Pillar Articles

NAKEDAI — PILLAR ARTICLE What the standard actually examines, what most ISO 42001 programmes do, and where we sit upstream of all of it. ISO 42001 is the first international standard for AI management systems. It was published by ISO in late 2023, and it has moved quickly from a standard nobody had heard of to a question being asked in tenders, by regulators, and by boards reviewing AI risk. The shift is recent. The pressure is real. And the way most organisations respond to

NAKEDAI — PILLAR ARTICLE The diagnostic we run before an organisation commits capital, vendor relationships, and reputational exposure to an AI initiative. There is a moment, just before an organisation commits capital, vendor relationships, and reputational exposure to an AI initiative, when every option remains open. Once that moment passes, the cost of correcting course rises sharply. The Human Pause exists for that moment. Most AI failures do not start with model capabili

A Human Pause NAKEDAI — PILLAR ARTICLE Most organisations that commission one do so too late. Here is what it is, what it produces, and when it matters most. The question no one asks before spending Every week, boards and leadership teams across mid-market Britain approve AI initiatives. Vendors are selected. Budgets are signed off. Projects are launched. Almost none of them have asked the right question first. Not "which AI tool should we buy?" — that question comes later,

NAKEDAI — PILLAR ARTICLE Ten layers. Each one is the foundation for the one above it. Miss one and the whole thing is at risk. Most AI initiatives fail not because the technology was wrong, but because the decision to pursue them was never properly made. The AI Decision Stack is the framework we use at NakedAI to assess whether that decision is sound — across every dimension that matters — before any capital is committed. There are ten layers. They are sequential for a reason