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Advisory services, backed by a knowledge base.

Prodago is experts in data and AI governance, and a knowledge base those experts built over twelve years. Every service we deliver starts from it, not from a blank page. That is why we deliver more, faster, and at a lower cost than a team that starts from scratch.

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Why

Why our services deliver more, faster

Three things, working together on every engagement.

Experts

Experts

Practitioners of data governance and data management, AI governance, privacy, security and regulatory interpretation, with deep experience of the Canadian federal and Québec public sectors, financial services and the Gulf. Two-time Gartner Cool Vendor.

  • Data governance and DCAM / DMBOK
  • AI governance and responsible AI
  • Privacy (Law 25, PIPEDA, GDPR, PDPL)
  • Security and cyber frameworks
  • Regulatory interpretation
  • Public sector, financial services
Knowledge base

Knowledge base

The accumulated, structured practice: 3,000+ operational practices, the interpretation of 300+ laws, standards and best practices into requirements, 1,100+ artefact and evidence templates, and validation instructions for each piece of evidence. Reusable on every engagement.

  • 3,000+ operational practices
  • 300+ laws and standards interpreted
  • 1,100+ artefact and evidence templates
  • Validation instructions per evidence
  • Roles and responsibilities per control
Platform

Platform

Where the knowledge base becomes work done. Our experts use it from the first day of an engagement, so that what would be a deliverable in a binder is a configured, running governance practice. When the engagement ends, you keep it.

  • Used by our experts from day one
  • Configured to your framework, not ours
  • Stays with you after the engagement
  • Bilingual, English and French

Same experts. A knowledge base instead of a blank page. That is the difference in speed and cost.

Services

Services

Each service uses the knowledge base and the platform. Each one is described by what it uses and what it changes for you.

1

Custom playbooks

We turn your own policies, directives and frameworks into playbooks: statements, requirements, operational accountabilities, quantifiable controls, evidence and validations.

What it uses

Your text, decomposed with the same method as the 300+ instruments already in the knowledge base, and mapped to the shared operational practices.

What it changes for you
  • Clarifies operational accountabilities on your internal policies
  • Defines quantifiable governance controls and evidence
  • Days to model, not months
2

Policy creation

We draft new policies and standards, for data quality management, metadata, AI use, privacy or security, starting from the operational practices that already exist.

What it uses

3,000+ operational practices from the knowledge base, already aligned with the regulations and standards your policy must answer.

What it changes for you
  • Reduces the cost and drafting time of internal policies
  • Reduces dependency on external expertise
  • Policies born aligned with external requirements
3

Policy optimization

We compare your policies and frameworks with each other and with the regulations that apply to you, identify gaps and overlaps, and make sure every regulatory requirement is covered.

What it uses

Playbook-to-playbook comparison in the platform: coverage of regulatory requirements, duplicated controls, missing evidence.

What it changes for you
  • Reduces the cost and delay to align internal policies with external regulations
  • Reduces overlaps between frameworks and policies
  • Removes duplicated effort across functions
4

Governance by design in projects

We configure the playbooks so that governance requirements are identified automatically in each project and evidence is submitted at each gate, without a governance team in the loop of every project.

What it uses

The questionnaire, the governance plan generator and the evidence templates, configured to your framework and your project lifecycle.

What it changes for you
  • Brings governance into business processes and projects at scale
  • Works in contexts of limited resources
  • Nothing rediscovered from one project to the next
5

AI governance program

We set up the governance of AI across your organization: predefined AI playbooks, use case selection, risk profiles, the facets to orchestrate (data quality, metadata, lineage, security, privacy, bias, human oversight) and the tools you already own.

What it uses

Predefined AI playbooks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, TBS directives, OSFI, NDMO and more) and the use case selection framework.

What it changes for you
  • Fast-tracks maturity in AI governance
  • Orchestrates every facet required to govern AI
  • Orchestrates the technologies involved (OneTrust, Collibra, Informatica, office tools)
  • Scales AI governance literacy: what must be done, by whom
6

Automated evidence assessment

We set up the automated assessment of evidence against governance requirements, with scoring, for project teams, for the second line and for audit.

What it uses

The validation instructions attached to each piece of evidence in the knowledge base, executed by the platform against your documents.

What it changes for you
  • Accelerates decision making and removes review bottlenecks
  • Does more in contexts of limited resources
  • Improves the efficiency of risk and audit management
7

DCAM accelerator

We import your DCAM assessment results, explain each score with evidence, and build the action plan that raises maturity, for data quality management or any other capability. Delivered with the EDM Council partnership.

What it uses

DCAM 2.2.1 and 3.1 modeled in the knowledge base, with their rubric, evidence and operational practices.

What it changes for you
  • Creates the action plan to improve data management maturity
  • Explains every score with evidence
  • The next assessment measures progress instead of starting over
Engagement

How an engagement works

Service first, platform to scale. Two steps, one knowledge base.

1 · Start with a real issue

A policy to write, a framework to adopt, a backlog of evidence to review, an AI portfolio to prioritize, a DCAM score to raise. Our experts take it on, with the knowledge base and the platform, and resolve it.

2 · Keep what was built

Everything the engagement produced stays in the platform: the playbooks, the templates, the validations, the roles. Your teams use it for the next initiative without us.

3 · Scale

The same automation applied to every project, every policy, every review. Governance that grows with your AI ambition, not with your headcount.

Method

How we work

Evidence first

Trust comes from evidence. Every assessment we deliver, every gate we define, rests on documents, attestations and validations, not on opinions.

From the source text

Our playbooks are built from the regulation, the standard or the policy itself, statement by statement. Every requirement traces back to where it comes from.

Bilingual by design

Platform and content in English and French, for Canadian federal and Québec organizations, and for every client who works in both.

Proportionate

The required level of control, not the maximum. Governance sized to the initiative and its risks.

Two-time Gartner Cool Vendor (2016, 2020), recognized among the most innovative firms in data and AI governance. Partner of the EDM Council for automated DCAM assessments.
Contact

Contact

Montréal, Québec, Canada · info@prodago.com

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