Co-invest proposal · July 2026 · Confidential
The governance layer
for enterprise AI.
govrn.ai × Microsoft — the independent governance & attestation layer that turns Microsoft's enterprise-AI push into production, not pilots.
Presented by govrn.ai / Silicon Bayou · delivered by enterprise architects from TTEC Digital — Microsoft's 2025 Dynamics 365 Service Partner of the Year.
The moment
"…having intelligence compound within their organization so that they're taking control of the outcomes AI drives versus the other way around."
Judson Althoff, CEO Microsoft Commercial · launching Microsoft Frontier · July 2, 2026
6,000
forward-deployed engineers
Board
-level demand, funded now
= govrn
"control the outcomes AI drives" is governance
Why now
The market is forcing it — and it isn't the regulators.
The demand for independent attestation is already here, and it's private-market, not statutory. Your customers' procurement teams, their cyber-insurers, and their boards are the forcing functions — landing now, regardless of where regulation settles.
RFP
ISO 42001 is becoming a vendor requirement — the SOC 2 path, replayed
Premium
2026 cyber-insurers write "AI security riders" into coverage
Shield
TX / CA safe-harbor rewards NIST & ISO 42001 — cert as litigation defense
Board
Caremark oversight duty now reaches AI risk — proof required
The timing advantage: the EU AI Act's high-risk wave is deferred to Dec 2027 and US federal has turned deregulatory — so the near-term pull is the market, not the law. Co-investing now means owning the attestation layer ahead of the mandate, while the demand is already forcing enterprises to move.
The gap Microsoft can't close
You built the control plane. You still can't sign the attestation.
What Microsoft already has
Agent 365 + Purview — the agent registry, monitoring, and self-scored ISO 42001 / NIST AI RMF / EU AI Act readiness. Powerful. And it is self-assessment.
What a board & regulator require
An independent, signed attestation — from a body that doesn't also sell the agents and the cloud. You cannot certify your own control plane.
Microsoft proves it: Microsoft certifies its own AI with an independent ISO 42001 auditor — and Purview tells customers to get "audit-ready" and "report to auditors." That auditor — vendor-neutral, cross-cloud, board-grade — is the one role Microsoft structurally cannot play. It's where enterprise AI stalls.
govrn.ai
The independent, cross-vendor attestation layer — on top of Agent 365.
- Assess
- Governance program
- Independent attestation
- Live governance
One repeatable arc, mapped to ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act. govrn consumes Agent 365 + Purview telemetry as its evidence source and adds the independent, signed attestation on top — Agent 365 is our data source, not our competitor. And it spans every cloud and model, not just the Microsoft estate. Independence is the product: the body that builds is structurally separate from the body that attests.
Why Microsoft wins
Governance is a pull-through for Azure.
Every govrn engagement removes the single biggest reason an enterprise AI pilot never reaches production: nobody can attest it's safe. When governance clears, Azure OpenAI, Foundry, and Copilot consumption scales — and it counts against the customer's committed spend.
Marketplace
Transactable, Azure-platformed offer — flat 3% fee, govrn nets ~97%.
MACC
100% of pretax counts toward the customer's Azure consumption commitment — procurement prefers it.
Co-sell
Field sellers get a governance answer they can attach to any AI deal — govrn de-risks the spend, it doesn't slow it.
Who delivers it
Enterprise architects with top-percentile Microsoft pedigree.
Chris Bennett
CTO · Enterprise infra & Azure
Infrastructure, identity, and senior-Microsoft relationships — the deployment posture inside real enterprise estates.
Roberto Lleras
CSO · Data & AI
The data + AI platform depth — model-risk framing and the analysis layer over the governance record.
Sean Barlow
Solutions Architect
Design & implementation — how the standard maps onto a client's Azure estate, end to end.
All three are enterprise lead architects at TTEC Digital — Microsoft's 2025 Dynamics 365 Service Partner of the Year, a 10-year Microsoft Inner Circle member: 10,000+ Microsoft projects, 1,400+ certifications across Azure, Fabric, Dynamics 365 and Copilot. This is proven enterprise Microsoft delivery — with the relationships to match.
The solution
A Microsoft-platform enterprise AI-governance product — govrn.ai as the brand.
Built on
Azure + Fabric; consumes the Agent 365 registry + Purview signals; a live governance dashboard the client watches in real time.
On-ramp
An Agent 365 ecosystem ISV — in the Agent Store, transactable on Azure Marketplace, co-sell-ready. We deepen Agent 365 adoption, we don't compete with it.
Sold via
A transactable, MACC-eligible Azure Marketplace offer; co-sell-ready with the field.
Delivered by
The TTEC-Digital architect team — Microsoft-first, at the highest enterprise level.
Positioned as
Independent. The trust + attestation layer on the Microsoft platform — not another integrator.
The ask
Co-invest to stand it up.
1
Co-invest to build the govrn.ai governance solution on the Microsoft platform — engineering + go-to-market, jointly funded.
2
Co-sell alignment — ISV Success onboarding, IP-co-sell eligibility, and field introductions in a shortlist of joint enterprise accounts.
3
Frontier integration — position govrn as the independent attestation layer that lets Frontier engagements reach board-ready, regulator-ready sign-off.
4
Marketplace — a transactable, MACC-eligible offer, launched with Marketplace Rewards behind it.
Sequencing
Microsoft first. Then AWS & Google.
Now · Microsoft
Stand up + co-sell
Build on Azure, list on Marketplace, prove 3 joint accounts, integrate with Frontier. The lead motion.
Next · AWS
Port the layer
The same architects carry it to AWS (first Amazon Connect partner pedigree) — independent governance on Bedrock estates.
Then · Google
Complete the coverage
Google Cloud / Vertex — one governance standard, every hyperscaler, same delivery team.
One brand — govrn.ai — as the independent standard across all three clouds. Microsoft is where the relationships, the pedigree, and the moment already are.
The next step
Pick three accounts.
Prove the layer.
A scoped governance baseline in three joint enterprise accounts — govrn as the independent layer, delivered by the architects, on the Microsoft platform. Prove it, then scale it across the field.
govrn.ai · Silicon Bayou — Richard Taubin · with Chris Bennett, Roberto Lleras & Sean Barlow (TTEC Digital). · Confidential — not for distribution · July 2026. Marketplace fee / MACC / co-sell facts per Microsoft Learn; co-invest terms illustrative and subject to scoping.