AI Governance Readiness — a short, honest check for boards
Most NFP and charity boards are being asked to have a view on AI — for risk, for funding conditions, for their own strategy — and nobody's actually done the diagnosis yet.
This isn't a lead form for a product. Six real questions, mapped directly to the AICD and Human Technology Institute's actual AI Governance Operating Model — and an honest read on where your board stands.
Grounded in the real thing: these questions map to AICD/HTI's published "SME NFP Board Summary and Checklist" (June 2026) — strategy, governance structure, governance practices, and governance enablers — not a framework we invented.
Built by Michael Szafraniec, 25 years running turnarounds inside NDIS, aged care, disability, and community housing boards, for Exvoria. No results are shared or sold.
Question 1 of 6
AICD/HTI element: AI Strategy
Do you actually know where AI is already being used across your organisation — including features already built into the tools you use (accounting, CRM, marketing)?
Question 2 of 6
AICD/HTI element: AI Governance Structure
Is there one person clearly accountable for AI oversight, and does the board get real updates on it?
Question 3 of 6
AICD/HTI element: AI Governance Practices
Is there an actual written AI policy — one that specifically addresses "Shadow AI" (staff quietly using unapproved tools with sensitive client data), not just a general statement?
Question 4 of 6
AICD/HTI element: AI Governance Enablers
Has anyone — board, staff, or volunteers — had real training on this, or is everyone genuinely guessing?
Question 5 of 6
Real external pressure
Has a funder, regulator, insurer, or auditor raised anything AI-related with you directly?
Question 6 of 6
Your honest self-rating
If you're honest — is your board ahead of this, keeping pace, or genuinely behind?
How this is scored: the 4 questions below each map to one element of AICD/HTI's real AI Governance Operating Model. Every question scores 0 (a gap), 1 (partway there), or 2 (genuinely in place) — added up out of 8. The 2 extra questions further down give context on urgency but aren't part of this score, since they're not part of AICD's actual framework. Nothing here is weighted to look worse than your actual answers.
Extra context — not part of AICD's 4-element model