As digital channels multiply and AI reshapes how work gets done, the ground a firm must govern keeps expanding. The harder task is rarely the technology itself, but keeping governance in step with it. Sole tailors governance, risk, and compliance strategies, grounded in best practices and shaped to your needs, so you can move fast without sacrificing protection.
Services/Risk & Compliance
Modern Governance, Risk & Compliance: how regulated firms move fast while minimizing risk.
What we do
“The best GRC strategies don’t say no — they make it safe to say yes.”
We design governance, risk, and compliance strategies tailored to your business — aligning the people who do the work, the process that runs it, and the technology that powers it.
Advisory
We assess where you stand, design the target state, and build the plan to get there -- a modern, scalable strategy for a defensible, adaptable program.
Result: a clear, board-ready roadmap you can act on.
Enablement
Our experts embed with your team to put the strategy into motion — implementing the technology, tuning it, and driving the adoption that makes it stick.
Result: systems and controls that are live, optimized, and actually used.
Operations
We run it with you, or for you — managed execution that keeps the program consistent and continuously monitored as it scales.
Result: a program that keeps performing long after go-live.
Our technology partners
How we work
Technology is the driver. People and process make it last.
Lasting change takes people, process, and technology together — and the only change that lasts is the kind your team can carry forward. So we embed seasoned consultants as part of your team, lead the work from the inside, and hand it back stronger than we found it.
Expertise in service of the client, not the consultant
We bring practitioner-built expertise and measure ourselves by one thing: are you genuinely better positioned than when we started?
We embed, we don't overlay
Our experts build solutions alongside your team, not above it — because transformation owned by the people living it is the only kind that lasts.
Outcomes over outputs
We design every engagement around change, not deliverables. If the work isn't translating into real progress, something is wrong.
Independence is the foundation of trust
Our vendor relationships make us better and faster, but our recommendations are always driven by what's right for the client — nothing else.
The transformation is the product
Technology is the vehicle. The real work is people, process, and leadership alignment — and that's where we spend most of our time.
Clarity is a craft
We structure complex, messy information into simple decisions that serve a broader narrative.
Outcomes
Recent highlights
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A modernized, cloud-based compliance foundation that paid back its investment in 9 months, with stronger capture, validation, and monitoring of data.
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Migrating to multi-tenant cloud and flexible data storage lowered platform and storage costs and tightened compliance with global retention requirements.
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AI-driven surveillance and smarter filtering cut alert noise nearly in half, freeing review teams to focus on genuine risk.
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Streamlining the review function and shifting data-capture ownership scaled coverage by 70% while cutting manual effort.
Selected work
Selected risk & compliance engagements
Banking · Chief Risk Officer
Closing a consent order without grinding the bank to a halt
A bank under a regulatory consent order had hundreds of open findings and a remediation program collapsing under its own weight. We took delivery leadership, rebuilt the control set around real risk, and evidenced closure — clearing the order with the client team running the function.
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Findings closed + evidenced
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Repeat findings at exam
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Control set the business trusts
Asset management
A control set cut in half, twice as trusted
Replaced a sprawling 400-control framework with a focused set built around real risk and real workflow — giving the risk committee a single view they actually act on.
60% fewer controls · 1 framework the board trusts
Healthcare
Privacy compliance that survived a new regulation
Stood up a privacy and data-protection capability ahead of a new regime — embedding controls into clinical workflow so adoption held when the rules changed underneath.
0 reportable breaches · capability run in-house
Why Sole
Most compliance programs fail the business before they fail an audit.
We have run the hard ones from the inside. We are built to make them work.
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Operators, not policy factories
Every engagement is led by people who have run real risk functions and closed real findings inside large, regulated organizations.
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Build the muscle, not the dependency
We aim to leave. Every deliverable comes with the runbook, the operator, and the cadence to keep going without us.
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Risk and the business together
Controls are designed with the people who have to live with them, so they protect real risk instead of slowing real work.
