Partner with AICI
AICI works with a select number of organisations whose AI governance work benefits from direct access to our research, assessment methodologies, and regulatory engagement.
Partnership is not a subscription. It is a working relationship — for organisations that need to understand AI governance at the level of rigour the regulation demands.
What Partnership Provides
AICI's partnership programme gives organisations access to research and capability that is not available elsewhere — because it exists specifically to address the implementation gap in AI governance.
Research Access
Access to AICI's ongoing research into AI conformity assessment methodology, before it is published.
Benchmarking Intelligence
Aggregated, anonymised intelligence on AI governance posture across AICI's partner network.
Regulatory Sandbox Priority
Priority access to regulatory sandboxes as they become operational under the EU AI Act.
Early Regulatory Intelligence
The EU AI Act's implementing rules, delegated acts, and codes of practice are being set now. Partners are informed before the rest of the market.
Expert Network
Access to AICI's Council of Thinkers and the broader network of AI governance practitioners, researchers, and technical experts.
Assessment Tools
Proprietary AI conformity assessment tools and frameworks developed through AICI's R&D programme.
Who Partnership Is For
AICI's partnership programme is structured for organisations whose AI governance challenges are complex enough to require what AICI specifically provides.
GPAI Model Providers
Providers of general-purpose AI models subject to the EU AI Act's GPAI obligations — including documentation requirements, transparency obligations, and, for systemic-risk models, adversarial testing and incident reporting.
What This Provides
High-Risk Deployers
Organisations deploying AI systems in high-risk categories under Annex III — healthcare, employment, education, essential services, law enforcement, credit, and public administration.
What This Provides
The Implementation Gap Is a Governance Risk
The EU AI Act's obligations are active. The conformity assessment methodologies, notified body accreditation processes, and technical standards needed to implement them credibly are still being developed. Organisations that wait for settled guidance will be late. The work of building governance capacity must begin now, before the requirements are fully specified — precisely because the organisations that understand the direction of regulation can shape their own compliance posture in advance.
Regulatory intelligence in advance
AICI tracks implementing acts, delegated regulations, and codes of practice as they develop — not after they are published.
Assessment methodology before the standards
AICI's research develops conformity assessment approaches that anticipate technical standards before they are finalised.
Engagement, not observation
Partners participate in shaping the frameworks that will govern AI compliance — through AICI's submissions, consultations, and regulatory engagement.
Capacity built before it is needed
The organisations that build governance infrastructure during the implementation period will meet the 2026 deadlines with demonstrated capability, not emergency remediation.
AI governance capacity takes time to build. The organisations that begin now will be demonstrably better positioned when compliance becomes mandatory.
This Is Not a Consulting Engagement
AICI does not provide advisory services on retainer. Partnership is access to an institution's ongoing research, regulatory engagement, and assessment methodology development — work that exists independently of any commercial relationship and that improves the governance ecosystem as a whole.
Research, not opinion
AICI's assessment frameworks are developed through structured research — tested against real AI systems, reviewed by the Council of Thinkers, and updated as regulation evolves.
Network intelligence, not case studies
Aggregated intelligence from AICI's partner network provides structural insight into AI governance practice that individual case studies cannot.
Institutional access, not privileged information
Partners gain access to AICI's regulatory engagement — consultations, code of practice processes, working groups — that is available to institutional participants, not the general market.
What Partners Receive
Enquire About Partnership
AICI works with a limited number of partners to maintain the depth of engagement each relationship requires. If your organisation's AI governance needs align with what AICI provides, we want to hear from you.