Proactive Risk Selects HATZ.AI for Governed AI Adoption

Proactive Risk selected HATZ.AI to support practical governance, security, visibility, and accountability as organizations adopt AI across regulated industries. The starting point is deliberately Copilot-first: Microsoft 365 Copilot remains the default for work inside Microsoft 365, while GOVERNAI supports other agreed AI use cases that need a governed workspace, advisory, or managed workflow.

GOVERNAI℠ is powered by Hatz AI and delivered by Proactive Risk. It is designed to complement Microsoft 365 Copilot and an organization's existing IT team or MSP—not replace either one.

Why a Copilot-first approach matters

Microsoft 365 Copilot already sits in the Microsoft identity, data, and administrative context many organizations use. A responsible AI program should start by understanding that environment: approved users, information boundaries, licensing, retention, access, and the business use cases leadership actually wants.

GOVERNAI can then provide a governed path for approved use cases outside the default Microsoft 365 Copilot workflow. Depending on the agreed deployment, that can include a Hatz AI-powered workspace, model and use-case review, spend visibility, access controls, scoped activity records, and managed agents or workflows.

“Artificial Intelligence is transforming nearly every industry, but many organizations are adopting AI faster than they can govern it,” said Tom Brennan, Founder & CEO of Proactive Risk. “Our clients need practical ways to understand where AI is being used, manage risk, control spending, and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations. HATZ.AI provides a framework that helps organizations bring visibility and accountability to their AI initiatives.”

Governance is an operating practice

AI governance is more than publishing an acceptable-use policy. Leaders need an inventory of tools and use cases, rules for sensitive information, named decision owners, vendor review, access management, monitoring appropriate to the platform, incident handling, and a process for reassessing a use case when its data, model, or permissions change.

Proactive Risk connects GOVERNAI to broader services including CyberAdvisor℠ leadership, MeasureRISK℠ readiness, RISKWatch℠ third-party risk management, and CATSCAN® security validation. Review the services overview to see how the pieces can be scoped together.

Know the assurance boundary

GOVERNAI is not a promise that every employee's external AI interaction is intercepted or logged. Within the agreed platform and deployment scope, the parties confirm model availability, licensing, integrations, data handling, logging coverage, retention, access, and tenant-isolation behavior during discovery. Tenant isolation does not mean that data never leaves the platform for model processing.

Neither Proactive Risk nor HATZ.AI guarantees compliance, security, cost savings, regulatory approval, or a specific business outcome. The organization remains accountable for its AI decisions, policies, implementation, and use of Microsoft 365 Copilot and other tools.

A practical next step

Begin with the Microsoft 365 Copilot use cases already under consideration, identify the AI activity that sits outside that default, and document which risks need an owner. A complimentary Executive AI Governance Strategy Session can help qualified organizations define a scoped roadmap.

Founded in 2001, Proactive Risk is an SDVOSB-certified cybersecurity and risk-management firm headquartered in Denville, New Jersey.