A four-week plan for building a defensible inventory of AI systems, starting from zero.

The single most common request from a newly-formed AI governance team: ‘give us an inventory.’ The single most common outcome: six months later, still no inventory.

Week 1 — the intake form
Do not start with a taxonomy. Start with a form. Twelve fields, no more, designed to be filled by a business owner without a data scientist in the room.