Buyer guides
AIGovernanceTools has 8 guides on AI governance, risk and compliance software, grouped by country.
General
- AI Governance Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms buyers meet in AI governance: EU AI Act roles and risk tiers, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, model risk, guardrails, red teaming, bias audits and LLM risks.
- Build vs Buy: Open-Source AI Guardrails and Evaluation vs Commercial Platforms
Open-source tools cover guardrails, red teaming, bias testing and LLM tracing well. Commercial platforms add inventory, workflow, evidence and support. Here is how to decide.
- EU AI Act Deadlines: What Buyers Need to Know
The EU AI Act applies in stages from 2025 to 2030. The Digital Omnibus on AI moved the main high-risk dates to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028. Here are the dates, the risk tiers and the fines.
- How AI Governance Software Is Priced
Most AI governance platforms do not publish prices. Some monitoring, guardrail and red-teaming tools do. Here are the pricing models and the public prices we could verify.
- How to Choose an AI Governance Platform
A practical way to pick AI governance software: know which layer you need, map it to your rules, then test inventory, risk workflow, evidence, integrations and security.
- ISO 42001 vs NIST AI RMF vs EU AI Act (and US Rules)
The EU AI Act is law. ISO/IEC 42001 is a management system standard. The NIST AI RMF is a voluntary framework. Here is how they differ, how they fit together, and what changed in US rules in 2026.
- LLM Deployment Security and Compliance Checklist
A checklist for putting an LLM application into production, built on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025, the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, with EU AI Act transparency duties.
- Questions to Ask AI Governance Vendors
An RFP and security questionnaire for AI governance, guardrail, red-teaming and monitoring vendors. Each question says what a good answer looks like.
Published by AIGovernanceTools. How we check each AI governance tool.