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Board reports, role specifications, and working papers built for regulated AI programs. Download and use them directly — no email required.

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AI Legal & Regulatory Scorecard

The AI Legal & Regulatory Scorecard is a two-page reference that shows your CCO, GC or audit committee which AI laws reach a U.S. financial services, insurance or healthcare company, which ones regulators and courts have already enforced, and which deadlines arrive next. Edition 1 is current as of October 12, 2026.

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The Dumbbell Test: An AI Verification Case Study

The Dumbbell Test is an annotated case study of one ordinary AI chat, a question about the weight increments on an adjustable dumbbell set, reproduced in full and unedited. Chris Cook's side-by-side commentary marks where each error entered: the question asked, the answer given, or the control that was missing. It opens with six lessons, each tied to a control a regulated organization would recognize, including why a model's own confidence score is not assurance.

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Head of AI — Role Specification

The Head of AI role specification defines a single seat that owns AI value delivery and AI risk as one undivided outcome, rather than splitting them across a committee. It sets the organizational fit test for when the role is warranted, five specific authorities the seat holds (decision intake, risk classification, unilateral stop authority, evidence custody, and reporting-line independence), and the accountabilities that follow from them. Built with HR input for boards and executive teams defining the role for the first time.

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Board AI Report

The Blackbox Zero Board AI Report is the one-page quarterly AI report to your audit or risk committee, with a second page of preparer's notes carrying the evidence standard behind every figure: status criteria that are scored rather than evaluated in the moment, an incident reporting threshold your committee approves once, and a defensible source for every number a director might question.

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AI Risk Action Checklist

The AI Risk Action Checklist is a 23-point self-assessment across three areas: whether the right governance structures exist, whether AI risk is being managed in practice rather than on paper, and whether you could demonstrate compliance tomorrow if asked. Includes a section for logging your top three priority actions and owners.

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