools that were never assessed, on terms nobody read, with company data flowing to vendors nobody vetted. The second edge arrived at the same time. The phishing email with perfect grammar, the voice on the phone that sounds like your CEO, the vendor “updating their banking details” — attackers got the same productivity gain you did, and they aimed it at the one control every business relies on: a person deciding whether something looks right.
Good AI governance is not a ban and it is not a 40-page policy. It is three layers that reinforce each other. Policy says which tools are approved, what data can go into them, where a human must review the output, and who owns the decision. Controls enforce it where people work: approved tools licensed and configured, unapproved ones blocked, Microsoft 365 permissions and sensitivity labels cleaned up before Copilot sees them, payment changes verified by callback, and training that covers voice clones and deepfakes, not just suspicious links. Evidence proves it: an AI risk register, training records, vendor assessments, and a quarterly review so leadership sees AI risk next to every other IT risk. We structure that program on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001, scaled to a business your size, so it maps cleanly when a client, insurer, or auditor asks.
The obligations are already here even though the law is still moving. PIPEDA and PHIPA apply the moment personal or health information goes into an AI tool, regardless of which vendor runs it. Quebec's Law 25 requires disclosure when decisions are automated. Ontario's public-sector digital security and AI rules reach organizations that serve government. Professional bodies such as the Law Society of Ontario have issued guidance on generative AI, and the EU AI Act applies to anyone selling into Europe. Federal AI legislation in Canada is still being worked out, which is exactly why client contracts, cyber-insurance applications, and vendor security questionnaires have started asking the question directly. Governance decays fast in this space — new tools every week, vendors changing terms, models changing behaviour — so it has to be maintained like any other compliance program, not written once and forgotten.
“The businesses that get hurt by AI aren't the ones that use it — they're the ones that use it without deciding what's allowed. Banning it doesn't work; people just use it on their phone. Write the rules, enforce them in the tenant, train people on the new attacks. That's the whole job, and most of it is done in a few weeks.”
Kevin Nishimura, CTO — Evolved Technology Group · SOC 2 Type 2 Certified · HIPAA Compliant
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Ready to put rules around AI that actually hold?
Book a free AI governance review. We'll find what your team is already using, show you where the exposure is, and give you a plain-English plan to close it — with no obligation.