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ETHORITY · ADVISORY SERVICE · FROM €2,500 / MONTH · ONGOING
6,700 market changes. Governance that keeps up.
Keep AI governed over time: quarterly register updates, a watch on regulation and vendors, new-case reviews and a board report, from an adviser who knows you.
- €2,500
- per month, Basic package, netETHORITY price list, 16 Oct 2026
- 6 months
- minimum term, then monthly noticeETHORITY price list, 16 Oct 2026
- 6,700
- dated market changes trackedETHORITY AI Universe, Oct 2026
- 2 Dec 2027
- Annex III high-risk obligations of the AI Act applyReg. (EU) 2026/1744 · White & Case, Aug 2026 · whitecase.com ↗
The registry tracks AI product changes every day.
Monitoring your vendors does not start from zero; it starts from dated changes already recorded.
ETHORITY AI Universe, Oct 2026
Up to ten new AI cases reviewed per quarter in Premium.
Each new tool or project gets a risk triage and a recommendation within the agreed response time.
ETHORITY price list, 16 Oct 2026
Premium response within one working day.
Basic answers within three working days, Standard within two.
ETHORITY price list, 16 Oct 2026
Who it is for
Clients after an AI Act Readiness Sprint, an AI Governance Setup or an Estate Audit, and companies without a full-time AI governance role. Also boards that want one accountable adviser rather than rotating project teams.
The question it answers
Is our AI register still true this quarter, what changed in law and in our vendors, and what does the board need to decide?
What you receive
Select a result to see it in a scenario.
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
- 1
Register and Trust Chain updates, quarterly (Premium: monthly).
Register and Trust Chain update
Read as text
AI Governance Retainer · Register update · Q3 · Scenario
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
- +3 added: Note-taker · Forecasting tool · Contract review
- −1 retired: Old chatbot
- 4 updated: Owners, data location, versions
Trust Chain labels:
- Vendor claim: 14
- Measured: 11
- Verified by a third party: 6
2 claims moved from vendor claim to measured
- 2
Change watch: AI Act guidance, standards and national implementation; changes to the products and terms of your vendors, tracked in the Good AI Prism registry.
Change watch
Read as text
AI Governance Retainer · Change briefing · this month · Scenario
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
- Your vendors: Meeting assistant: data location now set per workspace (Action)
- Your vendors: Writing assistant: new model version, training on your data still off (No action)
- Your vendors: Translation tool: price per user up by 12% (Action)
- Law: Annex III high-risk duties apply from 2 Dec 2027 (Plan)
Law item: Reg. (EU) 2026/1744 · vendor items: Scenario
- 3
New-case reviews: risk triage and a recommendation for each new AI tool or project.
New-case review
Read as text
AI Governance Retainer · New-case review · Scenario
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
AI note-taker for sales calls (Requested by Sales · 40 users)
- Data: Call audio, customer names
- Risk class: Minimal; inform call partners (data protection)
- Vendor: Data in the EU; no training on your data, per the provider
Approve with conditions:
- Tell call partners before recording
- Delete recordings after 30 days
- Review after one quarter
- 4
Quarterly board report: estate, risks, incidents and decisions due.
Quarterly board report
Read as text
AI Governance Retainer · Board report · Q3 · Scenario
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
- AI systems: 31 (3 added, 1 retired)
- new cases reviewed: 5 (3 approved, 1 declined, 1 open)
- incidents: 0 (none reported)
- decisions due: 2 (below)
- Renew the translation tool at the new price, or switch
- Extend literacy training to 60 new hires
- 55
Literacy refreshers in Standard and Premium.
- 66
Direct access to Sten Franke by phone and email.
1 / 4 · Register and Trust Chain update
What changed in your register this quarter, and how each claim is backed.
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
Read as text
AI Governance Retainer · Register update · Q3 · Scenario
Scenario: the third quarter for a client with 31 registered AI systems (Standard package).
- +3 added: Note-taker · Forecasting tool · Contract review
- −1 retired: Old chatbot
- 4 updated: Owners, data location, versions
Trust Chain labels:
- Vendor claim: 14
- Measured: 11
- Verified by a third party: 6
2 claims moved from vendor claim to measured
How it works
- Month 1
Onboarding: take over the register, vendor list, policies and open actions; agree KPIs and reporting dates.
- Monthly
Change briefing of one to two pages on regulatory news and vendor changes (Standard and Premium).
- Each quarter
Week 1 register update with AI owners; week 2 evidence check on policies, training records, labels and vendor documents; week 3 board report with the sponsor.
- Twice a year and yearly
Review of the governance process: what works and what slows people down; yearly literacy refresher, annual review and plan.
Packages and price
Basic
€2,500 / month · net
1 senior day a month; quarterly register update and briefing; up to 2 new-case reviews per quarter; quarterly board report; response in 3 working days.
Scope and delivery by agreement
See what this package includes →Request this package →Standard
€4,000 / month · net
2 days a month; monthly briefing; up to 5 reviews per quarter; board attendance once a year; one literacy half-day a year; response in 2 working days.
Scope and delivery by agreement
See what this package includes →Request this package →Premium
€6,000 / month · net
3 days a month; monthly register update; alerts on your vendors; up to 10 reviews per quarter; board attendance; two literacy half-days; response in 1 working day.
Scope and delivery by agreement
See what this package includes →Request this package →Terms
Net prices, invoiced monthly in advance. Six-month minimum term, then monthly notice. Unused days carry over for one quarter; extra days €1,800. Board report within ten working days after quarter end; monthly time statement. Work starts after confirmed payment and complete agreed inputs.
Boundary
Ongoing governance support at your side. Accountability stays with your named AI owners, and legal and security specialists join where a case needs them.
Who is accountable for the result
Sten Franke
Founder & CEO
Sten Franke designs and builds AI systems, from model testing and cloud setup to the interfaces people use. He connects business decisions, software architecture and practical implementation.
AI architecture · Model testing · Cloud engineering · UX
His work spans programming, LLM evaluation, Google Cloud and AWS environments, and web applications built with Next.js and React. He connects business requirements, software architecture and practical implementation. Creator of the Good AI Prism, he brings market intelligence into AI decisions. Earlier, he created the Social Media Prisma, led a BVDW Social Media working group and contributed to its Social Media Kompass. His entrepreneurial work includes ethority, Gridpatrol and mediatime, following a practical foundation in electronics and industrial robotics.
sten@ethority.aiRead before you decide
What the retainer watches: ten AI ethics issues with legal dates.
AI rules move from documents into daily operation.
Why AI agents, tools and constant change move AI governance – the rules and responsibilities for AI – into the systems that run your AI every day.
See the map on one page →
Ten AI ethics issues now have legal dates.
The ten AI ethics issues of 2024 now each have a legal date, a measurable control or published evidence.
See the map on one page →
Global edition · EN
One model is not enough. Large enterprises already run three or more.
81% of large enterprises use three or more model families. Who builds AI models, what they cost, how long they last, and the rules by jurisdiction.
Version 1.5 · 38 pages
Open the study →Test your numbers first
The matching calculator is the AI Journey Planner, with the AI Act dates in your window; the Model Cost Estimator tracks retirements. All tools sit in the ETHORITY AI calculator suite.
AI Journey Planner
A plan from the first idea to scaling up, with milestones, owners, checkpoints and the EU AI Act dates in that period.
Pilot version · Scenario calculator
Open the calculator →Model Cost Estimator
Estimates the monthly cost of your workload on 17 AI models, with announced price changes and end-of-service dates.
Pilot version · Scenario calculator
Open the calculator →Prism Explorer
Free
A free first view of the market: segments, profiles and the Navigator, dated and sourced.
Research subscription · request directly
Open the Explorer →Questions buyers ask
What if we use fewer days than included?
Unused days carry over for one quarter.
Can we change package?
Yes, at the end of any month after the minimum term.
Who owns the register?
You do. The retainer keeps it current in the ETHORITY registry schema, and you can take it with you at any time.
Do we need a prior project?
It helps. Without a register, onboarding starts with taking stock, or with a sprint first.
How fast do you answer?
Within one, two or three working days, by package. Urgent incidents are escalated directly to Sten Franke.
Next step
Ask about the retainer in a 30-minute call. If you have no register yet, the AI Act Readiness Sprint builds the one the retainer keeps current.
ETHORITY · LONG READ
AI governance is not a project. It is a rhythm.
New models, new vendor terms and new guidance arrive every quarter. A governance system that is not maintained becomes a document about last year.
Governance projects end. AI does not. Within a quarter of a Governance Setup, a vendor will have changed its data terms, a model in use will have a retirement date, a business unit will want a new agent, and Brussels or Berlin will have issued new guidance. The AI Act Omnibus alone moved the main high-risk date to 2 December 2027 and changed the wording of the literacy duty.
The AI Governance Retainer turns that churn into a rhythm. Each quarter follows the same three weeks: register update with the AI owners, evidence check on policies, training records, labels and vendor documents, and a board report drafted with the sponsor. Between those, new AI cases arrive through the intake form and get a risk triage within the agreed response time.
The watch on vendors is where the registry pays off. ETHORITY's AI Universe already records thousands of dated changes to AI products, so tracking your vendors starts from a history rather than a blank page. When a model your system depends on announces a retirement date, the change appears in the next briefing with its source.
Continuity is the second reason to retain rather than re-hire. One senior adviser who knows your company, your register and your board's questions saves the cost of re-explaining everything to a new team each year. Unused days carry over for a quarter, and the monthly time statement shows where the time went.
The outcome is modest and important: a register that is true this quarter, a board that sees decisions in time, and evidence that would satisfy an auditor without a scramble. That is how governance closes the gap that agents open.
Sources and further reading
YOUR NEXT STEP
Discuss your question with Sten Franke.
Bring your business question or the figures you already know. ETHORITY investigates within the agreed scope; together with Sten Franke you agree the next piece of work.