Alpha - Applied Governance
The Alpha Governance Baseline turns policy, evidence, accountability, and regulatory exposure into one private decision pack. See what is governed, what is missing, who owns the next move, and what the board must decide.
Mandate
Most organizations have AI policy, scattered controls, and incomplete inventories. Far fewer can show a board, regulator, customer, or insurer how accountability and evidence fit together.
The Baseline reviews the enterprise governance environment across the six Alpha Standard pillars, identifies missing or unverified evidence, maps relevant EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 references, and turns the findings into five accountable action proposals.
The engagement is confidential and structurally separated from Alpha Ratings. It does not produce, influence, or imply an Alpha AI Governance Rating. Framework mappings identify relevance, not certification or legal compliance.
Seven-business-day target
Confirm the perimeter
Confirm in-scope business units, AI systems, agents, third parties, jurisdictions, and governance bodies.
Build the evidence map
Collect and verify evidence across the six Alpha Standard pillars, with missing positions shown explicitly.
Form the baseline
Separate evidence from judgment, establish framework relevance, and identify the decisions that change governance outcomes.
Deliver the decision pack
Assign owners, committees, dates, and success measures to five action proposals for management and board review.
Deliverables
A clear current-state judgment across the six Alpha Standard pillars, with evidence strength and limitations visible.
Required, collected, verified, and missing evidence positions by pillar, linked to governed sources.
Governance comparison against the relevant Alpha cohort without turning relative maturity into a rating.
Relevant EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 references with the evidence needed to assess applicability.
Prioritized proposals with an owner, accountable committee, due date, evidence basis, and success measure.
A private, versioned record of the decisions, unresolved evidence gaps, and 90-day governance operating plan.
