The template library

What the gate is

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The ten templates

Ten templates, in the book's own order, and what each one is for.

• 1Severity Triage Card

  Score the severity of an AI incident in three minutes

• 2Calibrated Internal Message

  Send a calibrated internal message while the facts are still developing

• 3Day 30 Board Brief

  Brief the board 30 days after a major AI event

• 4One-Page Board AI Update

  Build your standing one-page AI update for the board

• 5Sample Escalation Brief

  Escalate an AI decision to your CEO or executive committee

• 6Three-Question Control Audit

  Audit whether an existing control still covers an AI use case

• 7Six-Pattern Matrix

  Run a quarterly or annual AI failure-pattern review

• 8Sample Acceptable Use Policy

  Publish (or update) your AI Acceptable Use Policy

• 9Five-Day Promise Intake Form

  Stand up a five-day promise for IT to approve a new AI tool

• 10Sample CFO-to-IT-Director Memo

  Move your company off an AI ban and into structured governance

What is coming

Ten of the twenty-seven templates are in the book. The other seventeen are being prepared and arrive in batches. So are the two longer fill-in versions the chapters point at by name: the full calibrated internal message and the full acceptable-use policy.

Everyone on the list hears when a batch lands. You do not need to check back.