LeanAIMS

AI governance for small teams
AI governance for small teams

Governance that moves at the speed of a small team.

LeanAIMS builds practical, no-bloat tools for AI Management Systems — for teams who need to be audit-ready without hiring a compliance department. One method, three tools, run in short cycles instead of one long project.

This is for you if —
You're 5–50 people, not 5,000 You build or buy AI, no dedicated compliance team This is your first ISO/IEC 42001 cycle One person owns this — founder, ops, or a solo hire
Plan Set the target Do Build and run it Check Read the signal Act Adjust, repeat
The method

Every LeanAIMS tool runs on the same four-part loop.

Borrowed straight from lean manufacturing's Plan–Do–Check–Act cycle, mapped onto ISO/IEC 42001's own clause structure — so the method and the standard reinforce each other instead of fighting.

Clauses 4–6

Plan

Scope the AI management system, name who's accountable, size the risk.

Clauses 7–8

Do

Build the controls and evidence trail as you go — not as a scramble before audit.

Clause 9

Check

Audit and management review, on a short enough cycle that gaps get caught early.

Clause 10

Act

Close findings, adjust, and carry a bigger, sharper target into the next cycle.

The suite

Three tools, one system.

Each one stands alone. Together they cover the system end to end — set it up, teach the team, run the first quarter.

02
Teach the team

AIMS Academy

Learn ISO/IEC 42001 AI governance by role — board, implementer, auditor, or everyone else who needs to know the policy exists.

03
Run the first quarter

First 90 Days

A role-by-role relay for the first three months of the AI management system — what Day 1 and Day 90 look like for everyone involved.

Beyond the tools

When you'd rather hand the phase to someone who's done it before.

The products are built to run yourself. These three map onto the same Plan–Do–Check–Act loop for when a phase needs a hand — brought in for one cycle, not a retainer.

Plan / Do

Training

Role-based workshops for board, implementers, and auditors — the Academy content, delivered live, with your team's actual risk register in the room.

Do

Implementation

Hands-on help standing up the AI management system — scope, controls, evidence pack — run alongside Navigator instead of handed off cold.

Check

Audit readiness

A pre-audit review that finds the gaps before a certification body does — scoped to one Check phase, not an open-ended engagement.

Why lean

Compliance work has a waste problem. We're trying to cut it out.

"Lean" isn't a marketing word here — it's the actual operating rule for how these tools get built and used.
01
No inventory, no waiting

Evidence and documentation get built as you go, not batched into a pre-audit scramble.

02
Short cycles over big-bang projects

Small, fast loops beat a twelve-month rollout — you find out what's wrong while it's still cheap to fix.

03
Built in public, on LinkedIn

Ideas and feedback come from real practitioners commenting on real posts — that's the channel, not a closed beta list.

The build happens in public.

Every cycle's progress, findings, and next steps get posted on LinkedIn first — before they land in the products. That's where the feedback loop actually runs.