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AI Acceptable Use Policy

From $1,000 CAD · scoped to you

Your team is already pasting things into AI tools. Without a policy, that’s a data-leakage and compliance problem waiting to happen. We write a practical AI acceptable-use policy (short, specific, and enforceable) that people will actually follow instead of ignore.

AI work runs with our offensive-security partner Lorikeet, backed by five published CVEs and 20+ penetration testing engagements.
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Built for teams that...

  • Companies whose employees already use AI tools daily
  • Teams worried about sensitive data going into external AI services
  • Organizations that need an AI policy for a customer or compliance ask
  • Leaders who want clear rules without a policy nobody reads

What we do

  • A concise AI acceptable-use policy tailored to your tools, data, and risk
  • Clear guidance on which tools and use cases are approved, restricted, or off-limits
  • Data-handling rules covering what may and may not go into external AI systems
  • Guidance on review, attribution, and human oversight of AI output
  • A rollout note so the policy lands with the team instead of gathering dust

What you walk away with

You get a short, specific AI acceptable-use policy your team will actually follow, closing the obvious data-leakage gaps and giving you a clear answer when a customer or auditor asks how you govern AI.

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Frequently asked questions

Isn’t this just a template we could download?

Generic templates are the reason most AI policies get ignored. We tailor rules to the specific tools and data your team actually touches, which is what makes a policy enforceable rather than shelfware.

How long does it take to produce?

It is a focused engagement. We learn how your team uses AI, draft the policy, and iterate with you. Timeline depends on how many teams and tools are in scope.

Will this satisfy a customer asking about our AI governance?

A clear acceptable-use policy is a strong start and often what the question is really after. For deeper asks, we pair it with a fuller AI governance program.

Can you help us enforce it?

We include rollout guidance, and can extend into a shadow-AI audit to find where usage is drifting outside the policy.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.

AI Acceptable Use Policy, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.

The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.