Toolkit · ZIP · 7 min · SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
AI governance templates for companies that ship agents.
A use policy, an agent risk register, a 35-question vendor questionnaire, model cards, an incident runbook and disclosure text. Templates to adapt with counsel, not legal advice.
The paperwork an enterprise buyer asks for, in editable form
The security questionnaire arrives on a Thursday. It asks which models you use, what data goes to them, who approved the agent, what happens when it makes a mistake, and how customers are told they are talking to one. Every answer exists somewhere in your team's heads, and none of it is written down.
This pack is the writing-down. Six documents you fill in rather than draft: an internal use policy, a risk register with worked examples, the vendor questionnaire from the buyer's side, a card describing each model and agent you run, an incident runbook for the day it goes wrong, and the disclosure wording customers actually see. They are templates to adapt with your own counsel — they are not legal advice and they do not establish compliance with anything.
By the end you will have a governance folder that answers the questionnaire, a named owner for every agent, and a runbook the person on call can follow at two in the morning.
- Category
- Toolkit
- Reading time
- 7 min
- Format
- ZIP
The things you take away from it.
Five things, listed the way they appear in the zip.
- A fill-in-the-blanks internal AI use policy — what staff may put into which tools, and who decides
- An agent risk register as a CSV with eight worked example rows to edit rather than invent
- A 35-question vendor AI questionnaire, each question paired with the answer that should worry you
- A one-page model-and-agent card template: what it does, what it reads, who owns it, how it fails
- An incident response runbook — severity levels, the first fifteen minutes, the kill switch, customer comms, post-incident review — plus customer-facing disclosure text for website, email, chat and support
Written for three people in particular.
If none of these is you, it will still be readable — but it was written with these jobs in mind, and it assumes their problems.
Founder whose prospect sent a security questionnaire
The deal is real, the questionnaire is thirty pages, and you are writing policy from scratch in the middle of a sales cycle.
Ops lead who owns an agent
It is in production, it is yours, and you would like it to survive an audit without a fortnight of retrospective documentation.
Anyone selling into regulated buyers
Procurement will ask the same questions every time. Answering them once, properly, turns a blocker into a document you attach.
6 chapters, in order.
Each one stands on its own. Read it front to back the first time, then come back to the chapter you need.
- 01
The internal AI use policy
A fill-in-the-blanks policy covering approved tools, what may and may not be pasted into them, review requirements and who signs off on exceptions.
- 02
The agent risk register
A CSV with eight example rows — the risk, its likelihood and impact, the control, and the named owner — so you are editing entries rather than staring at an empty sheet.
- 03
The vendor questionnaire
Thirty-five questions to send an AI vendor, each with the red-flag answer that tells you to keep asking.
- 04
Model and agent cards
A one-page template per model and per agent: purpose, data it touches, known limitations, owner, and the conditions under which it should not be used.
- 05
The incident runbook
Severity levels, what to do in the first fifteen minutes, where the kill switch is, who tells the customer and in what words, and how the post-incident review runs.
- 06
Telling customers
Customer-facing AI disclosure text for the website, for email, for chat and for support, written to be pasted in rather than rewritten.
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AI governance templates for companies that ship agents.
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| Templates included | 6, all editable |
|---|---|
| Vendor questions | 35, with red flags |
| Risk register | 8 example rows |
| Legal status | Templates, not legal advice |
A governance document nobody can find during an incident is not governance. Every template here is one page, written for the person who is already having a bad morning.
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Who wrote AI governance templates for companies that ship agents.?
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Can we get help implementing this instead of building it ourselves?
Yes — that is the day job. The same work runs as a fixed-scope engagement: four weeks to a first system in production, measured against a quality bar agreed at kickoff, with you owning the weights, datasets, eval suites and runbooks afterwards.
What if the guide does not cover our situation?
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