Governance. Accountability. Performance.

Your AI vendors are moving faster than your governance.

Procurement is approving AI tools nobody has assessed. Legal is fielding AI clauses no playbook covers. And the TPRM program was built for SaaS — not for models that change under you after signature. Clarevon governs the AI inside your vendor relationships: the questions, the risks, the contracts, and the monitoring.

One AI vendor, torn down. Written memo + executive readout. Findings in days.

70%of vendor management functions are not fully matureDeloitte Global Outsourcing Survey, 2024
Up to 9%of annual revenue eroded by poor vendor managementWorldCC / McKinsey
83%of executives deploy AI in outsourced services — without governance frameworksDeloitte, 2024
Aug 2, 2026EU AI Act high-risk obligations apply — vendor accountability includedEuropean Union, Regulation 2024/1689
Who We Work With

Does This Sound Like Your Organization?

If you answer yes to three or more of these, the AI in your vendor stack is running ahead of your governance — and that gap compounds quietly until an audit, an incident, or a renewal makes it loud.

An AI tool was purchased by a business unit and is live today — and no one assessed it before it got access to company data.
Your vendor security questionnaire has no AI-specific questions. Vendors answer "yes" to everything and you have no way to test it.
Legal is being asked to review AI clauses — training rights, model changes, data retention — with no playbook and no precedent.
A long-standing SaaS vendor added AI features mid-contract. Nothing in the MSA addresses it, and nobody re-assessed the relationship.
Your BPO or support vendor deployed AI into your outsourced operations. No accountability, no performance measurement, no contractual protection.
A client audit, board question, or EU AI Act obligation is approaching — and you cannot produce documentation of how AI vendors are governed.
Vendor risk tiering treats an AI resume screener the same as a project management tool. Nothing distinguishes AI risk from software risk.
Nobody owns AI vendor governance. It floats between procurement, security, and legal — which means it lives nowhere.
Our Approach

Governance for the Whole Vendor Lifecycle.

Clarevon works across the four moments where AI vendor risk is created — and where it can be controlled.

Before Access

Ask the Right Questions

AI-specific intake and due diligence — the questions a standard vendor questionnaire never asks: training rights, model provenance, data flows, subprocessor AI, incident history.

At Assessment

Pressure-Test the Real Risks

Risk tiering built for AI — distinguishing a vendor that drafts marketing copy from one that touches customer data, makes decisions about people, or sits in a regulated workflow.

At Signature

Strengthen the Contract

MSA addenda and DPA review for the AI layer — model change notification, training-data restrictions, output accountability, audit rights, and exit terms that survive vendor pivots.

After Signature

Monitor What Changes

Ongoing oversight rhythms — because AI vendors ship model changes weekly, and the relationship you assessed in January is not the relationship you have in June.

Clarevon is the governance architect, not the technical validator. Where deep technical evidence is required — model security architecture, penetration results — the framework defines what evidence your security team or CISO reviews, and how it feeds the governance decision.

Proprietary Methodology

The Clarevon G.A.P. Method™

Four stages, built from real enterprise vendor engagements — not a consulting playbook. Every engagement, from a single-vendor Snapshot to a fractional governance retainer, runs through this framework. Governance. Accountability. Performance.

01

Assess

"See the real picture before trying to change it."

  • AI vendor inventory & exposure map
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Contract & documentation review
  • Prioritized findings & roadmap

Entry point: the AI Vendor Risk Snapshot

02

Design

"Built with your team, not handed to them."

  • AI risk tiering matrix
  • Intake & due diligence questionnaire
  • MSA addendum architecture
  • Roles, ownership & escalation paths

Framework design engagements

03

Activate

"A framework that isn't running isn't governance."

  • First governance cycle, run live
  • Vendor alignment & re-papering
  • Escalation path testing
  • Change management & adoption

Embedded implementation

04

Sustain

"Governance that outlasts any single person."

  • Monitoring rhythms & re-assessment triggers
  • Knowledge transfer to internal owner
  • Audit-ready documentation
  • Fractional oversight retainers

Retainer or defined handoff

Explore the Full Methodology

Our Services

Six Ways to Work with Clarevon.

Every engagement begins with a discovery conversation. Most clients start with the AI Vendor Risk Snapshot — a fixed-scope, fixed-price teardown of one vendor that shows exactly what the governance gap looks like in your own stack.

01 · Entry Point

AI Vendor Risk Snapshot

$2,500

Fixed scope · Written memo + readout call · Findings in days

One AI vendor in your stack, torn down: data flows, training rights, contract gaps, tiering, and the questions to ask next.

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02 · Diagnostic

AI Vendor Readiness Assessment

Fixed fee, scoped to vendor count & deliverables

A full diagnostic of your AI vendor governance posture — inventory, exposure mapping, and gap analysis against NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and EU AI Act obligations.

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03 · Core Engagement

AI Governance Framework Design

Scoped on discovery

The full accountability architecture: risk tiering matrix, AI-specific intake questionnaire, MSA addenda, ownership model, and monitoring rhythms — built with your team.

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04 · Retainer

Fractional AI Governance Officer

Monthly retainer · Range on request

Senior governance leadership embedded in your vendor management operation — intake reviews, contract support, monitoring cycles, and board-ready reporting.

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05 · Heritage Practice

Outsourcing & BPO Governance

Audit, framework design & ramp governance

The practice Clarevon was built on: independent outsourcing audits, SLA/KPI architecture, escalation design, and vendor ramp governance for BPO relationships.

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06 · Retainer

Ongoing Program Oversight

Scoped on discovery

Senior program oversight embedded in your operation — QBR facilitation, independent performance monitoring, renewal preparation, and escalation management.

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Track Record

Built From Inside the Work.

Clarevon's methodology comes from a decade of governing enterprise vendor relationships from the inside — including these results from the founder's enterprise portfolio.

$7M → $8MContract growth through structured performance governance
+45%BPO throughput scaled — 1,100 to 1,600 cases per month
89% → 93%CSAT recovered in two weeks. Never dropped below 90% again.
104+Engineers — knowledge transfer executed without operational disruption

The governance gap doesn't close on its own.

AI vendors don't fail loudly. They drift — new models, new data flows, new features nobody re-assessed. Clarevon builds the framework that catches it.

Start with the $2,500 Snapshot

Or schedule a 30-minute discovery conversation. No obligation.