Governance Built forOperators, Not Consultants
AI regulation has moved from draft to application: EU AI Act obligations are applying in phases, and GCC regulators expect evidence, not intentions. Starkguard gives organizations a self-service path — guided workflows, audit-ready evidence, and defensible documentation without hiring external advisors. AI Governance is available today; IT Audit and Business Continuity Management are in early access.
Deployers Deserve Better Than Spreadsheets
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 created a new category of obligation: the AI deployer. Organizations that use AI systems — not just those that build them — now face classification requirements, incident reporting duties, and human oversight mandates. Most don't have a dedicated governance team to handle this.
Starkguard was built for that gap. We translate Articles 14, 26, and 73 of the EU AI Act into guided workflows that a DPO, General Counsel, or compliance lead can operate without external help. The output isn't a report that sits in a drawer — it's attestation documents, evidence packages, and audit trails that hold up under scrutiny.
Three applications, one governance workspace
AI Governance, IT Audit and Business Continuity are separate applications with their own workflows. They run in the same workspace, with the same people, roles and audit trail.
Keep one register of the AI systems you build and buy, classify their risk, and assess them against the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OECD, KSA (SDAIA + PDPL) and UAE requirements. Incidents, human oversight decisions and policies are recorded alongside, so evidence is ready when someone asks for it.
What you can do
- AI system inventory with CSV and JSON bulk import
- Guided assessments across seven frameworks, with gap analysis
- Incident log, human oversight log and per-system evidence packages
- Policy templates, action plans and board-facing reports
Maintain an audit universe, run engagements with a defined scope and team, and build a risk and control matrix for each one. Record design and operating-effectiveness tests, turn exceptions into findings, and track findings through agreement and remediation to closure.
What you can do
- Audit universe of auditable entities with owners and risk ratings
- Engagements with scope, team and stages from planning to close; later stages are gated before they open
- Risk and control matrix, with design and operating-effectiveness testing
- Findings lifecycle and a printable engagement report
Record the business services that matter, run a versioned business impact analysis to set RTO, RPO, MTPD and MBCO, and see where a dependency cannot recover fast enough. Write continuity plans against each service, exercise them, and track the actions that come out.
What you can do
- Business services with criticality tiers and owners
- Versioned business impact analysis with RTO, RPO, MTPD and MBCO, and approval
- Dependency mapping that flags recovery conflicts before approval
- Versioned continuity plans and exercises with follow-up actions
Applications marked early access are working today and available to selected organizations while we finish them with early users. Request access and we will enable it for your workspace.
Every Article 26 Obligation, Covered
Purpose-built features for each deployer requirement in the EU AI Act
Principles, Not Buzzwords
What drives the product decisions behind Starkguard
Built Alongside the Regulation
We've tracked the EU AI Act since its draft stages and built features in lockstep with each application milestone
Foundation
Starkguard was founded to solve a specific problem: deployers of high-risk AI systems had no self-service path to EU AI Act compliance.
Platform Launch
Shipped NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act assessment workflows. Launched the Knowledge Engine, which guides assessments with questions, risks and guidance.
Deployer Toolkit
Added the full Article 26 compliance stack: incident logging (Art. 73), human oversight evidence (Art. 14), compliance attestation, evidence packages, and document vault.
From Platform to Suite
ISO 42001 assessments, KSA AI Governance (SDAIA + PDPL), and UAE AI Ethics frameworks launched for GCC market coverage, with the deployer toolkit in place as EU AI Act obligations continued to phase in. Starkguard expanded into a suite of three applications, with IT Audit and Business Continuity opening in early access.
Regulatory Expertise Meets Engineering
Our team combines regulatory compliance experience with production-grade software engineering. We've studied the EU AI Act article by article and built features that map directly to deployer obligations — because generic "governance platforms" don't cut it when a regulator asks for your Article 14 evidence.
The Regulation Is Applying. Your Evidence Should Be Too.
Assess, remediate, and evidence now. A 14-day free trial is enough to inventory your AI systems, run your first assessment, and see what audit-ready output looks like.