Amātya, counsel as instrument
AI is the instrument. Governance is the objective. Audit methodology for enterprise LLM deployments, model risk frameworks, and the minimum sufficient control set for organisations deploying AI in regulated environments.
AI is the instrument. Governance is the objective. The sunlight enables the tree, the tree is the subject. Govern unmanaged and unmanageable risk exposure, not all risk. Minimum sufficient control set. Maturity is a direction of travel, are you improving or drifting?
Trust primitives are technical artefacts. The governance question behind them is whose authority chain backstops each one. A three-question framework for self-hosted AI in regulated firms: whose hash, whose key, whose pin authority.
Read field noteA practitioner's case for self-hosted open-weights inference in regulated firms. The trust primitives that make it audit-defensible, and where hybrid still makes sense.
Read field noteWhat the AI-in-audit conversation gets right, and where it gets seductive. The audit fundamentals that do not change regardless of which model produced the evidence.
Read field noteAudit methodology for Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Copilot Studio agents in regulated institutions. Control questions that standard IT audit methodology does not cover.
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