Built for the bank standing up its program this quarter.
Community banks are being asked for AI policies, risk assessments, and board briefings that didn’t exist a year ago. Most are starting from a blank document and a regulator’s deadline.
The Toolkit is 27 editable Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents spanning the full AI governance lifecycle: board-level policies, discovery and intake, risk assessment and independent validation, vendor and data controls, the operating logs that stand as your exam evidence, specialized-risk tools, and board and audit oversight. Each document is fully editable — drop in your institution’s name, run it through your committee, and you have a working program.
What the Toolkit really gives a lean team is confidence. When leadership weighs a new AI tool, or you need to show how one is governed, the answer is a program already written, adopted, and on the record — so your bank can move on AI with its eyes open.
Written by a practicing community-bank VP of IT. Every policy, template, and recommendation is purpose-built for this toolkit — grounded in public regulatory guidance and the practical realities community banks face, and developed on the author’s own time.
What’s inside the toolkit
The full governance lifecycle — policies first, evidence always, sequenced the way you’d build it.
Foundation & Governance
The board-level foundation regulators expect.
Discovery, Intake & Inventory
Find every AI system you already have — then govern it.
Assessment & Validation
Vendor & Data
Operating Logs · The Evidence Layer
The layer most toolkits miss — the recurring records that evidence ongoing oversight.
Specialized Risk
Oversight, Audit & People
Keeping the Toolkit Current
Regulation moves. The toolkit moves with it.
26-Page Master Index & How-To Guide
Every template gets a one-page spec card: what it’s for, how to complete it step by step, who owns it and how often, what it pairs with — and a practical tip drawn from supervisory expectations.
“Where to Start” Path
A sequenced path for banks standing up a new program — which documents to complete first, and the order the rest fall into place.
Exam-Notice Fast Path
When the exam letter arrives, the fast path tells you exactly which documents to pull first — and the order the examiner will want them in.
Built against the 2026 supervisory framework: SR 26-2 / OCC Bulletin 2026-13 model-risk guidance, OCC 2025-26 community-bank validation relief, the 2023 Interagency Third-Party Risk Guidance, GLBA/Safeguards, the post-2026 fair-lending framework, FinCEN’s deepfake alert, and the 36-hour incident-notification rule — with a documented procedure for staying current as guidance changes.
The AI Governance Toolkit
Every template from the Handbook as editable Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files — 27 documents, ready to complete, brand, and deploy. The complete program: policies, risk assessments, committee charter, board reporting, vendor governance, and the 90-day Quick Start plan.
- 27 editable program templates · Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- One purchase licenses your institution
- Includes the Digital Edition of the Handbook — free
