Governance Intelligence

Making governance responsibility visible, traceable and verifiable.

EVIDION builds the AI-enabled Governance Evidence Infrastructure for trusted, explainable decision evidence — across hybrid decision architectures spanning human decision-makers, AI systems and third-party ecosystems.

  • Human-in-the-Loop
  • DORA-compliant
  • Integrity-verified

Evidence for DORA · EU AI Act · NIS2 · Third-Party Risk

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Governance Intelligence

From strategic capability to operational execution

Strategic Outcome

The organizational capability we enable

Enabling Infrastructure

What EVIDION™ provides

EVIDION™ Governance Evidence Infrastructure — Making Governance Intelligence Actionable

  • AI-enabled infrastructure that connects distributed governance information
  • Ontology-driven Governance Knowledge Graph
  • End-to-end evidence traceability and lineage
  • Human-in-the-loop operating model
  • Explainability, transparency and accountability by design
Evidence Layer

What we produce and structure

Trusted, Explainable Decision Evidence — Traceable Governance Evidence

Contracts & ObligationsPolicies & ControlsRisk Assessments & IssuesDecisions & ApprovalsAI Agents & Digital WorkflowsThird-Party EcosystemsAudit Findings & Assurance
Operational Convergence

Where it creates impact

DORA, AI governance, ICT third-party risk and board accountability are converging around a shared expectation: organizations can demonstrate how responsibility is exercised across increasingly digital operating models and third-party ecosystems.

DORA

Resilience, ICT risk management and operational continuity

AI Governance

Responsible AI, transparency and human oversight

ICT Third-Party Risk

End-to-end oversight across the extended value chain

Board Accountability

Informed oversight, accountability and decision substantiation

Governance becomes a source of institutional confidence. Decision evidence becomes a strategic asset.

Boards gain clearer oversight · Management gains stronger steering capability · Auditors and regulators gain reliable end-to-end traceability.

Paradigm shift

DORA shifts the standard: from point-in-time compliance to a continuously verifiable decision architecture

Regulation becomes more evidence-oriented: from Basel III / MiFID II to DORA and EU AI Act

  • Regulatory requirements are rising and demand continuous evidence capability
  • Manual review processes are reaching their scaling limits
  • Management bodies need decision-ready evidence instead of point-in-time status reports

Proactive management of operational risks

  • Complex ICT outsourcing structures increase the pressure: risks must be continuously identified, assessed and demonstrably documented

Article 5 DORA: management bodies need robust evidence foundations

  • Three lines of defense and external advisory could previously cushion many control requirements on a point-in-time basis
  • DORA raises the bar: evidence must be continuously documented, verifiable and available in a decision-relevant form
  • EVIDION creates a structured governance evidence base for Legal, Compliance and ICT Risk

Regulatory maturity as a strategic value driver

  • The paradigm shift: Governance is no longer reactive compliance, but strategic steering capability

EVIDION makes governance decision-ready: regulatory requirements are translated into structured evidence objects, controls, decisions, responsibilities and audit-ready evidence chains

The bottleneck

Manual review processes become the governance bottleneck

They limit scalability, evidence capability and risk-based decisions in an increasingly complex regulatory and technological environment.

Central question

Can you demonstrably prove within 72 hours which critical ICT third-party providers exist, which contractual risks are present, and which measures have been documented?

Why classic review processes no longer scale

The scaling paradox: Regulatory requirements grow faster than available legal, compliance and ICT risk capacities.

The silo trap: Inconsistent documentation across business units prevents a reliable single source of truth and increases governance risks.

Efficiency & resource question

In today's market environment, one central question arises: should detailed regulatory review permanently tie up scarce expert capacity — or become scalable through a structured evidence infrastructure?

Strategic question

DORA is only the beginning. The central strategic decision is: do you want to keep handling governance project by project — or rely on a governance evidence infrastructure that grows with every new regulation?

Backed by a team with experience from UBS, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America and AI engineering →

Challenge · Solution · Impact

DORA codifies digital resilience as the non-transferable ultimate responsibility of the governing bodies of regulated companies

Regulatory mandate Challenge

DORA | EU AI Act | GDPR

  • Art. 5 DORA anchors the responsibility of the management body; Art. 28 (3) DORA strengthens the obligation to maintain a consolidated, continuously updated register of information for ICT third-party providers.
  • Risk: Manual administration leads to considerable governance and evidence risks for critical third-party providers (Art. 31–44).

EVIDION Governance Evidence Infrastructure Solution

Automation & Evidence Ledger

  • Automated creation of the ICT register and AI-based gap analysis of third-party provider contracts (Art. 28–30).
  • Technology: EVIDION's hash-/evidence-ledger solution makes compliance histories integrity-secured, tamper-evident, versioned and verifiably traceable.

Strategic value Impact

Board-Level Assurance

  • Translation of regulatory obligations into verifiable and audit-ready evidence (audit-ready evidence).
  • Result: EVIDION creates traceable evidence for the board, supervisory function and business units — verifiably documented, clearly decision-ready and with significantly reduced operational effort.

DORA moves operational digital resilience to the center of board governance and makes verifiable evidence, traceable decisions and auditable proof the new governance standard.

Core modules

EVIDION creates the Governance Evidence Infrastructure for regulated decision architectures

Regulatory requirements — from DORA through EU AI Act and NIS2 to third-party risk — are translated into verifiable governance evidence: for traceable steering, decisions and responsibility.

Integrity Verification EVIDION's hash-/evidence-ledger solution makes governance evidence integrity-verifiable — through unique hash references, versioning and traceable evidence histories.

Governance Knowledge Graph

EVIDION connects regulatory requirements, contracts, policies, controls and decision evidence into a verifiable governance evidence architecture

EVIDION™ Governance Knowledge Graph

Supervision, Audit & Management Reporting

EBA | ESMA | BaFin

ICT Risk Governance / Management Body Responsibility

Art. 5 DORA

Register of Information for ICT Third-Party Providers

Art. 28 (3) DORA

ICT Incident Reporting / Notification Processes

DORA / RTS

Business Continuity & Resilience Testing

DORA

ICT Third-Party Provider Contracts

Art. 28–30 DORA

The Governance Knowledge Graph translates DORA requirements into structured control points, evidence objects and traceable decision foundations (Control mapping | Evidence paths | Audit-ready reporting).

Automated precision instead of manual, cost-intensive preparation

~95 %
Detection rate
AI-supported identification of compliance gaps against DORA standards (Art. 28–30).
>80 %
Time saved
Drastic reduction of administrative effort in contract review and register maintenance.
<30 min
Audit readiness
Instant generation of audit-proof reports and information registers at the push of a button.

We connect internal requirements and regulatory frameworks in a structured review architecture — transparently documented, audit-ready and supervisory-robust.

Security · Deployment

EVIDION combines client-side data sovereignty with proprietary governance intelligence

Seamless integration within the client's controlled infrastructure — on-premises, private cloud or preferred cloud environment.

Portable deployment & semantic governance analysis

  • Containerized deployment in the client's preferred cloud, private cloud or on-premises environment
  • Fast pilot onboarding with clearly defined interfaces to contract, register and governance data
  • Semantic contract analysis through EVIDION's proprietary regulatory ontology and Governance Knowledge Graph to link isolated contractual clauses with governance and control requirements
  • Model-agnostic architecture: integration of the client-approved LLM, private models or the client's own model instances is possible

Data-sovereign architecture & regulatory control capability

  • Client-side data sovereignty: contract data, comments, review results and confidential information remain within the controlled client environment
  • No-default-vendor-access: in regular operation, EVIDION™ requires no access to client documents, prompts, outputs or evidence objects
  • DORA-oriented architecture supporting traceability, control rights, ICT risk management and audit readiness
  • Clear responsibility boundary: client data remains with the client; the generic governance architecture is maintained, updated and further developed by EVIDION™

EVIDION combines client-side data control with continuously updated governance intelligence — as an AI-enabled governance co-pilot for verifiable decisions, evidence and responsibility.

Roadmap

From DORA to the European AI governance infrastructure

DORA is the first evidence layer. EVIDION modularly extends the governance ontology to EU AI Act, NIS2, ESG, third-party risk and further regulatory domains.

  1. Phase I

    DORA Evidence Layer

    Target state by 12/2026

    Article-level mapping of contract, policy and governance artifacts; structured Evidence Ledger along relevant RTS/ITS requirements; traceable responsibility and control logic for management bodies.

  2. Phase II

    EU AI Act Extension

    2026/2027

    Extension of the governance ontology to AI Act requirements; risk, documentation and control logic for AI systems; support for classification, traceability and documentation along the applicable transition periods.

  3. Phase III

    Cross-Regulatory Governance Architecture

    Roadmap

    Cross-regulatory ontology for DORA, EU AI Act and further governance frameworks; interoperable evidence logic; a unified control and evidence architecture across regulatory domains.

  4. Phase IV

    Certification-Ready Governance Infrastructure

    Target architecture

    Model-independent, versioned governance architecture; traceable control and technical evidence paths; preparation for regulatory audits as well as ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 42001 compatibility.

Classic tools manage regulation. EVIDION makes it evidence-capable. New requirements are structured, linked and translated into verifiable governance evidence through an extensible governance ontology.

Next step

Structural security. Verifiable connectivity.

Deep-Dive Workshop

Arrange a deep-dive workshop on operational DORA evidence capability with the EVIDION Governance Evidence Infrastructure.

Pilot project

Launch a focused pilot project with the EVIDION AI agent for ICT contract review — based on 20 selected ICT contracts, securely operated in your preferred cloud environment and preserving your data sovereignty.