Governance Brief
An organization prepares a governance brief before expanding an AI-assisted workflow from a pilot into normal operations. This is an illustrative workflow, not a customer case study.
Problem
An organization prepares a governance brief before expanding an AI-assisted workflow from a pilot into normal operations.
Human Role
Leaders define the intended benefit and risk tolerance, include affected functions, challenge the brief, and approve the conditions for moving forward.
Where AI Helps
AI can summarize policy and operating inputs, compare control options, draft a decision brief, and identify unanswered governance questions.
Where Human Judgment Stays
Leaders decide whether the use case is acceptable, assign ownership, confirm escalation paths, and retain accountability for the scale decision.
Workflow
- Define the outcome and decision boundary.
- Gather context and ask AI for a bounded first pass.
- Review assumptions, evidence, and missing perspectives.
- Revise, document ownership, and measure what improved.
AAOS Mapping
Diagnose the workflow, consequence, and current controls; Activate a bounded pilot; establish Controls for data, access, review, and escalation; Execute with named owners; Measure safety, usefulness, and adoption; Scale only when evidence supports it.
Common Failure Modes
- Starting with a tool before defining the work.
- Accepting fluent output without checking assumptions.
- Leaving ownership or review implicit.
What Good Looks Like
The governance brief includes an Integrity Packet with the decision, assumptions, evidence, validation, accountable owner, approval status, and unresolved risk.
Next Step
Use the assessment to choose the next capability.
Use this pattern carefully
This example is illustrative. Adapt the workflow to the people, evidence, controls, and consequence level in your own context before using it.
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