.png)
How It Works:
The Architecture & Logic Behind BonsAI's Enterprise-Wide Alignment Platform
Architecture to help you safely scale AI
BonsAI is not a replacement for your existing AI tools, models, or platforms.
It sits above and across them as an enterprise alignment and interpretation layer, complementing your existing AI stack and ensuring every tool operates from the same strategic, risk, and compliance foundations. It enables you to scale your AI stack with consistent confidence.
(Domains, models & tools vary by enterprise.)
Governance-Sets: the logic-engine helping you align enterprise-wide
Governance-sets are custom, reusable, decision domains that serve as your institution’s default logic & shared source of truth, guiding how AI-supported work is evaluated, constrained, & approved across teams, partners, & use cases.
Most AI governance tools focus on…
-
How a specific task is executed
-
Use task-specific prompts, agents wrappers, guardrails which do not ensure consistent responses at-scale
-
Siloed implementation which does not scale efficiently enterprise-wide
BonsAI Governance-Sets…
-
Interpret and guide how AI should respond
-
Embed enterprise logic, priorities, and constraints automatically
-
Align every AI-supported interaction across the organization by default
-
Ensure every output reflects what the organization considers correct, acceptable, and aligned
Prompts, agents, and guardrails shape how an AI behaves once a task is already underway. Governance-Sets operate one layer earlier: they define the institutional logic that determines how outcomes should be evaluated in the first place - what matters most, what trade-offs are acceptable, and what must never be violated.
Governance-Sets capture enterprise-wide logic once and make it reusable across all domain and department-specific contexts, ensuring every AI-supported interaction is judged through the same enterprise lens, regardless of which team, tool, or workflow is involved. In this way, Governance-Sets make other AI tools more powerful: prompts, agents, and automation platforms become far more effective when they operate inside a shared interpretive framework that they cannot create on their own, but BonsAI provides for all of them.
​
We are building Governance-Sets for 12 top-level domains, each with several sub-domains. You can see the first 3 domains and their accompanying sub-domains below.
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Supplier & Sourcing Governance
Scope 3 (Value Chain) Emissions Governance
Governs consideration of value-chain emissions in sourcing decisions.
Example Use Cases:
Selecting suppliers based on emissions profiles
Responding to Scope 3 disclosure requirements
Evaluating emissions trade-offs in procurement decisions
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Supplier & Sourcing Governance
Cost vs Resilience Trade-off Governance
Governs balance between cost efficiency and supply resilience.
Example Use Cases:
Choosing between low-cost single sourcing and diversified supply
Deciding whether to pay a premium for supply continuity
Redesigning sourcing strategies after disruption
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Capital Allocation & Investment Governance
M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) Screening Governance
Governs initial screening criteria for acquisition decisions.
Example Use Cases:
Deciding whether a target merits further diligence
Screening acquisitions against strategic and risk criteria
Rejecting deals that fail baseline governance thresholds
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Capital Allocation & Investment Governance
Sustainability & ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Investment Criteria
Governs how sustainability and ESG criteria shape investment decisions.
Example Use Cases:
Evaluating whether an investment aligns with ESG commitments
Comparing financially attractive options with differing ESG impact
Defending sustainability-driven investment trade-offs to leadership
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Enterprise Risk & Compliance Governance
Third-Party / Supplier Risk Governance
Governs evaluation of risk in vendor and partner decisions.
Example Use Cases:
Approving a new software or data provider
Assessing risk exposure from a critical supplier
Deciding whether to continue a high-risk vendor relationship
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Enterprise Risk & Compliance Governance
Internal Policy Hierarchy & Conflict Resolution Governance
Governs how conflicting internal policies are prioritized and resolved.
Example Use Cases:
Resolving conflicts between regional and global policies
Deciding which internal guideline overrides another in a crisis
Approving an initiative that meets one policy but violates another
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Supplier & Sourcing Governance
Supplier Diversification & Concentration Risk Governance
Governs exposure to supplier concentration and dependency risk.
Example Use Cases:
Identifying over-dependence on a single supplier
Approving sole-source exceptions
Setting diversification thresholds for critical inputs
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Supplier & Sourcing Governance
Ethical Sourcing & Human Rights Governance
Governs ethical and human rights considerations in sourcing decisions.
Example Use Cases:
Approving suppliers in high-risk regions
Responding to allegations of labor or human rights violations
Deciding whether to exit or remediate a supplier relationship
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Capital Allocation & Investment Governance
Long-Term Value vs Short-Term Performance Trade-off Governance
Governs trade-offs between short-term results and long-term value.
Example Use Cases:
Choosing between immediate cost savings and strategic resilience
Balancing quarterly performance against long-term growth
Justifying investments that depress short-term margins
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Capital Allocation & Investment Governance
Financial Risk & Return Assumptions Governance
Governs interpretation of financial risk and return assumptions.
Example Use Cases:
Validating assumptions in a business case or forecast
Stress-testing ROI models under downside scenarios
Deciding whether assumptions are optimistic or defensible
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Enterprise Risk & Compliance Governance
Audit & Assurance Readiness Governance
Governs whether decisions are traceable and defensible under audit.
Example Use Cases:
Preparing documentation for an internal or external audit
Approving a decision that must be justified months later
Reviewing whether prior decisions meet assurance standards
Domain:
Sub-Domain:
Overview:
Enterprise Risk & Compliance Governance
Regulatory Change Interpretation Governance
Governs interpretation of new, updated, or ambiguous regulations.
Example Use Cases:
Assessing whether a new regulation applies to an existing product
Deciding if upcoming regulatory changes require process redesign
Interpreting unclear or partially applicable regulatory language