Book · Springer, December 2026
IKI-Gov: gate the AI use case
before it ships.
IKI-Gov is the AI governance reference model introduced in Vladimir
Stantchev's Springer monograph. presidio-hardened-ikigov-assess
makes its checklist executable, and keeps the signed record that the
gate was passed.
The book
KI und IT-Governance / AI and IT Governance.
The monograph moves from classical IT governance to AI governance and assembles IKI-Gov from both. It is a reasoned synthesis and a working heuristic for orientation. It is not legal advice and not a conformity assessment.
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German edition
KI und IT-Governance
Forthcoming 28 December 2026
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English edition
AI and IT Governance
Forthcoming 11 January 2027
Both editions can be preordered from Springer. The catalogue link and DOI will be added here once they are live.
The model
One lifecycle, six gates.
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One lifecycle.
Context, Concept, Development, Release, Operation, Adaptation, Decommissioning. Every AI system passes the same seven phases.
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Six domains.
The governance areas that surround the lifecycle, carried over from classical IT governance (COBIT, ITIL, ISO/IEC 38500) and extended for ethics, law, risk and data.
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Six dimensions, M1–M6.
How the maturity of a use case is measured, so that two assessments of the same system can be compared.
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Six gates, G0–G5.
A gate sits at each phase transition and opens only when the checklist items behind it are in place.
The tool
The checklist is executable.
presidio-hardened-ikigov-assess
(v0.29, MIT, on PyPI) scores the 25 checklist items from the book
and maps them to ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act, following the
book's orientation tables. Each gate decision produces a signed
record that says which use case, which gate, on what evidence, and
signed by whom. Gate certificates carry their parents and a
validity bound, so a third party can check them without running
the assessment engine.
Governance that lives in a policy fails its first audit.
pip install presidio-hardened-ikigov-assessMaterial
What to read first.
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Slides (PDF) →
The problem, the model, and what a signed gate record answers that a policy does not.
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User manual (PDF) →
Install, run a first assessment, enforce a gate in CI, produce evidence packs, and map the result to a regulation.
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Book compatibility →
Every command printed in the book's appendix runs unchanged; its worked example is pinned by the tool's tests.
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Repository →
Source, changelog, SECURITY.md, OpenSSF Scorecard and the OpenSSF Best Practices silver badge.
The gate certificates are also the IKI-Gov contribution to the Computational Jurisprudence programme.
Workshops and assessments
Running IKI-Gov in your organisation?
The AI-Ready workshop and assessment put IKI-Gov to work on your own use cases, with a signed gate record per use case that you own. Formats, prices and the next steps are on the AI-Ready page.