Question 1

What is a Governance Operating System?

Accepted Answer

A Governance Operating System is one control framework an organization implements once and maps every law, standard and assessor to, so AI, security, privacy and ethics are governed in a single system rather than four parallel programs. ARISE Framework® is the Governance Operating System published by Assessed Intelligence.

Question 2

Is ARISE a replacement for NIST AI RMF or ISO 42001?

Accepted Answer

No. ARISE is the operating system those standards map to. An organization runs its governance on ARISE and maps outward to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001, the EU AI Act and 36 other published crosswalks. Each new standard becomes a delta against the existing control set, not a new project.

Question 3

What is a common operating picture in governance?

Accepted Answer

A common operating picture is one shared status view that every stakeholder reads the same way. In ARISE it means one control set and one evidence base shared by the board, the CISO, the privacy officer, legal and data science, so a finding in one domain is visible to all of them at once.

Question 4

How does ARISE unify AI, cyber, privacy and ethics governance?

Accepted Answer

Structurally. One governance function is written once and instantiated across domains. Incident response for AI, cyber and privacy events is R.IR-01, R.IR-02 and R.IR-03 under one RESPOND domain. Oversight committees, regulatory compliance, policy families and audit follow the same pattern across the seven ARISE domains.

Question 5

How many controls does the ARISE Framework have?

Accepted Answer

ARISE Framework v2.0.0 has 128 controls and 953 requirements across seven domains: GOVERN, MANAGE, IDENTIFY, PROTECT, DETECT, RESPOND and VALIDATE. It publishes 40 crosswalks to laws and standards. The framework is maintained in a public repository at github.com/Assessed-Intelligence/ARISE-Framework.

Question 6

Can my organization adopt ARISE without hiring Assessed Intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Yes. ARISE is published under the ARISE™ Public Use License (Non-Commercial), which permits internal governance, education, research, compliance readiness and nonprofit use at no cost. Selling ARISE-based services, paid audits against it or paid products built on it require a commercial license.

Question 7

How does a Governance OS help with the EU AI Act?

Accepted Answer

The six CEN/CENELEC prEN 18xxx harmonised standards drafted for the EU AI Act are each crosswalked to all 128 ARISE controls. An organization running on ARISE maps its existing evidence to those standards as they land instead of building a separate conformity program.

Question 8

Who uses a Governance Operating System?

Accepted Answer

Organizations that answer to more than one regulator or assessor at once: healthcare systems under HIPAA and state AI laws, defense contractors under CMMC, financial firms with model risk obligations, and any company deploying AI agents under the EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act or Texas TRAIGA.