AI governance for a growing company means four written things: which tools are approved, what data never goes into them, what output gets reviewed, and who decides. It fits on two pages and it is mostly about decisions, not documents.
Only about a third of midmarket executives use a formal AI governance framework, by RSM's January 2026 survey of 501 executives — while nearly all report AI in use somewhere in the business. The gap is not laziness. It is that most governance material is written for enterprises with committees.
The working version is smaller: a one-page policy, an owner, a short review rule, and a quarterly look at what changed. We draft it with leadership teams in a half day — Write Your AI Ground Rules, $1,200 per company — or as part of every assessment.