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AI Governance Checklist
A practical leadership guide for turning policy principles into usable decisions, ownership, routes and evidence.
The answer in brief
- What it is
- A practical leadership guide for turning policy principles into usable decisions, ownership, routes and evidence.
- Best suited to
- Growing organisations that need clearer AI priorities, stronger product definition or experienced capacity around focused work.
- What useful progress looks like
- Which tools, embedded features, pilots and informal uses exist?
The decision in front of you
Start with the pressure facing the business.
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What brings the question into focus
The pressure usually shows up before the plan.
The business and technology questions are being handled separately.
Activity needs to become a defined product, owned decision and practical action.
THE SHIFT
We start with the pressure and recommend the smallest useful route across Decide, Define, Prove and Lead.
Questions worth resolving
Four questions for a useful diagnosis.
Use these prompts together. They expose the decision, the evidence and the conditions that need to be true before action makes sense.
01
Locate the pressure
What is driving the conversation?
02
Test the evidence
Who needs confidence in the answer?
03
Define the value
What evidence matters?
04
Set the guardrail
What is the useful next step?
01
The governance system
What this means in practice and what leadership should expect to be visibly different when the work is complete.
Inventory
Which tools, embedded features, pilots and informal uses exist?
Decision rights
Who approves tools, data, pilots, scaling and exceptions?
Information
What can be entered, retrieved, retained or shared?
Vendors
How are security, privacy, dependency and model changes assessed?
Human oversight
Where must people review, challenge, decide or intervene?
Evidence
Which tests, approvals, owners, incidents and monitoring records are retained?
02
Use proportionate routes
Increase scrutiny with impact, autonomy, information sensitivity and reversibility. Give employees an obvious approved path for common, lower-risk needs.
A useful next step
Make ai governance checklist relevant to your business.
Bring the decision, pressure or opportunity in front of you. We will recommend the lightest useful route forward.
FAQ
Questions leaders ask.
Direct answers to the questions that commonly shape an initial conversation.
01Is an AI policy enough?+
No. A policy needs operating routes, decision rights, owners and evidence if it is to shape everyday use.
Use the tool
AI Governance Working Checklist
Mark the controls that are already usable in everyday work. The gaps create a practical governance backlog.
Current score0 / 8
Interpret the result
0 to 2: establish the basic operating routes
3 to 5: close ownership and evidence gaps
6 to 8: strengthen monitoring and proportionality
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