Governance as an operating system
A policy document does not govern a system by itself. Governance must change who can approve a use, which evidence is required, how permissions are granted, what is measured, when operation pauses, how incidents are handled, and when a system is retired.
Evaluation by system type
| System | Minimum emphasis |
|---|---|
| Predictive | Error cost, calibration, subgroup performance, temporal validity, drift, decision impact. |
| Generative | Task success, factuality, support, refusal, harmful output, prompt injection, privacy, user reliance. |
| RAG | Retrieval quality, source authority, permissions, freshness, conflicts, citation correctness, abstention. |
| Agentic | Goal adherence, tool and credential boundaries, approval, side effects, memory, loops, rollback, cost bounds. |
| Consequential | Purpose validity, rights impact, explanation, correction, appeal, human review, legal and domain review. |
Evidence register
The assurance backbone links requirement → control → system → test → finding → treatment → approval → monitoring evidence. It is not a document dump; every artifact has an owner, scope, date, result, exception, retention rule, and related decision.
Commercial boundary
Intelligence724 may support readiness, implementation, internal review, pre-assessment, technical testing, and advisory assurance. It does not claim NIST certification, accredited ISO certification, universal safety, or legal compliance without defined authority and scope.
