About us

AI governance for the organizations the big platforms skip

GOVERNBOX.ai is the original and comprehensive AI governance and management system of record: inventory, grounded policies, crosswalks, risk, training, incidents, vendors, costs, a board report, and an API to connect it all. It is built by Gradient Descent LLC for nonprofits, associations, public-sector bodies and regulated small and mid-size organizations: the ones that answer to a board or a funder but have no AI risk team.

Why we built it

Auditors and boards don’t stop at “is there a policy?” They ask who owns each AI system, what data it uses, how it was tested, how it’s monitored, and what the plan is when it breaks. Enterprise platforms answer that for companies with a dedicated team and a large budget. GOVERNBOX keeps all five answers in one place for everyone else, each one cited to a control.

How it works

Every clause cites a real control

Policies are drafted from 1584 authored controls. The AI tailors them to your organization and never invents one; if no control fits, it says so.

A person approves every document

GOVERNBOX gives you a cited, reviewable draft. Someone in your organization approves it before it is used. It is not legal advice.

Prices are published

Plans start at $3,500 a year, one flat price per organization, never per seat. Nonprofits take 20% off.

Plain language

It is written for the director, COO or counsel who was handed AI governance without specialist training, and for the board they answer to.

  • Encrypted in transit & at rest
  • No training on your content
  • No consultant or special training required
About the founder
Jim TunnessenFounder & CEO, GOVERNBOX.ai
Former 2× Federal CIO / CAIO / CTO / CPO

Two decades directing large-scale technology portfolios, enterprise risk management and applied machine learning — which is why the control library is authored and versioned the way it is, rather than assembled from templates.

The company

Legal name
Gradient Descent LLC, doing business as GOVERNBOX.ai
Address
8609 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 110 PMB 1035, Tysons Corner, VA 22182, United States
Federal registration
Registered in SAM.gov · UEI CKE8VMJFDJW7 · CAGE 24ZG3
Security
SOC 2 Type 2 audit in progress (Oneleet)
Contact
info@governbox.ai
Patents
Patent pending (U.S.): grounded document generation, the certified regulatory crosswalk and coverage engine, regulatory-change notification, gap-to-risk acceptance, the citation appendix, and the entitlement-aware retrieval behind them.