04 · GOVERNANCE TEMPLATE
Stop letting vendorsdecide how hardyour AI thinks.
In 2026 a major AI vendor quietly cut default reasoning effort and nobody was notified. This is the governance structure we built in response, generalized into a fill-in template: which model runs which job, when fallbacks are allowed, who holds the effort knob, and the monthly check that catches the next silent degradation.
10 pages · fill-in tables · the actual structure we run on
Built for
- Operators running real work on AI models
- Agency owners with client output on the line
- Teams burned by a silent model regression
- Anyone whose only AI governance is a subscription
Inside: the three-tier routing table, five routing rules, the effort policy, the adversarial review protocol, and the 15-minute monthly model review.
The template
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Fill-in routing table with our version as the worked example
The five routing rules and the fallback log format
Blind adversarial review protocol, verdict system included
The 15-minute monthly check that catches silent degradation