Declare
Define the task
State the question, purpose, audience, consequence level, intended decision and required output.
Governed workflow
How does governed AI produce a decision-grade output?
The method separates early discovery from later assurance. AI may expand possibilities, but reliance is controlled by scope, evidence, challenge, uncertainty and human authority.
Control
Apply Scope Lock
Set boundaries, jurisdiction, time period, exclusions and what the output is allowed to influence.
Register
Register evidence and assumptions
Identify sources, authority, currency, admissibility, transformations, uncertainties and missing material.
Discover
Explore widely
Generate options, perspectives, candidate mechanisms and competing explanations without treating them as confirmed.
Analyse
Decompose and compare
Break claims into components, compare at the same unit and identify patterns, dependencies and information loss.
Challenge
Test alternatives and weak links
Run adversarial review, falsification questions, uncertainty checks and consequence-sensitive stress tests.
Integrate
Synthesise without laundering certainty
Combine supported findings, retain unresolved conflict and state what remains unknown.
Assure
Assess permission-to-rely
Decide what the output may support, under which conditions, with what confidence and required human review.
Operationalise
Act, monitor and improve
Translate the supported output into roles, decisions, implementation steps, monitoring and review.
Reliance checkpoint
Loading a framework does not make the session governed.
A session is governed only when the declared controls are actually applied, missing material is disclosed, the audit trail is preserved and an authorised person accepts responsibility for use.
A novel possibility can be valuable while still being unsuitable for decision use.
Agreement among models may reveal a pattern, but shared training data or assumptions may explain it.
The overall conclusion cannot be stronger than its necessary unsupported component.
An output suitable for exploration may not be suitable for policy, regulation or irreversible action.
Apply the workflow
Choose an application domain.
See how the common method adapts to policy, research, strategy, investment and assurance tasks.
Explore applicationsSee it in practice
Review a worked case.
Case studies show the question, evidence, method, weak links, uncertainty and permission-to-rely.
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