For Fractional GCs: AI Governance for General Companies · Triodian

Partners · fractional GCs

One GC, both halves.

Act as counsel on the engagement, and keep the client’s AI governance standing afterwards.

Most general companies have no in-house counsel and no supervisor. Their board still wants a position on AI, their next deal still has to stay out of external models, and their funder or insurer still sends the questionnaire. A fractional general counsel is where those questions land. Triodian gives you a method to answer them, and an open-source app suite to run it in.

General companiesCounsel roleFree to self-hostOpen source · Apache 2.0

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.

The route

Three engagements, in the order the questions arrive.

Each runs in its own app, under your instruction, and leaves the client with a record. The Obligations Atlas supplies the matter brief at the start.

The board wants a position

AI Board Direction, standalone. One workshop and one board meeting produce an appetite statement in the board’s words, an acceptable-use policy outline for you to draft from, a minute, a 90-day action list and an automated-decision worklist.

The steps →

A deal is live

AI Confidentiality Exposure Assessment, led by you under privilege. Every channel by which deal information can reach an external model, and what the company could show about each. Two weeks.

Deal confidentiality →

Someone is asking for evidence

What a funder, insurer or customer will accept as evidence of how the client’s AI is governed, and what can be produced from what already exists.

Evidence requests →

Holding both roles

The method records it, and the apps allow it.

In a small company the fractional GC is often counsel on the engagement and the client’s approving executive at the same time. The apps allow one person to hold both roles. Where that happens, the second agreement at set-up comes from a named director or executive, and every output records that the GC held both. Nothing is hidden, and nothing is signed off twice by the same hand without saying so.

You do

  • Instruct the engagement and set its scope
  • Answer every legal question logged in the workshop or the register
  • Hold the privilege position and the marking on every output
  • Draft the acceptable-use policy and the adviser clauses from the outlines

Triodian does

  • Supplies the steps, scales and questions
  • Records positions with who proposed them, and runs the checks
  • Produces the register, the findings and the technical annex
  • States no view on what the law requires, or what the appetite should be

Your practice

The apps are yours to run.

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Free to self-host

The app suite is open source under Apache 2.0. Run them in your own environment for every client, or ask Triodian to run a deployment for an engagement.

02

One deployment per client

Each client’s engagement lives in its own deployment, so one client’s data never sits beside another’s.

03

Triodian when you want it

Facilitation, the independent review and the technical annex in Triodian’s name are what Triodian charges for. The method is not.