Board Briefing

For the board: Kyudo in two pages.

A board-ready summary of the program your CISO or compliance officer is proposing. No jargon. The financial case, the risk case, the regulatory case.

What Kyudo does

Kyudo is an AI-native governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform that deploys inside your Azure environment. It automates evidence collection from your existing Microsoft security tools, maps your controls across every compliance framework you report against, and maintains continuous audit readiness. Your compliance data never leaves infrastructure you control.

Why now

Regulatory pressure is increasing across every vertical. EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2026. CMMC Phase 2 enforcement begins November 2026. Cyber insurance carriers are requiring continuous evidence, not annual attestations. The cost of reactive compliance, assembling evidence under deadline, paying consultants for periodic readiness, staffing up for each new framework, is no longer sustainable at scale.

The financial case

Organizations running 2 to 4 compliance frameworks typically spend $80K to $250K annually on external consultants. Adding each new framework costs roughly half an FTE ($60K+ annually). Kyudo's Regulated tier at $45K per year replaces one to three consultant engagements and supports up to four frameworks with continuous automated evidence. The Trust Center module compresses customer security reviews from weeks to hours, recovering deal velocity worth multiples of the subscription cost.

The regulatory exposure

Failed audits delay revenue. SOC 2 gaps block enterprise sales. CMMC non-certification eliminates DoD contract eligibility. EU AI Act penalties reach 7% of global annual turnover. HIPAA violations carry per-incident fines. These are not hypothetical risks. They are line items in the risk register. Kyudo converts them from episodic emergencies into continuously managed positions.

The deployment plan

Kyudo deploys inside your existing Azure tenant in approximately 45 minutes. No data migration required. No vendor access to your environment. Evidence collection from Defender, Sentinel, Purview, and Entra ID begins on day one. A typical organization achieves first framework coverage within 30 days.

The ask

Approve a 30-day proof of value deployment. No procurement commitment required. The platform deploys into a sandbox Azure subscription, connects to your Microsoft Security stack with read-only permissions, and produces your first compliance posture report within 24 hours. Your team evaluates the output. If it works, we discuss commercial terms.