Is this a replacement for an MSP?
No. This covers architecture governance, risk, cost, and reporting. MSP, help desk, ticketing, incident response, and round the clock operations remain separate.
GOVERNANCE
Annual retainer · $8K to $50K per month
Keep Production AI and Azure Architecture Governed.
Use Managed AI and Cloud Governance when production work needs monthly review for AI risk, cloud cost, controls, architecture changes, owner actions, and roadmap decisions.
Use This When
Use This When Governance Needs Monthly Review.
AI or Azure work is already in production or nearing production.
Risk, cost, controls, and architecture decisions need recurring review.
Security, platform, data, product, and operating owners need one review schedule.
Roadmap changes need follow through after the initial project.
Delivery Structure
How the Engagement Moves Forward.
- 01Monthly governance review
- 02AI risk, Azure cost, and control posture review
- 03Architecture change review and roadmap refresh
- 04Governance summary, owner actions, and follow up
Outcomes
What Governance Keeps Visible.
The retainer keeps production AI and Azure work visible through monthly reviews, owner actions, risk decisions, and roadmap updates.
- Keeps AI risk, cloud cost, architecture, and controls visible to the people funding and operating the work.
- Turns governance into recurring operating work instead of occasional cleanup.
- Connects roadmap refresh, KPI review, owner actions, and architecture change decisions.
- Creates accountability for risks, actions, controls, and next approval decisions.
- Monthly governance summary
- AI risk and Azure cost review
- Architecture change review
- KPI and roadmap refresh
- Action register and owner follow up
Review AI, Azure, security, cost, architecture, and operating evidence against CAF, WAF, and approved ADRs.
Identify risk, drift, cost issues, and architecture decisions needing attention.
Assign owner actions through the governance review.
Report status, blockers, decisions, and recommendations to the right owners.
Questions
Questions Before You Book.
Use the first call to confirm the goal, timeline, and whether this service matches the work.
Can remediation work be included?
Remediation can be scoped separately when governance identifies work that needs implementation.
How is this different from normal reporting?
The monthly review covers AI risk, Azure cost, architecture changes, controls, KPIs, roadmap decisions, owner actions, and follow through.
Discuss Managed Governance.
Bring the production work, current risks, cost concerns, roadmap pressure, and recurring decisions. The first call confirms whether Managed Governance is the right service.