Know exactly where you stand on AI governance — before your next audit does.
A 90-minute facilitated assessment that turns a vague compliance worry into a board-ready gap analysis and a prioritized roadmap. Delivered in a week. $2,500 — credited in full toward your subscription.
Request Your Assessment — $2,500No payment until we confirm scope. You keep the report either way.
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The Problem
Your staff is already using AI tools you haven't approved.
78% of knowledge workers use AI tools at work — most with no agency policy or oversight. The question isn't whether it's happening. It's whether you can prove you've got it under control.
Shadow AI is already live
ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude are in use across departments — with no inventory, no risk tiering, and no audit trail.
No policy governs it
Staff paste sensitive data into tools you haven't vetted. There's no acceptable-use policy and no acknowledgement tracking.
The window is closing
NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and state mandates (CA, CO, TX) are raising the bar. Waiting means retroactive compliance gaps.
How it works
From request to board-ready report in one week.
Request
Share your context in 2 minutes. Mac reviews it personally before the session.
Schedule
Book the 90-minute working session — typically within 5 business days.
Facilitated session
We score your real systems against NIST AI RMF together — a diagnosis, not a quiz.
Board-ready report
Maturity score, gap heatmap, and prioritized roadmap delivered within 5 days.
What you get
A diagnosis and a roadmap — not a checkbox quiz.
90-min Facilitated Session
We interrogate the answers against your real systems — not a checkbox quiz you fill in alone.
Board-Ready Report
A branded deliverable: maturity score, gap heatmap, and NIST AI RMF citations your leadership and auditors recognize.
Prioritized Roadmap
A remediation plan sequenced by impact and effort — mapped to your tools, owners, and timeline.
Credits to Subscription
The $2,500 applies in full toward APEX AI Guardrails if you proceed. Paid discovery, not a sunk cost.
APEX AI Guardrails
Readiness Assessment
2.2
/ 5.0
Overall Maturity
Developing
Significant gaps vs. NIST target
Top Prioritized Gaps
Why $2,500
The cheap option that pays for itself.
A traditional AI governance gap assessment runs $10,000–$30,000 and takes 4–6 weeks. Ours is $2,500, delivered in a week, and the fee credits toward your subscription.
$10–30K
Typical consultancy
4–6 weeks
$2,500
Our assessment
~1 week
100%
Credited to
your subscription
Who's behind this
A specialist, not a generalist.
Mac McKoy
Founder, APEX AI Guardrails
Mac works exclusively with state, county, and city agencies on NIST AI RMF readiness. He built APEX AI Guardrails to turn a 78-hour manual compliance process into a structured 12-phase program — and the Readiness Assessment is the fastest on-ramp to it.
“I don't sell software first. I sell certainty — a clear, defensible picture of where you stand and what to fix next. The $2,500 isn't a fee; it's your first payment toward a governed AI program.”
Questions
Before you request
No. That’s the whole point. A questionnaire gives you data; a facilitated session gives you a diagnosis. We spend 90 minutes interrogating your real systems and staff practices against NIST AI RMF — then turn that into a board-ready report and roadmap.
Request Your Facilitated Assessment
Mac McKoy will personally reach out within one business day to schedule your session.
No payment until we confirm scope. You keep the report and roadmap either way.
Not ready to book?
Run the free self-serve Governance Readiness Scorecard — same six NIST AI RMF domains, instant score, no commitment.
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