AI Governance for Boards & SME Leaders
Audits, pilots, and policies your board can sign off in weeks.
You already pay lawyers to keep you legally safe, and auditors to keep you financially safe.
Who keeps you safe with AI?
That’s what I do. I’m your Fractional Chief AI Officer — your compliance guard, efficiency builder, and credibility shield for the board.
At a fraction of a $250K salary, you get governance, staff training, and quarterly AI Impact Reports proving ROI and regulator alignment.
Why Boards Choose Silver Penned
Boards and business leaders are under pressure to adopt AI safely — without gambling compliance or reputation.
Silver Penned brings boardroom-grade AI governance built for the regulator, the board, and the workforce.
✅ Board-ready audits and reports you can defend under scrutiny.
✅ 10–20 staff hours reclaimed weekly through structured AI adoption.
✅ Shadow AI use reduced by 40% within one quarter.
✅ ROI and risk maps that prove efficiency without exposure.
With Silver Penned as your Fractional Chief AI Officer, you gain clarity, speed, and compliance-safe certainty — at a fraction of the $250K+ full-time hire.
Every engagement operates within the Silver Penned Shield — your triple-layer assurance model:
✅ Clarity — Boardroom-ready reports, not hype.
✅ Speed — Safe pilots with visible ROI in 30 days.
✅ Trust — Regulator-aligned, staff-trained governance.
This is what Structured Intellect + Situational Awareness looks like in executive form.
Want the 90-Day Playbook?
Download the AI Governance Roadmap Pack — the same framework we use with boards and leadership teams to map risk, reduce shadow AI, and move from uncertainty to assurance.
👉 Get the Roadmap Pack
From: “AI is risky and vague.”
To: “We have a defendable roadmap our board can trust.”
That’s the transformation the Roadmap Pack delivers — and the audit capitalizes on.
AI Governance for Boards & SMEs
What Is a Fractional Chief AI Officer?
A Fractional CAI provides board-level AI strategy, governance, and risk management — without the cost of a full-time executive.
Silver Penned delivers audits, 90-day roadmaps, governance frameworks, and staff enablement tailored for SMEs and boards.
Why It’s Safer Than Generic AI
Generic AI tools are fast but risky — they ignore compliance, privacy, and regulatory alignment.
Silver Penned embeds safety from the start: anonymization, AI use policies, SOPs, and training.
Your teams gain efficiency.
Your board gains protection.
Your regulator gains confidence.
Every AI Audit Includes
Each engagement delivers boardroom-ready artefacts:
Executive Summary for decision-makers
Workflow map per department
5–10 prioritized AI use cases
ROI + risk forecast
90-day roadmap for board approval
You leave with clarity, compliance, and a credible plan — not a hype deck.
Who Uses It — and Why
Boards, CEOs, and governance professionals use Silver Penned’s audits and frameworks to:
Reduce shadow AI use
Unlock measurable ROI
Prove compliance alignment
Reclaim 10–20 staff hours weekly
It’s for leaders asking:
“Who actually owns AI risk at the board level?”
From Policy Gaps to AI Advantage — in Six Moves
Boards don’t need noise — they need a structured AI adoption path they can defend.
Silver Penned delivers clarity, compliance, and ROI in six moves:
Move 1: Audit
Map current AI use (on and off the books), risks, and ROI.
👉 Outcome: Executive-ready summary and a 90-day roadmap.
Move 2: Roadmap
Prioritize 5–10 high-value use cases suited to your workflows and risk appetite.
👉 Outcome: Board-approved roadmap built for compliance and efficiency.
Move 3: Pilot
Deploy 2–3 compliant, high-impact pilots with SOPs and policy templates.
👉 Outcome: Visible wins within 30 days.
Move 4: Govern
Establish frameworks for privacy, acceptable use, and escalation.
👉 Outcome: Policies the board can defend to regulators.
Move 5: Adopt
Scale across teams with role-based training and change management.
👉 Outcome: Organization-wide AI literacy and safety.
Move 6: Assure
Quarterly AI Impact Reports showing ROI, adoption, and regulator alignment.
👉 Outcome: Continuous board confidence and credibility.
Old World
Leaders today are overwhelmed by AI hype:
❌ Too many tools, no clear direction
❌ Staff experimenting off the books
❌ Rising fear of compliance breaches
❌ Wasted time, hidden risk, stalled transformation.
New World
Imagine:
⚡️ 10–20 hours a week freed across teams
⚡️ 5–10 safe, high-ROI use cases deployed in weeks
⚡️ A boardroom-ready AI roadmap signed off in one meeting
⚡️ Staff trained, governance aligned, compliance assured
That’s the world your Fractional Chief AI Officer builds.
Proof in Practice
✅ Professional Services Firm: Freed 18 staff hours weekly after streamlining onboarding with AI.
✅ Community Organization: Board-approved roadmap delivered in 30 days.
✅ SME Board: Shadow AI use reduced by 40% in one quarter through SOPs and training.
“We thought AI was too vague. After the audit, we had a concrete plan. Within 90 days, onboarding was automated, proposals streamlined, and 15 hours a week saved.”
FAQs
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Yes. Staff are already using AI off the books. Regulators won’t accept ignorance as a defence.
An AI Audit maps risk, ROI, and governance before exposure occurs. -
Unlikely. AI compliance requires cross-disciplinary fluency. External audits protect your directors from blind spots.
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Most SMEs save $80K+ annually post-implementation. The audit costs less than 10% of that.
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Delay compounds risk. Early action prevents rework and reputational loss.
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Never. Governance embeds human-in-the-loop oversight — AI assists, leaders decide.
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AI drifts, laws change, staff turnover. Ongoing governance (your Fractional CAI retainer) ensures safety and continuity.
Ready to Bring AI Into the Boardroom Safely?
Stop gambling on AI hype.
Book your compliance-safe audit today for a roadmap your board can defend with confidence.
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