Independent AI governance research
Governing AI as a proof, not a promise.
A working reference library of risks, controls, frameworks and terminology, cross-mapped, alongside open research on how AI governance holds in regulated organisations. Financial services first; built to generalise.
Current research
All researchResearch programme · Live Responsible AI by design Twelve domains that must hold true for AI in a regulated organisation, and an eight-stage lifecycle by which each use case is proven.
Thought experiment · Ongoing The minimum number of people needed to run a regulated UK retail bank What regulation, ledger integrity and accountable persons require of humans when AI does the rest. Framework map OWASP LLM Top 10 (2026): risks and controls Every clause, the risks it names, and the controls that answer it.
The library
Open the library- 169named risks, severity-scored
- 105mapped controls
- 20frameworks and regulations
- 120glossary terms, cross-linked
- 01 Governance Explain how organisations operationalise AI governance through roles, policy, evidence, and controls.
- 02 Compliance Map the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF into practical executive and audit views.
- 03 Security Capture LLM threats, output validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards in a technical view.
- 04 Engineering Architecture, evaluation, production monitoring, and incident response for AI systems actually running, not just designed.
Recently published
RSS- AI in Third-Party Risk Management: What It Automates, and What It Cannot article
- Deterministic Work Belongs Either Side of the Model Call article
- Model Drift, Performance Regression and Versioning: Telling Them Apart article
- LLM Governance: What It Actually Means Operationally article
- Prompt Injection and System Prompt Hardening: What Actually Works article
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