Common questions

Guardians works with CROs, CISOs, CAOs, and CIOs who need high-quality governance work without scaling headcount at the same pace as demand. We also offer Huginn for Builders – a lighter path for smaller firms and solopreneurs building with AI who need governance without an in-house risk team.

Huginn is our agentic risk operations platform. It has three layers: skills (the risk tasks your teams use), tools (the processing and reasoning behind them), and a knowledge base (frameworks, taxonomies, and risk registers). Guardians configures all three layers for your organisation.

General-purpose AI can help with many tasks. Governance work is different – it requires the right taxonomy, methodology, controls, and review process to produce output that risk, audit, and regulators can rely on. Huginn is purpose-built for that.

Huginn is the full platform – your risk team configures the skills, tools, and knowledge base. Huginn for Builders is a pre-configured offering with Guardians' AI risk knowledge base already loaded, designed for teams building with AI who need risk assessment without a full governance setup.

Yes. Teams work with Huginn directly and receive output in real time. When an assessment is ready, it goes to whoever owns the review – your risk function, audit team, or Guardians' experts.

That's exactly what Huginn for Builders is designed for. It comes with Guardians' pre-loaded knowledge base and includes expert review as part of the operating model – so you get quality governance without in-house specialists.

Huginn processes data within Guardians' secure environment. We work with your security team to define data handling requirements before deployment. Customer cloud deployment for full data control is on the roadmap.

ISO 27001, ISO 27005, ISO 31000, ISO 42001, NIST SP 800-*, NIST AI RMF, NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, SOC 2, COBIT, COSO, ITIL, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and the MIT AI Risk Database. Huginn is configured to your specific framework requirements.

Traditional tools help specialists document work. Huginn helps teams do the work and gives governance functions structured, reviewable output without forcing everyone into specialist workflows.

No. The goal is not to generate more paperwork. The goal is to make governance time produce output that reduces risk, improves decisions, and stands up to review.

As AI becomes part of core operations, governance needs to become part of the operating model too. Guardians builds governed agents that help organisations scale AI adoption without leaving governance behind.

Guardians works across all lines of defence. We partner with your CRO, CISO, and CAO to define standards and review criteria, and with your CIO and tech leaders to deploy Huginn where the work happens.