APEX Governance Platform

The Platform That Puts Your Frameworks to Work

APEX turns a framework into a live governance programme: assessments, control tracking, a gap and risk register, a governance playbook and executive reporting—all against the same Principles → Capabilities → Requirements → Controls structure.

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Load any framework in the library, or your own Evidence-based maturity assessment Audit-ready reporting
APEX assessment of an AI risk analysis control scored at maturity level 4, with cited evidence passages, the six-level maturity criteria, and a linked gap
How APEX Works

From Framework to Live Programme

Building Data, AI, and Privacy governance programmes where traditional GRC tools don't reach. While GRC tools help you prove compliance, APEX helps you build the governance programmes worth proving—and then assesses them against your own evidence.

Aligned · Practical · Enterprise · eXcellence

Any Framework, Same Structure

Load a framework from the library or your own—APEX runs anything built to the four-level structure

Evidence-Based Assessment

Score controls against your own policies and reports, with an analyst approving every rating

Certification & Maturity

Two views of one assessment: the Certification view, clause by clause against each control's threshold, with the gap list; and the 0–5 Maturity view

How APEX puts a framework to work A framework from the DP Frameworks library, or your own, is loaded into the APEX Governance Platform, which assesses maturity and conformance control by control. Each control connects to evidence cited from your own documents, gaps and risks tracked through to closure, dependency-aware deliverables such as policies and standards, and insight, Statement of Applicability and audit reports. Maturity moves as gaps close, with the audit trail behind every score. YOUR FRAMEWORK From the DP Frameworks library, or your own APEX Governance Platform Assess maturity and conformance, control by control EVERY CONTROL CONNECTS TO Evidence Cited from your own documents Gaps & Risks Findings tracked through to closure Deliverables Policies, standards, dependency-aware Reports Insight, SoA and audit reports Maturity moves as gaps close—with the audit trail behind every score

What's Inside the Platform

Everything a governance programme needs between the framework on paper and the evidence an auditor asks for.

Evidence Library

Upload policies, procedures, minutes and reports. APEX indexes them, finds the passages that speak to each control, and shows you exactly why a control got the evidence it did.

Risk & Gap Registers

Frameworks ship with a Risk Library already mapped to controls. Assessment findings raise gaps, gaps link to risks, and both are tracked to closure with review flags and guided transitions.

Deliverable Generation

Generate the policies, standards and charters your controls call for—dependency-aware, so a DLP standard cites the classification scheme it depends on rather than inventing its own. Exports to Word.

Audit-Ready Reporting

Maturity insight reports, assessment audit reports with the full retrieval trail behind every score, Statement of Applicability, and conformance exports. PDF, Word and Excel.

Interactive Visualization

Governance hierarchy, maturity heatmap, radar and roadmap views—each drillable from principle down to individual control, with a dashboard summarizing the whole programme.

Enterprise Controls

Multi-tenant isolation, role-based access with per-framework grants, multi-factor authentication, append-only change history, and the option to bring your own language model.

How It Works

From Framework to Audit Trail

A governance programme is a loop, not a document. APEX runs the whole loop in one place.

Author

Start from a ready framework or build your own, anchored to the standard you're accountable to.

Assess

Score maturity and conformance control by control, with proposals you review rather than accept blindly.

Evidence

Ground every score in your own documents, with the source passage recorded against the control.

Gaps & Risks

Findings become tracked gaps, linked to the risks they expose and the controls that mitigate them.

Remediate

Generate the documents the gaps demand, sequence the work, and watch maturity move.

Report

Produce the insight, conformance and audit reports your board, regulator or certifier expects.

Playbook

From Framework to Operating Model

A framework tells you what good looks like. The playbook tells you who does it, in what order, and how it's run. APEX generates the delivery layer from your framework, so your teams ratify it rather than write it from scratch.

  • Roadmap—controls sequenced into phases by priority, with delivery progress tracked against each one.
  • RACI—a single accountable owner for every requirement, across every role involved.
  • Operating Model—the governance bodies, forums and cadence that keep the programme running.
  • Role Charter—a written mandate for each governance role, ready to export with the rest of the pack.
APEX playbook RACI matrix assigning accountable, responsible, consulted and informed roles for each requirement across roles such as Chief AI Officer, AI Governance Board and AI Ethics Committee
Platform in Action

See APEX in Action

Interactive visualizations and assessment tools that transform governance frameworks into actionable insights.

APEX assessment of an AI risk analysis control scored at maturity level 4, with an evidence summary, cited passages from an impact assessment procedure and a risk register with relevance scores, the six-level maturity criteria, and a linked gap in the Conformance and Gaps panel

Evidence-Based Assessment

Every score is grounded in your own documents. APEX cites the passages behind each rating, shows how relevant each one is, and explains why a control meets one maturity level and not the next. An analyst approves every rating, and any shortfall is linked straight to a tracked gap.

APEX insight report listing findings by principle, each with current and target maturity, gap size, severity, evidence, impact and recommendation

Insight Reports

Each finding states current and target maturity, what the evidence shows, the impact of leaving it, and a specific recommendation—cited to the clauses of the standard you answer to.

APEX control heatmap with tiles for each control grouped by principle and capability, colored by maturity level

Control Heatmap

See maturity across every principle, capability and control at once. Weak spots stand out immediately, and every tile drills down to the control behind it.

APEX gap register listing gaps with severity, status, owner, target date and linked controls and risks

Gap Register

Findings become tracked gaps with an owner, a target date and a status, linked to the controls and risks they affect—from identification through remediation to closure.

APEX governance hierarchy tree from framework to principles, capabilities and requirements, with a control detail panel showing best practices, pitfalls, success metrics, dependencies and resources

Governance Hierarchy

Navigate the framework from principle to control. Each control carries implementation steps, common pitfalls, success metrics, dependencies and source references.

APEX capability roadmap placing each requirement into phases and priorities, colored by delivery progress

Implementation Roadmap

Controls sequenced into phases by priority and colored by delivery progress, so you can see what's complete, what's moving, and what comes next.

APEX Tiers

From One Team to the Whole Enterprise

APEX comes in three tiers, Community, Business and Enterprise, with a Partner programme for consultancies and integrators.

Free

Community

AI Governance Essentials and up to 3 users: visualise the framework and track it. Everything else is visible, ready when you move up.

Tier

Business

Professional-edition frameworks and 25 users, with assessments, gap and risk registers, the Governance Playbook and reporting.

Tier

Enterprise

The Unified Governance Framework and the full library, unlimited users, SSO, your own AI model and custom frameworks.

Programme

Partner programme

For consultancies and integrators delivering governance programmes to their own clients on APEX.

Framework purchases made within 12 months are credited in full against your first year of APEX Business or Enterprise. Tier details and pricing are coming soon.

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Trust & Security

Built for Enterprise Scrutiny

You're putting your policies, assessments and gaps into APEX. Here's how it's protected.

Multi-Factor Authentication

Email one-time-passcode MFA, enforced password rotation on provisioned accounts, and rate-limited sign-in.

Granular Access Control

Role-based permissions down to the individual capability, plus per-user grants controlling which frameworks each person can even see.

Tenant Isolation

Every organisation's frameworks, evidence, assessments and reports are scoped to its own tenant and never cross over.

Append-Only Audit History

Assessments, scores and gaps carry a change history that can be added to but never rewritten. Completed assessments lock; only an admin can reopen one.

PII Redaction on Ingestion

Personal data is redacted as evidence documents are ingested, so the sensitive detail in your source material doesn't propagate through analysis.

Bring Your Own Model

Point APEX at your own language model and embedding provider, with per-tenant token caps and usage tracking. Your evidence goes where you decide.

See APEX with Your Framework

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll walk through APEX using the framework you answer to—from the library or your own.

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