April 7, 2026

Small and Medium Business (SMB) executives face 6 distinct problems around AI governance and adoption:

1. “Do you know what AI you’re running?”: Lack of Visibility.  Employees are adopting AI tools without IT or leadership awareness — shadow AI creates hidden liability with no oversight or accountability.
2. “How formal is your AI approval process?”: Unmanaged Risk. AI systems go live without structured review, leaving the business exposed to reputational, legal, and operational risk when something goes wrong.
3. “Can you answer auditor or board member AI compliance questions?”: Regulatory Exposure. Regulations like the EU AI Act, and standards like NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 are here now. Without a compliance posture, SMBs face audit gaps and potential penalties with no evidence to defend themselves.
4. “Does leadership have visibility on your AI?”: No Board-Ready Reporting. Executives and boards have no consolidated view of AI risk, compliance status, or governance posture — making it impossible to report with confidence.
5. “Who owns AI governance?”: Accountability Gaps. There’s no clear ownership over AI use cases, controls, or reviews. Critical items fall through the cracks, policies go unacknowledged, and no audit trail exists.
6. “Can you afford enterprise AI governance tools?”: Cost & Complexity. Legacy governance platforms are priced and scoped for large enterprises. SMBs are left choosing between expensive over-engineered tools or doing nothing.

Consequently, these problems demand a tailored solution for AI governance that is purpose-built for SMBs.

Rhindon Cyber Announces AI Governance Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses

SMBs need accessible, lightweight AI governance support and tooling at appropriate price points. Accordingly, on Rhindon Cyber’s first-year anniversary, I’m proud to announce the release of two AI offerings:

1. Fractional virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO) fixed price packages for small and medium businesses.
2. Rhindon AI Risk & Integrity Cloud (RAIC) SaaS platform.

Fractional virtual Chief AI Officer (vCAIO)

Rhindon’s vCAIO fixed price packages provide AI governance scoped and priced to increase adoption of compliant and secure AI. Confidently improve the rate of AI innovation for small and medium businesses. The monthly vCAIO packages are:

1. AI Governance: AI policy and procedure development; AI risk register establishment/maintenance/oversight, AI Regulatory and Framework mapping (e.g. NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO 42001) and evidence locker maintenance, monthly operational reporting and meetings with IT / Cybersecurity / Business / AI Stakeholders, AI use case process ownership and oversight, Quarterly AI Steering group and strategic Board reporting, and AI technical governance oversight.
2. AI Operations: AI use case register / AI System register / AI Controls register process ownership and oversight, third party vendor AI risk .management, AI Agent / system monitoring and operational reporting.
3. Data Classification: Classification operating procedures, maintenance of classification catalog, oversight of data classification projects (e.g. training Microsoft Purview custom classifiers), quarterly data classification audits on AI use.

In addition to the monthly vCAIO packages – Rhindon Cyber can scope, execute and monitor Microsoft Purview data classification projects. Data classification is a required fundamental catalyst to enabling AI securely and compliantly.

Rhindon AI Risk & Integrity Cloud SaaS Platform (RAIC)

RAIC is a purpose-built SaaS platform for AI governance, AI risk management, and AI regulatory compliance. It enables organizations to register, assess, monitor, and govern their AI systems and use cases throughout the full lifecycle — from intake through approval, deployment, and retirement. Additionally, RAIC covers the full AI lifecycle and includes board-level reporting, with built-in support for the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001.

Purpose-built for SMBs and growing enterprises at a fraction of the cost of legacy solutions. All vCAIO clients receive access to RAIC SaaS as the platform used during engagements. Additionally, RAIC is available for anyone to purchase separately without Rhindon’s vCAIO offerings (and you can always add vCAIO later).

RAIC Features

RAIC is built for AI governance and adoption and links Use Cases, Systems and Controls

Rhindon AI Risk & Integrity Cloud is built around 3 core capabilities: AI Use Cases, AI Systems (that implement AI use cases) and AI Controls (to secure and monitor AI systems). Each of these core capabilities have risk tracking, registries, approval workflows, and extensive operational and executive reporting. Additionally:

• • A policy library and employee policy attestation workflow and portal
  • Built in schedulers provide reminders on upcoming AI use case / system control / policy reviews.
  • Shadow AI detection, with an easy promotion button to move discovered Shadow AI systems into the approval workflows.
  • Enterprise version includes ODIC/SAML Single-Sign-On, SCIM 2.0 support
  • All tiers are locked down with 75 security controls across 13 different security domains

See a complete demo at https://raic.rhindoncyber.com/demo