General companies · outside prudential regulation
Most companies are not regulated as AI users, and never will be. The pressure for a position, and for evidence, comes from closer to home: directors asking what the company will and will not let AI do, a transaction that has to stay out of external models, a lender or underwriter with a questionnaire, or plant that now acts without a person in the loop. Triodian runs the same method for all of them, with your general counsel and board adviser.
Not legal advice. Triodian records positions and states what documents show. Whether anything meets a legal obligation, and what your duties require, are questions for your counsel.
Four ways in
Each route is an engagement that runs in its own open-source app and leaves you with a record. None gives legal advice, and none needs client data to leave your organisation.
AI Board Direction: ten steps in one workshop and one board meeting. An appetite statement in the board’s words, an acceptable-use outline, a minute and a 90-day list.
AI Board Direction →AI Confidentiality Exposure Assessment: every channel by which deal information can reach an external model, and what the company could show about each. Two weeks, through counsel.
Deal confidentiality →What they will accept as evidence of how your AI is governed, and what you can produce from what already exists.
Evidence requests →Mining, manufacturing, defence, energy and utilities: AI that acts without a person in the loop, and the record that only exists if captured at the time.
Operators →How they fit
Board Direction runs standalone for general companies: the board’s statement is the appetite, with no separate risk-appetite engagement to follow. Its confidentiality position feeds a later deal assessment, and the Obligations Atlas supplies the matter brief at set-up. For the regulated route, where the board’s directions feed a full appetite and a use assessment, see regulated entities.
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The Obligations Atlas lists the sources in scope for your entity type and jurisdiction. Counsel decides what applies.
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The board resolves where it wants AI, what it rules out, what must come back to it, and who is accountable.
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When a deal is live, every channel to an external model is registered and the residual gap is marked.
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Findings, with their sources, in a form a funder, insurer or customer can read. You choose who fills any gap.
Who you work with
Legal questions are logged in writing for counsel and never settled in the room. The board adviser facilitates and holds the relationship with the board. Triodian supplies the steps, runs the apps and brings the independent review. Each party earns from its own half; there are no referral fees. See how advisers work with Triodian.
Fees
Each engagement is a fixed fee, agreed before it starts. The fee covers the engagement run in the app suite with your general counsel and board adviser, the independent check and the hand-over. Legal advice is your counsel's, billed by them.
| Engagement | Shape | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| AI Obligations Atlas | Web app, REST API and MCP server | Free |
| AI Board Direction | One workshop and one board meeting | A$30,000 |
| AI Confidentiality Exposure Assessment | Two weeks, through counsel | A$40,000 |
| AI Use Assessment | Three to four weeks, with independent review | A$75,000 |
| Standing support | Two to three days a week, by the quarter | A$18,000 a month |
Fees are fixed at engagement for large organisations, exclude GST or VAT and travel, and are reviewed each quarter. Scope and fee for smaller organisations on request.