A BoardSight practice offering
BoardSight Intelligence
A maintained reference library for directors who own AI oversight — briefings, playbooks, templates, trackers, and digests, kept current so the board does not have to be.
BoardSight Intelligence is the desk reference for the director's side of AI governance. It is written for the reader who prepares for the meeting, asks the second question, and expects the material in front of them to be current, sourced, and honest about what is settled and what is not.
Charter rate lock: subscribe by September 30, 2026 and renew at your original rate for as long as your subscription stays continuous.
The condition
Directors are asked to oversee AI with materials written for someone else.
What reaches the boardroom today is management's deck, a vendor's whitepaper, or a law-firm client alert — each written for its own purpose, none maintained after it is sent. The regulatory landscape moves monthly; the materials do not. A director preparing for an oversight discussion is left reconciling documents of different ages, different depths, and different incentives.
And the stakes are converging from three directions:
Caremark.
The Delaware courts have extended director oversight duties to "mission-critical" operational risks — the duty articulated in In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation, 698 A.2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996), and given teeth in Marchand v. Barnhill, 212 A.3d 805 (Del. 2019). Subsequent decisions — Clovis, Boeing, McDonald's — establish that boards must implement and monitor reporting systems for the risks central to the company's business. For organizations of meaningful AI deployment, AI governance is now within that category.
D&O underwriting.
Major D&O carriers have begun including AI governance questions on renewal applications and requesting evidence of board-level oversight as part of pricing discussions. Boards that can produce a documented oversight record obtain materially better outcomes in those conversations.
Discovery.
Discovery in any AI-related dispute will demand the board's record. The question is not whether discovery happens; the question is what the record shows when it does.
The missing piece is not more content. It is a single, maintained shelf — written at the director's altitude, revised when the landscape moves, and explicit about when each document was last reviewed.
What this is — and is not
It is
- A maintained reference library, organized by the recurring questions of board-level AI oversight.
- Written for directors and the officers who prepare board materials.
- Dated, sourced, and revised — every document carries its last-reviewed date and a changelog.
- A subscription you renew because it stayed useful, not because it charged your card.
It is not
- Legal advice, or a substitute for engaging licensed counsel on your organization's specific questions.
- A discussion product. There are no forums, no feeds, and no events calendar.
- A training program with sequences to march through. It is a shelf, not a syllabus.
- Generated-on-demand content. Every document is authored, reviewed, and maintained by a named person.
Private by design.
Directors read before they speak. The library has no visible subscriber roster, no activity indicators, and no social surface of any kind. No other subscriber knows what you read, when you read it, or that you subscribe at all. Subscriber organizations are never listed publicly.
The standard
Every document is governed by a firm-wide editorial standard.
Sourcing rules, a citation and currency standard, an explicit classification of claims, a founder-conducted review workflow, defined maintenance cadences, and a public corrections log.
What the library contains
Seven pillars. Five document types. Maintained.
01
Oversight structure
How the board organizes AI oversight — committee charters, delegation, and the reporting lines that put AI risk in front of the right body.
02
Board reporting
What management reports to the board about AI, in what form, at what cadence — and what the minutes should reflect.
03
Vendor & third party
The diligence and contract posture for AI acquired rather than built, where most AI exposure actually enters the organization.
04
Disclosure & securities
Public-company statements about AI — where disclosure practice is moving and where the litigation risk concentrates.
05
D&O renewal
The renewal conversation: what carriers ask about AI governance and the record that supports the answer.
06
Incident & escalation
When an AI system fails or misbehaves — the escalation path to the board and the record of the response.
07
Regulatory & litigation watch
The moving regulatory and case-law landscape, tracked and translated for a director-level reader.
Five document types
- Briefing
- A director-level read on one question, written to be consumed before the meeting.
- Playbook
- A structured working sequence for a recurring board task.
- Template
- A starting document — charter language, agenda items, question sets — built to be adapted.
- Tracker
- A maintained record of a moving landscape, revised as the landscape moves.
- Digest
- The periodic summary of what changed and what it means for the boardroom.
The day-one shelf
The library opens with a working shelf spanning the pillars, with additions on a published release calendar thereafter:
- Board AI Governance Scorecard — a self-scoring instrument across the five elements of a documented oversight record
- Board AI Oversight Readiness Checklist — the items a defensible record contains, in checklist form
- AI Governance & D&O Liability — the foundational briefing on the doctrine, the underwriting shift, and the documentation that answers both
- Underwriter Question Bank — the AI governance questions carriers are asking at renewal, season-stamped and maintained
- Committee charter amendment templates — audit committee, risk, and technology committee variants, with board-minutes insert language
The release calendar is published inside the library, and it carries a standing note: when a document cannot meet the editorial standard by its scheduled slot, the slot moves. The calendar bends to the standard, not the reverse.
Praxis instruments
The library's research ships as instruments.
The BoardSight instrument spine begins with the Board AI Oversight Scorecard and extends to committee-charter and minutes-language generators, the oversight register, and, in 2027, the quarterly Board Pack generator. Deterministic by design: every output dated, versioned, and stamped with the configuration that produced it. List prices rise when the instrument layer ships; the charter rate lock is how early subscribers keep today's price.
Who subscribes — and who is declined
Who subscribes.
- Independent directors and committee chairs who own AI oversight
- General counsel and corporate secretaries who prepare board materials
- CFOs and officers who carry the D&O renewal conversation
Who is declined.
Every request is personally reviewed, and requests outside the library's intended readership are declined with a note: AI vendors, consulting firms, and — deliberately — brokers and underwriters, who are served through the firm's partner channel rather than as subscribers.
Subscription
One annual payment. No auto-renew.
Individual
$2,499
one seat · twelve months
Full library access for one named reader.
Three seats
$5,999
three named seats · twelve months
For a board or a governance team — commonly the committee chair, the general counsel, and the corporate secretary.
Additional seats
$750
per seat · attaches to the Organization (3-seat) tier only
Extend access across the full committee or governance function.
Subscriptions are a one-time annual payment covering twelve months of access. There is no auto-renew. Subscribe by September 30, 2026 (11:59 PM CT) and you renew at your original rate for as long as your subscription remains continuous; subscriptions beginning after that date renew at the then-prevailing rate. Subscriptions are non-refundable after 30 days.
Charter rate — through September 30, 2026. List prices rise when the instrument layer ships this fall; charter subscribers keep today's price permanently. Access remains by request and personally reviewed — the rate lock changes the price, never the review.
Access is by request and personally reviewed — there is no self-serve checkout.
For the small number of organizations that need a named advisor rather than a library, the firm keeps the Bench — five advisory seats in total, application-only, with priority to subscribers. Ask about an open seat through the contact page.
Founder
Khullani M. Abdullahi, JD
Founder & Principal Advisor
I founded Techné AI as an independent practice at the intersection of AI governance, regulatory compliance, and D&O liability. I authored the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing now in active circulation among directors, officers, broker partners, and the underwriters who serve them; after my testimony to the Illinois Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media, one of the recommendations from that testimony became an AI-risk impact study bill. I host the AI in Chicago podcast, where I interview the researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers shaping the field.
Questions
Asked and answered.
How do I get access?
Access is by request. Submit the access-request form with your name, role, and organization; every request is personally reviewed, and you will receive a response within two business days. There is no self-serve checkout — the library is approval-gated by design.
What does a subscription cost?
An individual subscription is $2,499. An Organization subscription — three named seats — is $5,999. Payment is a one-time annual payment — there is no auto-renew.
Can we add seats?
Additional seats are $750 per seat per year and attach to the Organization (three-seat) tier only, covering named readers at the same organization. For a single-seat subscription, the path to more readers is the Organization tier.
Does the subscription renew automatically?
No. A subscription is a one-time annual payment covering twelve months of access; nothing is charged automatically. At renewal, charter subscribers — anyone who subscribed by September 30, 2026 and has remained continuously subscribed — renew at their original rate. Subscriptions that begin after that date renew at the then-prevailing rate.
What is the refund policy?
Subscriptions are non-refundable after 30 days. Within the first 30 days, contact us and we will work through it.
Is my subscription visible to anyone?
No. Subscribers are not listed publicly, and the library is private by design — no discussion features, no visible subscriber roster, no activity signals. Reading is a private act.
Is this legal advice?
No. BoardSight Intelligence is advisory and educational research; it is not legal advice, and Techné AI does not provide legal services. The library is designed to make your work with counsel more efficient, not to replace it.
Is this a certification?
No — and we would encourage skepticism toward anything in this field that says otherwise. Techné AI does not certify, and the library does not confer a credential. Organizations that need formal attestation should engage a licensed CPA firm or an accredited certification body; we can point you to the right category of provider.
Can my broker subscribe?
No. Brokers and underwriters are served through a separate partner channel. The library is a candid space for the people being underwritten, which requires that it not include the people doing the underwriting.
How do I know the content is current?
Every document displays its last-reviewed date and its change log, the maintenance cadence for every document type is published on the methodology page, and corrections are logged publicly. You are invited to check.
Request access
Tell us who you are and what you oversee.
Every request is personally reviewed. You will receive a response within two business days.