The 16-Question Operational Exposure Diagnostic
This diagnostic isolates your immediate exposure to strict liability. It bypasses high-level governance narratives and drills into your actual technical readiness across five blunt operational vectors:
- Product Status: Are you operating as a passive user, or has your data engineering legally classified you as a primary software producer?
- Reconstruction: Can your engineering environment instantly reproduce the exact historical model logic from a disputed past case?
- Traceability: Can you definitively prove the exact telemetry, prompt variants, and raw datasets received by the system at runtime?
- Disclosure Readiness: Are your internal technical files structured to survive hostile court scrutiny, or will they expose unrelated proprietary secrets?
- Lifecycle Control: Can you map and verify every automatic patch, model drift variation, and third-party API update over time?
This framework converts abstract legal risks into clear, binary engineering requirements. If your records fail these tests, your legal defense collapses before a trial even begins.
The Director Accountability Test
Oversight habits designed for a slower world fail when automated systems operate at scale. When a failure triggers a crisis, investigators and D&O insurers look directly past corporate entities to examine individual board members.This test uses five personal markers: Participation, Information, Understanding, Judgement and Evidence to determine if your individual actions stand up under hostile cross-examination.
DAREB© - What must be shown for a decision to stand.
Most framework metrics analyae how an AI model is supposed to function in general terms. DAREB flips the perspective by isolating one single, real outcome affecting one specific person at an exact point in timesIt tracks the five strict elements of proof: Decision, Authority, Record, Evidence and Basis to verify if human responsibility can actually be established or if the trail is entirely broken.