Chief AI Risk Officer

The Strategic Edge: Product, Technology & Risk Leadership

Premji Boominathan bridges the critical gap between high-velocity innovation and fiduciary safety. With 27 years of proven mastery navigating complex technical shifts, he provides VCs and Founders with the senior oversight required to secure and scale the next generation of intelligence.

Premji’s methodology integrates architectural depth with the industry’s most rigorous risk frameworks, ensuring that innovation remains a defensible asset, never a liability.

• Generative AI & Software Governance: Applying the NIST AI RMF to audit GenAI and LLM architectures. We ensure your software is transparent, defensible, and ready for enterprise-grade due diligence.

• AI/IoT & Physical Autonomy: Integrating the SORA Framework into the convergence of AI and IoT. This is the "gold standard" for portfolios involving robotics, drones, or autonomous systems where physical safety is the primary operational risk.

• Agentic AI & System Integrity: Hardening the "Decision-to-Action" loop in Agentic AI to prevent unaligned escalation, model hijacking, and data leakage. We secure the autonomy that drives your growth.

Bridging the Governance Gap across Agentic AI, Gen AI, and Autonomous IoT Systems.

Direct advisory on aligning your 2026 roadmap with NIST standards

"In the 2026 market, a visionary roadmap is a liability without a seasoned guardrail. My role is to ensure your AI investments survive the transition from lab to lifecycle."

Premji Boominathan

Chief AI Risk Officer

Core Advisory Services

Securing GenAI Innovation Through Technical Guardrails, NIST-Aligned Audits, and Comprehensive Fiduciary Risk Oversight Strategies.

NIST-Aligned GenAI Audits

We transform "Black Box" LLM implementations into transparent, enterprise-ready assets. By applying the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, I provide a comprehensive evaluation of model bias, data privacy, and technical defensibility—ensuring your GenAI roadmap survives rigorous M&A due diligence.

Agentic AI Security & Integrity

AI/IoT & Autonomous Systems

Fractional CAIRO

Autonomous agents move from thought to action. I architect the "Human-in-the-Loop" and "Guardrail" systems necessary to prevent model hijacking, unaligned escalation, and autonomous logic failures. We ensure your agents operate within strict fiduciary and operational boundaries.

For portfolios involving robotics, drones, or edge computing, I provide SORA-based risk modeling. We bridge the gap between digital intelligence and physical-world safety, ensuring your AI/IoT convergence meets international aviation and industrial safety standards.

Providing Series A-D startups and VC firms with dedicated, part-time executive oversight. I sit on your board or advisory team to oversee the integration of Product, Technology, and Risk, ensuring every technical leap is matched by a strategic safety net.

The Partnership Architecture

Rather than retroactive fixes, I provide a proactive safety architecture. My partnership model is built on Technical Defensibility, ensuring that every autonomous action and LLM output is grounded in international safety standards.

We move beyond the "Black Box" by documenting the data lineage and logic flows of your specific AI implementations.

Simulating "unaligned escalation" and agentic logic failures to identify where your guardrails are thinnest.

Cross-referencing your systems against NIST AI RMF and SORA standards to ensure global regulatory readiness.

Delivering a comprehensive risk-mitigation report ready for M&A due diligence or Board of Directors oversight.

Strategic Engagement Models

Deploying technical rigor through four specialized entry points designed to secure your portfolio’s high-growth trajectory.

Is Your AI Roadmap Board-Ready?

Stop treating AI risk as an afterthought. Let’s architect a technical safety net that survives M&A scrutiny.

The Focus

Ongoing Executive Oversight.

The Scope

Dedicated, part-time leadership for Series A–D startups.

Strategic Fit

Best for Long-term Strategy and Board-level representation.

Fractional CAIRO

NIST GenAI Audit

The Focus

Deep-Dive Technical Evaluation.

The Scope

A comprehensive 4-week sprint to validate your AI roadmap and safety protocols.

Strategic Fit

Best for M&A Due Diligence and funding preparation.

SORA Risk Modeling

The Focus

Industrial & IoT Safety.

The Scope

Specialized risk modeling for robotics, vision systems, and autonomous edge hardware.

Strategic Fit

Best for Physical-World AI and hardware-software convergence.

Agentic AI Security & Integrity

The Focus

Ongoing Executive Oversight.

The Scope

Dedicated, part-time leadership for Series A–D startups.

Strategic Fit

Best for Long-term Strategy and Board-level representation.

Why My Methodology Works

In the current market, most firms audit for Performance. I audit for Integrity. By applying the NIST AI Risk Management Framework from day one, I help you build "Enterprise-Ready" assets that are designed to survive the most rigorous technical scrutiny.

The Governance Gap

Technical excellence is irrelevant if your architecture cannot survive the three critical friction points of valuation.

Three Questions That Define Your AI Valuation

• 1. Deterministic Control vs. Agentic Drift

  • Can you demonstrate a "Hard-Kill" switch for your autonomous workflows, or is your system creating unbounded financial and operational liability through recursive logic loops?

• 2. Compliance as a Competitive Moat

  • Does your technical roadmap align with 2026 NIST Safety Frameworks, or is your current architecture building up "regulatory debt" that will stall your next funding round?

• 3. M&A Forensic Readiness

  • If a Tier-1 acquirer initiated technical due diligence tomorrow, is your AI infrastructure architected to survive a forensic audit, or will the "black box" kill the deal?