A forthcoming book by Jason Franks
The CLEAR Framework
A Lane-Based Model for Responsible AI Enablement
Built in production at a billion-dollar healthcare company. A practitioner's framework for governing AI without strangling it — and for enabling the business without skipping the controls auditors will ask about.
The framework
What CLEAR stands for.
Compliant
NIST-aligned, PHI-aware. Maps to the controls auditors already ask about.
Lane-Based
A two-lane intake model that separates exploration from production work.
Enabling
A Center of Excellence model — not a gatekeeper. Move fast, with guardrails.
AI
Purpose-built for the realities of GenAI, NLP, and agentic systems.
Readiness
Gets organizations ready to adopt AI safely and at speed.
Who this is for
Built for senior practitioners.
AI and IT executives
You're accountable for outcomes, risk, and adoption — and you need a model that scales without becoming a bottleneck.
Governance & compliance leaders
You're translating new AI risk into controls that actually work in production, not slideware.
CoE leaders in regulated industries
You're standing up a Center of Excellence that has to enable the business, not just review it.
What's inside
A working blueprint, not a survey.
Why governance broke
What stopped working when GenAI hit the enterprise.
The two-lane intake model
Separating exploration from production without slowing either down.
Building the CoE
Staffing, charter, and the operating cadence that makes it real.
Risk scoring use cases
A practical scorecard that maps cleanly to NIST AI RMF.
Policy without paralysis
Acceptable use, model selection, and PHI handling.
Readiness, not theater
How to know the org is actually ready — and what to do when it isn't.
About the author
Jason Franks
Jason is VP of Information Technology and AI at a major healthcare company, based in Tennessee. He built the CLEAR Framework in production — across compliance, IT, and clinical operations — and now writes for the practitioners doing the same work.
Reader templates
The templates come with the book.
The intake form, governance charter, risk scorecard, and acceptable use policy — all pulled straight from production — are reserved for readers. Scan the QR code inside the book to unlock your private template library.
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