INDEPENDENT AI GOVERNANCE AUDIT · UK

An AI audit with nothing to sell you.

Mise gives organisations an honest, independent read on AI: where it's creating risk, where it's creating opportunity — and where the right answer is to do nothing. Led by real compliance expertise. Glad to help you act on what we find.

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No funnel. No quiz. A conversation with a founder.

THE PROBLEM

AI advice has a trust problem.

BSI, the UK standards body, has described the AI-audit market as a "wild west" of unaccredited providers. Too many "audits" are a sales pitch with a clipboard: the findings are written before the discovery starts, and the recommendation is always whatever the auditor happens to sell.

  • We don't know what we don't know about AI risk.
  • Where would AI actually help us — and where is it just hype?
  • Could we prove to our board or funder that we're doing this properly?
  • Are we already exposed and haven't noticed?
  • Who actually owns this internally?

If any of those sound familiar, you're who we built this for.

THE AUDIT

One engagement. Three answers you can stand behind.

A fixed-scope, independent AI governance audit of how your organisation actually works. We map three things:

RISK

Where AI is creating risk.

The exposure you haven't seen yet — data, compliance, reputation — read through a genuine risk-and-compliance lens, and aligned with where the EU AI Act and UK guidance are heading.

OPPORTUNITY

Where AI could genuinely help.

The repeatable, manual work quietly costing you time and money — named as opportunities, with our reasoning shown, not as prescriptions for a tool we'd like to sell you.

LEAVE ALONE

What deserves to be left alone.

Sometimes the honest finding is: do nothing here. You'll get that answer too.

FINDING 07

Illustrative example — not a client finding

Your customer-enquiry triage is a strong automation candidate — but not yet. Your current data-retention practice would put any AI tool on the wrong side of your own privacy policy. Fix the policy first (roughly two weeks, handled internally), then automate.

  • Risk
  • Opportunity
  • Do this first

This is how findings read: plain English, both directions, reasoning shown.

Inside every finding

  1. 1What we found
  2. 2Why it matters
  3. 3Recommended actions
  4. 4Impact if left unaddressed

HOW WE WORK

Discovery, not solutioning.

  1. Understand.

    We spend real time in your business first — how work actually flows, where friction lives, who does what. No AI talk until we've earned an opinion.

  2. Map.

    Risk and opportunity, side by side, in plain English. Every claim labelled: what's evidenced, what's estimated, what's our judgement.

  3. Report.

    Findings written for the person who has to defend them — to a board, a regulator, a funder. Clear enough to act on. Honest enough to stand behind.

Our recommendations aren't shaped by what we sell.

The audit has no predetermined outcome. We might tell you to do nothing. We might tell you someone else is better placed to build the fix. And if you'd like our help acting on what we find, we'd genuinely welcome that conversation — you'll just know it started with an honest read of your business, not a foregone conclusion.

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for organisations that answer to someone.

A board. A regulator. A funder. A membership body. If you're accountable to people who will ask "how is AI being governed here?", it seemed fine isn't an answer you can give. We write the answer you can.

  • Charities & nonprofits
  • Member organisations & livery companies
  • Regulated SMEs & mid-market firms
  • Professional services

WHY NOW

The regulatory moment is real. We won't dramatise it.

The EU AI Act's main remaining obligations apply from 2 August 2026, and UK guidance is tightening through the same period. If your organisation touches the EU — or answers to anyone who cares about good governance — the questions are coming. That's a date, not a scare tactic. Calm preparation beats panicked compliance.

FOUNDERS

Two founders. One promise: no masks.

We both left corporate environments for the same reason — we wanted to help people without performing. What you see is what we are.

Kwaku Kyei-Manu

Kwaku Kyei-Manu

Compliance & risk

Enterprise risk and compliance background across financial services, technology and regulation. The credential behind every risk finding — and the translator between technical detail and the people accountable for it.

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Harrison Jones

Harrison Jones

Product & discovery

Fifteen years in construction and property, then product design. Leads the discovery work: understanding how your business actually runs before anyone mentions AI.

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No testimonials yet — we're new, and we won't invent any. Until our first clients can speak for us, our method and our credentials are the trust signal. We think that's how it should work.

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes with a founder. We'll tell you honestly whether an audit is even the right next step — and if it isn't, we'll say so.

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harrisonjonesdesign@gmail.com — a real person replies.