Most enterprises running AI cannot tell you what their exposure costs, who owns it, or whether they can defend it to a regulator. The AI-Cyber Lens gives you all three — without touching your models.
Your security team was built to protect your perimeter. But AI systems do not sit neatly at the perimeter — they run inside your business, often without formal governance, and they are operated by people who report to your Chief AI Officer, your Chief Data Officer, or your Compliance function rather than your CISO. When something goes wrong, nobody is sure who is accountable. When a regulator asks, the answer is worse.
IBM's 2025 breach data puts the average cost of an AI-involved breach at £3.65 million. Unmanaged shadow AI — the AI tools your employees are using right now without central oversight — adds a further £530,000 premium on top of that. The EU AI Act, which became enforceable in August 2025, sets fines at up to €35 million or 7% of global revenue for AI governance failures. The ICO's £7.5 million reinstatement against Clearview AI in October 2025 demonstrates that UK regulators are following through.
These are not theoretical risks. They are current, quantified, and landing now.
The deeper problem: no tool currently maps the gap between who creates AI risk and who is supposed to manage it. Gartner found that 58% of CISOs are leading AI adoption programmes despite structural misalignment with the CAIO role. ISACA found that 45% of security teams have zero involvement in AI implementation decisions. Grant Thornton found that 78% of UK boards are not audit-ready for AI governance. The people managing AI risk and the people creating it are operating in separate silos — and nobody has put a financial figure on what that gap costs. Until now.
A single financial figure covering AI-involved breach exposure, shadow AI premium, model and agent failure costs, and regulatory fine exposure under the EU AI Act and UK ICO rules. Not a risk score. Not a traffic light. A number your CFO and board audit committee can work with.
Financial quantificationA structured accountability map across your CISO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Data Officer, and Compliance function. Shows which risks sit with which role, where ownership overlaps, and where nobody currently owns a risk at all. The document you bring to the board when they ask "who is responsible?"
Accountability mapA discovery of AI tools and data flows operating outside your formal governance perimeter — surfaced without requiring access to your models, agents, or AI platforms. Every shadow AI tool your teams are using carries the £530,000 breach premium IBM documented in 2025.
Shadow AI discoveryA translation of your current AI governance posture into £-denominated fine exposure under the EU AI Act and UK ICO enforcement frameworks. Not a compliance checklist — a financial figure that answers "what does non-compliance actually cost us?"
Regulatory £-figureA single document, designed for your board audit committee or NED briefing, summarising your risk position, accountability map, and priority actions. Structured to meet the expectations of an ICO, FCA, or external audit committee review.
Board-ready96% of CISOs own AI governance in their organisation. But only 14% of organisations have formally defined AI accountability roles across the C-suite. Every other security tool works within the CISO's domain. None of them address the accountability gap between the CISO who manages the risk and the CAIO, CDO, and Compliance function that create it. The AI-Cyber Lens produces the only joint accountability map on the market.
The nearest competitor in financial risk quantification works in dollars, takes weeks, and was not built for AI-specific risk. If you need a £-denominated AI risk figure before your next board meeting, there is currently one tool that delivers it in under a week.
Every shadow AI discovery tool on the market requires agent installation, platform integration, or model-level access — creating a procurement paradox. You cannot get approval to install the tool until you know what risk you are managing, and you cannot know what risk you are managing until you install the tool. The AI-Cyber Lens resolves this with full risk discovery from outside your environment.
Compliance tools map requirements to controls. They tell you whether you are compliant. They do not tell you what non-compliance costs. The EU AI Act's fine structure, the ICO's demonstrated willingness to enforce (£7.5M against Clearview AI, October 2025), and the UK government's AI liability framework all create quantifiable financial exposure. The AI-Cyber Lens is the only tool that translates your governance posture into a financial number.
No tools installed. No models accessed. Answer a structured set of questions about your current AI governance posture and receive a preliminary risk exposure figure — before any engagement begins.
Delivered in under five working days. No agent installation. No model or platform access required.