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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 your readiness for an AI-governance audit in 90 days, on your own marks. 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
| Signal | 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 — Readiness is 92, above the 80 floor, but Vendor & sub-processor governance has no named owner. Marked fix first on this sample: 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 readiness is 92, above the 80 floor, but Vendor & sub-processor governance has no named owner.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One gate-triggering gap overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single gate-triggering gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. Where something is short, the fix-first row names it — here, "Vendor & sub-processor governance".
A readiness self-assessment — not legal advice or an audit opinion.
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