A field guide for governing the AI you already use.
Most of the AI in your business didn't arrive with a press release. It showed up inside Word, Outlook, Zoom, your CRM. CAIRN helps small Canadian teams keep track of all of it, agree on what it must never do, and write a policy you can actually stand behind.
Everything stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, no account required. Export to a file whenever you want a backup or to share with your team.
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Take ten minutes to write down what's in use. Open the Inventory. We've pre-listed common tools that quietly added AI features such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoom. Tick what your team uses, then add notes and refine each entry.
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Agree on what AI must never do here. Open Redlines and walk through the preset list with whoever needs to be in the room. Keep what fits, edit the language to match how your team functions, add your own.
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Build your Responsible AI policy template Once you've filled in your Inventory and Redlines, we can pull it all together into a Policy that you can circulate and sign.
systems on your list
Open the Inventorylines you've drawn
Open Redlinesready to download
Open PolicyComing next. Periodic check-ins for each system on your list.
— in developmentCAIRN follows the work that came before it.
NIST AI RMF — function alignment
Policy
— coming
Each CAIRN module maps to one of NIST AI RMF's four core functions.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 2023.
AI Governance Network — practical canvases for small teams.
Federal & provincial Canadian privacy regulators on PIPEDA & AI, December 2023.
Nothing leaves the browser.
CAIRN has no server and no account. Your inventory, your redlines, your draft policy all live in your browser.