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GOVBRM on one page.
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GOVBRM on one page, for executives
Status: draft v0.1, GOVBRM original, not yet validated.
What problem it solves
Your organisation receives more AI requests than it can shape. Most name a tool, not a need. Each then meets a separate queue: business case, privacy, security, procurement, transparency, service assessment. Nobody owns the line from request to realised value. GOVBRM is the operating layer between AI demand and AI delivery. It runs every request through the governance you already have, in the right order, once.
What happens to a request
Every request enters by one route and passes six gates: Request, Shape, Rank, Commit, Build, Review. At Shape the need beneath the request is written down, value is stated as a range, and the request takes one of six routes, including an honest decline. At Rank it is scored against everything else. At Commit a named business owner signs a number. At Build the change to people's work is planned. At Review, nine months after go-live by default, measured value is put beside the committed number.
What GOVBRM decides
Whether a request is a real need, and whether it needs a model at all. The lowest level of autonomy that solves the task. Its place in the portfolio. Who owns the outcome and what number. Whether value arrived, and whether to scale, adjust or stop.
What it does not decide
Whether a system is lawful, secure, ethical, fundable or procurable. Those decisions stay with your statutory and internal governance. GOVBRM prepares the evidence and hands it over. It replaces no business case, risk standard, security standard, AI management system, procurement framework or architecture method.
What existing governance it connects to
Business cases and appraisal (Green Book or local equivalent), privacy and equality assessments, security assurance, procurement, transparency records, service assessments, architecture review, and AI management standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF, with equivalents in the US, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
What the organisation gets
One demand record per request. A portfolio of shaped needs rather than wishes. Governance burden in proportion to blast radius: three lanes (fast, standard, strategic), so most requests never need more than a page. A named owner and a number for every committed item. A review of whether the money worked. Not yet demonstrated: no pilot has run.
How long it takes
Shaping is one ninety-minute session. A fast-lane request closes at intake. A standard-lane request reaches Commit on your own funding calendar. The review falls at month nine unless the value curve needs it earlier or later.
What evidence is produced
Intake record, shaped need with value range, readiness score, risk and ethics rating, ranked position with reasons, business case with named owner, autonomy assessment, adoption plan, benefits ledger, review decision.
What it costs (GBP)
Membership on Substack: free; 25 (GBP) a month; 250 (GBP) a year; founding tier. Paid membership includes the full framework and the twenty-canvas toolkit. Practitioner certificate seats: 495 (GBP) per track, included with founding membership. Master AI Value Partner assessment (opens 2027): 150 (GBP). Enterprise implementation priced per engagement.