Last week I got ready for a session with a room of CPAs, attorneys, and financial advisors. Before it, the organizer sent me their list of worries about AI.
It was not “which tool is best.” It was simpler than that. Keep client information private. Stay on the right side of the law. Give advice you can stand behind. Do not make one expensive mistake.
I hear a version of that list everywhere. From founders. From nonprofit leaders. From people with five employees and people with five hundred. The words change. The worry does not.
You bought the AI. The rules for what it can do on its own did not come in the box.
Here is the whole thing in two numbers. Most companies are about to hand real work to AI. Very few have written down what the AI can decide on its own and what has to wait for a person.
That space, between using AI and setting rules for it, is the difference between paying for AI and running it.
“Governance is the difference between scaling successfully and stalling out.”
Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise, 2026
The people who count on you, your clients, your team, the people you serve, trust you to get it right. AI with no rules puts that trust on the line. A wrong answer can go out under your name before anyone catches it.
The good news is that the fix is not complicated. A short, clear set of rules covers most of it. What the AI can decide. When it has to stop and ask a person. A record of what it did.
Most businesses have none of this today. That is not a knock. The tools arrived faster than anyone could keep up. The people who set the rules first will be the ones who can look anyone in the eye while everyone else is still guessing.
One question before Thursday. If someone asked you to show, in five minutes, the rules your AI runs under and a record of what it did last week, could you?
This Thursday, June 11, at 11 AM Pacific. Sixty minutes, plain language, no pitch. I walk through the six structural protections, the plain rules that put guardrails around the AI you are already paying for.
Save your seat: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86758836241?pwd=tDg8E2YxBj6bvE3MNBkjBzTF1aclYT.1
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Kirk Tramble is Founder and Principal of Kizata, an AI governance practice for $1M to $25M firms. He spent 30 years operating across Chevron, Oracle, and Apple. Book a conversation here.
Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 (74 percent plan to run AI agents within two years; 21 percent have a mature governance model; “governance is the difference between scaling successfully and stalling out”): https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-agents-scaling-faster.html
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