Guide
AI governance platforms: what they manage vs what they don’t
Governance platforms help manage inventories, assessments, and policies. Audits still ask for runtime evidence: approvals, enforcement, sampling, and verifiable exports.
For compliance and platform teams selecting a governance system of record and deciding how to connect governance programs to runtime evidence.
Last updated: Dec 17, 2025 · Version v1.0 · Not legal advice.
Strengths
What governance platforms are great at
- System inventories and classification workflows.
- Risk assessments, policies, and standardized reporting.
- Coordination across stakeholders (compliance, risk, product, engineering).
Audit reality
Where audits get painful
- Auditors ask for runtime decision lineage: who approved, what policy applied, what happened in production.
- They also ask for integrity: can someone tamper with logs or exports, and can the auditor verify independently?
How it fits
How to connect program governance to runtime evidence
- Use governance platforms to manage inventories, risk workflows, and policy artifacts.
- Use KLA to enforce workflow controls (checkpoints + queues) and generate verifiable evidence export bundles.