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The ROI of AI Governance

Security is often seen as a blocker. In the age of AI, governance is the accelerator that allows you to deploy faster and safer.

The Cost of Inaction

The "do nothing" approach is expensive.

  • Data Leaks: Samsung engineers leaked source code to ChatGPT. The cost? Intellectual property compromise.
  • Regulatory Fines: The EU AI Act imposes fines up to 7% of global turnover.
  • Reputational Damage: An AI chatbot promising a discount that the company doesn't offer (Air Canada case) leads to lawsuits and bad PR.

Governance as an Enabler

When you have a "Guardrails" platform like Railguard, you can unblock the business.

Faster Time-to-Market

Instead of a 6-month manual legal review for every prompt, you can deploy instantly with automated compliance checks.

Reduced Audit Costs

Automated evidence collection for SOC 2 and ISO 42001 saves hundreds of hours of manual evidence gathering.

Calculating the ROI

ROI = (Risk Avoidance + Operational Efficiency) / Cost of Governance Tool

For a typical enterprise, the risk avoidance alone (preventing a single data breach) yields an ROI of over 1000%.

ROI Calculator

Use our interactive spreadsheet to calculate the specific ROI for your organization.

The ROI of AI Governance | Railguard AI | Railguard AI