Dublin, Ireland Jul 7, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - Montro Launches Free AI Governance Readiness Index as European Organisations Face Their Most Demanding AI Compliance Period Yet
The EU AI Governance Readiness Index (AIGRI) is a free self-assessment that scores any European organization across eight AI governance dimensions, each mapped to specific articles in the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, and NIS2. No consultants. No cost.
Montro, the AI Governance and SaaS Intelligence platform built for European organizations, has launched the EU AI Governance Readiness Index (AIGRI). It is a free self-assessment tool that tells organizations exactly where their AI governance stands against the regulatory frameworks now in force across Europe.
AI adoption across European businesses has outpaced the governance structures meant to manage it. In most mid-market organizations, employees are using AI tools that were never formally assessed, approved, or documented—tools that process company data, handle client information, and in some cases deal with personal data without a risk review, without data processing agreements, and without the controls that EU regulators now require. According to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report, shadow AI was a factor in one in five breaches, adding an average of $670,000 to the cost of each incident.
For many organizations, the honest difficulty is knowing where to start. Responsible AI adoption, the kind that holds up under audit, satisfies regulators, and genuinely protects the business, depends on having a clear picture of what AI is in use, how it maps to applicable frameworks, and whether existing controls are sufficient. Most mid-market firms have not had a practical way to establish that picture, and most cannot afford the consultants who have traditionally provided it.
Take the free assessment: montro.io/aigri
About AIGRI
AIGRI covers eight governance dimensions—AI strategy, application inventory, risk classification, data governance, vendor management, workforce AI literacy, incident response, and continuous monitoring. Every question maps to a specific article in the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, or NIS2. The output tells you where you have gaps, which regulation each gap connects to, and what needs to happen next.
The quick version takes 90 seconds and needs no account. The full assessment runs 15 to 25 minutes and produces three documents on completion: a board summary, a DPA and audit pack for Data Protection Officers and external auditors, and a vendor governance pack covering AI third-party risk and DORA obligations. All three are ready to use immediately; no additional formatting is required.
The 2026 cohort is free. Anonymized results will be aggregated to build what Montro intends as an annual European AI governance benchmark, the first consistent, cross-industry measure of how governance maturity is actually developing across the market.
From the Founders—"Most "of the IT and security leaders we speak to are genuinely trying to get AI governance right. What they keep telling us is that they don’t actually know where they stand, and AIGRI was built to give them an honest answer to that." - Ankur Arora, CEO and Co-Founder, Montro
"What worries me is not the organizations that are unprepared; it is the ones that think they are prepared but cannot evidence it when a regulator asks." - Namita Razdan, COO and Co-Founder, Montro
Availability
AIGRI is free and open to any organization with EU regulatory exposure. The Governance Snapshot requires no registration. The full assessment and report outputs are available following a brief sign-up at montro.io/aigri.
Organizations that want to go further, including a full discovery audit of every AI and SaaS tool in their environment, covering both sanctioned applications and shadow tools that have never been formally assessed, can book Montro's 30-day Discovery Audit. The audit produces a board-ready governance report and a complete application inventory mapped to relevant regulatory obligations.
Book a Discovery Audit: montro.io/book
About Montro
Montro is an AI Governance and SaaS Intelligence platform built for European organizations. Founded in Dublin by Ankur Arora and Namita Razdan, Montro helps IT, security, and compliance teams find every AI tool and SaaS application in their environment—including the ones that were never formally approved—and govern them properly. The platform is built around EU regulatory requirements from the ground up, with EU data residency and article-level compliance mapping across the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, and NIS2.
Media Contact
Ankur Arora hello@montro.io Ankur http://www.montro.io
