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A procurement-ready checklist · written from the product

The Governed AI Employee

Ten questions your security, legal and procurement teams will ask before an AI Employee touches real work — and what a defensible answer looks like.

Most AI pilots in large organisations fail at the same place: not the model, the governance. Somebody demonstrates an agent that drafts emails or chases invoices, everyone is impressed — and then security asks who approved what, legal asks who is liable, and procurement asks which vendor review this falls under. The pilot stalls in the gap between it works and we can defend it.

This document is written for the people who have to defend it. It was written to be forwarded.

The ten questions

  1. 01 · SupervisionWho decides what an AI Employee may do on its own?
  2. 02 · The approval gateWhere is the control enforced — in each feature, or in one place?
  3. 03 · Audit trailCan we reconstruct what happened, and under what authority?
  4. 04 · Separation of dutiesCan an AI Employee spend money and grade its own spending?
  5. 05 · IsolationIs our data walled off from every other customer's?
  6. 06 · Kill switchesHow do we stop everything, and how fast?
  7. 07 · Consent and suppressionWill an AI Employee email someone it shouldn't?
  8. 08 · Keys and secretsWhere do our credentials live, and who can see them?
  9. 09 · Compliance postureWhich frameworks are actually held, and which are claimed?
  10. 10 · ReversibilityWhat happens at the end?

Why it is not a brochure

Every answer points at a control that exists in the platform we run our own company on — trust levels, a central approval gate, actions stamped with the authority they ran under, three independent kill switches, suppression enforced at the point of sending. Where a framework is not yet held, the document says so, in a section marked for it.

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Who this is for: CIOs, CISOs, heads of digital and programme leads in government agencies, NGOs and large organisations — the people who have to take an AI deployment through a review, not just a demo.

Written by Anthony ‘Kayode’ Odole — founder, AIToken Labs. Former IBM Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect, 18 years.