AI Governance Framework: Essential SME Guide to Avoid Risk
Most AI governance frameworks are written for banks. They assume a risk committee, a model validation team and a compliance officer with nothing else to do, so the 60-person business downloads the template and never uses it. This guide sets out the version that actually works at SME scale: six components, four risk tiers, five questions that decide the tier, four roles instead of a committee, controls configured inside the platforms you already license, and an evidence pack that answers an enterprise security questionnaire in an afternoon. It maps the whole thing onto ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act, sets out a 90-day rollout plan, states the real cost in person-days, and lists the mistakes that waste a year.
