Know your AI is ready for business.
Secure how your business uses AI with practical governance, controls, assurance and a clear pathway to certification.
APAS|360® helps established professional services firms reduce manual work, connect fragmented processes and systems, and create the capacity and insight to operate and grow more effectively.
AI is already in your business. Are you in control?
AI is already entering your people, processes, systems and data. Without the right controls, your business may be exposed to risks you cannot see, manage or demonstrate.
CURRENT REALITY
Yet the work between those systems can still depend on:
Re-entering information
Emails and spreadsheets
Manual handoffs
Chasing people for updates
Reconciliation and checking
Professionals performing administrative tasks
Management information pulled together from multiple systems
The result?
Good technology. Fragmented processes. Valuable people spending time making the systems work together.
The opportunity isn't another system. It's making the systems you already have work better together.
Build the right Secure AI solution for your business.
APAS|Secure AI brings together the assessments, controls, implementation, certification and assurance your business needs to manage AI securely and responsibly.
APAS|360® connects the client, the work, finance, existing systems and management insight into one intelligent operating environment.
This enables you to:
Connect
Information flows between the people, processes and systems that need it.
Automate
Reduce repetitive work and manual handoffs.
Control
Keep people in control of decisions and professional judgement.
See
Gain a clearer, more current view of the firm.
Scale
Create capacity to serve clients and grow.
Don't replace your technology. Transform how it works together.
Measure how well your AI is controlled.
The APAS|Secure AI Score gives leadership an evidence-based view of AI governance, security and controls, identifies priority gaps and measures progress over time.
Five connected capabilities work together to reduce manual coordination, improve visibility and create a more scalable way of operating.
Each capability can deliver value independently. Connected together, they transform how the firm operates.
One platform. Connected workflows. Better use of your people, technology and information.
A Practical Pathway to Trusted AI.
Build from essential AI controls to demonstrated maturity, with a clear pathway from APAS|Secure AI Ready through Certified and Advanced towards ISO/IEC 42001 certification.
APAS Three-Stage Approach
DIAGNOSE
Understand where value can be created
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AUTOMATE
Remove unnecessary manual work
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EXECUTE
Connect and transform
Deliver the transformation in manageable stages, connecting capabilities and systems as the organisation is ready.
Start with value. Build with confidence. Transform how you operate.
When AI can act, who controls the action?
AI agents can access data, use tools, interact with systems and take actions on your behalf. APAS|Secure AI provides the controls needed to manage what agents can access, do and decide.
Whether you are an accounting, legal, consulting or advisory firm, APAS|360® helps connect the way your firm works, reducing administrative effort while giving your people and leadership greater capacity, control and visibility.
ACCOUNTING
Connect client service, workflow, accounting operations and management insight.
LEGAL
Connect client matters, people, workflows, billing, finance and supporting systems.
CONSULTING & ADVISORY
Connect engagements, resources, deliverables, financial operations and client information.
For firms where highly skilled people are spending too much time making fragmented processes and systems work together, APAS|360® creates a better way to operate.
Your people should be focused on creating value for clients, not managing the gaps between systems.
Can you prove your AI controls are working?
AI governance cannot stop at implementation. APAS|Secure AI helps you test, evidence, reassess and continuously improve your controls as your technology, risks and use of AI evolve.
CLIENT EXPERIENCE
Make it easier to work with your firm
A more connected digital experience, clearer communication & less friction across the client journey.
PEOPLE & PRODUCTIVITY
Give your people more capacity
Reduce repetitive administration, manual handoffs and time spent moving information between systems.
OPERATIONAL CONTROL
Create a more connected operation
Connect workflows, systems and information so work can be tracked, managed and improved more effectively.
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Turn financial data into insight
Improve access to timely, connected financial information and make better decisions with greater confidence.
GROWTH & SCALE
Grow without simply adding more work
Create the capacity, operating foundation and intelligence needed to serve more clients and develop new opportunities.
APAS|360® helps professional services firms turn technology investment into greater capacity, better performance and sustainable growth.
Don't just define the controls. Put them to work.
APAS provides the leadership, implementation and specialist capability needed to turn Secure AI requirements into working controls, embed them across the business and support them over time.
Transform your own firm. Then help your clients transform theirs.
Three commercial opportunities
EXTEND CLIENT SERVICES
Give clients access to selected automation, workflow and insight solutions as part of your service offering.
CREATE NEW REVENUE
Develop new recurring technology-enabled services around the capabilities your clients increasingly need.
STRENGTHEN CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS
Move beyond delivering professional advice to helping clients improve how they operate.
APAS|360® gives professional services firms the opportunity to become not only better operators, but technology-enabled partners to their clients.
Built on recognised standards. Designed for business.
APAS|Secure AI brings recognised AI governance and risk frameworks into a practical solution that businesses can understand, implement and demonstrate.
We can start with your current processes, systems and priorities, identify the opportunities that matter most, and develop a practical roadmap for transformation.
Your opportunity → APAS|360®
Your technology is already an investment. APAS|360® helps you turn that investment into a more connected, intelligent and scalable way of operating.
Find out how well your business is controlling AI.
Start with an APAS|Secure AI Readiness Assessment and establish your baseline, priority gaps and roadmap towards greater assurance.