Pistaply didn't start as a pitch deck. It started with a simple, recurring observation from inside regulated compliance and governance work: the gap between "we're doing this the right way" and "we can prove it" is where almost everything actually goes wrong.
Pistaply is built on years of hands-on experience inside compliance monitoring, control audits, operational risk, and corporate governance at a regulated European institution — the unglamorous, detail-heavy work of making sure controls actually hold up when someone checks.
That experience made one thing obvious: AI is being adopted inside organizations faster than the internal structures needed to govern it. Teams can point to a model in production. Far fewer can point to who signed off on it, what risk assessment was run, or what happens when it fails.
Pistaply exists to close that specific gap — translating regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001 into governance structures that hold up under real scrutiny, not just internal sign-off.
Compliance work teaches you one thing above all: a control nobody can evidence is not a control. — The principle behind how Pistaply is built
A governance framework is only as good as what it can prove after the fact. We build for the audit, not just the intention.
Regulation is complex enough without translation layers that obscure more than they clarify. We write and explain in plain terms — for boards, not just specialists.
Frameworks mean nothing until they're implementable by a real team, on a real system, under a real deadline. That's the bar for everything we build.
Pistaply is being built out in the open, on purpose. The frameworks, the plain-language breakdowns of regulation, the reasoning behind decisions — all of it is shared as it happens, not polished and released after the fact.
In a field this new, showing the actual thinking is more useful — and more honest — than presenting a finished authority from day one.