AIQ™ Toolkit
Make every governance control work in practice, measured in statistics management can act on and auditors can check.
A curated reference library covering all 250 AIQ™ datapoints — example documents, implementation guidelines, and legal requirements — so organizations can operationalize each governance control with confidence. Designed to accelerate assessment readiness and sustain governance maturity over time.
Example Documents
250 reference documents — one for each AIQ™ datapoint — showcasing what good governance documentation looks like across all five dimensions.
Implementation Guidelines
Practical, step-by-step guidance for operationalizing each governance control across policy, technical, and organizational layers.
Legal Requirements
Regulatory citations and compliance mappings tied to each datapoint, with tiered implementation kits that show the progression from baseline compliance to leading practice.
Why the Toolkit
From Control to KPI
Having an AI governance control is not the goal. Every AIQ™ data point is designed to produce a measurable, auditable statistic, and the Toolkit shows how to run each control so it does: owned, on a cadence, recorded, and reported in numbers management can act on and an auditor can check.
Example: The AI Steering Committee (from the Sample Booklet)
- Coverage
- The share of in-scope AI systems that went live with a recorded committee decision first.
- Decision speed
- Median days from intake to decision.
- Decision quality
- The share of items refused or approved with conditions. A committee that never refuses is not deciding.
- Follow-through
- Conditions overdue at period end, and decisions revisited on new evidence.
- Escalation
- Median hours from trigger to board awareness, tested by tabletop exercise.
- Independence
- Outcomes changed by the external member’s input.
The same measures that show a control is working are the ones a board reports, an auditor tests and an investor reads. Governance that produces them adds value; governance that only exists on paper does not.
Inside a booklet
One Booklet per Data Point
Each booklet takes one control from first question to working practice.
- 1
Does This Apply to You?
Applicability, and how size changes what is proportionate.
- 2
Why It Matters
The framework citations behind the control, each checked against the primary source.
- 3
What Must Be in Place First
Prerequisites, and the related controls it depends on.
- 4
How Success Is Measured
The statistic the control produces, and where the data comes from.
- 5
Evidence That Proves It
Baseline, stronger and strongest evidence, so you know what to keep.
- 6
Tiered Implementation Kits
Copy-and-use templates, worked examples, roles and cadence.
- 7
Pitfalls and First Steps
What usually goes wrong, and the order to do things in.
- 8
Your Public Signal
How to disclose real governance accurately, without over-claiming.
- 9
Current State and Target
A planning worksheet to complete with your AIQA adviser.
Tiered implementation kits
Start Where You Are, Then Climb
Each booklet carries three self-contained kits. Each kit builds on the one before, and each comes with the practice, a copy-and-use template, a worked example, roles and cadence, the steps to stand it up and the evidence it produces.
Baseline
The control exists, has an owner and leaves a record.
For example: A chartered committee that meets on a booked cadence and minutes what it decides.
Repeatable
The control runs on a cycle and reports upward.
For example: A standing decision log and a fixed quarterly report to the board.
Leading Practice
The control is built into how work gets done, tested, independently reviewed and monitored continuously.
For example: No in-scope AI system goes live without a logged decision, with the KPIs on a live dashboard.
Sample · Data point 1
How Mature Is Your AI Steering Committee?
The complete Toolkit booklet for one data point: the implementation guide and framework analysis, tiered implementation kits with ready-to-use templates and worked examples, and a current-state worksheet.
How to Get It
Included with the AIQ™ Assessment, and available as an add-on to any other engagement. About the AIQ™ Assessment
Kept Separate from Scoring
The Toolkit shows how to address each data point, never how it is scored. Under the Chicago Principles, Toolkit work is kept separate from every scoring and certification decision.
Put the AIQ™ Toolkit to work