Risk Assessment

Don't let your AI project get blocked by the Risk Directive.

The Responsible Use of AI Directive requires risk management and bias mitigation before deployment. Most product owners don't know how to test for that. We do.

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Your AI use case sounds great.
Can you prove it won't fail the Directive?

You have an AI idea. AI scribes for clinicians. Benefit adjudication algorithms. Automated policy summarization. It would save time. It would improve service. And it might violate the Responsible Use of AI Directive if you deploy it without stress-testing the risks first.

The Directive doesn't just require "transparency" and "accountability" as buzzwords. It requires documented evidence that you've tested for bias, identified hallucination vectors, established human-in-the-loop controls, and produced a completed Algorithm Impact Assessment.

We run that stress test. In 2 days. Before you build.

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Bias Testing

Does the model treat all demographic groups fairly? Where's the proxy discrimination risk?

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Privacy Impact

What personal information is processed? Is consent valid? Is retention compliant?

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Explainability

Can the system explain its decisions to affected individuals? Is that explanation meaningful?

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Hallucination Risk

Where can the AI produce plausible but false outputs? What's the blast radius if it does?

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Records Management

What outputs must be retained? What decision logs are required? Who owns the audit trail?

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Human Control

Where do humans intervene? Is override possible? Is the control point actually enforceable?

De-risk your AI project before development

Get your stress test, risk register, and AIA pack — completed in 10 business days.

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A 2-day sprint. Five audit-ready deliverables.

We don't write policy documents. We produce operational artifacts that your Digital lead and Privacy lead can jointly sign off on and hand to Internal Audit or the IPC.

Use-Case Canvas (1–2 pages)

Purpose, users, data inputs/outputs, decision impact. The 'what' and the 'who' in plain language. No jargon. Validated by the product owner and the business lead.

✓ Accepted when stakeholders agree this is what we're actually building.

Risk Register + Mitigation Plan

Every identified risk (bias, privacy, explainability, hallucination, records) with severity rating, likelihood, and the specific mitigation control. Not generic — tied to this use case.

✓ Accepted when Privacy/Security leads confirm these are the real risks and the mitigations are enforceable.

Algorithm Impact Assessment (AIA) Pack

The narrative document required by the Directive. Ontario-aligned. Cross-references the Risk Register. Shows you've done the work before deployment, not after a breach.

✓ Accepted when it passes Internal Audit or legal review without rework.

Go/No-Go Gate Criteria

The specific conditions under which this use case can proceed to pilot, scale, or production. Quantified. Measurable. Agreed upfront.

✓ Accepted when Digital lead and Privacy lead jointly sign the gate criteria.

Pilot Test Plan

If you proceed: success metrics, monitoring approach, what data to log, escalation triggers. The roadmap from prototype to safe deployment.

✓ Accepted when the product team can execute the pilot using this plan without external support.

At the end of Day 2, you make a decision:

✓ GO

The mitigations are acceptable. The risks are manageable. Proceed to pilot with the test plan in hand.

⏸ NO-GO

The risks can't be mitigated at acceptable cost. You've just saved 6 months and $200K by learning this now, not after deployment.