AI evaluation · governance · assurance

AI evaluation and governance services

We can start by testing a system or by working through an existing finding. Syntony also helps clients strengthen governance processes that lack reliable technical evidence. Before work starts, we agree which decision the client needs to make and what evidence will help.

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The handoff

Evaluation and governance produce different kinds of work. Test teams document how a system behaves. Governance teams decide how the organization will respond and who is accountable. Syntony helps both teams work from the same technical record.

Technical findings in an operating process

A sound finding may still fail to change the system if it arrives without enough context for the client team to respond.

We carry the test case into the client’s review process and define how the response will be checked later.

How we work

Evaluation, governance, and assurance

Each service can stand alone. When a client needs all three, we keep the test record consistent from the first evaluation through later system changes.

  1. 01Evaluate

    Test a model, agent, benchmark, or AI-enabled system against an agreed threat model and use case.

  2. 02Govern

    Build the review process around what the test found, including clear responsibility, operating controls, and escalation.

  3. 03Assure

    Keep versioned tests current and run them again after material changes to the system or its operating context.

Primary work

Core engagements

We start with the question the client needs to answer. Before work begins, we agree how the result will be used and what we will deliver. We also state its limits.

Evaluate

Red Teaming & Evaluation

Stress-test a model, agent, product, benchmark, or workflow against the risks that matter in its intended use. The protocol can cover safety, security, reliability, misuse, and human-system performance.

Typical outputs
  • Threat model and evaluation protocol
  • Replayable traces and test cases
  • Prioritized failure catalog
  • Mitigation and decision brief
Govern

Governance & Decision Support

Use evaluation evidence, policy commitments, or research findings to design the client’s operating response. We specify responsibility, controls, review gates, and the records needed for a defensible decision.

Typical outputs
  • Control and ownership architecture
  • Risk register and review gates
  • Escalation and decision records
  • Implementation roadmap
Assure

Continuous Evaluation & Assurance

Maintain the tests and change history needed to revisit a release or risk decision as the system evolves. The work covers accepted limitations, control status, and material changes in the model or operating environment.

Here, assurance means a repeatable process for gathering and reviewing evidence. It is not a blanket certification of safety, security, alignment, or compliance.

Typical outputs
  • Versioned regression packs
  • Evidence and change ledger
  • Control and drift reviews
  • Recurring decision packet
Supporting capabilities

Research, engineering, foresight, and training

We add this work when the evaluation or the client’s response depends on it.

Research & benchmark design

Design a benchmark, validate an evaluator, assemble a dataset, audit a research method, or support a wider research program when the evaluation question needs stronger foundations.

BenchmarksApplied research

Evaluation engineering

Build the harness, trace store, data pipeline, scoring workflow, regression suite, dashboard, or reviewer prototype the project needs. Another team member should be able to rerun the evaluation and trust the comparison.

InfrastructurePrototyping

Systems & strategic foresight

Place a technical failure in its operating context. This work can cover institutional incentives, regulation, geopolitical change, market dynamics, or wider social effects.

Systems analysisForesight

Training & facilitated exercises

Run role-specific workshops and tabletop exercises using the client’s systems, review process, and current decisions. Participants practice the test, response, and escalation process together.

WorkshopsTabletops
Standard deliverable

The Syntony Evidence Pack

The contents of each pack depend on the engagement. It records the test and what the result supports. It also states what the client should revisit when the system changes.

  1. 01Question and intended use
  2. 02Replayable evidence and traces
  3. 03Finding, uncertainty, and limits
  4. 04Owner and control
  5. 05Decision record
  6. 06Re-test plan
Scope & independence

Scope of an assurance engagement

Syntony evaluates a system against questions, scenarios, threats, and criteria agreed with the client. The result applies to that scope and the system version tested; it is not a universal safety, alignment, security, or compliance certificate.

If Syntony helped design or implement a material control, benchmark, or system component, we disclose that involvement. We do not describe later work on it as independent certification.

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Discuss the work with Syntony

We will define the work needed to answer the client’s question. Supporting work is included only when the main project requires it.

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