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Governance kit · Version 1.0 · September 2026

AI governance your staff will actually follow.

Six documents that turn Australian privacy law and regulator guidance into a policy, a register, a one-page data rule and a board brief you can adopt in a week. Every clause that depends on official wording carries its source. Decisions you must make are marked. There are about a dozen and each takes two minutes.

Kit

AI Use Policy Kit

A$189 inc. GST, one-off
  • Workplace AI Use Policy. Fifteen clauses in Word, with a one-page adoption guide and a staff acknowledgement form.
  • Automated decision-making wording. A plain English explainer, paste-ready privacy policy paragraphs for three situations, and a ten-question self check.
  • AI Tool Register. Thirteen columns, already filled in for ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini and Canva.
  • Data-Safety Matrix. Ten kinds of information against four kinds of tool, plus a six-line cheat sheet for staff.
  • Board one-pager. Why now, the five decisions your board has to make, a 90-day plan and a short risk table.
  • Updated files for twelve months, whenever the law or the guidance moves.
Buy the Kit, A$189
Kit Pro

Kit + CFO cost and ROI workbook

A$349 inc. GST, one-off
  • Everything in the Kit
  • CFO AI Cost and ROI Workbook. Excel with live formulas: a spend register, a token cost model with a dropdown for each model, an ROI baseline, a twelve-month forecast across three scenarios, and rules for when to kill or scale a project.
  • Vendor prices in both US and Australian dollars, each carrying the date we checked it.
  • A worked example for a 60-person professional services firm, so the file opens showing real numbers rather than blanks.
  • Send us questions in writing and we answer them in the next monthly briefing.
Buy Kit Pro, A$349
Done for you

Customised policy pack

Custom pricing quoted per job, inc. GST
Limited places
  • Kit Pro rewritten for your business from a 20-minute online form. No meetings.
  • Your actual tools in the register, your kinds of information in the matrix, and your industry's regulators named.
  • Privacy policy wording written for the specific decisions your business automates or assists with AI.
  • A board brief in your name, ready to put in front of a meeting.
  • Back to you in five working days, with one round of changes included.
Contact sales

Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. The Kit and Kit Pro are paid for by card through Stripe. The customised pack is quoted per job. Tell us about your business first and we will tell you what it costs before you commit to anything. Full terms of sale and privacy policy. Digital products are delivered immediately after payment on the confirmation page, where your download links stay valid for 7 days. If you lose them, email us and we will reissue. Because they are downloadable templates, refunds are offered within 7 days if the files are unusable, not for change of mind. Purchase is a licence for one business.

Who it is for

Businesses with 20–200 staff that use AI and have no rules yet.

Professional services, health and care, education and training, finance, construction and trades. If your turnover is above A$3 million, or you handle health information at any size, the Privacy Act applies to you and the 10 December duty may too. If you are smaller and outside the Act, the policy and the data-safety rule are still the two documents most likely to prevent an expensive mistake.

Not for: enterprises with legal teams (you need advice, not templates), and businesses that do not use AI at all.

What it is built from

Sources, not opinions.

  • Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, including APP 1.7–1.9 as amended in 2024
  • OAIC guidance on privacy and commercially available AI products (Oct 2024) and on developing and training AI
  • National AI Centre, Guidance for AI Adoption, six essential practices (Oct 2025)
  • Voluntary AI Safety Standard
  • Official vendor pricing and data-handling terms, checked 3 Sep 2026. Anything we could not verify is marked so, not guessed
Not legal advice. These are general-information templates and training resources prepared by AI Economy Index. Before adopting them, have them checked against your business, your industry rules and your contracts by a qualified adviser.
Questions

Is this a course?

No. It is a document kit. A short course on AI governance and ROI for managers is delivered separately with AI Work Ready and includes a certificate of completion.

What format are the files?

Word (.docx) for the five documents and Excel (.xlsx) for the workbook. Editable, no lock-in, standard fonts.

What happens when the law changes?

You receive updated files by email for 12 months, including when OAIC publishes its automated decision-making guidance and when tranche 2 passes.

Can I use it for more than one business?

One licence per business. Advisers and bookkeepers who want to use it with clients: email us for a practitioner licence.