Board AI Assurance for Governed AI Adoption — Strategen AI
Give your board the information, structures, and confidence to govern AI adoption with authority. Independent AI risk briefings, governance maturity review, and assurance reporting built for directors who are accountable for outcomes they need to understand.
Independent AI Risk and Governance Maturity Review
We conduct an independent review of where AI is operating across the organisation and assess the current governance maturity — what policies exist, what oversight structures are in place, and where the significant gaps are. Management cannot provide independent assurance about its own AI programme.
Board AI Briefing and Assurance Dashboard
A board-ready AI briefing document — structured for non-technical directors — covering AI exposure, material risks, governance status, and what the board needs to do. Plus an AI assurance dashboard and reporting template for ongoing structured oversight.
AI Decision Rights and Escalation Framework
We define what requires board approval, what can be delegated to management, and what must be escalated. Boards in regulated industries — financial services, health, professional services — increasingly face regulatory expectations around AI governance that require demonstrable active oversight.
What you receive
Independent AI risk and governance maturity review report
Board AI briefing document — structured for non-technical directors
AI assurance dashboard and quarterly reporting template
AI decision rights and escalation framework
Use-case risk assessment summary for material AI applications
Director Q&A briefing for board sessions
The APIG method on this engagement
For board assurance, APIG provides a structured framework for examining where AI is operating across the organisation and what the board needs to govern — at each of the four dimensions where AI creates accountability obligations.
Actors: Which AI systems, vendors, and human roles the board should have visibility of — and what accountability sits at board level
Practices: How the board receives AI information, how assurance reviews are structured, and how the board exercises meaningful oversight rather than passive acknowledgment
Infrastructure: What monitoring, reporting, and alert mechanisms the board needs to detect emerging AI risk in time to act
Governance: What policy decisions require board approval, what risk thresholds trigger escalation, and how AI accountability is structured at the governance level
Frequently Asked Questions
What is board AI assurance?
Board AI assurance is the structured process of giving a board or audit and risk committee the information, frameworks, and oversight structures they need to govern AI adoption with confidence. It covers understanding the AI risk exposure, reviewing governance maturity, establishing reporting standards, and defining what the board needs to see — and how often — to exercise meaningful oversight.
Why do boards need specific AI assurance support?
AI introduces a set of risks and oversight obligations that existing board reporting does not address well — model transparency, data provenance, bias risk, vendor dependency, and AI system drift are not categories that standard financial or operational reporting covers.
What are the key questions a board should be asking about AI?
The six questions that matter most are: Where is AI operating in our organisation? Who is accountable for AI outcomes? What are our material AI risks? How are those risks being managed? Are we meeting our regulatory and ethical obligations? And what would we do if something went wrong?