About Operisys
Built for the space between policy and production.
Operisys is a London-based AI governance and assurance company focused on the responsible deployment of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems.
Our territory is the point where organisational responsibility has to survive contact with technical systems, real users and real consequences.
Why the company exists
AI governance has to operate in the same world as the system it governs.
Governance is often discussed as policy. AI delivery is often discussed as engineering. In practice, decisions about purpose, responsibility and acceptable risk have to become permissions, workflows, review points and observable behaviour.
Operisys exists to work across that boundary: to help organisations make deliberate decisions about AI authority and retain a defensible basis for those decisions as systems change.
Point of view
AI will be trusted through disciplined deployment—not capability alone.
More capable models will expand the range of useful work. They will not remove the need for organisations to decide where reliance is appropriate.
Autonomy increases the importance of authority design: what a system can access, which actions it can take and where human judgement remains mandatory.
Assurance has to continue after launch because model behaviour, vendors, data and operating context do not stand still.
Founder
An interdisciplinary foundation.
Operisys was founded by Ashkan Gholizadeh, whose background spans legal education, enterprise software engineering and AI governance and assurance.
He holds an LLB and an LLM in International Commercial Law and has worked in enterprise software engineering. That combination informs an operating view of AI: responsibility must be explicit, controls must work in the system and claims about behaviour must be supported by evidence.
Operisys is founder-led and deliberately focused. Engagement boundaries are made clear, and specialist expertise is brought in or recommended when a question falls outside that remit.
- Law asks
- What must be defensible?
- Engineering asks
- What actually happens?
- Governance asks
- Who has authority and accountability?
Company
A specialist firm with a clear field.
- Focus
- AI deployment, governance, assurance and controls
- Base
- London, United Kingdom
- Company
- Operisys Ltd
- Registration
- England & Wales · No. 17272866