CLCLEAR Framework

The Book — Forthcoming

A working framework, not a survey of the field.

The CLEAR Framework is the field guide I wish I'd had when I was building AI governance in production. It's written for the practitioners doing the work — IT and AI leaders, governance heads, CoE owners — not for executives looking for a two-page summary.

What you'll learn

Outcomes, not concepts.

  • Stand up an AI Center of Excellence that enables, not blocks
  • Implement a two-lane intake that protects production without freezing exploration
  • Score AI use cases against NIST AI RMF in under 30 minutes
  • Write policy that survives contact with engineering
  • Handle PHI, model selection, and vendor risk in a regulated environment
  • Build an operating cadence that doesn't depend on one person

Table of contents

12 chapters.

Three parts: why governance broke, the CLEAR model, and how to run it.

  1. Part I — Why governance broke
  2. 1. The legacy IT playbook stopped working
  3. 2. What GenAI changed in 18 months
  4. Part II — The CLEAR model
  5. 3. Compliance, mapped to controls that exist
  6. 4. The two-lane intake model
  7. 5. The Center of Excellence operating model
  8. 6. Designing for GenAI, NLP, and agents
  9. 7. Readiness assessments that aren't theater
  10. Part III — Running it
  11. 8. The first 90 days
  12. 9. Scoring use cases
  13. 10. Policy, AUP, and PHI
  14. 11. Measuring what matters
  15. 12. What I'd do differently

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