What Is AI TIPS™?
AI TIPS™ is a governance and risk framework purpose-built for modern AI, including agentic AI and large language models. It guides organizations in embedding security, ethics, and compliance into AI from strategy to deployment and monitoring.
Where traditional risk frameworks struggle to keep pace with AI, AI TIPS™ translates board-level expectations into concrete controls, processes, and evidence your regulators and auditors can trust.
- Align AI initiatives with enterprise risk appetite and strategy
- Identify and mitigate AI-specific security and operational risks
- Demonstrate compliance with emerging AI regulations and standards
- Build trust with customers, regulators, and internal stakeholders
The AI TIPS™ Pillars
AI TIPS™ stands for Security, Privacy, Transparency, Explainability, Audit, Regulations, Accountability, Ethics—the eight pillars required to make AI truly trustworthy at scale.
Security
AI-specific threat modeling, model and agent hardening, and protective controls for LLMs, ML pipelines, and agentic AI.
Privacy
Responsible data use and minimization across training, fine-tuning, and inference—aligned with privacy regulations and internal policies.
Transparency
Clear documentation and system transparency so stakeholders know where AI is used and how it behaves.
Explainability
Human-understandable rationales for AI-supported decisions, matched to risk level and regulatory expectations.
Audit
Logs, testing, and controls that enable internal audit and regulators to inspect how AI systems are governed in practice.
Regulations
Alignment with EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, NAIC, and sector-specific rules.
Accountability
Defined roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths for AI decisions, changes, and incidents.
Ethics
Principles, guardrails, and review mechanisms that ensure AI aligns with organizational values and societal expectations.
Aligned with Standards & Regulations
AI TIPS™ is the practical bridge between leading frameworks and your real-world AI systems. We overlay AI TIPS™ onto:
- ISO/IEC 42001 – to structure your AI management system and governance processes
- NIST AI RMF – to address AI risks through Identify–Measure–Manage–Govern activities
- EU AI Act & Sector Regulations – to align AI system classification, documentation, and controls with legal expectations
- Existing Cyber & Risk Frameworks – including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and model risk management practices
How Organizations Use AI TIPS™
Assess
Baseline AI governance maturity against AI TIPS™ and identify security, governance, and regulatory gaps.
Design
Tailor policies, processes, and controls aligned to AI TIPS™ pillars and your existing risk architecture.
Implement
Embed AI TIPS™ into AI projects, CoEs, and pipelines so governance is built into the lifecycle.
Assure & Evolve
Monitor, test, and adapt as AI capabilities, business strategy, and regulations change.
Ready to make AI trustworthy by design?
Whether you are building your AI governance foundation or hardening AI systems already in production, AI TIPS™ gives you a clear, actionable path to trustworthy AI.
