Our Story
Built From 20 Years Inside Regulated Organizations
Centience is the evolution of two decades of hands-on technical work inside the most compliance-sensitive organizations in the country — financial services firms, healthcare organizations, and law firms that could not afford to get it wrong.
Book Your Governance AssessmentHow We Got Here
We Didn't Plan to Build a Governance Firm. Our Clients Made It Necessary.
In 2005, Orville Matias founded Compuwork — a managed IT services provider serving regulated industries across New York Metro and South Florida. The business was built on a straightforward premise: regulated organizations need technology that is reliable, secure, and capable of standing up to regulatory scrutiny.
Over the next two decades, Compuwork grew into a trusted technology partner for financial services firms, law practices, healthcare organizations, and accounting firms. The work was technical — managing infrastructure, securing networks, maintaining systems, keeping organizations running.
But something kept happening.
Every engagement eventually surfaced a compliance obligation. A FINRA examination. A HIPAA audit. An SEC review. Clients would turn to Compuwork — not just for the technology — but for guidance on how to make it defensible.
We became the firm that walked into audit situations, assembled the evidence, and led the response. Not because it was in the original scope — but because no one else in the room understood both the technology and the regulatory requirement simultaneously.
After two decades of doing this work inside client organizations, the conclusion was unavoidable: the market needed a firm that was built to govern technology from the inside — not advise on it from the outside.
In 2025, Centience was founded.
Our Approach
Governance Without Technical Control Is Just a Policy Document.
There are firms that write governance frameworks. There are firms that conduct compliance assessments. There are firms that manage IT infrastructure.
Centience is the only firm that does all three — because effective governance requires control of the environment being governed.
When Centience manages your infrastructure, your cybersecurity, and your AI environment, governance is not theoretical. Controls are technically enforced. Evidence is continuously collected. When regulators arrive, the documentation is already assembled.
That is why Centience maintains a 100% audit success rate across all client engagements.
We Own the Infrastructure
We manage the computers, networks, cloud environments, endpoints, and communication systems inside your organization. That operational ownership is what makes governance enforceable.
We Enforce the Controls
Policies mean nothing without enforcement. Because we operate the infrastructure, we can technically enforce security policies, access controls, and AI governance requirements — continuously.
We Assemble the Evidence
Audit readiness is not a project. It is a continuous operational state. We collect governance evidence daily so that when regulators ask, the answer is already documented.
Leadership
Orville Matias has spent over 23 years building and operating technology infrastructure inside regulated industries. He founded Compuwork in 2005 with a focus on serving compliance-driven organizations across financial services, healthcare, and legal — and spent two decades observing the same pattern repeat across every engagement: organizations were deploying technology faster than they could govern it.
In 2020, Orville co-founded CyberGRID, a specialized compliance firm focused on regulatory requirements for financial services firms — deepening his expertise in SEC, FINRA, HIPAA, and NIST frameworks.
In 2025, he founded Centience — a firm purpose-built to close the gap between technology operations and governance oversight in regulated industries.
His approach has always been the same: governance has to be technically enforced, not theoretically documented. That conviction is the foundation of the Centience model.
Expertise spans:
- SEC and FINRA regulatory compliance
- HIPAA and healthcare governance
- NIST cybersecurity framework implementation
- AI governance for regulated organizations
- Managed infrastructure for compliance-driven firms
- Incident response and audit readiness
"We built Centience because after 20 years of managing technology inside regulated organizations, we saw the same problem everywhere: firms were deploying technology faster than they could govern it. Governance has to be technically enforced — not written in a policy document and forgotten. That is what Centience is built to do."— Orville Matias, Founder & CEO
By The Numbers
Two Decades of Results
20+
Years Operating in Regulated Industries
100+
Organizations Served Across Financial Services, Healthcare & Legal
100%
Audit Success Rate Across All Engagements
10+
Average Client Relationship in Years
Core Values
The Principles Behind Every Engagement
Integrity
We document everything we do and stand behind it. When regulators ask, the evidence is there.
Technical Accountability
Governance claims must be technically verifiable. We operate the infrastructure — so we can prove every control.
Deep Expertise
Our team combines decades of managed IT operations with direct experience in SEC, FINRA, HIPAA, and NIST compliance.
Long-Term Partnership
We do not close tickets. We build governance programs. Most of our client relationships span a decade or more.
Precision Over Volume
We serve a focused set of regulated industries where we have deep expertise — not every market, not every sector.
Locations
New York Metro · South Florida · Nationwide
Centience serves regulated organizations across New York Metro and South Florida — and delivers governance programs for organizations nationwide.
1350 Ave of the Americas, Fl 3, New York, NY
333 Mamaroneck Avenue #431, White Plains, NY
200 S. Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL
4440 PGA Boulevard, Suite 600, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
"Regulators don't accept 'we're working on it.' Start with a governance assessment and know exactly where you stand."
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