TRA Consulting · AI Governance

COMPASS

Navigate AI with Confidence.

A five-pillar framework that brings your organization's AI use under policy, technical control, and audit — before an unmanaged tool becomes a liability nobody saw coming.

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The Problem

Your employees are already using AI.


ChatGPT. Copilot. Gemini. Whether it's sanctioned or not, someone in your organization is uploading client data, entering proprietary information, and making real business decisions with tools you haven't authorized and can't audit right now.

When something goes wrong, you'll have no policy, no records, and no defense. The AI wild west is already happening inside your company.

The Solution

A five-pillar AI governance framework.


01

Policy

A custom, WISP-aligned generative-AI acceptable-use policy — which tools are permitted, what can never be entered (PII, CUI, trade secrets), and clear consequences for violations.

02

Integration

Built into your employee handbook and onboarding, not left as a standalone PDF nobody reads — plus a briefing for leadership so the policy carries weight from the top down.

03

Control

Application whitelisting (e.g., ThreatLocker) to see which AI tools are actually running in your environment, and lock down what isn't approved before it causes damage.

04

Education

One-on-one or group sessions covering the policy, the approved tools, and what IP, PII, and CUI actually mean in practice — not just a signature on a form.

05

Audit

A defined retention period for prompt activity, creating a real audit trail for compliance reporting, incident investigation, and due diligence — documentation that protects you.

Why COMPASS

A framework, not a ban.


Reduces legal, regulatory, and reputational risk from unauthorized AI use.

Creates audit-defensible documentation: policies, signed acknowledgments, activity logs.

Enables productive AI adoption within clear guardrails, instead of a blanket ban nobody follows.

Done for you: TRA handles the policy, the technology, the training, and the audit.

Built by the practitioners behind TRA Consulting's compliance work — 25+ years in the field, already trusted for NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 engagements across Southern California and the Baja region.

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