Four stages. One complete governance lifecycle.
VERDIX structures AI governance from idea to production-ready certification. Every stage generates evidence. Every decision creates a record. No initiative moves forward without passing through each gate.
Capture. Evaluate. Decide. Deliver.
The VERDIX lifecycle is not a linear checklist. Each stage has structured gates, defined outputs, and clear ownership. An initiative can be held at any stage until it meets the criteria to proceed.
Capture
Every AI initiative begins with a structured submission. Felix, our AI advisor, guides the submitter through scoping questions: what problem is being solved, which business units are affected, what data sources are involved, and what AI is already informally in use. The output is a complete initiative brief that moves into evaluation.
Evaluate
VERDIX builds a progressive financial model for every initiative — from qualitative scoring at submission, to a full NPV analysis with algorithmic scenario probing across seven risk dimensions as the initiative matures. At each stage, the model becomes more precise. The CFO always has a number.
Decide
Federated council governance with five constituencies voting in parallel: Technology, Legal, Risk, Finance, and Business. Each constituency reviews the initiative against its own criteria. No initiative moves to production without structured approval from each voice in the room.
Deliver
Production handover is not a handshake — it's a package. The AI Asset Package contains the complete governance record: business case, risk assessment, council votes, evidence across 12 categories, and the production-readiness certification. Implementation teams receive everything they need. Regulators get an auditable trail.
Five constituencies. Parallel review. No single point of failure.
Traditional governance bottlenecks arise when approval is sequential — one reviewer waits for another. VERDIX runs all five council constituencies in parallel. Each sees the full initiative. Each votes independently.
The result is a faster decision with richer input. Every council vote is timestamped, attributed, and stored as part of the permanent governance record.
Five constituencies
Technology, Legal, Risk & Compliance, Finance, and Business. Each voice has formal standing in every decision.
Parallel review
All five constituencies review simultaneously. No sequential bottleneck. Decisions that take months elsewhere take days.
Permanent audit trail
Every vote is timestamped and stored. When a regulator or auditor asks who approved what, the answer is immediate.
Twelve evidence categories. Sufficiency gates before every stage transition.
Evidence doesn't just get uploaded — it gets verified. VERDIX checks completeness against defined sufficiency criteria before allowing an initiative to move between lifecycle stages. Incomplete evidence blocks progress.
The twelve evidence categories cover the full range of AI governance requirements: data quality, model validation, security review, legal and regulatory assessment, stakeholder consultation, business case verification, and more.
Organisation readiness across six dimensions.
Before any initiative can proceed, VERDIX assesses the organisation's readiness to govern and deploy it. Six readiness dimensions are evaluated: governance maturity, data infrastructure, legal and regulatory readiness, stakeholder alignment, operational capacity, and technical readiness.
The AI Asset Package.
When an initiative completes the VERDIX lifecycle, it exits with a complete AI Asset Package: the full governance record, the approved business case, the risk assessment, the council votes, the evidence package, and the production-readiness certificate.
This package goes to the implementation team. It also forms the permanent governance record — the document that answers every future question from regulators, auditors, boards, or investors about how this AI initiative was approved and what safeguards were put in place.
Common questions.
Governance that runs in weeks, not quarters.
VERDIX is cloud-hosted, configured during onboarding, and designed to have your first initiative under governance within the first month of deployment.