Partner Program
Extend What You Offer. Protect What You've Built.
Centience operates a formal partner program for vCISOs, cybersecurity firms, compliance consultants, fractional technology executives, and MSPs who serve regulated industries. We implement and manage the governance layer. You retain the client relationship. Our model is co-delivery, not displacement.
Partners who work with Centience expand their offering, strengthen client relationships, and generate referral revenue — without building the governance operations capability themselves. The AI governance opportunity is significant. Regulated industries are under active regulatory pressure to govern AI adoption. Centience is built to deliver that governance program — and partners who introduce us are positioned to capture that opportunity with their existing clients.
We don't arrive to replace your relationship. We arrive to make your client's governance program enforceable.
Why Partners Choose Us
A Governed AI Operations Capability — Without Building It Yourself.
Regulated organizations need governance that is technically enforced — not just documented. Most advisory firms can design the program. Centience operates it. Partnering with Centience gives you a delivery capability for the governance layer your clients need — without hiring staff, building infrastructure, or taking on operational liability.
A governed AI operations capability you can offer clients
Offer clients in regulated industries a complete, technically enforced governance program — without building the operations capability yourself.
Recurring revenue from co-delivered managed governance engagements
Centience operates a two-tier partner program with defined commission terms. Referrals are tracked, protected, and compensated.
Operational delivery for governance programs you design but do not staff
You set the strategy. Centience executes it. Your program becomes enforceable, not just advisory.
Client relationship protection — your advisory role is never displaced
Centience fills the implementation and management gap without touching your advisory relationship. That is not a policy. It is how the program is structured.
A trusted delivery partner with a 100% audit success rate
20+ years in regulated industries. Every client engagement is governed by a written partner agreement that defines scope, protects the referral relationship, and establishes compensation terms.
Who This Is Built For
Partner Types
vCISOs and Fractional CISOs
You set the security program. We implement and manage it. Your client gets a complete security governance operation. High-value partners who also advise on AI governance are enrolled in both programs simultaneously.
Cybersecurity and GRC Advisory Firms
You deliver assessments, frameworks, and compliance programs. We deliver the managed implementation and ongoing operations your engagements need to be enforceable. Co-delivery model — you stay in the engagement.
Compliance Consultants and Legal Counsel
Your clients have regulatory obligations that require technical governance controls. Centience implements and manages those controls and produces the documentation your clients need. You remain their compliance advisor.
MSPs and Technology Partners
You manage your clients' technology. Your clients need governance. Centience provides the AI governance, cybersecurity governance, and compliance layer — or integrates into a co-managed model where you handle day-to-day IT and we handle the governance stack.
Fractional CTOs and Technology Executives
You define the technology direction. Centience implements the governance around it — ensuring your clients' technology decisions are compliant, documented, and audit-ready.
Process
Simple. Protected. Recurring.
Every co-delivery engagement begins with a governance assessment of the shared client. The assessment leads to a governance roadmap. The roadmap leads to an ongoing governance program. The partner retains their advisory role. Centience handles implementation and managed operations. Revenue is shared.
The partner relationship is protected — always. That is not a policy. It is how the program is structured.
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Introduction
You introduce Centience to a client with a governance gap. We conduct a no-obligation governance assessment. You stay involved throughout.
02
Proposal
We develop a governance program proposal that reflects the client's existing team structure — including your ongoing role. The engagement is designed around co-delivery, not replacement.
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Engagement
Centience implements and manages the governance program. You retain your advisory and client relationship role. The client gets a complete, integrated program.
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Ongoing
Referral compensation is paid per program terms. You maintain visibility into the engagement. Your client relationship is protected — in writing.
Program Structure
Partner Program Tiers
Tier 1
Referral Partner
For partners who refer clients and remain in an advisory capacity. One-time referral compensation on executed engagements. Simple, tracked, paid on contract execution.
Tier 2
Delivery Partner
For partners who co-deliver with Centience. Recurring commission on monthly program revenue for the duration of the engagement, up to 24 months.
Dual
Dual-Program Partners
Partners who refer clients across both cybersecurity governance and AI governance programs are enrolled in both tracks simultaneously and compensated accordingly.
Specific commission rates and terms are provided in the Centience Partner Agreement. Contact us to receive current program documentation.
Our Commitment
Your Client. Your Relationship. Protected.
This is the commitment Centience makes to every partner: we will never use a co-managed engagement to displace the partner who brought us in. We don't sell around you. We don't position against you. We don't expand our scope into your advisory role.
Every partner engagement is governed by a written partner agreement that defines scope, protects the referral relationship, and establishes compensation terms before the client engagement begins.
Extend Your Advisory Practice With a Governed Operations Delivery Capability.
Centience works best with firms and practitioners already engaged in regulated industries who have clients with real governance gaps. If that describes your practice, the conversation is worth having.
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