AI Policy Readiness Checklist

Company AI policy readiness checklist

A practical pre-drafting check covering visibility, data, decisions, ownership, training and incidents.

Educational resource

Visibility

  • Real AI tools and use cases have been inventoried.
  • Each use case has a purpose, owner and data category.
  • Personal accounts and informal automations are part of the review.

Rules and decisions

  • Employees can distinguish permitted, conditional and non-permitted uses.
  • A new-tool request has an owner and decision deadline.
  • Data and human-review rules use examples from actual work.

Operation

  • The policy has an owner and review date.
  • Training, acknowledgement and working materials are consistent.
  • People can report incidents and exceptions through a known route.

Next step

Turn every unconfirmed item into a discovery question or owned action; do not label it a compliance failure automatically.

General working material. It is not certification, legal advice or a substitute for legal, DPO, HR or security review appropriate to the organisation.