Your SaaS vendors quietly enabled AI features last quarter without asking. Every automated update that touches an LLM is effectively a new vendor onboarding — and your existing contracts don't cover it.

A one-time approval doesn't account for linguistic drift, demographic shift, or regulatory change. If you're not monitoring for drift quarterly, your governance is already obsolete.

Regulators use time-to-evidence as a proxy for management oversight. If your team needs a week to pull AI control logs, you're not governing — you're reconstructing history.

An unenforced AI policy isn't a safety net — it's documented evidence of negligence. Here's how to close the gap before a regulator does it for you.