AI Governance & Risk Specialist

SOCraigh

Bringing order to AI.

Your organisation is pushing AI adoption. Your people are already using it. The question is whether anyone has answered the governance questions that matter.

SOCraigh puts AI governance in place — structured, practical, and built to protect your organisation as the regulatory landscape evolves.

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Socraigh
suck·ree  ·  Irish verb
  • To bring order to
  • To settle
  • To arrange with precision
  • To fix firmly in place
  • To calm things down
Signature Service
Monthly Governance Retainer
AI governance isn't a one-time project. Regulation evolves. New tools emerge. Your organisation needs an embedded expert — not a report that sits in a drawer.
From €1,500/month fixed fee · no surprises

The Governance Gap

Your people are using AI. Does your organisation know how?

Most organisations are encouraging AI adoption without putting the governance structures in place to make it safe. The result is a quiet accumulation of risk — in every team, at every level, every day.

One data breach. One hallucinated report sent to a client. One compliance failure. These aren't hypothetical. They're happening now, in organisations that assumed good intent was enough.

Good intent isn't a governance framework. SOCraigh builds the real thing.

77%
of employees are already using AI tools at work — with or without any guidance from their organisation
68%
of organisations have no formal AI usage policy, despite actively encouraging AI adoption
1 in 3
employees have entered sensitive data into an AI tool without understanding the risk they were creating
2026
EU AI Act obligations begin. Organisations without governance frameworks in place will be exposed

The Starting Point

The Workshop That Opens Every Door

Many clients begin with a workshop. It's a practical half-day session with genuine standalone value — and it naturally surfaces the intelligence that informs deeper governance work.

Featured Workshop

AI in the Workplace

Productivity, Risk & Responsible Use — a half-day session for teams already using AI at work. Practical, jargon-free, and immediately applicable.

From €2,500 Typical range €2,500 – €4,000 depending on organisation size and format
Half day — 3 hours
In-person & online
Any team · Any sector
No technical background needed

Why the workshop is more than a workshop

Double value by design. Participants document their own AI use cases during the session. Your organisation gets the workshop output — and SOCraigh gets the diagnostic intelligence to scope exactly what governance work you need next. You don't pay for a discovery phase. You already paid for it.

  • 01 Real AI risks surfaced from inside your organisationUse cases documented from your own people — not generic examples from a slide deck.
  • 02 Three questions every employee leaves able to answerWhat data can I use? Should I trust this output? Is this a decision I should own?
  • 03 A clear picture of your governance gapsThe workshop output becomes the foundation for everything that follows — or stands alone as genuine value.

Core Service

AI Governance & Risk

Four structured phases — from understanding your current exposure to maintaining governance as AI and regulation evolve. Engage one phase or the full programme.

01
Assessment & Diagnosis
Where are you now?

Establishing your current state — how AI is being used across the organisation, where the risks are concentrated, and what regulatory exposure you carry.

  • AI usage audit across tools and processes
  • Risk exposure assessment
  • GDPR & EU AI Act gap analysis
  • Board-ready findings report
02
Framework Design
What needs to be built?

Designing the governance structures your organisation needs — policies, data classification, human oversight protocols, and clear accountability at every level.

  • AI usage policy suite
  • Data classification for AI contexts
  • Human oversight protocols
  • Accountability & reporting structure
03
Implementation
Embedding it in the organisation

Putting the framework into practice — rollout support, manager briefings, process integration, and ensuring governance is operational, not just documented.

  • Implementation roadmap
  • Manager & team lead briefings
  • Process integration support
  • Induction & onboarding materials
04
Monitoring & Control
★ Monthly Retainer

Governance that stays alive. Monthly oversight, regulatory monitoring, new use case assessment, and an embedded expert on call — for a fixed monthly fee.

  • Monthly governance health check
  • Regulatory change monitoring
  • New use case assessment
  • Quarterly board reports
Phase 4 — The Retainer
Your embedded AI governance function. Monthly. Fixed. No surprises.

AI governance is not a one-time project. The EU AI Act is developing. New tools emerge monthly. Staff change. Your governance needs to keep pace — and you need someone in your corner when questions arise.

  • Monthly governance health check (structured 1hr review)
  • Unlimited email queries on AI risk matters
  • Regulatory monitoring — EU AI Act, GDPR updates
  • New tool and use case assessment
  • Quarterly written report to management or board
  • Priority response — within 4 business hours
  • Annual framework review included
From
€1,500
per month · fixed fee

Scales with organisation size. 6-month minimum. 10% saving on 12-month commitment.

Governance programme pricing: Engagements are scoped individually based on organisation size, sector, and regulatory complexity. Most programmes for mid-size organisations fall between €10,000 and €20,000 across Phases 1–3. A combined programme rate is available.

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Second Service

Bespoke AI Training

Not a course. A programme built for your organisation. Training is designed on the back of governance work already completed — calibrated to your specific risks, your tools, your use cases, and your people. No other provider has that level of insight into your organisation.

Tier 1
Executive & Board
2 Hours · Strategic Briefing

Equipping leadership with the governance literacy to ask the right questions, make informed decisions, and discharge their oversight responsibilities on AI.

  • AI risk landscape at board level
  • EU AI Act obligations & liability
  • Governance questions to ask your teams
  • Reputational & regulatory exposure
Tier 2
Management Layer
Half Day · Risk & Governance

Building the layer of managers who will implement and maintain AI governance day-to-day — and who need to understand both the value and the risk.

  • The 3 risk zones in depth
  • Data classification in practice
  • Human oversight responsibilities
  • Incident recognition & response
Tier 3
Operations — AI Knowledge
Half Day · Foundation Track

Building AI literacy across operational teams — what AI actually does, where it genuinely helps, and how to use it productively and confidently.

  • How AI tools actually work
  • Where AI genuinely saves time
  • What to expect from AI outputs
  • Building good AI habits
Tier 4
Operations — AI Risk
Half Day · Risk Track

Practical risk awareness for the people using AI every day — built around the real use cases surfaced from within their own organisation.

  • Data & privacy in AI contexts
  • Recognising and checking AI errors
  • The 3 questions to ask every time
  • Organisation-specific scenarios
Training Programme Pricing
Bespoke design & delivery across all four tiers

Programmes are scoped and priced individually based on organisation size, number of tiers required, and cohort sizes. Individual session delivery is priced separately from programme design.

Individual Sessions
€2,500 – €4,500
per session depending on tier and org size
Full Programme
€7,500 – €18,000
design + all tiers, typically 3–5 days total

How It Works

Two ways in. One destination.

Entry Point A
Governance First
01 → Assessment & Diagnosis — understanding your current exposure
02 → Framework Design — building the governance structure
03 → Implementation — embedding it across the organisation
04 → Retainer — ongoing governance, monitoring & control
05 → Bespoke Training — built from the governance work, deployed across all tiers
Entry Point B
Workshop First
01 → Workshop — participants surface real AI use cases from inside the organisation
02 → Use case documentation — captured during the session, handed to the organisation and to SOCraigh
03 → Assessment & Diagnosis — the workshop outputs become the diagnostic input. No separate discovery phase needed.
04 → The same journey from here — Framework, Implementation, Retainer, Training
€28k+
Typical Year 1 value of a single mid-size client through the full journey
€1,500+
Monthly recurring revenue per retained client — the stable foundation of the model
€1
Spent on governance is worth multiples in avoided compliance exposure. The ROI case is straightforward.

About SOCraigh

Governed by experience, not just expertise.

Most people talking about AI governance have never had to answer to a regulator. Suzanne O'Callaghan has.

With 25 years managing complex technical programmes in regulated environments — medical devices at Stryker and DePuy Synthes, large-scale construction, pharma — Suzanne brings a discipline to AI governance that no AI enthusiasm can replicate.

"I work independently. You get me — not a junior associate, not a generic slide deck. You get 25 years of hands-on experience, and a personal commitment to deliver more than you paid for. That's not a marketing line. It's how I operate."

SOCraigh is deliberately niche. AI governance and risk is not one of several services — it is the only service. That focus is intentional, and it's what makes the difference.

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Specialisation AI Governance, Risk & Compliance · Bespoke AI Training
Certifications PMP® · PMI-RMP® · PMI-ACP®
Background MEng Biomedical Engineering · PhD Research, Smart Medical Devices (UCC) · EU Patent Holder
Industry MedTech — Stryker, DePuy Synthes · Construction · Pharma
Regulatory EUMDR · FDA · GDPR · EU AI Act compliance frameworks
Teaching MSc Project Management Lecturer, UCC · PMP® RMP® ACP® Trainer, Velopi
Location Cork, Ireland · Remote-first · European & international projects

Get in Touch

Let's talk about your organisation.

Whether you're ready to start governance work, want to discuss a workshop, or just want to understand what your organisation's AI exposure looks like — reach out. That's how the best engagements start.

Email suzanne@socraigh.ie
Phone +353 86 811 2569
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/suzanneocallaghan
Web socraigh.ie
Location Cork, Ireland · Available nationwide & remote

"Drop me a line. I'll come back to you directly — no account manager, no automated response, no sales process."

SOCraigh works with a deliberately small number of clients at any one time. Every engagement gets full attention. If you're thinking about AI governance for your organisation, the conversation costs nothing and the clarity it brings is immediate.

Email Suzanne Directly