Stay audit-ready after the initial engagement

Continuous Compliance Monitoring is the GovernIQ retainer tier that runs after the initial engagement (Foundation, Standard, or Concierge). It is a monthly-cadence service: tracking framework drift, monitoring changes to your AI model inventory, detecting new disclosure obligations as regulators publish guidance, and reviewing your vendor rosters for material changes. When a signal fires, your named compliance lead gets a documented brief within 48–72 hours. The retainer stacks on top of a $299 Compliance Action Plan or a Standard multi-framework engagement.

Any mid-market company that has shipped an initial AI compliance engagement and now needs to keep that posture current against a regulatory landscape that changes every quarter. Continuous monitoring is the natural next step for financial advisory firms with model-portfolio AI, law firms using AI for document review, healthcare practices with AI-assisted scheduling, and SaaS companies shipping AI features into EU or Colorado contexts. If you are liable under Colorado SB 26-189's 90-day reporting trigger or the EU AI Act's post-market monitoring obligation (Article 72), the cadence is a regulator-facing requirement — not a best practice.

Monthly. Each month follows a four-week rhythm: Week 1 inventory sweep against external sources; Week 2 targeted impact-assessment refresh for any system whose score drifted above the threshold from the original CAP; Week 3 vendor delta against the latest vendor model-version disclosures; Week 4 compliance-lead briefing — a written brief delivered to your named compliance lead with all signals flagged in the prior month. Ad-hoc signal alerts fire outside the monthly cadence when a regulator action, vendor incident, or material model update is detected.

Four deliverable types: (1) Monthly Monitoring Report — written brief covering the month's signal inventory, inventory diffs, and any new framework amendments detected; (2) Ad-hoc Signal Alerts — High-severity signals delivered within 48–72 hours of detection, outside the monthly cadence; (3) Quarterly Board Summary — consolidation of the previous three months, suitable for inclusion in a board or audit-committee package; (4) Annual Re-attestation Package — signed artifacts suitable for use in a SOC 2 audit, regulator inquiry, or material-customer diligence questionnaire.

Three alert channels: (1) email to your named compliance lead and backup contact, with severity (High / Medium / Low) and recommended action in the subject line; (2) a shared Signals dashboard — a read-only URL maintained by GovernIQ that reflects the same signal inventory as the monthly report; (3) Slack-channel delivery, available on the Standard retainer and above, posts into a designated channel in your Slack workspace with the signal brief inline. The recommended default for most SMB retainers is email + dashboard.

The Standard engagement is a one-time, 4–6 week project that produces your Compliance Action Plan, your per-framework policy templates, and your monitoring instrumentation plan. The retainer runs after the Standard engagement completes. It does not redo the audit; it keeps the audit's outputs current. Once a quarter, the retainer triggers an impact-assessment refresh on systems that have drifted; once a year, it produces a full re-attestation package. The retainer is not a replacement for the initial engagement — a retainer without an initial CAP does not have a baseline posture to monitor against.

The retainer is structured as a 12-month engagement with monthly billing, mirroring the Concierge tier's structure. You can exit at any month boundary after the 12-month minimum by giving 30 days' written notice — there is no auto-renew. If you exit mid-cycle, you receive the Monthly Monitoring Report for the partial month regardless. The deliverables you received during the retainer (Reports, Signal Alerts, Quarterly Board Summaries, the Annual Re-attestation) are yours to retain and use; you do not lose access to prior artifacts on exit.

Three things are explicitly out of scope: (1) legal advice — the retainer produces monitoring briefs and impact-assessment refreshes, not legal opinions; run any binding interpretation of new framework guidance through qualified counsel; (2) vendor-included model retraining or remediation — the retainer flags a vendor model drift; it does not negotiate with the vendor on your behalf or run a remediation project; (3) a re-run of the original assessment — if your AI stack has changed materially (more than three new in-scope systems added), the retainer flags it and recommends re-engagement for a refreshed CAP rather than attempting to fold the new scope into the monitoring cadence.