AI governance

Practical notes on AI inventories, access controls, evaluation, spend attribution and human review.

AI governance 13 min read

AI cost management: what an accepted result costs

How to report AI spend the way finance reports everything else: by team, by workflow and by accepted result, with unknown charges kept separate from zero.

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A monthly AI spend ledger with recorded, reserved and unconfirmed columns per teamThree team rows show recorded spend as a solid bar, reserved allowance as a hatched bar and unconfirmed charges as a separate count. Figures are illustrative, not customer data.AI spend, September, by teamIllustrative figuresTeamRecordedReservedUnconfirmedSupport$1,240$180NoneContent$860$9512 heldFinance ops$310None4 heldReceipt pricedCeiling heldNo receipt yet, owner assigned
Three columns, three meanings

Recorded spend has a receipt, reserved allowance is a ceiling held while work runs, and an unconfirmed charge keeps its ceiling until a receipt or a review settles it. The total is never the sum of all three.

AI governance 16 min read

An AI governance framework your team can operate

A decision guide for the people who sign off AI systems: how much governance each one needs, who does what in the first 90 days, what it costs to run, and the evidence that proves the rules were followed.

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A requirement, its enforcement and its evidenceThree linked panels. The requirement panel holds a written rule: drafts never send without review. The enforcement panel shows the application controls that apply it: a permission check, an approval gate and a scoped credential. The evidence panel shows the record kept: proposal version, reviewer identity, decision and time. Conceptual illustration.RequirementWritten ruleDrafts never sendwithout review.Owner: support leadEnforcementPermission checkApproval gateScoped credentialIn the applicationEvidenceProposal versionReviewer identityDecision and timeChecked before actingThe record answers: was the rule applied, by whom, to which version?
A requirement, its enforcement and its evidence

A policy sentence becomes a control in the application and a record the operator can read. If any of the three is missing, the other two cannot prove the rule was followed.

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