One decision per week. Made defensible.
Judgment Call is a weekly brief for CCOs, CROs, General Counsel, CAEs, and the executives who answer for AI when it fails. Each issue takes one live governance decision, whether to enable your platform’s AI features, whether to trust a vendor promise, whether to sign that attestation, and works the question the way an auditor would: the situation, the exposure, the judgment call, and an artifact your team can use the same day.
WHAT YOU GET
Five sections. No filler. Five minutes.
The Situation & The Exposure
A real development from the past weeks, whether a product launch, a lawsuit, or a regulatory move, and precisely who is exposed by it, anchored to statutes, cases, and named surveys. Never speculation.
The Judgment Call
The call I would make in your seat, from a practioner's experience, with the honest counterargument assessed. Risk and benefit, both named. You may decide differently, but you will decide better informed.
This Week’s Action & The Artifact
The concrete step your team can take this week, with what to do, who to involve, and the time it requires, plus a checklist, scorecard, or decision tree built to be used immediately.
Reading about AI risk and being ready to answer for it are different things. Every issue ends with something you can hand to your team.
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Written personally by Chris Cook, former Deputy Chief Auditor of IBM. No sponsorships, no vendor content, no sharing of your address.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Read three issues before signing up
GRC Platform AI: Your Data Isn’t Ready Yet. Workiva, Diligent, and Optro all shipped AI the same week. None of them asked whether your control library can support it.
AI Proxy Scoring. What a vendor’s score actually measures, and what your examiner will assume it measured.
Shadow AI Is Not an IT Problem. Employees use non-approved AI all the time, despite policy prohibitions. Most companies wrongly assume the CIO can solve it.
Reading it and living it are two different things.
If an issue lands on a decision your firm is facing right now, the AI Exposure Diagnostic is how we work it together.