AI Governance Framework
Before AI use spreads beyond a pilot team, or after it already has and nobody can say who is using which capability on what data.
A governance framework defines who may use which AI capabilities, on what data, with what oversight, and with what record. The framework only matters if it is enforced by infrastructure: a policy stating that outputs must be reviewed changes nothing if the tooling does not make review mandatory and traceable.
Frameworks that survive contact with real workloads are proportionate. Requiring human review of every decision creates a bottleneck teams route around, and a bypassed control gives worse assurance than a lighter one people actually follow.
What the work includes
- Decision risk tiering, with criteria covering reversibility, blast radius, and external visibility
- Role-based access rules enforced in the request pipeline rather than the interface
- Audit requirements covering who requested what, which model ran, and what followed
- Incident response paths for when an AI system behaves unexpectedly