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The Vela Board Navigator℠ gives directors a structured view of AI oversight across four quadrants and 16 elements - helping boards assess readiness, identify priorities, and make more informed, defensible decisions.
1
Strategy & Value Creation
2
Governance & Accountability
3
Technology, Risk & Resilience
4
People & Stakeholder Impact
Top 3 priorities
2.3 Board Information Needs attention
3.2 Third-Party Exposure Needs attention
2.2 Board Capability Developing
Every material AI decision is mapped to the element it touches, with the questions directors should ask.
See what the board knows, what it doesn’t, and what management owes it before the meeting.
Document the board’s information, challenge and response, for regulators, insurers and courts.
Who We Serve
You answer to public markets. An AI decision made well below the boardroom can surface in a 10-K, an earnings call, or a shareholder claim, under a standard of care that is being rewritten in real time.
Vela gives directors the questions, the evidence, and the practice to oversee AI with disclosure-ready confidence.
What you gain
You answer to owners, lenders, and a future buyer. An AI failure can surface in an LP update, an EBITDA bridge, or buyer diligence long before it ever reaches a regulator.
Vela gives directors the questions, the evidence, and the practice to oversee AI without slowing the path to exit.
What you gain
You bring AI to the board. The quality of that conversation decides whether oversight is defensible, or a liability gap waiting to surface.
Vela helps executives frame AI risk so the board can govern it, and act on it, without slowing the business down.
What you gain
How AI shapes strategy, competitive position and returns, and whether it scales responsibly.
1.3 AI Exposure & Dependencies
Where does the business depend on a single model or vendor?
Who decides on AI, what the board sees, and whether its oversight is capable and defensible.
2.3 Board Information
What does the board receive on AI, and how often?
Whether data, models, vendors and systems are governed, tested and secured across their lifecycle.
3.2 Third-Party Exposure
Which vendors could change a model without telling us?
How AI affects the workforce, customers and society, and how harm is redressed.
4.2 Customers & Redress
How does a customer challenge an AI decision about them?
Score your board across the 16 Navigator elements and leave with a priority queue.
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Founder-led support on live AI decisions, policy, escalation and insurance.
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Directors work through a live AI decision before the real one arrives.
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Sessions for boards, committees and director networks.
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Real-world scenarios across sectors, each worked against the Navigator.
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The Board’s AI Moment, our 2026 research report, and briefings for directors.
Learn more →Why It Matters Now
The right questions protect companies and unlock value.
The signals that precede AI governance failures are visible before the outcome is.
Boards that close the oversight gap early move faster and earn more trust from regulators, insurers, and investors.
Proof, not promise
Unedited reactions from a recent public board session on AI oversight — the questions that changed how directors think about risk.
“I love the questions. This has become part of our daily conversation. It’s all-encompassing — the risk framework gives us a disciplined, shared language.”
“It’s helpful to have a checklist. Have I covered everything?”
“What occurred to me — IP, data. It helped me see there’s a whole other level of questions we should be asking.”
“It’s about transparency — and setting governance from the top.”
“You’re weighing material misstatement. If you decide to move forward, what’s the impact to the business if you don’t act?”
FAQ
Request a briefing to discuss the Navigator assessment and what a Vela engagement looks like for your board.