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The Free Library

Every free instrument of AI GOVERNANCE CHAIN™, in one place: what each one is, what it is used for, and a direct download in PDF and DOCX. The WHAT and the WHY are free. The HOW, the WITH-YOU, and the DONE-FOR-YOU are the paid path.

Every document below is complete and usable today. No registration, no email wall. If an instrument surfaces a gap you cannot close alone, the paid catalog and the Pre-Scale Governance Audit are the next step.

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The AI Governance Starter Kit (Day One Guide)

Your first five days: inventory, risk triage, named owners, and a 30-day plan. Start here if you have no idea where to begin.

The Govern-Before-You-Scale Self-Diagnostic

Ten questions that surface your single biggest governance gap before you scale an AI system.

The AI Governance Glossary (50 terms)

Every key governance term defined in plain language. The reference you bookmark and cite.

Risk

The AI Risk Taxonomy

Thirty named AI risks across six categories: the reference map the whole channel hangs on.

The AI Risk Quick-Screen

A 12-question, five-minute triage that ranks which risk categories expose you most.

The Frontier AI Risk Quick-Check

A fast check for autonomous and frontier systems: the risks that act without asking.

The Frontier Governance Gap

Why the most advanced AI systems are the least governed, and what to do about it.

Compliance

The Global Regulation-to-Action Atlas, Free Edition

The verified world map of AI regulation, from the EU AI Act to Brazil, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, with a first action for every regime.

The Regulation-at-a-Glance Card

The EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and the NIST AI RMF on one sheet: law, proof, and method.

The AI Transparency Disclosure Builder

What to tell users when they interact with AI, anchored to the EU AI Act's transparency obligations.

The AI Assurance Readiness Checklist

Twenty checks that tell you whether your governance would survive an independent audit today.

The Three Levels of AI Assurance

First-party, second-party, third-party: which level your board or regulator actually requires.

Operations

The AI Incident First-Hour Runbook (Lite)

What to do in the first sixty minutes when an AI system fails in production. Contain before you explain.

The AI Use-Case Intake Form

The front door of governance: capture every AI system before it ships.

The AI Vendor Risk Quick-Screen

An eight-question gate for the AI you buy, not build: the largest exposure for most organizations.

The Human-in-the-Loop Decision Guide

When a human must stay in control, and how, per the EU AI Act's human-oversight requirement.

The AI Governance RACI Starter

Who is accountable for what: the org-design layer most frameworks skip.

The Quarterly Governance Review Agenda

The cadence that keeps governance alive after launch.

Ethics and people

The AI Ethics Self-Assessment

Twenty questions across five sections that score how defensible your AI decisions are.

The Responsible AI Principles

The seven-principle value spine, including the one no one else names: truthfulness over agreeableness.

The AI Literacy Quick-Check

How ready your staff are for the AI they already use. The EU AI Act now expects literacy.

The Four Levels of AI Literacy

The ladder from unaware to fluent, and where your organization sits.

The AI Human Rights Screening

The rights-based check public-sector and global organizations require.

The Rights-Based Lens

Why human rights is the lens that makes AI governance defensible everywhere.

Flagship reading

The Q2 - 2026 State of AI Governance

The quarterly flagship publication: the five forces reshaping AI governance, from principle to practice.

For engineers

The same instruments, as machine-readable schemas and a runnable test suite. Importable, forkable, citable by stable id. The frameworks of AI GOVERNANCE CHAIN™, shipped as working data.

The AI Risk Taxonomy, machine readable

All 30 named risks and six categories as structured data. Load it into your risk register, tag your AI inventory, or cite risks by stable id.

The AI Sycophancy Test Battery, runnable suite

Ten paired-prompt tests covering all eight sycophancy patterns, with a working Python scorer. Run it against your model today.

The AI Governance Health Score™, JSON schema

The 16-question, 64-point instrument as a data schema. Embed the score in your own dashboards and pipelines.

The Decision-Trace Log, YAML template

One append-only entry per AI-influenced decision, with the fields an auditor accepts. Drop it into your repo.

The AI Use-Case Intake Form, YAML template

One file per AI system, with the risk-tier routing logic built into the structure.

The Technical Layer README

The developer index: what each file is, a copy-paste quick start, the canonical-ids rule, and the free-to-paid boundary.