Independent AI Governance Advising
Vendor-neutral guidance for boards, trustees, executive teams, and investors who need AI governance they can defend. Dr. Freddie Seba helps you decide what to govern, who owns each decision, and what to do before an AI system or an AI agent goes wrong. No software to sell, no lock-in.
When AI Starts Acting, Not Just Answering
AI agents no longer only suggest. AI agents log in, move money, change records, and send messages, often faster than any person can review. That changes the questions boards, executives, and investors must be ready to answer:
- What happens when millions of new AI agents, inside and outside your walls, start interacting with your systems? Who can tell which AI agents are yours, what each AI agent is allowed to do, and who can switch them off?
- What is your plan for the first time an AI agent, yours or someone else’s, attacks your institution? Who detects it, who decides, and how fast can you respond?
- If an AI agent quietly changed thousands of records overnight, how long would it take you to notice? And could you prove what happened?
- Who is accountable when an AI agent acts on its own? The vendor, the team that deployed it, the board that never asked, or the investors who funded it?
- For investors: which companies in your portfolio are deploying AI agents today, and which of them could explain their controls if something failed?
Most organizations cannot answer these yet. Dr. Seba helps leaders and investors build the inventory, decision rights, kill switches, and incident playbooks that make AI agents governable before the first failure, not after. Read more on AI agent governance
How We Work Together
1. Leadership, Board or Investor Briefing
A confidential 60–90 minute session that gives your leaders, directors, or investment team a shared picture of where AI and AI agents are already in use, what you are accountable for, and the questions to ask management. Your team keeps the checklist.
2. AI Governance Readiness Assessment
A clear review of where you are exposed and what to fix first: your inventory of AI systems and AI agents, risk tiers, decision rights, vendor accountability, and incident readiness. For investors, the same review can be applied to a target company in due diligence or across a portfolio. You receive a prioritized action plan.
3. Ongoing Advisory
Embedded, fractional support as you scale AI: a regular governance review with your leadership team, guidance on new AI systems and AI agents before they go live, and preparation for board, investor, regulator, and accreditor questions.
Built on Proven Frameworks
- AI Minimum Viable Governance (AI MVG): know what you run, tier the risk, assign decision rights, be ready for incidents.
- The Seba 12 Ps of Responsible AI Oversight ©: a board-ready checklist that needs no AI expertise.
- Grounded in doctoral research and peer-reviewed work. See the research
Who It’s For
Health systems and digital health
What happens when an AI agent schedules, triages, or documents care, and gets it wrong at scale? Or when an outside AI agent probes your patient records? We help you set clear boundaries for clinical and operational AI agents, keep a human accountable for every consequential decision, protect patient data under HIPAA, and give your board real oversight of patient-safety risk. Healthcare AI governance
Universities and colleges
What would you do if an AI agent altered student grades, flooded admissions with synthetic applications, or impersonated faculty? We help presidents, provosts and trustees protect academic integrity and student records, govern AI agents used in advising and admissions, keep AI decisions equitable and meet accreditor expectations. Higher education AI governance
Banks and fintechs
What is your response the first time an AI agent moves money it shouldn’t, or an attacker’s AI agent tries to rob you at machine speed? We help you set spending and access limits for AI agents, extend model risk management to autonomous AI systems, preserve fair lending, and build the audit trails and incident playbooks regulators will expect. Financial services AI governance
Investors and investment committees
Venture, growth and private equity investors now carry AI agent risk across every portfolio company that deploys them, often without seeing it. We help investment teams add AI governance to due diligence, ask founders and management the right questions, set governance expectations after investment, and spot the portfolio companies most exposed to an AI agent failure before it becomes a write-down or a headline.
Boards and trustees in any sector
Your fiduciary duty now includes AI agents that act on their own. We translate AI agent risk into the board’s language: what to oversee, which decisions belong to the board, and what to ask management at the next meeting. Board AI governance
Start With a Conversation
Many clients begin with a keynote, board briefing, or investor briefing, then continue with a readiness assessment. Tell us where you are, and we’ll suggest the right first step. Replies within one business day.