Governance

What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-Language Guide for Chiefs of Staff

The plain version, minus the hype, and how to decide what to let an agent do on its own.

Why your team isn't using AI

Adoption stalls on trust. How to move a cautious team, one safe win at a time.

The AI you never turned on is already in your data

Find the AI features running in your tools before you try to govern them.

How to Write a One-Page AI Use Policy

The 5 sections to include, and the fastest way to get one your executive will sign.

The 3 questions to ask IT before your next AI renewal

The 3 questions to take to IT or legal, with the exact language to use.

The AI risk you already signed for

What your software vendors can do with your data, and how to find out.

You have an AI policy. Do you know what your team actually uses?

A guest issue from Thomas Tornatore: build the AI-use inventory before a regulator or your board asks for one.

Your AI finished the brief. Would you sign your name to it?

The 5-minute checkpoint before it goes out under your name.

Finding Your Shadow AI

The Signal Playbook: the discovery deep-dive. Surface what's running before you try to govern it.

When AI acts first: the accountability check that's yours

A 3-question accountability map for when AI moves first in your workflow.

Your CoS Cheat Codes, Now in One Place

60+ prompts, the vetted tool stack, the context-engineering playbook, and scripts for the governance conversations nobody trains you for.

What to Say When

AI governance conversations for Chiefs of Staff. Members only.

When your AI moves without you: the check that catches it

What happens when the agent doesn't wait to be asked and what the job looks like after that.

How to get AI governance funded

The conversation that gets AI governance funded

When Legal, IT, and Finance disagree on AI

The prompt that turned a three-week governance debate into a 40-minute meeting

AI governance is a Chief of Staff job now

A framework, a free prompt, and the full playbook for founding members.

Strip it before you prompt it

Before you paste that into an AI tool

Argue against your own recommendation first

The AI Habit That Makes You Right More Often

Before AI touches your executive's work

The question most Chiefs of Staff can't answer about their own AI use

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