Your Client Just Asked for an AI Governance Framework: A Practical Framework for Building One That Holds Up

The AI Is Already Deployed. The Governance Isn’t. AI governance isn’t a privacy-policy refresh. Regulators and standards bodies now expect a documented program with named owners, mapped obligations, and an audit trail that proves it operates—and “we have an AI policy” no longer answers the question. Stand up a model with no owner, and no one is accountable when its output goes wrong. Map nothing to the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, or Colorado’s AI Act, and high-risk obligations go unmet. Skip the monitoring and audit trail, and you cannot show a regulator the program actually…