Grey Glade — Data & AI Governance
Certainty about your data.
Command over your AI.
Grey Glade is the quiet authority in enterprise data governance. We give the world\’s most regulated organisations a precise account of every item of information they hold, disciplined control over who touches it, and the confidence to put AI to work without putting the business at risk.
The state of the estate
Four quiet liabilities sit inside every large organisation
They rarely announce themselves. They surface in an audit, a breach notification, a discovery request, or an AI assistant answering a question it should never have been able to answer.
01 — Unseen data
Sensitive and regulated information scattered across cloud, on-premise and hybrid stores that no inventory has ever fully mapped.
02 — Unchecked access
Years of ad-hoc sharing have left permissions no one can explain, and exposure no one can quantify — until it matters.
03 — Unbounded retention
Every record kept past its lawful purpose is cost, discovery burden and breach surface. Most estates keep almost everything, indefinitely.
04 — Ungoverned AI
Copilots and agents inherit every flaw in the estate beneath them. AI deployed onto disordered data industrialises the disorder.
The Grey Glade Method
From first light to lasting order
Illuminate
A complete, evidenced map of what you hold, where it lives, who can reach it, and which of it matters — across every platform, not just the convenient ones.
Contain
Exposure is closed methodically: oversharing withdrawn, permissions rationalised, protection applied where the data is most consequential.
Curate
Retention becomes deliberate. What must be kept is kept impeccably; what has served its purpose is removed defensibly, with an audit trail to prove it.
Govern
AI is admitted onto the estate under standing rules: visibility of what it reads, boundaries on what it may touch, and a record of everything it does.
Practice areas
Four disciplines. One standard.
Data Intelligence & Discovery
Know precisely what you hold and where the risk concentrates — with evidence, not estimates.
Exposure & Access Control
Withdraw oversharing, rationalise permissions, and keep exposure measurably falling.
Resident Engineering for AI
Our engineers embed with your teams to secure how AI and agents reach and use your data.
Compliance & Posture
Continuous regulatory readiness — a posture you can evidence on any given Tuesday, not just at audit time.
Stewardship
Order that does not decay
Most governance programmes are immaculate on the day they launch and unrecognisable a year later. Grey Glade Stewardship is a standing service that keeps classification accurate, watches loss-prevention and insider-risk signals daily, investigates data and AI incidents, and holds your AI estate to its governance frameworks — permanently.
- Classification tuned continuously, not left to drift
- DLP and insider-risk signals triaged by named specialists
- Investigation and response for data and AI incidents
- Agent and Copilot governance reviewed on a fixed cadence
Microsoft alignment
Built on Microsoft Purview. Finished by hand.
Purview is the strongest foundation available for data security and governance in the Microsoft cloud. It is a foundation, not a finished house. Grey Glade designs, extends and operates Purview so that its controls reach beyond Microsoft 365 — into your warehouses, file systems and third-party platforms — and keep working long after the deployment team has gone home.
Measured, not promised
Illustrative programme outcomes — replace with your own client results.
−72%
overshared sensitive items within the first 90 days of an exposure programme
100%
of estate platforms under a single classified inventory, cloud and on-premise alike
Weeks
from engagement to a defensible AI-readiness position, not quarters
Begin with a private briefing
Ninety minutes with a Grey Glade principal. Your estate, your regulators, your AI ambitions — and a candid view of the distance between where you are and where you need to be.