AGR Global

What AGR Global does

AGR Global (legal name: AGR – Adaptiv Governance & Risk) is a privately held strategic advisory firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with a five-person team led by founder and CEO Richard Mackie. The firm provides governance, risk and assurance advisory services directly to boards and executive teams, organized around three core pillars — Risk Intelligence, Strategic Risk Partnership, and Board Suite — supplemented by five specialist frameworks (Opportunity Risk, Transformational Risk Appetite, Board Assurance Framework, Emerging Risk Sprint, Governance Maturity Assessment) and ancillary offerings including Scenario Room sessions and Executive Mentoring. The intellectual property sits in proprietary methodologies such as the Adaptiv Governance Maturity Model, the Resolution Risk Model, the Multi Aspect Assessment Model, and the Opportunity Risk Model, which structure how AGR diagnoses governance capability and decision quality for clients.

The firm runs a pure enterprise field-sales GTM motion: demand generation is driven by thought-leadership content on the AGR website and the AGR Insight Series, and every engagement originates from an Executive Briefing request emailed directly to the founder. AGR does not publish pricing; engagements are bespoke and quote-based, sometimes structured as multi-year recurring Strategic Risk Partnerships or shorter specialist sprints. Delivery is entirely direct, with no intermediaries, resellers, or partner-led distribution, and AGR complements its advisory practice with a technology partnership with Insight4GRC, whose software platform AGR recommends and helps implement for GRC workflows, dashboards, and reporting.

AGR is bootstrapped with no institutional investment, no subsidiaries, no parent entity, and no disclosed funding rounds; ownership and operating control appear concentrated with the founder. No operating geographies, named customer logos, awards, patents, certifications, or revenue figures are disclosed in the source data, so the firm's actual scale, customer base, and geographic reach are not verifiable from the materials provided.

Name

AGR Global

Legal name

AGR – Adaptiv Governance & Risk

Website

https://agr-global.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AGR Global (Adaptiv Governance & Risk) is a São Paulo-based, founder-led boutique advisory firm providing governance, risk and assurance consulting directly to boards and executive teams via proprietary frameworks and a technology partnership with Insight4GRC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Governance, Risk & Compliance Advisory

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Advisory (BPAHAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Governance & Board Effectiveness Advisory (BPAHAFAC), Corporate Strategy Advisory (BPAHADAA)

Keywords

• Governance advisory
• Strategic risk management
• Board consulting
• Executive mentoring
• GRC frameworks

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Risk Intelligence Services: Advisory services providing boards and executive teams with visibility into current, emerging and future risk including AI, global change, transformational risk appetite, strategic assurance and exposure. Delivered through structured engagements.
2. Strategic Risk Partnership: An ongoing strategic advisory relationship offering continuity, independent challenge and clear strategic judgement for boards and executive teams. Includes quarterly executive risk reviews, board support, decision challenge and mentoring.
3. Board Suite Services: Scenario Room immersive sessions, board workshops on strategic risk/assurance/appetite/resilience, and executive mentoring for confidential leadership support. Delivered as focused engagements or ongoing support.
4. Governance Maturity Assessment: Structured assessment methodology producing Governance Fingerprint, executive heat map and improvement roadmap. Five-phase process: Discover, Engage, Assess, Prioritize, Adapt.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AGR Global delivers strategic governance and risk advisory services to corporate boards and executive teams through three pillars — Risk Intelligence, Strategic Risk Partnership, and Board Suite — and five proprietary specialist frameworks (Opportunity Risk, Transformational Risk Appetite, Board Assurance Framework, Emerging Risk Sprint, Governance Maturity Assessment). Engagements are bespoke, advisory/consulting in nature, and structured as either defined project engagements or ongoing multi-year strategic partnerships, with delivery supported by a technology partnership with Insight4GRC.

Product overview

AGR Global (Adaptiv Governance & Risk) is a strategic advisory firm that offers a portfolio of governance and risk management services organized around three core pillars: Risk Intelligence (visibility into current, emerging and future risk), Strategic Risk Partnership (ongoing advisory support), and Board Suite (scenario work and mentoring). These are delivered alongside five specialist frameworks—Opportunity Risk, Transformational Risk Appetite, Board Assurance Framework, Emerging Risk Sprint, and Governance Maturity Assessment—plus individual services including Scenario Room and Executive Mentoring. AGR Global also partners with Insight4GRC, a governance technology platform, to deliver integrated governance, risk, assurance and compliance capabilities. The offering is primarily advisory/consulting services with a technology partnership component, not a standalone software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Insight4GRC: Governance technology platform delivered through partnership between AGR and Insight4GRC to connect governance, risk, assurance and compliance in one integrated platform.

Products and services

• Risk Intelligence Advisory service providing boards and executive teams with visibility into current, emerging and future risk including AI, global change, transformational risk appetite, strategic assurance and exposure. Helps leadership teams understand what is changing now, what is emerging and what may shape the next horizon.
• Strategic Risk Partnership Ongoing strategic advisory relationship for boards and executive teams providing continuity, independent challenge and clear strategic judgement, including quarterly executive risk reviews, board and committee support, and emerging risk intelligence.
• Board Suite Suite of services combining Scenario Room immersive strategic foresight sessions, board workshops on risk, assurance, appetite and resilience, and confidential executive mentoring for leaders who need perspective, challenge and confidence.
• Opportunity Risk Specialist advisory framework that helps leaders understand upside potential, positive risk taking and the choices that create lasting value, turning uncertainty into advantage through better choices.
• Transformational Risk Appetite Specialist advisory framework that moves risk appetite from a static statement into a leadership capability, helping leadership teams understand where boldness is required, where resilience matters and where exposure must evolve.
• Board Assurance Framework Specialist advisory framework delivering a proportionate, board-centred approach to assurance that clarifies priorities, supports confident decisions and creates assurance that informs strategic choices.
• Emerging Risk Sprint Short, focused advisory engagement that identifies, understands and responds to emerging risks before they become critical issues, providing fast insight, focused action and future readiness.
• Governance Maturity Assessment Structured AGR methodology that helps boards and executive teams assess governance maturity, identify priority improvements and build confidence in decision-making using the Adaptiv Governance Maturity Model covering ten connected governance capabilities and producing a Governance Fingerprint, executive heat map and improvement roadmap.
• Scenario Room Immersive strategic foresight environment that helps boards and executive teams test assumptions, explore scenarios and prepare for uncertainty, supporting better strategic discussion and decision quality.
• Executive Mentoring Confidential strategic mentoring for executives who need perspective, challenge and confidence in moments that matter, providing visibility, foresight and resilience support.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Insight4GRCcoreTechnology or IntegrationAGR partners with Insight4GRC to deliver governance technology solutions to clients. AGR provides governance expertise, board advisory, risk and assurance strategy, and implementation leadership while Insight4GRC provides the technology platform for workflow, dashboards, reporting, analytics, and scalable governance tools. The partnership enables organizations to connect governance, risk, assurance and compliance in one integrated platform.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Heidrick & Struggles: Executive search and Heidrick Consulting practice advising boards on governance, leadership and risk topics. Directly comparable customer base (boards and executive teams) and overlapping advisory service lines to AGR.
• Spencer Stuart: Global executive search and board advisory firm. Comparable because it similarly serves boards and CEOs with advisory on governance, succession and board effectiveness, complementing AGR's governance and risk advisory to the same buyer.
• The Corporate Governance Institute: Specialist training and certification body for governance, risk and compliance professionals. Comparable niche player delivering structured governance education and frameworks to board directors, overlapping AGR's Governance Maturity Assessment audience.
• National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD): US-based membership organization providing board education, certifications and governance advisory resources. Comparable because it directly targets the same board persona with governance education and assessment services that overlap AGR's Governance Maturity Assessment and Board Suite offerings.

Broad incumbents

• PwC Governance, Risk and Compliance Practice: Big Four GRC practice serving boards and audit committees on risk appetite, assurance and compliance. Comparable as a scaled incumbent serving the same buyer with overlapping governance and ERM frameworks.
• McKinsey Risk & Resilience Practice: Strategy consultancy with a risk and resilience practice advising CEOs and boards on enterprise risk and strategic risk appetite. Comparable buyer (boards and executives) and overlapping strategic risk partnership offerings.
• Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory: Big Four advisory practice offering enterprise risk management, board advisory and governance services at scale. Comparable because it competes for the same board-level ERM and governance budgets, albeit as part of a much broader advisory portfolio.

Emerging players

• Diligent (Galvanize/Board Intelligence ecosystem): Board governance software and assurance platform serving corporate secretaries and audit committees. Comparable because it touches the same board-level governance, risk and assurance workflow that AGR advises on and that Insight4GRC also serves.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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