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PGI Tools · In Development

A finding is not yet a plan.

PGI Tools are structured instruments, not templates. Each one takes a finding you already have and returns a document a leadership team can table: a register, a brief, a roadmap, a set of questions with owners and dates against them.

How They Work

Bring one problem. Leave with one document.

01

Start from something real

A QuickCheck result, an assessment finding, an audit note, a board question that did not get a satisfying answer. The tool asks what you already know before it asks anything else.

02

Work through the structure

A sequence of prompts that forces the parts most teams skip: who owns this, what would tell us it is working, what happens if nobody does it, and by when.

03

Leave with a document

A register, a brief or a roadmap in a form that can go straight to an executive table — named owners, dates, and the reasoning behind each line preserved.

The Instruments

Four, and no more than four.

Each one exists because leadership teams kept building the same document badly under time pressure. Nothing here replaces judgement — it holds the structure while the judgement gets applied.

PGI Tools · T01

Governance Gap Scan

In development

Good policy on paper does not guarantee good practice.

Most organizations have a policy. Fewer can say what it fails to cover. The Scan reads an existing position against the decisions your organization is actually making and returns the questions it leaves unresolved — not a compliance score, a list of things nobody has yet had to answer.

What it produces

  • Unresolved questions, ranked
  • Where the policy is silent
  • Where practice has moved past it
  • A short brief for the next governance meeting

Who tends to use it: Executives and governance leads holding a policy they inherited, or one written before the current wave of adoption.

Free

Planned: free with a PGI account

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PGI Tools · T02

AI Risk Register Builder

In development

A risk nobody owns is a risk nobody is managing.

Builds a register specific to AI-assisted decisions rather than a generic IT risk log: what the system influences, who is exposed if it is wrong, what would surface the error, and who is accountable for noticing. Output is structured for an existing enterprise risk process rather than beside it.

What it produces

  • Register entries with owners
  • Exposure and likelihood framing
  • Detection and escalation routes
  • Review cadence per entry

Who tends to use it: Risk, quality and operational leaders, and executives preparing a board risk conversation.

$195

CAD · planned: included with Professional Membership

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PGI Tools · T03

Board Oversight Brief Builder

In development

Boards are rarely short of information. They are often short of the right question.

Turns a technical or operational finding into two pages a board can act on: what changed, what it means for oversight, what the board is being asked to decide, and what it should ask next time. Written to be tabled without an executive rewriting it first.

What it produces

  • Two-page oversight brief
  • The decision being asked for
  • Questions for the next meeting
  • What would change the assessment

Who tends to use it: CEOs, executive directors, corporate secretaries and governance professionals preparing board material.

$195

CAD · planned: included with Professional Membership

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PGI Tools · T04

90-Day Implementation Roadmap

In development

Ninety days is long enough to move something and short enough to remember why.

Sequences findings into what happens in the first two weeks, the first month and the first quarter — with the dependencies made explicit, so the work that must come first is visible before the easy work absorbs the capacity.

What it produces

  • Sequenced actions with owners
  • Dependencies and blockers
  • 30-, 60- and 90-day checkpoints
  • A one-page tracker for management

Who tends to use it: Executives and programme leaders responsible for turning an assessment into work that actually starts.

$195

CAD · planned: included with Professional Membership

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What a Tool Cannot Do

A structure holds the work. It does not do the work.

A register with no owner against each line is a list. A roadmap nobody has agreed to is a wish. These instruments make the shape of the work visible and hard to avoid; the decisions inside them still belong to the people who sign.

  • A tool cannot tell you what your organization is willing to stop doing to make room for the work.
  • It cannot supply the authority to assign an owner who has not agreed to be one.
  • It will not resolve a disagreement between an executive and a board about what the risk actually is.
  • And it does not certify anything — to a regulator, a funder or an insurer.

Before and After

Tools sit between knowing and doing.

All prices are in Canadian dollars. Applicable taxes are additional. PGI Tools support organizational learning, governance and decision-making. They do not constitute legal, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity or other professional advice, and they do not certify compliance.