The Framework
Governance shouldn't be a hurdle. It should be the foundation that allows your firm to scale AI-assisted work without exposure. The GRID framework moves governance from the handbook into the workflow itself.
Four Operational Pillars
GRID defines four operational control domains. Every governance gap in your firm lives inside one of these four areas. The framework makes complex AI exposure legible to leadership — without requiring a technical background to understand the risk.
Mapping authority, decision rights, and accountability. Every AI-assisted output is tied to a human owner.
Proactive identification of client-matter exposure, workflow instability, and blind spots in AI reliance.
Embedded controls that trigger automatically within your existing firm tools — Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini.
Institutional audit trails. Proving compliance for carriers, regulators, and opposing counsel is no longer manual.
The GRID framework defines four operational pillars. The full Assessment scores your firm across seven sub-dimensions within those pillars — delivering a scored record across every control layer. Four visual controls. Seven scored dimensions. One defensible position.
The Full Assessment
The GRID Control™ Assessment scores your firm 0–8 across seven sub-dimensions nested within the four GRID pillars. Each score maps to a gap, and each gap maps to a specific remediation action in your roadmap.
Beyond Policy Theory
Theoretical policies are broken by their own nature — they rely on human memory and constant training. Our framework uses Agent Skills to bridge the gap. We don't just tell attorneys how to behave; we load governance logic directly into the agents they use — making controls operational by default.
Your GRID Control™ Assessment produces a custom SKILL.md file deployed to your firm's internal repository. That file enforces your AI governance rules inside the tools attorneys use every day — Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini — so policy runs automatically, not only in memory.
Legal Foundation
The GRID Control™ framework is built on the governance obligations defined in ABA Formal Opinion 512 — the guidance that ties AI use to attorney duties of competence, confidentiality, supervision, and billing integrity. Every dimension scored in the assessment maps directly to one or more of those obligations. This is not a best practice framework. It is a professional conduct compliance infrastructure.
Certification Standard
Every engagement at M.CQ Ventures is aligned with ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — the international standard for AI Management Systems. The GRID Control™ Assessment serves as the T1 entry point for firms pursuing full ISO 42001 certification. The framework does not require certification to deliver value — but every assessment produces documentation that is certification-ready.
Next Step
Start with the free 5-question diagnostic to see where your firm scores across the four GRID dimensions.
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