AI governance for boards and executives
What should your board ask about AI?
The Assurance Line is an AI governance framework for boards and executives. Eight questions, asked in sequence, help you establish what AI your organization uses, who is accountable, and what evidence supports management’s claims.
Use it to prepare for a board meeting, structure a board paper, or identify where your organization’s assurance stops. The detailed board questions link to the control objectives they test.
- VISVisibilityWhat AI are we actually running?
- ACCAccountabilityWho is answerable for it?
- VALValueWhy are we running it?
- EXPExposureWhat could go wrong, and who could be affected?
- FNDFoundationsWhat is it built on?
- OBLObligationsWhat are we required to do?
- ASRAssuranceHow do we know any of this is true?
- RESResilienceWhat happens when it goes wrong?
Start here
New to AI oversight?Start with the 15-Minute BriefingUnderstand the AI issues boards need to oversee, and the questions worth asking. A practical, four-page briefing.Free briefingPreparing for a meeting?Explore the Board AI QuestionsWhat to ask management, how to follow up, and which answers warrant a closer look.Free preview · Board Edition for the complete questions
Then go further
Free AI Assurance CheckStart with one question per domain to identify gaps in your organization’s AI oversight. A first check, with a full assessment in the Professional Edition.Free · Eight questions, a few minutesExplore the frameworkUnderstand all eight domains and see the method in the complete, free Visibility example.Free overview and worked exampleThe LibraryFind briefings, guides, and working tools, with each resource labeled by its access level.Free resources and edition previews
Start free. Go further with an edition.
Explore the questions and a complete worked example, then choose the resources you need to put the framework to work.
- Free resources
- The briefing, eight-domain overview, quick assurance check, and complete Visibility example.
- Board Edition
- The complete board questions, follow-ups, red flags, and Board Guide.
- Professional Edition
- Everything in Board, plus the full framework, evidence requirements, assessment, and executive resources.