Helping leadership teams and the investors who back them operationalize controls, evidence, and AI governance, with board-ready visibility into risk, before customers, auditors, or regulators force the issue.
Most companies do not have an AI problem. They have a foundation problem that AI has made impossible to ignore. Infrastructure, data, and governance were rarely designed to evolve together, so as demands accelerate, the gaps surface all at once. Controls exist in practice but go undocumented. Evidence lives across tools, people, and time. Governance lags the pace of AI adoption. By the time a customer, an auditor, a regulator, or a board asks the hard question, teams are forced into reactive reconstruction of decisions that should have been captured all along. The result is stress and avoidable gaps, not from negligence, but from missing operational structure.
Persow supports technical leaders across four outcome-driven areas:
Independent assessment of AI and cyber risk, with governance structures, risk frameworks, and decision models that balance innovation velocity with responsible oversight. We help clarify which risks are genuinely AI-specific and which are broader technology risks that need consistent governance across tools.
Senior-level guidance for boards, founders, and the investors and operators who back them. An independent read on technical and AI risk, and remediation roadmaps that survive leadership transitions.
Many companies have a strong product but are not yet ready for the scrutiny that larger enterprise customers, auditors, and regulators bring. We help teams close that gap, preparing for SOC 2, ISO, PCI, and AI governance expectations, and establishing the security and infrastructure patterns that let a great product survive enterprise procurement, diligence, and scale.
Senior CIO and CISO guidance without the overhead of full-time roles, for teams that face enterprise-grade scrutiny before they can staff a full enterprise risk function.
Readiness becomes a discipline, not a fire drill before every audit or raise
We start by assessing what exists today, not what policies claim. Systems, AI use cases, and data are inventoried and mapped to the right frameworks. Risk and exposure are evaluated against reality, not assumptions. Gaps are identified early, giving teams time to remediate without panic. When a board, an investor, or an auditor asks the hard question, the answer is already organized: clear risk narratives, traceable evidence, and no last-minute excavation. The process emphasizes clarity, traceability, and defensibility at every stage.
Persow's work is led by senior practitioners, not software. We use our own internal tooling to accelerate the mechanical parts of an engagement, organizing evidence, tracing it to the right frameworks, and surfacing gaps and risks early, so that more of our time goes to judgment, context, and the decisions that actually matter.
The result is faster, clearer, board-ready insight into where risk truly sits. This is not a self-serve compliance platform. It is how a small, senior team delivers depth that usually requires a much larger one.
Persow works with organizations where growth, regulation, and technical reality intersect. Engagements are shaped by organizational maturity, regulatory context, and growth trajectory.
Organizations under diligence, value-creation, or scaling pressure that need an independent, credible read on technical and AI risk.
Organizations preparing for audits, scaling security programs, or responding to increasing customer and regulatory scrutiny.
Companies handling sensitive data and operating under frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, and sector-specific regulatory expectations.
Teams building in regulated environments that require strong data governance, security controls, and audit readiness without slowing innovation.
Collaboration with selected firms such as 5Tattva and Sedna Consulting to provide complementary readiness, validation, and audit execution support for shared clients.
Perspectives on cybersecurity, AI readiness, and surviving audits.
Persow focuses on what comes next, not just what passes today.
Persow is founded by a senior technology executive with over 30 years of experience spanning software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI, and audit-driven environments. That experience includes post-acquisition integration, regulatory remediation, and large-scale infrastructure rationalization in environments serving millions of clients, the same pressures portfolio and growth companies face under diligence and scaling.
The work draws on experience across startups navigating rapid growth, large enterprises managing complex regulatory requirements, and advisory roles supporting technical leadership through audits and governance transitions.
Engagements are delivered through a small, senior-led team and trusted partners to ensure depth of expertise without diluting accountability.
Persow works with a limited number of clients at a time to ensure direct involvement, clarity of outcomes, and defensible results. Engagements are led directly and supported by senior partners to maintain continuity and accountability.
No sales pitch. Just clarity.
If you're preparing for an audit, building governance around AI capabilities, or establishing cybersecurity foundations that can scale, let's discuss your specific context.
Initial conversations focus on understanding your current state, timeline constraints, and desired outcomes. From there, we can determine whether an engagement makes sense and what structure would deliver the most value.
Reach out to explore readiness, validation, or fractional advisory support.
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