06Trust & Compliance
Trust, governance, and procurement readiness.
A posture defined before details are exchanged, documented throughout, and available for review at every stage of an engagement.
01Our posture
Four pillars of the PDSCOMM trust framework.
Confidentiality-first engagement posture
NDA availability where appropriate, defined information boundaries, and buyer-defined handling expectations established before sensitive detail is shared.
Institutional security & governance awareness
We reference frameworks and controls commonly requested in institutional contexts—NIST AI RMF, SOC 2-style controls, ISO 27001-style policies, GDPR and CCPA considerations—as alignment considerations, not certifications.
Vendor due diligence lens
Architecture, data flows, model monitoring, retention, support, SLAs, and vendor viability are examined as structured diligence dimensions.
Responsible AI principles
Bias considerations, explainability, audit trails, and human oversight where required are written into evaluation frameworks, not left implicit.
02Confidentiality
NDA-first. Always.
The default posture is protection. NDA availability where appropriate, defined information boundaries, and handling expectations confirmed per buyer—before requirements are shared.
Boundaries defined per engagement
What may be shared, retained, or referenced is agreed in writing before the first substantive exchange.
Buyer-defined handling expectations
We adapt to each institution's information handling and classification expectations—not the other way around.
Records under control
Engagement documentation is maintained with defined access, retention, and destruction expectations.
03Security & governance
Frameworks referenced as considerations—not claimed as certifications.
Institutional buyers commonly ask how we align with the frameworks their own environments already use. We engage with those frameworks as structuring references.
Framework
NIST AI RMF
Govern, map, measure, and manage—used as a structuring reference for diligence conversations.
Framework
SOC 2-style controls
Control descriptions in the style of SOC 2 reports are reviewed as documentation, where provided by vendors.
Framework
ISO 27001-style policies
Policy documentation in the style of ISO 27001 is treated as an alignment consideration.
Framework
GDPR / CCPA considerations
Data processing and residency expectations are examined against applicable privacy frameworks.
No certification, registration, or approval status is claimed or implied.
04Due diligence lens
What we examine in every vendor.
A structured diligence lens applied consistently—so assessments are comparable across candidates.
Architecture
System design, dependencies, and deployment topology.
Data flows
Ingestion, processing, storage, and return paths—with locations.
Model monitoring
Drift detection, retraining, and versioning practices.
Retention
Data retention, deletion, and ownership expectations.
Support & SLAs
Service levels, escalation, and continuity commitments.
Vendor viability
Commercial durability across the engagement horizon.
05Responsible AI
Principles written into the framework—not left implicit.
Bias considerations
Representation, evaluation, and fairness considerations are raised as part of every evaluation framework.
Explainability
Output transparency and decision rationale are examined where institutional accountability requires it.
Audit trail
Evaluation and reasoning documentation is structured so decisions can be reconstructed and reviewed.
Human oversight where required
The right level of human review is a design question—addressed per use case, never assumed away.
06Procurement support
Documentation that travels through procurement.
Structured artifacts designed for institutional review, sign-off, and filing.
Comparison frameworks
Structured side-by-side evaluation dimensions, documented and repeatable.
Requirement mapping
Traceability from stated requirements to vendor capability claims.
Risk & assumption logs
Living registers that make evaluation rationales visible to decision-makers.
Private briefing
Review our posture in confidence.
A secure, private briefing—NDA available where appropriate. Ask us anything about how we handle information, diligence, and accountability.