Partner Program
We Operate the Technology. You Keep the Program.
Centience works alongside compliance consultancies, chief compliance officers of record, cybersecurity advisers, fractional technology executives and MSPs serving regulated firms. We run the technical controls underneath your program and keep the evidence that they operated. Your interpretation, your procedures, your examination strategy and your client relationship stay where they are.
Most findings are not caused by a missing policy. They are caused by the gap between what a policy promises and what the environment actually enforces — and by nobody being able to show that a control operated over a period rather than on the day someone looked. Closing that gap is our work, not yours.
We don't arrive to replace your relationship. We arrive to make your client's program enforceable.
What We Hear
You Can Design the Control. Proving It Operated Is a Different Job.
These three patterns come up in almost every partner conversation. None of them is a policy problem, which is why none of them is solved by writing another document.
The Same Questionnaire, Answered From Scratch
Your client's investors hire an assessor. You assemble the evidence, answer the findings, write the management responses. Then the next client's investors hire the same assessor and it starts again — because nothing you produced the first time was ever a record.
Findings That Close, Then Come Back
A control gets fixed. Nobody re-tests it. Twelve months later it is on the report again, and there is no record of when it drifted or who changed it.
“It's Been Remediated” With Nothing Behind It
The gap between somebody saying a control is fixed and a re-test proving it is the gap between an assertion and evidence. Examiners and assessors know which one they are reading.
The Platform
One Engine Across the Whole Control Set
Centience connects to your client's live environment and tests controls against it. Not a questionnaire, not a document repository, not a point-in-time score — a set of checks that run on a schedule against the systems the firm actually uses.
Every finding carries a named owner, the obligation or policy clause it comes from, and a timestamped record of when it was last verified. When a fix is claimed, the finding moves to awaiting verification — not to green. It turns green when a re-test says so.
Identity and Access
Multi-factor enforcement, conditional access, privileged accounts, and joiner-mover-leaver. Tested continuously, not attested once a year.
Communications Supervision
Capture across email, Teams, chat and mobile. Retention by rule and category. Review workflow with attestation, and retrieval on demand.
Records and Retention
Retention configuration tested against the obligation it exists to satisfy — rather than configured once and assumed to be holding.
Device and Infrastructure
Encryption, patch state, MDM enrolment and backup verification, including whether a restore has actually been performed.
Third Parties and Vendors
A live vendor register, sub-processor tracking, and counterparty SOC 2 reports read, diarised and flagged before they lapse.
AI Adoption
Which AI tools are in use, on whose accounts, and whether the interactions are retained. Reconciled against what the firm is actually paying for.
Incident Response
A worked incident process including the Regulation S-P notification clock, so a response is timed and documented rather than improvised.
Policy and WSP Drafting
Documents drafted from what the environment actually shows, so the policy and the configuration agree. Yours to review, amend and sign.
A client engages one domain or all of them. Adding a domain later reuses the same connection and the same tenant knowledge, so breadth costs the client far less the second time than the first.
Who This Is Built For
Partner Types
Compliance Consultants and CCOs of Record
Your clients carry obligations that depend on technical controls you do not operate. Centience runs those controls and produces the evidence your programme relies on. You remain the compliance authority — we work to you.
Cybersecurity and GRC Advisory Firms
You deliver assessments and frameworks. We deliver the operations that make them enforceable, and the record that shows they held between assessments. Co-delivery — you stay in the engagement.
vCISOs and Fractional CISOs
You set the security programme. We implement and operate it, across the full control set rather than a single domain. Your client gets execution without you hiring a team to provide it.
MSPs and Technology Partners
You manage the technology day to day. We govern it — testing, evidencing and reporting — in a co-managed model that leaves your service delivery in place and gives your regulated clients something you are not set up to produce.
Fractional CTOs and Technology Executives
You set technology direction. We make sure the decisions behind it are documented, controlled and defensible when somebody asks — an investor, an examiner or an acquirer.
What Partners Get
Access, Evidence, and a Line You Can Point To
A Seat on Every Account You Introduce
Free and uncapped. See posture across your whole client book in one view, and answer a client's question without calling us first. Your access is never metered and never a line item — your visibility into your own clients is not something we intend to charge you for.
Your Clients' Evidence, Retrievable
Control results are timestamped as they are produced. The next due diligence questionnaire becomes a retrieval exercise instead of a project — for you as much as for your client.
Delivery Capacity You Don't Have to Hire
You design the programme. We operate it. No staff to recruit, no infrastructure to run, and no operational liability landing on your practice.
Findings That Close and Stay Closed
When a fix is claimed, the finding moves to awaiting verification — not to green. It turns green when a re-test says so, and it is watched afterwards for drift.
Independence Kept Where It Belongs
We verify and evidence the controls we operate. Where genuine independence is required, an independent assessor consumes our evidence rather than competing with it. We will not tell your client we are both the builder and the auditor.
A Boundary Set in Writing
Scope, our named role and the protection of your client relationship are defined in the partner agreement before the client engagement begins — not negotiated after it is underway.
Commercial terms are set out in the Centience Partner Agreement. Where a partner's own regulatory obligations call for a particular arrangement or disclosure, we structure around it — tell us what you need and we will work to it.
Process
How an Engagement Runs
Every co-delivered engagement starts with a scoped review of the shared client. The review produces findings. The findings produce a program. You keep your advisory role throughout, and it is written into the proposal rather than assumed.
01
Introduction
You introduce Centience to a client with a governance gap. We run a scoped review of the current control posture. You stay in the room throughout.
02
Findings
The review produces a gap list — each item with a named owner and the obligation or policy clause behind it. You see it before the client does.
03
Programme
We operate the technical controls. You keep interpretation, the written supervisory procedures and the examination relationship. Your ongoing role is named in the proposal.
04
Evidence
Controls are re-tested on a schedule and the record accumulates. You keep visibility into the account for as long as the engagement runs.
Our Commitment
Your Client. Your Relationship. Protected.
We will not use a co-delivered engagement to displace the partner who brought us in. We do not sell around you, position against you, or extend our scope into your advisory role. That is not a policy statement — it is how the program is structured, and it is in the agreement you sign.
The same boundary applies to the client's existing IT provider. We govern the technology regardless of who operates it, and where a client authorises us to enforce a specific control domain, that authority is named in writing and reversible.
See It Run Against a Real Environment.
The fastest way to judge this is to watch the engine test a live tenant and see what it finds. If you advise regulated firms with real governance gaps, that walkthrough is worth an hour.
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