Is AI under control, and can our board show it?
For board members and executives at regulated institutions and government entities in the GCC.
The question you are asked
iSystematic works with board members and executives at GCC institutions who are asked whether AI is under control, and whether the board can show it. Showing it takes records: who decided, on what evidence, and what has changed since.
Where most start
Most start with the AI Governance Teardown: a fixed-scope, fixed-fee, two-week examination of how your institution governs its AI and its models, scored against the MESA Framework™. It ends with a one-hour findings readout and a one-page board summary.
A different start fits a board that wants a briefing first: board and executive briefings are delivered as part of an engagement, not as a talk, so ask on the contact form. The approach for the region is set out on nabeelkhan.com.
What we deliver
The Teardown, and the briefings that sit inside an engagement.
AI Governance Teardown
Two weeks. A governance gap report, a remediation roadmap with owners and effort bands, a one-hour findings readout and a one-page board summary. Fixed fee, shared on a short call.
Board and executive briefings
Delivered inside an engagement, for the board that has to answer the question.
What the Teardown does not do
The Teardown is not a legal opinion, a penetration test or a model rebuild, and it attests nothing. The scope is your governance, not your models: policies, inventories, committee records, validation reports, vendor contracts and the decisions behind them.
What you hold at the end: a fictional sample
This fictional board briefing extract is for a fictional regulated institution in the GCC, after a Teardown.
| MESA altitude | What the board heard | Owner named |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory Floor | Each jurisdiction's AI rules are tracked, but no one owns the comparison across them | Chief compliance officer |
| Strategic Compass | The AI strategy names goals but sets no limit on what AI may decide alone | Chief executive |
| Operational Machinery | Approvals happen in committee, and the minutes do not record the evidence relied on | Company secretary |
| Technical Substrate | Two vendor models in production have no exit plan | Chief technology officer |
Fictional. A real briefing draws on the Teardown's gap report and remediation roadmap.
What it is built on
The Teardown scores your governance documents and up to eight stakeholder interviews against the fifty-question MESA instrument, across its four layers.
The frameworks behind every build are on How we build, and the full register is in the framework index.
Buying from us
Engagements are available to institutions in Saudi Arabia and across the GCC, delivered on site or remotely, in English or Arabic, and contracted through iSystematic Inc., a Canadian company.
They are led by Nabeel Khan personally, not staffed to a bench. In the Teardown, no production data leaves your environment, and working papers are held on encrypted systems in Canada.
Language
This page is in English. An Arabic summary is not yet available.
Start
Start with the Teardown, or ask for a conversation first.
Where to go next
AI Governance Teardown
The AI Governance Teardown is a fixed-scope, two-week examination of how your organisation governs its AI and its models, scored against the MESA Framework™.
Readiness
Two readiness routes from iSystematic: AI Governance Readiness and E-23 Readiness, each a free check on nabeelkhan.com followed by one fixed-fee paid diagnosis.
Training
iSystematic's enterprise training: the E-23 Practitioner Course, two days in house on your own systems, and board briefings delivered within an engagement.
How we build
How iSystematic builds: every solution uses the same deposited frameworks. See what each part decides, what the client keeps, and each specification's DOI.
Canadian financial institutions
Federally regulated financial institutions: take the free E-23 readiness check, then iSystematic's three-week E-23 Readiness Review, led by Nabeel Khan.
Conformance is self-declared; no regulator endorses this work.