Citation:

Hemant Soni, 2026. AI Governance by Design: Embedding Trust, Compliance, and Auditability into Enterprise AI Platforms  Volume 6 Issue 2: 264-268.

Abstract:

Enterprises across regulated industries now build and operate artificial intelligence on shared platforms that host dozens or hundreds of models. Governance, the work of keeping those systems trustworthy, compliant, and answerable to scrutiny, is too often added after the platform is built, when it is expensive and sometimes impossible to retrofit. This paper proposes a governance-by-design framework for enterprise AI platforms that treats trust, compliance, and auditability as platform properties rather than late-stage controls.

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Keywords:

AI Governance, Governance by Design, Auditability, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise AI Platforms, NIST AI RMF..