Governance gets treated as the enemy of shipping speed, but the teams that move fastest with AI long-term are usually the ones with the clearest guardrails, not the least.
The key is building governance into the system itself — approval gates, PII redaction, and audit trails as default infrastructure — rather than as a review process bolted on at the end.
When guardrails are automatic, review committees can focus on genuinely novel risk instead of relitigating the same access questions for every new workflow.
Start with a short list of non-negotiables (data handling, human review thresholds, escalation paths) and automate enforcement of those before you worry about anything else.