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BOARD EXAMINATION · MER-8P-2026-07
Your AI roadmap says
you're ready.
Prove it.
A kill switch is not containment.
If governance leaves with the architect, the institution never owned it.
The benefit that survives control cost is the benefit the board owns.
Trace does not equal proof.
This is not a maturity assessment. It is an institutional examination. Eight board questions. Eight demands for evidence. No self-awarded scores. No confidence sliders. Leadership may assert an answer. The institution must prove it.
THE METHOD
THE EIGHT PROOFS
01EXAMINE
Turn leadership claims into evidence demands.
02ATTACK
Run the operating model under pressure.
03PROVE
Seal the current defensible state.