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Boardroom-to-Backlog Gap
Executive AI risk narratives often fail to translate into named controls, owners, and evidence artifacts at the engineering level.
July 20, 2026Open
Start with the pressure: sales, launch, abuse, agents, data, or guardrails
Concept
The gap between recognizing AI risk and producing reproducible evidence that an engineered control works.
Definition
Risk Recognition to System to Boundary to Failure Path to Control to Test to Telemetry to Evidence to Defensible Claim.
Connected intelligence
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