GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICEGet the toolkit AI ACCOUNTABILITY TOOLKIT
A recruiting AI ranking can shape who gets meaningful consideration. Clarify who is accountable, what the AI may do, and what evidence supports its use.
Start with the fictional recruiting example in the video below. Then use the guide, assessment and working records to review one of your own AI workflows.
Four companion PDFs.
One practical starting point.
Who is accountable?
What may AI do?
How do you know?
THE SHORT PUBLIC STORY
A short narrated example follows the people, permissions and evidence behind one fictional AI recruiting deployment.
Watch the story or read the illustrated PDF. Both are available without the contact form. The full guides and working records are in the toolkit above.
Download the illustrated public story PDF · No form requiredFictional example · An introductory explanation, separate from the full toolkit downloads.
FROM QUESTIONS TO ACTION
01 / THE EXECUTIVE GUIDE
Follow a fictional recruiting deployment to understand how a ranking can shape who receives meaningful consideration, even when a human makes the final decision.
02 / THE FILLABLE ASSESSMENT
Work through 15 questions with your business owner, operator, technical administrator, and relevant reviewers. Record evidence before changing a score.
FROM REVIEW TO IMPLEMENTATION
03 / IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
Use the implementation supplement to connect the review to intake, decision rights, evidence and follow-through. Worked examples are fictional.
13 pages · Implementation guide · PDF04 / COMPANION WORKBOOK
Four reusable templates help you preserve the deployment boundary, accountable decisions, evidence and next actions in a controlled working copy.
12 pages · Fillable companion workbook · PDFA WORKED RECRUITING EXAMPLE
If recruiters routinely see only the top ten AI-ranked applications, who can inspect the full pool, challenge a ranking, or stop an unauthorized action?
The Northbridge example connects those questions to observations, evidence gaps, and three concrete workstreams.
Fictional example · Illustrative assessment
START SMALL. MAKE IT USEFUL.
Pick a workflow that affects people or business outcomes. Define its real use and operating scope.
Use the assessment to examine controls and evidence together, including missing or disputed information.
Resolve the most consequential gaps. Assign owners and verify the controls before expanding AI authority.
NEW / REGULATORY APPLICABILITY SUPPLEMENT
Add the six-page guide and four-page fillable working records to your existing Accountability Toolkit. Capture selected EU AI Act and NYC employment-tool screening findings, evidence references, reviewers, owners and review dates. Other laws remain unassessed; screening is not legal advice or authorization.
COMPANION BROWSER TOOLS
A hiring screener that decides: 17 of 26 points, and a floor holds it at High whatever the average says.
Set a review priority for one AI use case, see the answers that drove it and the reviewers to involve.
Six areas, 31 of 54 points. Evidence and records at Initial caps the overall level at Developing.
Rate six governance domains from self-reported answers and get the gaps to close first.
Fictional EU and NYC hiring workflow: selected scope questions need review; other laws remain unassessed.
Identify selected EU AI Act and NYC hiring-tool review questions, missing facts and evidence to collect.
These tools structure self-reported inputs. They do not inspect the deployment or authorize use. All worked examples are fictional.
YOUR NEXT ACCOUNTABLE DECISION
Get the executive guide and assessment, and put one AI workflow under a clearer lens.