Specific, not generic.
We name the regulator, the article, and the deadline. We never talk about “regulators” in the abstract.
Our story
Cosaint. Irish for protection.
cosantio is the AI governance company for small and medium firms in regulated industries. Our first focus is the obligation bearing down on them right now: the EU AI Act. But the real job is the one underneath every regime: know what AI you run, govern it, and be able to prove it. The kind of protection given by a guardian, not a guard, with a named person on the line when the audit lands.
Why cosantio exists
Cosaint is the Irish word for protection: the kind given by a guardian, not a guard.
We took it because the firms most exposed to AI regulation, small and medium enterprises in highly regulated industries like insurance, financial services, and employment, are often the firms least equipped to deal with it. They don't have AI ethics committees. They don't have model-risk teams. The person carrying it might be a Head of Risk and Compliance who already owns three other regimes, or the managing director, or the one operations or HR lead who “does compliance” alongside everything else, with a board meeting next month and deadlines closing in.
cosantio is built for them. Today that means the EU AI Act: we turn it, and the regimes that sit beside it like GDPR and DORA, into a workflow a small firm can actually run, in weeks, at prices that fit, with a named person on the line when the audit lands. As governance expectations grow, from the Act through to standards like ISO 42001, we intend to grow with them, so a firm has one place to manage AI governance rather than a fresh scramble each time.
We are not building an enterprise AI governance suite. We are building the protection smaller firms didn't think they could afford.
Our principles
What we stand for, and what we don't.
Our principles and values as a company are important to us. The same principles run through the platform, the Scorecard, and the person who picks up when you call.
Calm, not alarmist.
We are the opposite of the AI-doom vendors. Confidence comes from clarity, not from urgency.
Practical, not theoretical.
We don't sell responsible-AI frameworks. We produce the artefacts an auditor actually asks for.
Local-rooted, EU-fluent.
Irish heritage, EU regulatory native, UK-adjacent. Never mid-Atlantic, never US-English.
Protecting, not lecturing.
We are on your side of the table. We are here to protect you, not to judge you.
A person, not just a platform.
There is always a named human attached. The software never stands alone in front of you.
Evidence, not frameworks
A named person, and a paper trail.
Enterprise governance platforms are priced for the FTSE 100 and built for AI ethics committees. cosantio gets a small or medium firm from “what AI are we even using?” to audit-ready in weeks, for the cost of a Big-4 scoping call.
When the audit lands, you don't get a dashboard login. You get a person who knows your file. That part is structural; the platform never stands alone in front of you.
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