AI Governance — for industrial mid-caps

From confusion
to strategy.

Two hours with your leadership team. A concrete map: what you have in-house, what you are exposed to, the opportunities you are missing.

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AI is already inside your company.
No oversight, no map, no one steering.

Systems scattered across departments. Data leaving with no trail. Opportunities that stay off the radar. All of it already in-house, all of it invisible from the leadership desk.

From

Confusion

Unseen risks
  • AI scattered across departments with no map
  • Data leaving with no tracking
  • The AI Act seen as a threat
Unseen opportunities
  • Processes that could be lightened
  • Decisions that could land sooner
  • People who could do higher-value work
Athena AI

The lens

We give you the lens to see what already exists inside the company — and what you could be running instead.

They reveal the risks They reveal the opportunities

And they give you the method to govern both.

To

Governing AI

Efficiency & technology

Lighter processes, faster decisions, people on higher-value work.

Law & accountability

EU AI Act, GDPR. Traceability, oversight, transparency.

Leadership decides. IT executes.

AI Act

The AI Act is not only for providers. It is also for those who deploy.

In the middle of all this: the EU AI Act. It assigns you operating duties no IT department can take in your place — human oversight, transparency, AI literacy. In force since February 2025. High-risk systems from 2 August 2026.

Art. 4

AI literacy

Anyone using an AI system must hold competence sufficient to supervise it.

In force since February 2025

Art. 14

Human oversight

For every high-risk system: a manager must be able to monitor, intervene, suspend.

Not optional

Art. 52

Transparency

Anyone interacting with an AI system has the right to know it.

Already in force

The offerings

Where you start, and how you keep going.

Offering 01 · Applies August 2026

AI Act Readiness Session

A measured regulatory position, before the deadline decides for you.

Regulatory frame
  • FEB 2025 AI literacy active (art. 4)
  • AUG 2026 Full applicability for high-risk systems
  • €35M Maximum penalty (or 7% of global turnover)
Deliverables
  • ›Inventory of AI systems in use (including shadow IT)
  • ›AI Act risk classification
  • ›Gap analysis on current and incoming duties
  • ›Prioritized plan in 3 concrete actions
  • ›Report delivered within 5 business days
Facilitator

Francesco De Sario — AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional, IAPP).
25 years inside industrial mid-caps.

Already chosen by mid-market industrial firms.

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Offering 02 · Continuous engagement

AI Governance Plan

A company's AI inventory decays within 90 days. This is the system that keeps it alive.

AI inventory · over the next 90 days
What it includes
  • ›Continuous PDCA cycle — Plan, Do, Check, Act
  • ›Always-current inventory (including shadow IT)
  • ›Recurring risk & opportunity analysis
  • ›Policies, procedures, standards of use
  • ›Mitigation plan and adoption plan
  • ›Monitoring and incident management
Where it sits

Downstream of the Readiness Session. Integrated with the AI Manager Lab.

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The method

Governance is not written. It is executed.

AI Governance is not a document you file away. It is an operating system in continuous execution — Deming's wheel. Systems change, data changes, opportunities change, rules change. A governance system that does not recalibrate stops working.

Plan

I identify the AI processes, their risks, and the untapped opportunities.

Do

I configure the systems with human oversight and traceability.

Check

I measure performance, audit behaviors, verify outcomes.

Act

I standardize what works, correct deviations, restart the cycle as new AI enters.

Each cycle yields a system that is more reliable, more transparent, more defensible — and more capable of catching what slipped through before.

By the end of the engagement

What you will have
in hand.

  1. 01

    A clear map of every AI system.

    With AI Act risk and business upside attached to each.

  2. 02

    Managers trained.

    To run AI-augmented processes with authority.

  3. 03

    One operating solution.

    At minimum, already in production.

  4. 04

    The autonomy to keep going.

    Without us.

Questions

What clients ask, often.

"We already have an IT department that handles this."

IT knows how to build. Athena teaches the leadership team to govern. Two different roles — and the EU AI Act requires both.

"We are not ready for AI."

No one feels ready. The work starts exactly here — from the real problem, not from the technology.

"It costs too much."

The Readiness Session is a contained investment. An AI Act fine starts at €35 million or 7% of global turnover. The session tells you exactly where you are exposed — and where you are leaving value on the table.

Next step

Do you know what AI is already doing inside your company? And what it could do?

In two hours we find out together. A concrete map, three priority actions, a clear direction — on risk and on opportunity.

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