JC Burrows

Common-Sense AI Governance.
Protect Your Data & Reputation.

Practical safeguards for service companies. We eliminate shadow AI risks, protect company secrets from public models, and ensure your business sails through cyber insurance audits.

Pillar 01

One-Page Usage Policy

A plain-English ruleset your staff can actually understand. Defines approved tools, explicitly bans pasting sensitive customer records, and eliminates shadow AI liabilities.

Pillar 02

Zero Data Retention (ZDR)

We configure enterprise API contracts with verified Zero Data Retention (ZDR) endpoints. Your client files and pricing sheets are never stored or used to train external foundational models.

Pillar 03

Deterministic Guardrails

AI agents operate within strict mathematical bounds and finite-state machines. Confidence scoring automatically intercepts anomalies before outputs ever reach clients.

Pillar 04

Human-in-the-Loop Gating

No automated agent sends unverified financial quotes or signs client deliverables without explicit human approval. Staff supervise and approve; machines do the heavy lifting.

Pillar 05

Audit Logs & Evidence

Cryptographic logging obeying Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE 901). Comprehensive audit trails proving system integrity for regulatory compliance and insurance defense.

Free Policy Asset

One-Page AI Usage Policy

Download our battle-tested, one-page internal company policy template ready for immediate team adoption.

Download Policy Template (.md) →
RISK CLASSIFICATION

3-Tier Risk Classification & Shadow AI Containment.

We replace blanket prohibitions with deterministic risk boundaries that permit safe innovation while locking down corporate liability.

Tier 1 · Green (Low Risk)

Permitted with Sanctioned Tools

Internal summarization, drafting marketing copy, reformatting unstructured text, preliminary research.

Governance: Enterprise zero-retention accounts only.
Tier 2 · Amber (Medium Risk)

Mandatory Human Sign-Off

Client-facing deliverables, proposal assembly, automated contract summaries, customer communications.

Governance: Named human operator must sign off before delivery.
Tier 3 · Red (High Risk)

Strictly Prohibited

Uploading raw un-redacted PII/PHI, feeding trade secrets into consumer tools, automated consequential employment or credit decisions.

Governance: Hard architectural blocks & audit alerts.
EXECUTIVE POLICY TEMPLATE

Corporate AI Usage Policy Template

Effective: October 1, 2026 | Version 1.0
1. Approved Enterprise Tools Only

Employees must operate through company-provisioned zero-retention enterprise licenses. Free consumer tools and personal accounts are strictly barred.

2. Prohibited Confidential Data

PII, customer financial accounts, trade secret codebases, and patient healthcare records may never enter an unapproved LLM prompt.

3. Mandatory Human Verification Before Delivery

No AI-generated deliverable may be sent to a client or supplier without explicit review and approval by a certified human employee.

4. Consequential Decision Rights Reserved to Humans

Hiring, termination, disciplinary action, and credit underwriting decisions may never be made autonomously by machine algorithms.

5. Transparency & Disclosure Standards

When automated workflows generate client-facing documents, transparency disclosures must match contractual and statutory mandates.

6. Immediate Incident Reporting Safe Harbor

Accidental data disclosures reported within 4 hours fall under non-punitive operational safe harbor to encourage rapid remediation.

7. Continuous Innovation & Use-Case Approvals

The Fractional CAIO evaluates and responds to new departmental AI tool requests within two business days.

STATUTORY & INSURER DEFENSE

Global Regulatory Compliance & Insurer Underwriting.

Defending your enterprise before cyber liability underwriters, corporate risk committees, and global regulators.

EU AI Act Readiness

Extraterritorial enforcement carries penalties up to €35M or 7% of global revenue. We ensure full conformity assessments and risk tier isolation.

Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205)

Statutory duty of reasonable care against algorithmic discrimination in consequential life decisions. We deploy documented impact statements.

Cyber Underwriter Defense

We directly complete technical insurance renewal questionnaires, certifying zero-retention configurations and active shadow AI governance.

LEGAL AUDIT TRAILS

Evidentiary Logging (FRE 901/902 Standards)

Tamper-evident hash chaining and human approval timestamps certifying records as authentic admissible evidence in legal proceedings.

Legally Defensible Records
COMPLIMENTARY EXECUTIVE SOFTWARE ENGINE

Prefer to Model Your Operational Readiness First?

Before engaging an advisor or committing capital, run your organization through our self-guided interactive engine. In under 15 minutes, audit your 20-point operational baseline across 5 dimensions, ratify a 1-page corporate AI policy, isolate high-yield workflows via ICE scoring, and export a complete 8-page boardroom packet.

20-point operational baseline and policy generator
Mathematical ICE opportunity ranking scorecard
SVG process flowchart and payroll return model
Compiled 8-page boardroom PDF reporting packet
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GOVERNANCE FAQS

Operational Governance Inquiries.

How does operational AI governance protect company data from model training?

We configure Zero Data Retention (ZDR) enterprise agreements with frontier AI providers, disable telemetry logging, and deploy local gateway proxy redaction that strips customer PII before payloads leave your perimeter.

Will this framework satisfy our cyber liability insurance underwriter?

Yes. Insurance underwriters specifically test for written corporate AI policies, vendor vetting procedures, and data exfiltration controls. Our 7-clause policy and evidentiary logging directly satisfy current cyber underwriter questionnaires.