Specialist.
Industry-aware.
Plain English.
Nimble AI is an AI governance consultancy and a specialist in ServiceNow and service management. We help you use AI confidently, separating what the law actually requires of you from what's voluntary best practice, and giving you both in plain English. We're fluent across the frameworks that matter, UK GDPR and the DUAA, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF, and we work remotely, so where you are is rarely the constraint. We lead with enablement, not fear.
We Understand Your Industry.
We are AI governance and compliance specialists, alongside technology consultants, who work with small and mid-sized businesses. We are not generalist IT consultants who treat AI as a side line. We take the time to understand your sector and how AI actually shows up in it, from hiring and pricing to operations and customer service, so the governance we build fits your business.
Our work sits at the intersection of technology, regulation and business strategy. Our method is the same wherever you sit: separate what actually binds you from what's voluntary best practice, then map you to both, in writing. In practice, that means fluency in UK GDPR, the reformed Article 22 rules under the Data (Use & Access) Act 2025, the Equality Act, FCA/PRA SS1/23, MHRA, ICO guidance and NCSC AI cyber-security guidance on the legal side, and in ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and DSIT's AI Management Essentials work on the voluntary side.
The Gap We Close
The hardest question for any business using AI is the most basic one: which rules actually apply to us? The EU AI Act gets all the headlines, but it's a hard legal duty only for firms that touch the EU market, not a universal one. The right starting point is never the regulation making the most noise: it's working out, case by case, what actually binds you given where you operate and who you serve, and what's left as a genuinely useful but voluntary benchmark.
Meanwhile, fewer than one in five businesses have a comprehensive AI governance framework in place (techUK, 2025). Staff are using ChatGPT, hiring teams are letting ATSs auto-rank CVs, ops teams are letting AI schedule shifts, and no one has written down what's allowed, who's accountable, or what happens when something goes wrong.
That is the gap we close: honestly, proportionately, and without telling you the sky is falling.
We split everything into two buckets. Bucket 1: what actually binds you, wherever you operate (UK GDPR and the Equality Act if you're UK-based, the EU AI Act if you touch the EU market, your sector regulator always). Bucket 2: voluntary best practice worth adopting regardless (ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, ICO guidance, ATRS, NCSC AI guidance). We tell you which bucket each rule sits in, in writing, without exaggeration.
Our Approach
We don't build bureaucracies. We build governance frameworks that are rigorous enough to satisfy regulators and practical enough for your team to actually use.
- 01We start with an audit
You cannot manage what you cannot see. Our rapid audit process gives you a complete picture of your AI estate and compliance position within three weeks.
- 02We work at your pace
Some clients have a hard regulatory deadline driving them. Others want to build compliance capability over time. We design our engagement around your timeline and resources.
- 03We are proportionate
Compliance does not mean building a bureaucracy. We design governance frameworks that are rigorous enough to satisfy regulators and practical enough for your team to actually use.
- 04We understand your industry
We take time to understand your sector and how AI shows up in it, so the governance we build fits the pressures and opportunities specific to your industry, not a generic template.
Experience you can build on
Behind Nimble AI is more than 30 years in enterprise technology, service management and transformation, including building and leading award-winning teams and businesses. We’ve delivered ServiceNow, enterprise service management and large-scale process change in the real world, and we bring that depth to AI governance now.
It’s why our advice is practical, not theoretical: we’ve run the operations we now help you govern. Strategy, platform and discipline, joined up, from people who’ve done all three.
Why Nimble AI
We learn how AI actually shows up in your sector, so our advice fits your business, not a generic checklist.
We focus exclusively on AI governance and compliance, not generalist IT consultants.
Time-bound service packages with clear deliverables. No surprises, no open-ended day rates.
Our rapid audit turnaround is 2–3 weeks from engagement. Built for real regulatory deadlines, not drawn out.
Built for real businesses, not theoretical compliance exercises. Your team will actually use them.
We tell you what compliance actually requires, and what it doesn't. No unnecessary complexity.
Fluent in the Frameworks That Matter
Different rules apply to different businesses. We map you to the right ones and don't pretend the rest apply when they don't.
DPIAs for high-risk AI processing. Bites on any AI that touches personal data: the most universal hook for UK SMEs.
Reformed Article 22 rules on automated decision-making, already in force. Hiring, credit, insurance, pricing: all squarely in scope.
Algorithmic bias in recruitment, pricing or service delivery creates discrimination liability, even when the bias is unintended.
FCA/PRA SS1/23 model risk for financial services, MHRA for medical AI, the Online Safety Act for platforms. Your regulator has views.
DSIT's AI Management Essentials was a consultation draft that informed our methodology. The government stepped back from finalising it; the governance territory it mapped remains the right territory.
The certifiable international AI-management-system standard. Under 100 firms certified globally: a credible end-state to sell toward.
A hard legal duty if your AI touches the EU market. For purely domestic UK firms, a voluntary best-practice benchmark: nothing more, nothing less.
The UK regulator's operational view on AI & data protection and automated decisions. Our DPIAs and ADM audits track its expectations.
DSIT's Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, and the cross-sector principles: safety, transparency, fairness, accountability, contestability.
For security-conscious firms. AI is now critical operational infrastructure. We treat it that way.
US-origin but globally influential, and one of the three frameworks DSIT built its AI Management Essentials draft on. Useful where you have US partners or investors.
If a rule doesn't apply to you, we'll say so. We don't sell compliance you don't need.
Start With the Free Scorecard
Ten minutes, anonymous, no obligation. You'll come away with a RAG-rated readiness score, a plain-English summary of which UK rules and benchmarks actually apply to you, and a recommended next step. If a consultation makes sense after that, we'll book one. If not, we won't.