Your developers are already shipping AI-generated code. Nobody is governing it. A specialist Fractional AI Officer embeds in your engineering org in 72 hours - and owns the risk from the first prompt to the last deployment.
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Your developers are already vibe coding. The question isn't if - it's how much, and at what risk. Budget disappears, vulnerabilities ship, and the audit trail simply doesn't exist.
You see the total AI API bill. You have zero visibility into which team, developer, or prompt pattern is burning 80% of it. Agentic loops can drain tens of thousands overnight - no alert, no breakpoint, no shutdown.
Your scanners miss what AI ships. SAST and SCA tools were built for human-authored code. Hallucinated packages, injection patterns, and hardcoded credentials reach production undetected.
When auditors ask, you have nothing. No audit trail for AI-generated code, no record of which tool produced which output. EU AI Act 2026, HIPAA, SOX - none will accept "we used Copilot" as a compliance position.
Sources: Gartner AI Spending Report 2025 · Veracode GenAI Code Security Report 2025 · CodeRabbit 8.1M PR Study.
AI-generated code reached production in every case below. Security teams missed them. Customers found them.
A vibe-coded SaaS platform leaked 1.5 million customer API keys to the public internet. Root cause: AI-generated credential handling with no governance review. No security gate triggered before production.
AI inverted authentication logic - authenticated users blocked, anonymous visitors granted full data access. Official CVE assigned (CVE-2025-48757). The bug replicated across production before a customer reported it.
Vibe-coding adoption caused four Sev-1 production failures in 90 days, including a six-hour outage. Root cause: teams had no mental model of AI-generated systems, no observability, and could not hotfix code they had not authored.
Every month without a governance owner is a month of compounding exposure. Here's what the data says it costs.
You're not paying for governance. You're paying to prevent the breach that pays for itself 100 times over.
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Every leader is doing their job. The intersection where AI risk actually lives has no owner.
An AI governance specialist embedded in your engineering organisation - accountable for outcomes, not deliverables. Not a generalist consultant. Not a junior hire. Someone who has built this before.
Engineering-native. Governance-specialist. Skilled across prompt engineering, code security, regulatory compliance, and AI cost management.
Embedded and accountable. Attends standups, reviews PRs, authors policies. Done For You - we run all governance. Or Done With You - we build your team's capability. Outcomes owned either way.
72 hours. No recruitment cycle. No ramp period. Connect your repository and your FAO is embedded and governing - no infrastructure change, no vendor lock-in, results in week one.
Upcore AI Engineering Governance - 19 integrated capabilities across 5 layers, covering every phase of your AI development lifecycle.
Forge works alongside governance - it ships AI-assisted software while your FAO ensures every commit is reviewed, governed, and attributed. Deploy together or start with governance alone.
An AI governance specialist embedded directly in your engineering organisation, accountable for the risk created by AI-generated code. Unlike a generalist consultant, a Fractional AI Officer is a specialist across prompt engineering, code security, regulatory compliance, and AI cost management. They attend standups, review PRs, author policies, and own outcomes - Done-For-You or Done-With-You - without the cost or timeline of a full-time hire.
72 hours. No recruitment cycle, no ramp period. Connect your repository and your FAO is embedded and governing within three days. No sprint allocated, no infrastructure change, no vendor lock-in. Results in week one.
For startups and growth-stage companies, governance is active within 72 hours of the first call. For regulated enterprise — public companies, healthcare systems, financial institutions — internal procurement, legal review, and MSA/DPA execution typically add 4–8 weeks before contract execution. Your governance is active within 72 hours of signing. We walk you through what to prepare during discovery.
By Day 30 your FAO delivers your first AI risk report - your actual AI risk, quantified and mapped. By Day 60 all integrations are live (IDE, Git, CI/CD, production monitoring) in observe mode with a baseline established. By Day 90 policy gates are live, AI code is risk-scored and reviewed on every commit, and you receive a full ROI model. If the Day 30 findings do not justify continuing, you walk away.
A full-time hire costs $250K+ per year plus 6 months to recruit and 12 months to ramp. A Big-4 engagement costs $500K+ per project, delivers a report, and then leaves with no ongoing accountability. A Fractional AI Officer embeds in 72 hours, specialises in AI engineering governance, stays embedded in your context, and owns outcomes - not just deliverables.
Done-For-You: you provide repository access, CI/CD, your AI tool list, and compliance obligations, and your FAO handles everything else - independent audit, governance architecture, installation, baseline data, and weekly reports. Done-With-You: your team leads while your FAO guides, trains, and strategises - joint discovery, co-designed policy, guided implementation, and full knowledge transfer so your team owns it long term.
Forge is how you build software with AI. AI Engineering Governance is how you govern the AI-generated code that Forge - and any AI coding tool your team uses - produces. They're complementary: Forge ships features, your Fractional AI Officer makes sure everything shipped is secure, compliant, and cost-controlled.
A specialist Fractional AI Officer owns your AI engineering governance - strategy to compliance - without the cost or timeline of a full-time hire or a Big-4 engagement.
Same accountability. Same expertise. 80–90% less spend.
Most teams find FAO engagement costs 80–90% less than the equivalent full-time role, with results visible at Day 30 - not month 12.
Your FAO owns: AI Policy & Standards · Code Governance · Security Enforcement · Compliance Reporting · Spend Control.
Three anonymized scenarios from current engagements. Client identities withheld at their request.
“Copilot-generated code had been shipping to production for six months with no review process. SOX audit was eight weeks away.”
“EU AI Act enforcement started. We had four AI-powered features and zero documentation of what they did or what data they touched.”
“Our LLM was processing patient-adjacent data across three workflows. No BAA with the model provider. The HIPAA officer had flagged it six weeks earlier — nothing had moved.”
All scenarios are anonymized composites based on real engagement patterns. Client identities withheld.
Same six stages. Choose how hands-on your team is - your Fractional AI Officer is accountable in both.
Your FAO guides, trains & strategizes while your team builds internal capability.
You provide access. Your Fractional AI Officer handles everything else.
Six stages. Two models. One FAO. AI development you can defend to anyone who asks.
After Day 90, your FAO continues embedded on a monthly basis - shifting from implementation to oversight. New AI tool approvals, quarterly compliance reports, incident attribution, and board-ready AI governance summaries. Most teams renew. You decide with data in hand.
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90-day engagement with a Day-30 walk-away checkpoint. Your dedicated Fractional AI Officer embeds, audits your full AI risk surface, and delivers a governance blueprint with a board-ready ROI model. At Day 30 you get your first AI risk report — if it doesn't justify continuing, you walk away. If it does, the engagement continues month-to-month, no lock-in.
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