Improving Your AI Trust Score™
Improving the AI Trust Score™ is a structured exercise. This briefing describes the patterns that consistently produce faster improvement — and the patterns that produce stalled programs.
Baseline Honestly
An overstated baseline produces an unsatisfying improvement story. Honest baselines, including known gaps, create the conditions for fast, visible progress in the first reporting cycle.
Pick Three Priorities
The most reliable pattern: focus on the three highest-impact gaps surfaced in the assessment. Typically these are inventory completeness, vendor AI coverage, and documented executive accountability.
Build the Cadence
A monthly working cadence for the AI Governance Council and a quarterly reporting cadence for the executive committee and board. Cadence is what converts policy into operation.
Re-Measure on a Schedule
Programs that re-measure every six to twelve months improve consistently. Programs that re-measure only when asked do not. The act of measuring drives improvement.
- Honest baseline
- Three priorities, not ten
- Council + board cadence
- Recurring re-measure on a schedule
"Programs that try to improve everywhere at once improve nowhere. Pick three priorities and execute."
- Honest baselines outperform optimistic ones.
- Three priorities beats ten.
- Cadence is what operationalizes governance.
- Re-measuring on a schedule drives sustained improvement.