Minimum viable AI governance

Set practical guardrails before AI use spreads.

Use this pack when people are already experimenting, or before you begin a first pilot. It gives a small team the minimum operating rules needed to use AI with accountability and employee trust.

Five practical foundations, not an enterprise compliance programComplete the missing steps first. Review the pack whenever a workflow, tool, data boundary, or team concern changes.

Your baseline

What is in place today?

An accountable owner is named. Someone can approve use, answer questions, and pause a workflow. Accountable ownerUse a role if the person may change. This person needs authority to pause a workflow. The team has simple written rules. Approved tools, permitted use, human review, and employee protections are clear. Information boundaries are understood. People know what must not be pasted and where to ask when unsure. Active pilots are visible. Each has an owner, boundary, review step, status, and review date. Employees can raise concerns and influence the decision. The team reviews quality, workload, and unexpected risks. Concern or question routeMake it clear that raising a concern will not be used for individual performance assessment. Next baseline reviewReview sooner when a tool, workflow, information boundary, or concern changes.

Your next governance step