Why version 2 of The GAiGE starts with AI governance

We launched The GAiGE in May this year. We had some great feedback, but by far the most common reaction was that most mid-sized organisations were focused on getting their AI governance right first.

The risk to company directors is real. In Australia, the corporate regulator, ASIC, has set out that directors' and officers' duties of care and diligence apply to AI: "These duties extend to the adoption, deployment and use of AI." ASIC adds that directors and officers should be aware of how AI is used within their companies (Source: ASIC, Report 798: Beware the gap: Governance arrangements in the face of AI innovation, 2024). The Australian Institute of Company Directors said the same in its 2026 guide for boards: overseeing AI and its risks is already part of directors' duties under the Corporations Act (Source: Australian Institute of Company Directors and Human Technology Institute, A Director's Guide to AI Governance, Version 2, 2026).

Shadow AI, where people use AI tools at work that their employer doesn't know about, is a genuine problem too. A third of Australian workers (34%) use AI tools at work without their employer knowing (Source: Employment Hero, AI Paradox at Work research, 2026, a Focaldata survey of 1,634 employed Australians). Two years earlier, Microsoft and LinkedIn found that 78% of knowledge workers using AI at work were bringing their own AI tools, in Australia and worldwide alike (Source: Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024 Work Trend Index). So directors are expected to be aware of how AI is used in their company, while a third of workers use AI tools their employer doesn't know about.

Most of the mid-sized organisations we heard from felt a little stuck. They knew they needed to get this fixed, but the only option seemed to be months of expensive outside help.

That's why we've spent the last several months building version 2 of The GAiGE, which now automates most of the work of getting your AI governance up to date.

When you start to look at AI governance in detail, you soon realise there's more to it than meets the eye, and having some policies in place is only one part of it. That's why we've built all of this, and it all comes with Standard:

• The AI State of Play: a survey of everyone, which takes each person under 10 minutes, so you know which AI tools are really in use and what for.
• The Leadership Position tool: your leaders agree where the organisation stands on seven decisions about AI, with a dated record of what they agreed.
• The AI tools register: every AI tool in one list, with its decision, its owner, its costs and when it renews.
• Decisions and AI policies, each with our recommendation: every decision starts from a suggested answer and the reason for it.
• Policies by group, with reasons: each person sees the policies that apply to them, and why they're there.
• Who has read the policies: see who has confirmed they've read them, and remind the rest in one go.
• The chatbot: your people get answers from your published policies, and the questions it can't answer show you where a policy has a gap.
• Requests, incidents and finds: people ask for a tool or report a problem, and each one comes to you with a recommended answer.
• Automated decisions: a record of the decisions software makes about people, with wording drafted for your privacy policy, ready for the Australian Privacy Act requirement that starts on 10 December 2026.
• The Industry AI briefing: how organisations like yours use AI and where it could help, researched from your website, with its sources.
• Reviews: a monthly or quarterly look at your AI decisions, with the agenda put together for you.
• The How We Use AI Report: a dated PDF of your tool decisions and policies, ready for clients, suppliers or the board.
• The AI Adoption Portal: each person's own page, with the policies that apply to them, which tools to use for what, and their pulses.
• The AI Learning Centre: free AI courses and videos, the maker's own guide to each approved tool where there is one, and your own resources, in one place.
• The browser extension: your decision on each tool, shown on the tool's own website the first time someone opens it.
• The AI Pulse, The AI Review and The AI Capability Check: short, regular pulses on whether each tool is helping, whether it's worth keeping, and what skills people need.

Of course, once your AI governance is in order, you need to start thinking about how you get a return on your AI investment. Even one tool at A$30 a person a month costs an organisation of 50 people A$18,000 a year, and you need to know whether that's worth it. That's what Pro is for. With Pro, you also get:

• ROI by tool: the time people say each tool saves, valued at your hourly rate, beside what the tool costs.
• The AI Impact Report: a PDF of the hours each tool saves and their value, the change since the last period, and the licences going unused.
• The AI Roadmap: plan your AI initiatives, and let everyone see what's planned, in progress and adopted.
• AI Champions: the people who help others use AI, with the teams and tools each one covers and their agreed hours.
• Team results for Group Leaders: a page and a weekly email for each Group Leader, with their own groups' figures and learning needs.
• The pulse library and custom pulses: ready-made pulses on topics such as agentic coding and AI risk, or your own, with questions that follow from earlier answers.
• Your full pulse results history: no time limit, where with Standard you keep 12 months.

So we're pretty confident we've built the platform that will first help you get your AI house in order, and then make sure you capitalise on your investment.