AI Decision Review · New in 2027
The discipline we use for any failure, applied to decisions made or shaped by AI. Before your board approves a system, or after one goes wrong.
5 of 163
A 2025 University of Cambridge preprint examined 163 reports tagged as responses to AI incidents. Only 5 were official responses from the developer or deployer, and even those lacked the detail needed to learn from them.
Richards, Benn and Zilka, From Incidents to Insights: Patterns of Responsibility Following AI Harms, 2025. Read the paper
Before approval
For a board about to approve an AI system. We settle one question before the vote: what the system will decide, from which records, and who answers when it is wrong. The board leaves with a written standard for what it needs to see first.
From US$7,500
90 minutes, prepared with your papers.
After a failure
For an automated decision that went wrong. We find out what the business believed at the time, how the decision was actually made and where the defences had gaps. The blame does not land on the nearest person by default. You receive a written finding and the changes, each with an owner.
From US$12,000
4–6 weeks.
Ongoing
For boards that rely on AI every day. A regular check of how AI-assisted decisions are approved, watched and corrected, reported straight to the board.
By agreement
Offered to a small number of boards first.
Governance context
King V asks boards to oversee decisions that AI systems influence or make. The review gives the board the evidence to show it did.
| King V asks | The review gives |
|---|---|
| Clear accountability for the decisions, actions and outcomes of AI systems (Principle 10). | A dated record of who decided what, on what information. |
| AI used with ethics, accountability, transparency, explainability, fairness and privacy, among other values. | A test of the decision against the values that matter for it. |
| The board explains any practice it has not adopted, and concludes on its governance outcomes. | Evidence for that explanation and that conclusion. |
King V was published by the Institute of Directors in South Africa in 2025. This is a summary for context, not legal advice. We do not sell King V compliance work.
Tell us about the AI system you are about to approve, or the decision that went wrong. The first meeting has no fee. In 2027 we are taking on a small number of boards.