Reconciled inventory
Scope and intake with a reconciled inventory and coverage gaps.
Organization
Corporate Audit and Assurance
Compare a declared AI inventory with agreed records so gaps, owners, and next steps are visible.
Planned service · Inquiries open · Scope and availability agreed together.
What this helps with
Declared inventory is useful only when it can be compared with the records that make systems visible in practice. This planned assessment names the systems and criteria under review, inspects agreed records, and preserves differences, disputes, and unknowns.
Good fit
A sponsor is responsible for AI governance and can start with one business unit. Agent behavior testing and business workflow reviews are separate services.
What you get
Evidence register
An evidence register and findings with consequences or recovery considerations.
Owned next steps
Named remediation owners and dates, plus a retest schedule.
Measurement definitions
Separate measurement definitions instead of a combined maturity score.
How it works
- Reconcile: Set the reviewed entities, systems, criteria, and sample, then compare inventory with records.
- Inspect: Define sufficient evidence and examine agreed records or non-production tests.
- Assign: Review gaps with owners, record disputes, and set owned next steps and retest outcomes.
Details and examples
Full planned process
- Freeze entities, systems, criteria, and sample.
- Reconcile the declared inventory with available records.
- Map accountability, approvals, changes, and incidents.
- Define sufficient evidence before inspection.
- Inspect actual records and only agreed tabletop or non-production tests.
- Classify gaps and possible consequences.
- Review facts with owners and sponsor, recording disputes.
- Assign accepted findings to an owner and due date.
- Set retest outcomes: pass, fail, invalid, or blocked.
Scope and starting point
- Starts with
- A business unit, systems, criteria, and agreed sample.
- Leaves you with
- A reconciled inventory, evidence register, and owned next steps.
- Does not provide
- Accredited certification, legal advice, or regulatory proof.
Example: Inventory coverage gap
Illustrative example
Inventory coverage gap
A team declares one assistant while procurement records identify another tool. The difference becomes a coverage gap with an accountable owner and an evidence request. It is not a finding about any real organization.
Questions
How are missing records described?
They may be absent, undocumented, inconsistent, ineffective in sample, disputed, or unknown. Lack of evidence is not evidence of safety or harm.
Can frameworks be used?
Frameworks can inform the agreed questions; they do not give Guth certification authority.
Is production access required?
No. Production access is not the default. Any access, scope, timing, and price are agreed before work.
Scope, availability, timing, and price are agreed before work starts.
Talk about this service
We can agree the scope before work begins.
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