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AI Governance for Small and Midsize Businesses

The problem this solves

AI governance frameworks too heavy for a small business to apply
LABUSA helps smaller organizations establish workable AI governance without building a compliance bureaucracy. The approach reduces governance to a small set of enforceable artifacts — an inventory, a one-page policy, an approval route, and a named owner — sized so that maintenance takes no more than a couple of days a year.
Technique

AI inherits the permissions of whoever runs it

“The practical consequence is that deploying an AI system over a shared drive is an access-control project first. Before connecting anything: review what the service account or the pilot users can actually reach, and tighten it.”

— AI Governance for Small and Midsize Businesses - LABUSA

Judgement

Read client contracts before writing data rules; they often already answer

“check your client contracts before writing the third category: it is common to find a confidentiality clause that already answers the question, and rather less common for anyone to have read it recently.”

— AI Governance for Small and Midsize Businesses - LABUSA

Technique

Build the inventory from expense and identity data before any policy

“Practical ways to build the list without a discovery tool: Expense and card statements... Your identity provider's list of applications people have signed into with a work account. Browser extensions deployed on managed devices. Asking, without consequence attached.”

— AI Governance for Small and Midsize Businesses - LABUSA

Experience

Nominal review is worse than no accountability at all

“Where the review is nominal, where a person is clicking approve on volumes they could not possibly check: the organization has accountability on paper and none in practice, which is a worse position than having neither.”

— AI Governance for Small and Midsize Businesses - LABUSA

AI governanceSmall businessAI adoptionData securityVendor riskIT consulting

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