Sydney and Melbourne practice covers strategy, assurance and compliance work, with a fixed set of documents handed over at the end of each engagement

SYDNEY, 12 October 2026 - PolyGovern, an AI governance advisory firm, works with Australian organisations that answer to a prudential, conduct, privacy or public-sector regulator and need their use of AI documented to that standard. It works across banking and financial services, insurance, superannuation, healthcare and government.

The work is aimed at the people who carry the accountability: board risk committees, accountable persons under the Financial Accountability Regime, chief risk and compliance officers, CIOs and heads of data, general counsel and privacy officers, and agency AI leads.

PolyGovern groups its work around five situations. An APRA-regulated entity needs its AI use aligned with CPS 230. A business with European customers needs its systems classified under the EU AI Act. A public-sector agency is working through the AI Assurance Framework. An organisation wants ISO/IEC 42001 certification and needs a gap analysis first. Or an APP entity is preparing for the Privacy Act automated decision-making changes that take effect on 10 December 2026.

Services fall into three tracks. Governance and strategy covers AI governance consulting, AI strategy and policy, risk frameworks, board-level oversight and model governance. Assessment and assurance covers AI audit and assessment, impact assessments, ISO 42001 certification, AI ethics implementation and third-party AI risk. Compliance and advisory covers regulatory and EU AI Act compliance, healthcare AI governance, AI literacy and leadership training, and ongoing advisory support.

Engagements typically run six to twelve weeks. Each one closes with four outputs: a register of every AI system in use, with its risk tier, the obligations it triggers and the executive who owns it; a set of controls, each traced to the clause, principle or requirement it satisfies; board-ready policies, oversight charters, escalation paths and reporting packs; and a single evidence pack written so a supervisor or auditor can read it from start to finish.

The EU AI Act is part of the brief because it can reach Australian organisations whose AI systems are placed on the European market or whose output is used in the EU. Under the amended EU timetable, rules for high-risk systems listed in Annex III apply from 2 December 2027, and rules for AI built into regulated products from 2 August 2028.

For organisations not yet ready for an engagement, PolyGovern offers a free AI risk calculator, with no login, that gives a baseline view of AI risk against EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF and Australian lenses in under five minutes.

About PolyGovern
PolyGovern advises regulated and public-sector organisations on AI governance, with an Australian practice (Sydney and Melbourne) and a New Zealand practice (Auckland and Wellington). The two practices share a method and tooling but work to each country's regulators and statutes. More information: https://polygovern.ai/au/

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