About
I spent sixteen years being the person who signs.
Firemark exists because AI governance is full of people willing to advise and almost nobody willing to conclude.
I'm Renee. For sixteen years I worked in second-line risk — the function that reviews what the business wants to do, challenges it, and then either signs off or doesn't. That is an uncomfortable job by design. You are the person whose name is attached when the examiner arrives and asks who approved this.
When AI arrived inside regulated companies, the same question showed up with no one positioned to answer it. Vendors said the model was safe. Consultants delivered maturity frameworks with a disclaimer on page two. Engineering said governance was a product decision, product said it was legal's, and legal said it depended. Every party assisted. Nobody concluded.
Firemark is built around the conclusion. We assess AI systems against the specific, versioned obligations that govern them, we say what's risky and in what order it matters, and we sign the assessment. The signature is not a marketing flourish — it's the discipline that forces the work to be complete enough to defend.
The practice is deliberately narrow. We don't build the AI we assess, and we don't chase transformation engagements that would compromise independence. One thing, done at a standard that survives examination.
Next step
Talk to the person who'd sign it.
No pre-sales team, no junior associate on the call. Thirty minutes with the practitioner who would perform and sign the assessment.