Partner Program
Build the Future of Secure & Responsible Technology. Together.
The ARISE Ecosystem Partner Program connects technology vendors, advisors, and market leaders to the gold standard in Secure & Responsible Technology. Partner with Assessed Intelligence to extend the reach of the ARISE Framework and create measurable outcomes for the organizations that need it most.
Why Partner with Us
AI Governance Is the Next Mandate. Your Customers Are Already Behind.
Regulators, boards, and enterprise buyers are demanding structured AI governance. The organizations you serve need a credible, auditable path to compliance and they are looking to their trusted technology partners and advisors for answers.
At a moment when 1,889 AI legislative mentions in progress across 75 countries in a single year, as an ARISE partner, you will position your services inside the only seven domain ecosystem purpose-built for this environment..
1,889 AI legislative mentions across 75 countries in one year. Customers face compliance pressure from every direction, in every market.
Boards are asking the question. AI risk governance is now a fiduciary issue, not an IT issue.
Products without a governance story are losing deals to competitors who can map to recognized frameworks.
Advisors without a structured methodology cannot deliver the assurance engagements enterprise clients now require.
The market is moving fast. Early ecosystem positions define long-term dominance in AI governance advisory.
Partnership Tracks
Five Ways to Partner. One Shared Mission.
Each track is designed around a distinct value exchange. Partners may hold multiple designations simultaneously.
Control Partners
ARISE Control Partner
Technology vendors whose products address one or more controls within the ARISE Framework. Two tiers available: Preferred (Vetted) for formally validated integrations, and Registered (Self-Attested) as a lower-friction entry point. Control Partners are featured in customer guidance and ARISE Framework documentation.
Referral & Reseller Eligible
Licensing Partners
ARISE Framework Licensing Partner
Organizations that license the ARISE Framework IP for integration into their own products, including automated GRC platforms, compliance management tools, and AI governance software. Embed ARISE alongside NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and EU AI Act modules with full attribution and version currency requirements.
Referral & Reseller Eligible
Referral Partners
Referral Partner
Open to any individual or organization. Introduce qualified prospects to Assessed Intelligence. The Assessed Intelligence sales team owns and closes the deal. You receive a referral fee on first-year contract value upon close. Referrals remain active for 180 days with registration window protection.
Referral Fee Eligible
Reseller Partners (Selective)
Reseller Partner
Authorized to sell Assessed Intelligence services directly to customers. Considered selectively for organizations with demonstrated market access, an existing AI governance demand base, and the infrastructure to represent the ARISE Framework accurately. A wholesale discount applies. Requires ARISE Framework Sales Certification and quarterly business reviews.
Wholesale Discount
Marketing Partners
Marketing Partner
Event co-sponsors, webinar collaborators, research co-authors, and community partners. Campaign-based and transactional engagements that build mutual market presence. Access the Assessed Intelligence audience across webinars, email, and social channels. Marketing Partners may pursue deeper commercial engagement via Control or Licensing tracks.
Co-Marketing Focused
The ARISE Advantage
You Don’t Join an Ecosystem. You Build One.
The ARISE Framework
Every Partner Track Is Built Around a Framework That Defines the Category.
The ARISE Framework is Assessed Intelligence’s 7-domain assurance methodology for secure and responsible technology governance. Designed as a living framework, ARISE evolves alongside emerging technologies, global regulations, and the ethical responsibilities that come with them. It is the operational backbone of every engagement, the validation standard for every Control Partner, and the IP foundation for every Licensing Partner agreement. When you join the ARISE ecosystem, you anchor your value proposition to the most structured and unified governance framework in the market.
Every partner in the ARISE ecosystem strengthens the framework’s reach and the credibility of every other partner. Control Partners validate coverage. Licensing Partners extend access. Referral Partners open doors. Together, the ecosystem becomes the category standard for Secure & Responsible Technology. ARISE provides maturity-based, domain-by-domain assurance, giving organizations and their technology partners a shared language for what “governed AI” actually means.
The 7 Pillars of ARISE
Each pillar represents a functional domain of governance with a defined objective, outcome, and control library. Together they form a continuous, interdependent assurance cycle.
Strategy, accountability, oversight, and policy structures.
Risk management processes, lifecycle governance, and issue handling.
Asset visibility, inventories, dependencies, and classification.
Safeguards, access control, security protections, and privacy controls.
Monitoring, anomalies, drift, threats, and control failures.
Escalation, corrective action, recovery coordination, and incident handling.
Testing, evidence, assurance, audit readiness, and independent review.
The ARISE Framework is intellectual property of Assessed Intelligence. All 7 domains are owned and maintained by Assessed Intelligence, not affiliated with NIST, ISO, or any other standards body.
Built for What Comes Next
AI Governance Is Not a Feature. It Is the Foundation.
Ready To Build?
The AI Governance Market Is Being Defined Right Now.
The organizations that partner early define the ecosystem. Explore which partnership track is right for your business.