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How the Pass a 90-Day AI Audit? gate works
How the 90-Day AI Audit Readiness Triage scores AI-governance readiness: seven weighted controls, band thresholds, and a no-owner gate that forces WOULD NOT PASS regardless of the score — which is how the sample scores 92 and still fails.
How the gate works
This tool grades whether you could pass an AI-governance audit in 90 days. Each control is marked from your own evidence and weighted into a 0–100 score — and then the score is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 7 weighted controls
| Control | Weight |
|---|---|
| AI system & use-case inventory | 18 |
| Named owner & accountability | 14 |
| Acceptable-use policy & approvals | 14 |
| Output record-keeping & audit trail | 16 |
| Vendor & sub-processor governance | 14 |
| Risk assessment & monitoring | 14 |
| Staff AI-literacy / training record | 10 |
| Total | 100 |
The verdict bands
Any in-scope domain with no named owner forces WOULD NOT PASS — regardless of the score.
In the worked sample it scores 92 out of 100 and still reads WOULD NOT PASS — Vendor & sub-processor governance scores well but has no named owner. The one thing to fix first: Assign a named owner to Vendor & sub-processor governance.
Common questions
Can something score well on the Pass a 90-Day AI Audit? and still fail?
Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the No-owner gate — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 92 out of 100 and still reads WOULD NOT PASS, because vendor & sub-processor governance scores well but has no named owner.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-good score, because a high average can hide a single disqualifying gap. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "Assign a named owner to Vendor & sub-processor governance".
A readiness self-assessment — not legal advice or an audit opinion.
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