AI Governance
Available nowAI Governance Essentials · 1.0
AI Governance Essentials is Keel’s free, plain-language baseline for governing AI responsibly. It gives you 34 practical expectations across eight areas (governance, risk and impact, data, transparency, human oversight, security, lifecycle, and third parties) that you can put in place and evidence today, then map to a formal standard when you need one.
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requirements in Keel’s authored baseline
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Scope
How much of the standard Keel models
This is a Keel-defined composite rather than a published standard, so there is no external leaf count it could be complete or incomplete against. Keel sets the scope, and the requirement count below is Keel’s own baseline.
- Authored in Keel
- 34 requirements
- Defined by the standard
- Not applicable — no external standard
Keel publishes this for every framework it ships, complete or not, so a readiness percentage can be read against a denominator you can see. Compare every framework
Who it is for
Who needs AI Governance Essentials?
- Teams that started using or building with AI and need a governance starting point
- Companies fielding "how do you govern AI?" questions from customers and boards
- Anyone who wants a running start on ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, or the EU AI Act
What Keel does
How Keel helps with AI Governance Essentials
- A free, ready-to-use control set of 34 responsible-AI expectations, on every plan
- Evidence collected once and reused across your other frameworks
- A live readiness score, and a clean on-ramp to ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act
Collect once, comply everywhere
AI Governance Essentials shares canonical controls with ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI Risk Management Framework and EU AI Act and others in the catalog. Implement one of those controls and it counts toward every framework it satisfies, so adding AI Governance Essentials rarely means starting from scratch.
Shares canonical controls with
- ISO/IEC 27001
- CIS Critical Security Controls
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-171
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- COPPA
- Google Play Families
- Amazon Appstore Child-Directed Apps
- Apple App Store Kids Category
- ISO 9001
- ISO/IEC 42001
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- EU AI Act
- ESG Essentials
- US Employment Law - Federal Baseline
Other frameworks: ISO/IEC 27001 · CIS Critical Security Controls · PCI DSS · SOC 2 · SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404 · NIST Cybersecurity Framework · All frameworks