An AI practice from Computer Doc

Most companies deploy AI.
Few m·ai·ntain it.

Maintane assesses, audits, and governs the AI already running inside your business — so it stays compliant, secure, and worth what you spend on it.

The gap

The risk isn't falling behind on AI. It's that you've already adopted it — and no one is watching it.

Staff are pasting client data into chatbots. Tools were bought and never reviewed. There's no policy, no audit trail, and no one who owns the question of whether any of it is safe. That's the gap Maintane closes.

Shadow AI
Unmonitored

Tools adopted by individual employees, outside IT's view, with sensitive data flowing through them.

Compliance exposure
Unproven

Regulators and clients now ask how you govern AI. Most firms can't answer in writing.

Spend
Unmeasured

Subscriptions and pilots that were never tied to a measured outcome or hours returned.

How it works

A gated engagement ladder, not an open-ended retainer.

Each step earns the next. You see value at every stage before committing further — and the managed retainer only unlocks once there's something real to manage.

01
Entry · fixed fee

AI Assessment

A structured look at where AI already lives in your business, what's exposed, and what's worth automating. You leave with a prioritized picture and a number.

→ Findings report & risk-and-opportunity map
Fixed fee2–3 weeks
02
Diagnostic · fixed fee

Governance Audit

A deeper gap assessment against the ISO/IEC 42001 framework: policies, data handling, accountability, and controls. The basis for a defensible AI program.

→ ISO 42001 gap report & remediation roadmap
Fixed fee3–4 weeks
03
Implementation · scoped

Build

We stand up the policies, controls, and the highest-value automations the assessment surfaced — turning the roadmap into working systems and documented governance.

→ Live automations & an operating AI management system
Scopedby roadmap
Retainer unlocks here
04
Ongoing · monthly recurring

Managed AI Governance

Your fractional Chief AI Officer. Continuous monitoring, internal audits, policy upkeep, and new automations as the business changes — AI kept healthy month over month.

→ Monthly governance, reporting & a standing advisor
Monthlyretainer
The differentiator

Governed against a real standard — ISO/IEC 42001.

Anyone can sell "AI strategy." Maintane builds your program against the international standard for AI management systems, so your governance is structured, auditable, and credible to clients and regulators — not a slide deck.

Conformance

We build and run your AI management system to the standard and verify it through internal audits. This is the work Maintane delivers.

Certification

When you're ready, an accredited body (e.g. Schellman, A-LIGN, BSI) certifies it. We prepare you to pass.

ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management

The first standard built for AI itself

It defines how an organization establishes, maintains, and continually improves a management system for responsible AI. It's the spine of every Maintane engagement — and the reason a gap assessment is worth premium pricing.

Built for regulated & mid-market teams

Where the stakes — and the hours lost — are highest.

Each engagement is shaped to the rules and routines of your sector. A few of the places Maintane starts:

Manufacturing

CMMC & the shop floor

6–10hrs / wk

CMMC and CUI obligations collide with ad-hoc AI tools nobody vetted for controlled data.

  • RFQ & quote drafting
  • SOP & work-instruction generation
  • Compliance evidence collection
Pharma

Validated & documented

8–12hrs / wk

GxP environments need every tool documented and validated — AI is being used long before it's been approved.

  • Batch & deviation summaries
  • SOP authoring & review
  • Regulatory submission prep
Bio-med & devices

From bench to filing

7–11hrs / wk

Lean teams juggle IP, quality systems, and PHI — with no time to govern the AI they lean on daily.

  • Literature & patent review
  • Design-history file upkeep
  • Grant & reporting drafts
CPA & financial

Client data, handled right

9–14hrs / wk

Confidential client data and AI chatbots are a bad mix without policy — and busy season makes the temptation worse.

  • Engagement & memo drafting
  • Reconciliation & review prep
  • Client comms & summaries
Non-profit

Mission over admin

6–10hrs / wk

Thin teams want AI's leverage but can't risk donor data or grant compliance on tools no one governs.

  • Grant writing & reporting
  • Donor comms & appeals
  • Program impact summaries

Not on this list?

If your team touches regulated or sensitive data and uses AI to move faster, the assessment fits you. Let's map your sector.

Start the conversation

// Hours-lost ranges are representative starting points. The assessment measures yours.

Why Maintane

We treat AI like a system that needs a doctor.

Computer Doc has kept North Carolina businesses' technology healthy for years. Maintane extends that to AI: diagnose it, treat the risks, and keep monitoring its vital signs. Not a one-time install — ongoing care for the most powerful tools in your business.

That's the whole idea behind the name. The "AI" lives inside maintain, because deploying AI is the easy part. Maintaining it — safely, measurably, and to a standard — is the work.

A Computer Doc company · North Carolina
Credentialed leadership

What stands behind the engagement

  • ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer training, so your AI management system is built by someone who knows the standard.
  • A working MSP behind the work — real experience securing data and systems, not theory.
  • Conformance you can act on now, with a clear path to third-party certification when you want it.

Find out what your AI is doing — before someone else asks.

Start with an assessment. Fixed fee, fixed timeline, and a clear picture of your risk and opportunity.