Governance should earn its place.
Threshold works with institutions that already have people, policies and controls. We review the evidence on site with the functions that own the work. Then we establish what needs attention and what can stay as it is.
What Threshold adds.
The institution already has specialist functions, internal knowledge and established governance. Threshold works across those existing arrangements to show where AI raises a wider institutional decision.
Work happens on site.
Evidence is reviewed with the people who own the work. The Assessment is conducted with the relevant functions rather than handed off as a questionnaire.
Evidence before conclusions.
Threshold distinguishes what is represented from what the available record supports, then factually validates the findings before they are issued.
Findings are interpreted in context.
A finding can mean leaving an existing control alone, making a targeted change or taking a decision to leadership.
Local context before framework.
Relevant laws, sector requirements and institutional context shape the work. International frameworks provide reference points rather than replacing that context.
A finding can lead to different responses.
The response depends on what the evidence means in this institution.
Leave it alone.
The existing control already covers the issue. Adding an AI-specific layer would create more process without adding value.
Make a targeted change.
One trigger, decision route or boundary needs clarification. The wider governance around it can stay as it is.
Take it to leadership.
The issue crosses functions or authority and needs an institutional decision that existing teams cannot settle alone.
The Method creates consistency. Practitioner judgment determines what that evidence means here.
Build on the institution you already have.
Threshold starts with existing policies, approval routes, data controls, procurement processes, committees and specialist functions. Where those arrangements already work, they stay.
Specialist functions retain authority over their own work. Threshold helps make the institutional picture visible around AI and isolates the matters that genuinely require a wider decision.
Existing controls stay where they work.
A difference in the evidence does not by itself justify replacing existing governance.
You receive the record behind the conclusion.
Material conclusions remain traceable to the evidence and relevant source basis, so the reasoning can be understood after the engagement ends.
Want to see the discipline behind the judgment?
The Method shows how Threshold reaches a conclusion from on-site evidence, six governance Dimensions and the relevant local context.