A practice of Techné AI
BoardSight AI
Independent AI governance advisory for boards, audit committees, and the D&O ecosystem.
BoardSight is the practice at Techné AI that builds the documented AI oversight record directors need. The work addresses three pressure points now converging on the boardroom: D&O underwriters pricing AI governance into renewals, the Caremark duty of oversight extending to AI as a mission-critical system, and securities class actions citing AI disclosure failures. Every engagement produces evidence — minutes, oversight memos, reporting cadences — that a director can rely on and that internal counsel and external counterparties can consume.
The thesis
AI governance has moved from a board education topic to a board liability topic.
The question directors face in 2026 is no longer whether to discuss AI in the boardroom — it is whether the discussion is documented in a form that satisfies the duty of care, withstands underwriter scrutiny at renewal, and produces a record that a future plaintiff cannot use to argue that the board failed to act.
Three forces are converging:
Caremark.
The Delaware courts have extended director oversight duties to "mission-critical" operational risks. Recent decisions — Marchand, 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.
Securities class actions.
Filings citing AI-related disclosure inadequacies are accelerating. The Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse and Cornerstone Research are tracking the trend. Directors named in these suits face exposure that maps directly to whether the board's AI oversight is documented and defensible.
Who this is for
- Independent directors and audit committee chairs
- Risk committee chairs and lead directors
- General counsel preparing board and committee materials on AI
- Corporate secretaries
- D&O brokers and underwriters supporting director clients
- PE operating partners with portfolio-wide D&O exposure
Profile of the engagement-driving director: a director who has heard AI raised in the boardroom, has seen the proxy advisor guidance update, and is asking — independently of management — what the board's documented oversight posture actually is. BoardSight is built for that director.
What's at stake
Three places the record gets read.
At renewal
D&O carriers ask about AI governance. Boards without documented oversight face higher premiums, narrower coverage, or both. Boards with documented oversight bring evidence to the renewal conversation.
Under Caremark
The duty of oversight requires reporting systems for mission-critical risks, with director attention to red flags. For directors of organizations with meaningful AI deployment, that obligation extends to AI.
In litigation
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.
How we work
Four engagements, reframed for the board.
Board & Committee Briefings
Half-day or full-day working sessions for boards, audit committees, and risk committees on the AI regulatory landscape, the Caremark framework as applied to AI oversight, and the documentation that supports the director's duty of care under current Delaware case law.
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AI Compliance Diagnostic
A two-week productized assessment producing a Risk Profile and a three-action sequence the board can endorse, the audit committee can supervise, and management can implement within the quarter.
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Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance Review
For boards of organizations operating across Illinois, California, New York, Colorado, and the EU, a single control catalog and a separate executive summary written specifically for the D&O underwriting conversation.
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Standing AI Compliance Advisor
A named advisor available to the board across the regulatory and operational cadence — quarterly briefings, incident response support, counsel through the D&O renewal conversation.
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The published record
Authority assets, filtered for the board audience.
Briefing
AI Governance & D&O Liability
In active circulation among directors, officers, broker partners, and underwriters.
Work email required
Request the briefing
Tracker
Illinois AI Legislative Ecosystem
Live tracker of every AI-related bill and statute in Illinois, consulted by general counsel and policy researchers.
Open the tracker
Testimony
Illinois Senate testimony
Written testimony to the Illinois Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media. One recommendation became an AI-risk impact study bill.
Read the testimony
Reference
Caremark and AI Oversight: A Reference for Directors
The Delaware duty-of-oversight doctrine — Caremark, refined by Marchand, Clovis, Boeing, and McDonald's — applied to AI deployment. The doctrinal architecture and the documentation directors should expect to see.
Read the reference
Where to start
Two paths.
Request the briefing.
The AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing is the most efficient orientation to the practice's frame. In active circulation among practitioners and underwriters.
Schedule a scoping conversation.
A 30-minute call with the principal for boards that already know they need a structured engagement.