AI GOVERNANCE — DONE PROPERLY
No roadmap existed. So I built one.
Three years. Primary sources, live client work, regulated enterprises. No shortcuts. This is where I share what building genuine AI governance expertise actually looks like.
For experienced professionals from technology, risk and compliance, data governance, GRC, or any serious discipline — who are building careers in AI governance and want to do it properly.
IBM Subject Matter Expert, AI Governance · Responsible AI Director, Aligne · Author, Trusted Intelligence (May 2026)
THE PROBLEM
The courses exist. The certifications exist. The gap remains.
You have found the frameworks. You have read the guidance documents. You may have sat through a certification programme and emerged with a credential and a quiet, uncomfortable thought: is this actually preparing me to do the job?That thought is not imposter syndrome. It is accurate perception.
The AI governance education market moves fast. But fast and rigorous are not the same thing. Most of what is available was built to meet demand, not to build competence. Regulations summarised without interpretation. Frameworks named without application. Forty hours of content that tells you what AI governance is without once showing you how to practise it inside a real organisation, with real stakeholders, under real regulatory pressure.The professionals completing these programmes are not poorly intentioned. They are poorly served.
The organisations depending on them discover the gap later. Usually when it costs something.
The problem is not a shortage of AI governance content. It is a shortage of the right kind.
YOUR GUIDE
I know this terrain. I navigated it without a map.
Twenty years in technology — data engineering, cloud infrastructure, AI and machine learning. When generative AI arrived and the governance questions started landing from CROs, risk committees, and boards who needed answers they could trust, I went looking for the same resource you are looking for now.
It did not exist.
So I built my own. Primary source documents. The EU AI Act, ISO 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, FCA and PRA model risk guidance. Every framework tested against live client situations across financial services, the public sector, and regulated enterprises in the UK and UAE. Three years of that, before a structured roadmap for any of it existed.
That is what this platform is built on.
•IBM Subject Matter Expert, AI Governance
·•Responsible AI Director, Aligne
·•Co-founder, Altrum AI
·•Creator, the A.C.E. Framework
·•Creator, the ClariGov Atlas
·•Author, Trusted Intelligence (May 2026)
AI governance is not the brakes on AI adoption. It is the steering wheel.
A DIFFERENT WAY TO SEE ITGovernance done properly does not slow AI adoption.
Governance done properly does not slow AI adoption.
It is what makes confident AI adoption possible.
Every organisation that has deployed AI without governance has eventually discovered the same thing. Speed without structure does not accelerate progress. It accelerates exposure.
The organisations moving furthest and fastest with AI are not the ones that bypassed governance. They are the ones that built governance clear enough to approve decisions quickly, and rigorous enough to know what to refuse.
That is the shift. From governance as constraint to governance as the mechanism that makes bold AI adoption defensible.
Understanding that distinction changes every conversation you have — with boards, with regulators, with the business units who see governance as the thing slowing them down.
Building the skills to put it into practice is the work of everything that follows.
COMING MAY 2026The book I wish had existed
The book I wish had existed
three years ago.
Trusted Intelligence: The Practical AI Governance Guide for Regulated Industries is the structured, practitioner-grade resource that does not currently exist in this field.
Not a survey of regulations. Not an executive overview. A working guide — written for experienced professionals who are responsible for AI governance in real organisations, under real regulatory pressure, with real consequences if they get it wrong.
The complete terrain
Seven domains. Every regulation, standard, and framework a serious practitioner needs — mapped in the logical sequence for building genuine competence.
Applied, not theoretical
Every chapter grounded in real use cases from regulated enterprises across financial services, the public sector, and beyond.
Built for practitioners
Written for professionals who already have serious skills — and need the AI governance foundation to put them to work.
Join the waitlist. First access and early chapters before publication.
Free to join. No obligation.
START HERE
Three resources. Free. Built for professionals who are serious about this.
The platform is being built. But the most important things are already here — and they are free. Not as a taster. As a genuine contribution to every serious professional navigating this field.
FRAMEWORK
The ClariGov Atlas
The seven-domain map of AI governance mastery. Every domain a serious practitioner needs — from AI foundations and risk through regulations, standards, frameworks, organisational governance, and professional craft. Structured in the logical learning sequence. Built so you know exactly where you are, what you need to build next, and how it all connects.
Explore the Atlas →LEARNING METHOD
The PRAGYA Method
A continuous learning framework for professionals in fast-moving technical domains. Seek with intention. Sense before acting. Apply deliberately. Advance through every cycle. The system behind three years of building genuine expertise without a roadmap — and the method that will underpin everything taught on this platform.
Learn the method →WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
The Intelligence Briefing
Primary source documents, synthesised. Regulatory updates, interpreted. Standards changes, explained. Real cases, analysed. One email a week. Everything that matters in AI governance. Nothing that does not. No filler. No affiliate content. No promotion of tools I have not used in practice.
Subscribe — it is free →More is being built. The full programme, the resource library, the governance roadmap. Join the newsletter to be the first to know when each is released.
THE APPROACH
A substantial part of what is here will always be free. That is a principle, not a strategy.
The professionals who most need rigorous AI governance knowledge are not always the ones with the largest professional development budgets. A regulatory analyst building their practice in Bengaluru and a risk director at a global bank in London face the same AI governance challenges. The knowledge infrastructure should serve both.
I grew up with the principle that what you know is not fully yours until you have given some of it away.The free resources here — the Atlas, the PRAGYA Method, the weekly briefing — are an expression of that. Not a lead generation tactic. Not a taster for something behind a paywall. Given because giving is the right thing to do.
For professionals who want structured support for building a practice, leading a programme, or preparing for the work ahead, there will be options for that. But the generosity comes first. And it is real.
EVERY WEEK
The Intelligence Briefing.
One email. Everything that matters in AI governance that week. Nothing that does not.
The EU AI Act. ISO 42001. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework. FCA and PRA model risk guidance. Regulatory updates, interpreted. Standards changes, explained. Real incidents, analysed. Primary sources synthesised so you do not have to spend your Sunday doing it yourself.
No filler. No affiliate content. No promotion of tools I have not used in practice.
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THE INVITATIONThe profession is being built right now.
The profession is being built right now.
The question is whether it is being built on foundations that will hold.
Every organisation deploying AI is creating governance requirements that did not exist two years ago. Most are discovering — later than they should, and more expensively than they planned — that the people they trusted to meet those requirements were not as equipped as their credentials suggested.
The gap between credential and competence is not closing on its own. It closes when practitioners decide to take the longer road — the one built on genuine understanding, applied knowledge, and the discipline to keep learning as the terrain keeps shifting.
That is what this platform is for. And that is who it is built for.
Nobody should have to do this the hard way. But those who choose to do it properly will always stand apart.
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