AI governance consulting for Boston companies: a register you can hand to anyone who asks.
I'm Yiannis Papastergiou, an independent AI consultant based in Thessaloniki, Greece, working with companies of roughly €1M+ revenue. I list every AI system you use, place each in a risk tier and write the controls around it. I have no Boston office, team or clients; the work is remote from Greece, and it is not legal advice.
AI governance · Boston · Remote from Greece
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What does AI governance consulting in Boston involve?
AI governance consulting in Boston means listing every AI system your company uses, placing each in a risk tier, and writing the policies and controls around them, so you have something to hand a customer, a regulator or your board. I do this remotely from Greece in three to six weeks, as an add-on at any step. It is a working record, not legal advice.
The short answer
Why would a Boston company be asked to prove its AI is governed?
Boston is dense with the kinds of organisations that ask suppliers detailed questions: hospitals, labs, universities and financial firms. The City of Boston's 2025 industry profile counts about 1,569 healthcare and life sciences establishments employing 146,189 workers, 22% of the city's employment. If you sell to organisations like these, a questionnaire about how you use AI is a reasonable thing to expect.
Most mid-sized companies can answer it from memory for the one tool they chose and cannot answer it for the rest: the assistant a team adopted last spring, the screening feature inside the hiring software, the note-taker someone switched on. The gap is not intent. It is that nobody has written the list.
You cannot govern what is not on a list.
That points to the register first, and the policies second.
The problem
Who could ask a Boston company to show its AI records, and what would they want?
These are four possible askers, not reports of what any particular Boston buyer requires. What each would want is a reasonable guess from the kind of question they ask.
Which AI tools touch our data or our people, who owns each one, and what happens when it is wrong.
A hospital or lab you supply
Where AI is used in the service you provide, how it is checked, and who signs it off.
A bank or investment firm you serve
Whether an AI tool helped screen or assess them, and whether a person reviewed the outcome.
A job applicant or employee
Whether what you told customers about your AI was accurate, and whether it was tested for bias and security.
The Massachusetts Attorney General
One register answers all four, shown in different cuts.
Who might ask
Which rules and frameworks should a Boston company check first?
I am not a lawyer, so treat this as a list of questions for yours. I could confirm the following in the sources named.
Massachusetts Attorney General advisory: on 16 April 2024 the AG issued an advisory saying existing consumer protection, anti-discrimination and data security laws apply to artificial intelligence. Among the practices it lists as possibly unfair or deceptive is misrepresenting an AI system's reliability (Mass.gov press release).
NIST AI Risk Management Framework: published on 26 January 2023, it is described by NIST as guidance for voluntary use by organisations that design, develop, deploy or use AI systems, of any sector and size. Its four core functions are govern, map, measure and manage (NIST). It is not a legal requirement, but it is a common vocabulary for what a register and a set of controls should cover.
EU AI Act, if you have EU customers: the AI Omnibus was published on 24 July 2026 as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 and entered into force on 27 July 2026. Stand-alone high-risk obligations now apply from 2 December 2027, and AI that is a safety component of regulated products, such as medical devices or machinery, from 2 August 2028 (White & Case). Whether the Act reaches a Boston company depends on how its AI is used in the EU, and I have not verified that here, so ask your counsel.
Massachusetts privacy law is still pending. As of a Foley Hoag article dated 17 June 2026, no comprehensive privacy law had been enacted, and the House and Senate bills differ. Check the current status before you plan around either.
What applies
A Boston law firm, a Big Four team, governance software or a remote independent?
Option
Fits when
Watch for
Plan, from €1,500, can come first if you are not sure governance is the right first step.
Law firm
You need a legal opinion on a specific rule
An opinion is not an inventory of what your teams actually use
Big Four or large consultancy
A large, multi-entity program with a big budget
Ask who does the work and what you hold at the end
Governance software
You already know your systems and need tracking
A tool is empty until someone fills the register
Remote independent, me
A mid-sized company that needs the register and controls written once
I am remote from Greece, with no Boston presence, and I am not a law firm
Four ways to get AI governance in place, and what each asks of you.
Options compared
Who is the AI governance consultant behind this page?
You deal with the person who writes the register.
As Product Owner at Natech I led its anti-money-laundering software from desktop to a modern web platform. Regulated buyers ask about controls first, and so do I.
Regulated fintech
At Companies House, the UK's official business registry, I worked on the systems behind millions of searches and filings every year, and was security and quality champion.
Software that must not break
For Bronzed Studio I automated the Instagram booking flow, and the owner got back at least 10 hours a week.
A small example
I have no Boston clients yet, so judge my thinking on the free AI Growth GPS before you spend anything.
Who does the work
Where does governance fit among the other services?
What governance is not: legal advice, a certification, a decision for a regulator, or a change to your AI systems. It covers the ones you already use.
Governance can be added at any step: inside Plan before a build, alongside Run, under Own, or by itself when a customer is already asking.
Where you stand, and a verdict.
AI Readiness Assessment
What is worth building, in order.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
Plan
A system that does the job.
AI Agents & Custom AI Solutions
Repetitive workflows, measured in hours back.
Automation
Run
An owner for AI, embedded.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Own
For your business
How does remote AI governance consulting work for a Boston company?
Athens is 7 hours ahead of Boston (24timezones.com converter), so a call at 9 to 11 in the morning for you is 4 to 6 in the evening for me. The gap can shift by an hour for a short stretch when the clocks change on different dates. I do not travel to Boston for this work.
The register alone is ready at week three.
Weeks 1–2 · Inventory
Point me to every AI system in use and the people who use it. I list them all.
Each system with a tier and a required control.
Week 3 · Classification
You tell me what each system is used for; I place each in its risk tier.
Documentation kept in one place, ready to show.
Weeks 4–5 · The framework
I write the policies, the controls and the documentation, with a named owner for each control.
The decisions your board needs to make.
Week 6 · Board briefing
I brief your board on where AI is used, the tiers, the owners and the gaps.
What you get, and when
Questions Boston companies ask about AI governance consulting
A fixed investment, quoted in your Plan. The only figure I print on this page is Plan, from €1,500, with a seven-day refund. Everything built stays yours.
What is the investment for AI governance consulting in Boston?
Three weeks for the register alone and six weeks for the full set: inventory, classification, framework and board briefing. Governance is an add-on that can sit inside Plan, alongside Run or under Own.
How long does it take?
No. I am based in Thessaloniki, Greece, and all work for Boston companies is remote. I have no Boston office, no local team and no Boston clients yet. If you want a team in your office, a local firm is the better fit.
Do you have a Boston office or Boston clients?
No. I am not a lawyer. The register and framework give you something to put in front of a customer, a regulator or your board. They do not prove that any law is met, and how a regulator rules is the regulator's call.
Is this legal advice or a certification?
It is voluntary guidance, not a requirement. It is a useful vocabulary for what a register and controls should cover, and I can organise the framework around its four functions if your buyers use it. Whether a buyer requires it is for them to say.
Does the NIST AI Risk Management Framework apply to us?
It can, depending on how your AI is used in the EU. I have not verified how its territorial reach applies to a company like yours, so ask your counsel. The high-risk dates in the sources named above are 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028.
Does the EU AI Act apply to a Boston company?
Then not yet. The inventory would be empty. If you are unsure, start with the free AI Growth GPS, which takes 3–5 minutes.
What if we do not use AI yet?
Yes. Start with the free AI Growth GPS. If you want to decide what to do first, Plan is from €1,500. Each step ends with something you keep, and none is a condition of the next.
Can I start without commissioning governance?
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