What Changes When AI Acts: Governing Autonomous Agents
A client called me last month about an agent their operations team had quietly turned on. It was meant to draft replies to supplier emails. Within a week it was […]
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Governing the Data Pipeline That Feeds Your Models
Most AI failures I have watched live in the pipeline, not the model. The model is the part on the slide. The pipeline is the part nobody wants to put […]
Master Data Management as an AI Foundation
A few weeks ago I sat with a team rolling out a customer-segmentation model. The model worked beautifully in the notebook. It fell apart the moment it touched production. “Acme […]
Data Lineage and Provenance for AI Training Sets
In 2018 I sat in a room with a bank’s data team and asked a question that ruined the afternoon. Where did this training dataset come from. The lead engineer […]
Data Quality for AI: Garbage In, Garbage Out at Machine Speed
The first time I heard “garbage in, garbage out” was in a basement, in front of a beige terminal, from a man who ran a weekly sales report. If the […]
Why AI Governance Starts With Data Governance
I have been doing this work for fifteen years, and I keep walking into the same room. Different logo over the door, different industry, sometimes a different language. Same room. […]
AI Compliance for Regulated Sectors: Finance, Healthcare, Hiring
The most expensive misread I keep walking into with sector teams sounds like this: “AI is too new for our regulator to have a view.” It is not. If you […]
GDPR and AI: Automated Decision-Making Obligations
The thing nobody tells you when you stand up an AI project in Europe is that the regulator most likely to come knocking is not the new AI regulator. It […]
Building an AI Governance Framework: GRC for Autonomous Systems
Governance, risk, and compliance is an unglamorous acronym, GRC, and it makes most people’s eyes glaze. So let me give you the version that actually matters in 2026. A framework […]
Shadow AI: Governing the Tools Your Employees Already Use
Here is a quiet truth most governance slides leave out. While the steering committee debates an AI policy, half the building is already pasting customer data into a chatbot to […]