Your partner for AI adoption
Adopt AI safely. Scale it with confidence. Make it pay.
Independent AI governance that keeps you secure, compliant and in control of cost, on 90-day terms. We take you from first use to real return, proving each step in your own business before you commit to the next.
AI is already in your business. The control and the returns usually aren't.
AI has democratised the business the way cloud democratised infrastructure, but without the gatekeepers. Risk follows the activity: onto the laptop and into everyday tools.
7%
of UK organisations using AI have fully embedded governance in place, while 93% are already using it.
Trustmarque, AI Governance Index 2025
Where are you starting from?
Whatever your AI strategy, the same questions need answering.
Most organisations recognise themselves in one or more of these. Each needs visibility, control, evidence and cost control, and no platform vendor will give you that independently.
First step: free proof of concept, then AI Estate Discovery
We haven't approved AI yet
“People are using it anyway, on personal accounts and free tools.”
The risk: Company data in tools nobody has vetted, and no inventory to defend. Blocking AI rarely works; people route around it. Governing it does.
First step: AI Estate Discovery and Cost Review
We're Microsoft-first
“Copilot is rolling out and agents are next.”
The risk: Oversharing through Copilot, premium features reaching unlicensed users, and metered agent spend.
First step: AI and Technology Cost Review
We use several AI platforms
“ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini alongside Microsoft 365.”
The risk: Spend spread across teams, overlapping tools and no single policy.
First step: free proof of concept, then Protect
Our teams are building with AI
“Developers use coding agents, MCP connectors and model APIs.”
The risk: Agents and skills that read API keys from config files and inherit access to every system those keys unlock.
First step: AI and Technology Cost Review
AI arrived inside our existing software
“Salesforce, ServiceNow and other SaaS tools have switched AI features on.”
The risk: Features on by default, data flowing to new places, and licensing that changes at renewal.
First step: AI Estate Discovery
We've been asked for evidence
“An auditor, insurer, customer or the board wants to know how AI is controlled.”
The risk: No inventory, no policy trail, and a vendor keen to sell you the answer.
In every case the answer starts the same way: find out what is really running, control what matters, prove it to your board, and make the spend accountable. Independently, and on 90-day terms.
Your AI estate
Every vendor governs its own layer. Nobody governs the whole estate.
AI now runs across devices, platforms, business apps, connectors, identity and licences, bought from dozens of vendors. Stage 1 maps all of it, so every decision is made on the whole picture, and the licensing is right before rollout, not after an audit.
Orange marks where risk usually sits. Discovery covers every layer; our discovery platform covers people and devices continuously.
The journey
From first use to real return, in four stages.
Start wherever you are. Each stage has a clear outcome, and you can see it in your own business before moving on.
Adopt safely
Use AI without exposing the business.
We map your whole AI estate: the tools people use, the platforms and apps with AI built in, and the licences behind them. Then we grade the risk and put the right controls and policy in place.
Operate reliably
Know when AI isn't doing what it should.
Every agent gets an owner and clear expectations. We monitor behaviour and access, and respond fast when something goes wrong.
Scale confidently
Grow AI use without growing the risk.
Technology choices proven before you commit and independent of any vendor's agenda, access that scales with your agents, and a framework your board and auditors trust.
Realise the value
Make AI pay for itself.
We close licensing gaps before an audit finds them, remove overlapping tools and unused licences, cap metered AI spend, and track what AI returns against what it costs.
How we work
Never decide once.
AI changes too fast for long commitments. Every stage, and every technology we recommend, runs on 90-day terms. If it isn't delivering, we change it or you walk away.
And we start with the tools you already own: your security platforms, your identity system, your licences. No wholesale upgrade required.
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Agree what to prove
A fixed scope and fee for what the next 90 days must show.
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Prove it in your business
Live in your own environment within days, measured against your real risk and spend.
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Decide at day 90
Continue, change course or stop. No penalty either way.
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Move to the next stage
Build on what has been proven, and realign what hasn't.
In practice
What our discovery platform finds.
145
poisoned agent skills caught at install; none reached production.
Financial services
9
installs of an unvetted MCP server wired into HR records, blocked.
Manufacturing
4 hrs
to produce the quarterly AI risk board report, previously two weeks.
Banking
Results reported by customers of our discovery platform.
Where to start
One route in, two first questions.
Start free with a one-week proof of concept on a pilot group of devices, then choose the first question you most need answered.
- 1Discovery call
- 2Free one-week proof of concept
- 3AI Estate Discovery or Cost Review
- 490 days to prove it
- 5Ongoing: Govern, Protect or Monitor
Stage 1 focus · 5 to 10 days
AI Estate Discovery
“What AI is running across our estate, what does it commit us to, and could we defend it?”
A map of your AI estate, from the tools on people's devices to the platforms, business apps and licences behind them, graded for risk and mapped against the main AI governance frameworks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001).
Stage 4 focus · 2 to 3 weeks · useful at any point
AI and Technology Cost Review
“Are we getting value from what we pay for, and are we licensed for what we use?”
Overlapping tools, unused licences, licence compliance gaps and ungoverned AI spend identified, with the savings and exposure quantified.
Already know what you need? We also provide fractional CISO leadership and scoped delivery at any stage, on the same 90-day terms.
Who you work with
AI adoption, built on cyber discipline.
Peruze is led by two founders who have each built and exited a cyber security business, so the conversation happens at leadership level, about business outcomes.
Ian Turnbull, Founder and CEO
Scaled a managed security business to more than £20M revenue after acquisition and launched one of the UK's first fully managed next-generation SOCs.
Chris Gough, Founder and COO
Founded and led a technology optimisation business, delivering IT asset management, vendor negotiation and cost optimisation, through its acquisition by a private equity-backed consolidator. Later COO of a cyber security business. 30 years in IT; works as a fractional CISO.
Where are you on the journey?
A 30-minute conversation to find your starting point. No pitch.