Four experts in risk, foresight, strategy, and AI governance — working alongside your team. One shared intelligence layer. A network that gets smarter as it grows.
Confidential — 2026
Governance processes are designed around compliance, not the people doing the work. Forms nobody reads, reviews nobody prepares for, registers that exist to satisfy auditors.
Risk lives in one spreadsheet. Strategy in another. Foresight happens in a workshop once a year. AI use isn't tracked at all. Nothing links to anything else.
Every organisation governs alone. No way to know how you compare, what's emerging across your industry, or which practices actually work.
Directors have a duty of care and diligence. But most boards rely on curated management reports, periodic attestations, and their own judgment about whether what they're being told is complete.
Risks that haven't been reviewed, controls that haven't been tested, strategic commitments that aren't being executed — the board doesn't know what it doesn't know.
AI is being used across the organisation. Directors are increasingly expected to understand how and what risks it introduces. Most boards currently have no visibility into this at all.
Automated reporting, connected data, and intelligent attention routing eliminate the manual work of compiling board packs, chasing updates, and maintaining spreadsheets.
Drift detection, anomaly flagging, and network-wide emerging risk signals surface threats before they escalate — not at the next quarterly review.
Objectives linked to risks, resources, and external signals. Leadership sees whether the organisation is executing on what it set out to achieve.
Every assessment, decision, and escalation is recorded with a full audit trail. If a regulator or court asks what the board knew, there's a clear, timestamped answer.
Board reporting drawn from live data — not manually compiled, not weeks old, not filtered through management narrative. Directors see what's actually happening.
Employees use AI confidently with proportionate guidance. The board gets a clear picture of AI use, associated risks, and safeguards in place — without requiring technical expertise.
Alongside gives you a team of specialists — in risk, foresight, strategy, and AI governance — who work alongside your people. Each is an expert in their field. Use one, use two, use all four — the value compounds, but it starts with one.
Your risk & assurance expert
Your foresight expert
Your strategy expert
Your AI governance expert
Barbara is your risk and assurance expert. She helps organisations identify, assess, manage, and prove they're managing risk — from registers to controls, compliance obligations to audit. Assessment criteria, scoring definitions, and appetite thresholds are embedded in the interaction, not in a document the user has to find.
"Tell Barbara what concerns you."
— conversational or structured, both routes welcome
Nancy is your foresight expert. She monitors the external environment and helps leadership think through what it means — filtering information through the lens of what actually matters to the organisation and surfacing only what is relevant.
"What's happening out there, and what does it mean for us?"
— the question Nancy answers every day
Frank is your strategy expert. He tracks strategic objectives, measures progress, manages initiatives, governs significant change, and gives leadership clear visibility into whether the organisation is focused on the right things. Frank is frank — he surfaces what others might avoid saying.
"Are we focused on the right things, and are we making progress?"
— the question Frank answers honestly
Barry is your AI governance expert. He helps people use AI safely and gives the organisation visibility into how AI is being used — a conversational advisor, not a compliance system, monitoring tool, or approval gateway.
"Tell Barry what you're planning."
— the only instruction anyone needs
Each tool is complete on its own. When used together, the connections activate and the value compounds.
The Alongside Network is opt-in, anonymised, and gets smarter as more organisations participate.
| Trust Principle | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Opt-in at every level | Organisations control which tools contribute and which metrics are shared. Opting out removes all network features. |
| Minimum cohort of 20 | Benchmarks only generated when 20+ organisations exist in a segment. Enforced architecturally, not by policy. |
| Aggregate only | Distributions, medians, and trends. Never individual data points. |
| Contribute to receive | Organisations that share anonymised data receive benchmarks. Those that don't, don't. |
| Architectural separation | The network aggregation service is isolated from per-organisation data. Anonymisation enforced by architecture. |
Each tool solves a real problem on its own. Start wherever the need is greatest. As you add tools, connections activate automatically.