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Compliance costs more than the line item suggests.
Most organisations measure governance by tooling spend. The real cost shows up in remediation, audit reconstruction, recertification, and analyst hours absorbed by manual evidence collection. OBEXGATE replaces a defined portion of that operational load with enforced control.
If you cannot prove it, you will pay for it twice.
Not cost tracking. Cost control through enforceable proof.
Observer Mode shows how your system behaves
Enforce Mode blocks actions before execution
If an action violates policy, it does not run
Statutory exposure
The cost of doing nothing.
Issued by: Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY)
Issued by: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Württemberg (LfDI BW)
These fines were imposed under GDPR. The frameworks OBEXGATE covers carry the following maximum statutory exposures:
- EU AI Act: up to €35,000,000 or 7% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher, for prohibited AI systems; up to €15,000,000 or 3% for other violations
- GDPR / UK GDPR: up to €20,000,000 / £17,500,000 or 4% of global annual turnover
- DORA: supervisory-authority-determined; periodic penalty payments applicable in member states
- LGPD: up to 2% of Brazil revenue in the preceding financial year, capped at R$50,000,000 per violation
These exposures do not arise from using AI. They arise from using AI without verifiable governance in place.
Hidden cost
What governance actually consumes.
Tools are visible. Failure cost is not. The line items that move the budget are downstream of the violation: remediation work, audit reconstruction, recertification, escalation, regulatory exposure, and lost trust.
These costs show up after the fact, attached to events that runtime enforcement is designed to prevent.
| Cost driver | Where it accrues |
|---|---|
| Manual evidence collection | Compliance analyst hours, repeated for every audit cycle |
| Audit preparation | Reconstructing decision trails, mapping controls to frameworks, evidence pack assembly |
| Remediation | Engineering and legal effort after a violation is identified post-fact |
| Regulatory tracking | Horizon scanning across multiple jurisdictions, manual update cycles |
| Recertification | Repeat audits when scope changes or systems drift |
| Statutory exposure | Penalty exposure under EU AI Act, GDPR, UK GDPR, DORA, FCA, LGPD, and other frameworks |
What changes
Enforced control reduces operational load. It does not remove leadership accountability.
OBEXGATE does not replace governance leadership or external legal counsel. It reduces a defined portion of operational workload across governance, documentation, and audit preparation functions.
→ Violations blocked before impact
Non-compliant actions do not execute. The remediation cost that follows a violation does not accrue.
→ Evidence produced continuously
Audit lineage is a side effect of operation. Audit preparation cost falls because the evidence is already assembled.
→ Audit preparation load reduced
Decision records and framework mappings are produced continuously rather than reconstructed for each audit cycle.
→ Regulatory surface mapped
Applicable frameworks and jurisdictional exposure are visible before escalation.
→ Budget volatility reduced
Post-event remediation work is reduced by preventing violations before impact.
→ Governance work becomes measurable
Operational governance produces records that finance, legal, security, and technology teams can quantify.
Adoption note
Validate before enforcement.
Observer Mode lets finance, technology, legal, and security teams validate the operating model before enforcement is enabled. Same evaluation engine. Verdicts surface as alerts rather than blocks.
Quantification
See the numbers attached to your jurisdictional surface.
The pre-qualification assessment produces a personalised report covering jurisdictional surface, statutory exposure across exposed frameworks, and a three-year operational governance cost basis calculated from your inputs and current industry weights.
These figures reflect internal cost only and do not represent OBEXGATE pricing. Pricing is determined during qualification and depends on scope, deployment topology, and feature set.
Quantify your exposure.
Six questions. Personalised regulatory map, three-year operational governance cost basis, statutory exposure. To your inbox. Or 30 minutes with the team.