Most organizations have no idea what AI is actually running in their environment.
That's not a technology problem. It's a visibility problem. And until you know what's running, who has access, and what it's touching, you can't govern it, secure it, or explain it to your board.
Hackademic Solutions is an AI governance advisory firm. We start by showing you exactly where you stand.
The AI Governance Problem Is Not What Most People Think
AI governance conversations tend to focus on policy documents and acceptable use guidelines. That's necessary, but it's not sufficient.
The harder problem is this: AI agents don't wait for governance frameworks to catch up. By the time a policy is drafted, teams have already deployed tools, connected them to business systems, and created workflows nobody fully understands. Shadow AI is not a future risk. It's already running in your environment.
The organizations that get ahead of this aren't the ones with the most sophisticated frameworks. They're the ones that took the time to look first.
That's where we start.
You Know AI Is Happening. You're Not Sure How Much, or What It Means.
Three things keeping leaders up at night.
"I don't know where to start."
Most leaders aren't confused about whether AI matters. They're confused about where governance actually begins. Do you start with policy? With tooling? With a vendor assessment? The answer is none of the above. You start with an honest inventory of what's already running.
"My team is moving fast and I'm not keeping pace."
Your developers, operations teams, and business units are already experimenting. Some of it is productive. Some of it creates risk you can't see yet. Getting ahead of this isn't about slowing them down. It's about building the visibility that lets you accelerate with confidence.
"I need to show the board we're handling this."
AI governance is moving from best practice to boardroom expectation. Frameworks like AIUC-1 and NIST AI RMF are giving auditors, insurers, and investors a shared vocabulary for asking hard questions. When those questions come, having a documented posture is the difference between a credible answer and an uncomfortable silence.
Start Here
The AI Posture Review
Before you build a governance program, you need to know what you're governing.
The AI Posture Review is a 10-day diagnostic engagement that gives your leadership team a complete, honest picture of your AI environment: what's running, what's exposed, and where to focus first.
Most assessments take months and produce reports nobody acts on. This takes 10 days and produces a document your leadership team will read the same day they receive it.
What You Get
Shadow AI Discovery
We surface the AI tools, agents, and integrations already running in your environment, including the ones IT hasn't formally approved. The gap between what's sanctioned and what's actually in use is almost always the most important finding.
AI Posture Scorecard
Your organization scored across five dimensions: AI Inventory, Data Governance, Identity and Access, Compliance Posture, and Human Oversight. You'll know exactly where you're exposed and where you're ready to move.
90-Day Path Forward
A prioritized roadmap built around your findings, your risk tolerance, and your team's capacity to act. Three quick wins your team can execute in 30 days without outside help, and a clear picture of what comes next.
What Makes This Different
We use your own Microsoft environment to surface findings. No third-party access required. Your team runs the detection queries using our pre-built Shadow AI Discovery Kit. We analyze what comes back and translate it into leadership-ready insight.
Our Guarantee
If you don't have a scored AI posture, a shadow AI findings report, and a prioritized 90-day roadmap at the end, we keep working until you do.
A Clear Path from Visibility to Governance
The AI Posture Review is the starting point. Here's where most organizations go from there.
Step 1
AI Posture Review
10-day diagnostic
Understand your current state. Surface shadow AI. Get a scored posture and a prioritized roadmap.
Learn More →Step 2
6-Week Secure AI Deployment Accelerator
6-week engagement
Take the gaps your Posture Review identified and close them. Build your AI Agent Registry, deploy governance controls across Microsoft's stack, and stand up the monitoring that keeps you compliant as your AI environment grows.
Learn More →Step 3
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing
AI governance isn't a one-time project. As new agents get deployed, regulations evolve, and your environment changes, ongoing strategic guidance keeps your program current. Retainer clients get direct access to our team as a standing resource.
Talk to Us →How Hackademic Solutions Approaches Every Engagement
Three operational streams. One integrated outcome.
Most governance work fails because it focuses on policy without implementation, or implementation without strategy. We work across three streams simultaneously.
Research Operations (ROS)
We identify what's actually happening in your AI environment: the risks, the threat landscape, and the gaps between where you are and where you need to be. Intelligence before action.
Technical Operations (TOS)
We build and deploy the controls: agent registries, access models, prompt safety guardrails, and monitoring dashboards. Built on Microsoft's governance stack: Entra ID, Purview, Foundry, and Agent 365.
Business Operations (BOS)
We translate technical governance into leadership language. Your board, your auditors, and your insurers need answers that frameworks alone can't provide. We make sure you have them.
Built on Frameworks That Matter, Before They Become Mandates
We align every engagement with the standards shaping AI governance now and in the near future.
AIUC-1
The emerging SOC 2 for AI agents, backed by major technology companies.
NIST AI RMF
The federal risk management framework increasingly referenced by regulators.
ISO 42001
The AI management system standard that supports future certification.
OWASP LLM Top 10
The practical security baseline for large language model deployments.
CIS Benchmarks
Asset inventory and configuration management foundations.
SWIFT CSP
Financial services security controls for fintech clients.
MITRE ATLAS
AI-specific threat landscape and attack technique modeling.
Scholar-Practitioners, Not Generalist Consultants
Hackademic Solutions was built around a specific belief: that the most effective AI governance work combines academic research rigor with operational experience at the highest levels. We call this the scholar-practitioner model.
Our team brings decades of experience in defense, security operations, and enterprise technology, applied through a research-first methodology that produces governance programs that are documented, reproducible, and defensible.
We work with a small number of clients at any given time. That's by design.
The First Step Is Knowing Where You Stand.
Most governance conversations stall because nobody wants to go first and find out the answer is uncomfortable. We've found the opposite is true: once leadership sees a clear picture of their AI posture, the path forward becomes obvious.
The AI Posture Review gives you that picture in 10 days.