Ciph Lab™
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A new enterprise function for the AI era — focused on readiness, governance, and oversight before human–AI teams and intelligent systems are deployed.
AI isn’t just another technology layer. It changes how decisions are made, how work is structured,
and how risk travels across an enterprise. Most organizations are experimenting with AI without a
dedicated function responsible for readiness, governance, and integrity.
Intelligence Resources™ (IR) is the missing function. It ensures that before
AI is deployed and human–AI teams are formed, the organization is structurally prepared to adopt it responsibly.
What Intelligence Resources™ Manages
Intelligence Resources™ sits alongside HR and IT as a core enterprise function. Where HR manages people and IT manages technology, IR manages the conditions for responsible AI.
- Readiness: Is the organization structurally prepared for AI?
- Governance: Who owns decisions, approvals, and accountability?
- Oversight: Where is human judgment required, and how is it enforced?
- Integrity: How do we ensure alignment with legal, ethical, and strategic commitments?
- Cross-function alignment: How do Legal, Risk, Engineering, and Ops work from the same playbook?
Where Human–AI Teams Live in the Org
Inside the org chart, Intelligence Resources™ is the departmental home for human–AI teams. IR defines how people and AI systems work together as a single unit — roles, guardrails, accountability, and measures of performance.
- Design: IR specifies which tasks stay human-led, which are AI-augmented, and how handoffs work.
- Accountability: Human owners are clearly identified for AI-assisted decisions and outputs.
- Measurement: Human–AI teams are evaluated on quality, risk, and impact, not just speed.
Rather than treating “AI” as a separate job category, IR embeds human–AI teaming into existing business functions and gives it a clear place to live.
What Intelligence Resources™ Clarifies
Intelligence Resources™ doesn’t replace entire departments — it clarifies responsibilities and closes the gaps between them. It turns scattered efforts into a coherent function.
| Without Intelligence Resources™ | With Intelligence Resources™ |
|---|---|
| AI decisions spread across ad hoc task forces, emails, and slide decks. | Clear ownership, defined decision paths, and a consistent readiness framework. |
| Governance treated as a late-stage compliance checkpoint. | Governance embedded at the start of AI planning and evaluation. |
| Strategy, Legal, and Engineering operate from different assumptions. | Shared language and criteria for when to move forward, pause, or redirect. |
| AI pilots launched without structural readiness, leading to stalled adoption. | Readiness assessed early, with clear signals on where the organization is truly prepared. |
The First Tool: The Fit Filter Rubric™
Ciph Lab™ operationalizes Intelligence Resources™ through its first diagnostic engine: the Fit Filter Rubric™ (FFR).
- Assesses the organization’s AI readiness across governance, risk, operations, and alignment.
- Surfaces where conditions are strong, where they’re incomplete, and where they’re at risk.
- Outputs a simple readiness signal: Ready · Not Yet · At Risk.
What leaders get: a shared, measurable way to discuss AI readiness — and a clearer path to establishing Intelligence Resources™ as a function inside the enterprise.
Intelligence Resources™ is for organizations that know AI can’t be managed by tools alone. It gives enterprises a function dedicated to readiness, governance, and oversight, so that AI doesn’t just move fast — it moves with integrity.