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HR Rebooted · AI Advocate Playbook

From first meeting to signed engagement. The Advocate's tool-by-tool workflow.

This is how an AI Advocate uses the HR Rebooted toolkit, the Governance 1st Browser Extension, the Shadow AI detection extension, Policy FastTrack, and the Governance 1st platform, to run a client engagement from that first discovery call through audit, roadmap, and implementation. Every tool in the kit has a role. Here they are in sequence.

Five tools you'll use to sell, assess, and deliver.

Every tool below is included with your Advocate seat and rolls into a single narrative for the client: real-time visibility, evidence, roadmap, and continuous governance.

Discovery

Discovery & Workshop Kit

Structured 1:1 discovery interview scripts and executive workshop materials you use before the audit is signed. Turns a first meeting into an evidence-vs-assumption gap the leadership team can see.

  • Interview scripts for CEO, CIO, CISO, HR, Legal, and IT
  • Executive workshop deck and evidence-map worksheet
  • Question banks aligned to AI Governance, Leadership, and Readiness
Deploy in minutes

Governance 1st Browser Extension

Sits on every AI chat tool the workforce already uses and watches prompts and responses locally. The fastest way to get a client into governance without a project.

  • Blocks or redacts sensitive prompts before they leave the browser
  • Audits AI responses across ten bad-behavior categories
  • Rolls activity into aggregate counters your enterprise report reads
Discovery

Shadow AI detection extension

Discovers unsanctioned AI use across the workforce. Turns a suspicion ("people are using something") into a defensible inventory the CISO can act on.

  • Detects which AI tools employees are actually using, on which sites
  • Categorizes by data-sensitivity risk
  • Feeds the Shadow AI Usage Assessment lens of your audit
Deliverable

Policy FastTrack

Generate a compliant, tailored AI policy suite in minutes, not months. Turns the audit findings into named-tool, named-data policies your client can actually enforce.

  • Drafts a full policy pack per client, mapped to their tools and jurisdictions
  • Delivered with attestation and reinforcement templates
  • Editable in-app so you can tune wording to the client's voice
Backbone

Governance 1st platform

The system of record for every engagement. Audit findings, inventory, policies, controls, workforce data, and monitoring live in one workspace, mapped to the NIST AI RMF.

  • One Advocate seat covers your entire client roster
  • Findings flow straight into the implementation workstreams
  • Continuous re-assessment replaces one-off projects with a program
Community

HR Rebels network

The peer community and support layer. Monthly training, mastermind calls, speaking spots, and early access to every new evaluator and assessment tool we ship.

  • Monthly training sessions on governance, leadership, and delivery
  • Live mastermind calls with other Advocates
  • Speaking opportunities via HR Rebels community events

How a real engagement unfolds, tool by tool.

A typical engagement runs from a discovery meeting through audit, roadmap, implementation, and continuous monitoring. Here is where each tool lives in that flow, and what the Advocate is actually doing in the room.

1
Discovery Meeting

Initial customer contact meeting

You sit down with the executive team (CEO or CIO plus HR, Legal, and IT) and lay out the two-track HR Rebooted engagement: Audit Services (the seven-lens AI Governance Audit that tells them where they stand) and Implementation Services (the nine-workstream program that closes the gaps). You explain that the audit isn't a survey exercise, it's an evidence-based scoring of leadership, workforce readiness, compliance posture, shadow AI use, and existing policy, resolved to a single maturity index. And the implementation isn't a stack of decks, it's a live program on the Governance 1st platform.

Governance 1st (demo) Audit Services deck Implementation Services deck
2
Discovery Interviews & Executive Workshop

Structured discovery, the moment that closes the room

Instead of asking "how ready do you think you are?", you run structured 1:1 discovery interviews with the executive stakeholders (CEO or CIO, CISO, Head of HR, Legal, IT) using our discovery script. You cover three areas: AI Governance (does policy exist? Is it enforced? Do people know it?), AI Leadership (is there a named owner? A committee? Is AI on the board agenda?), and Organizational Readiness (are teams trained, anxious, using AI in the shadows?). Then you facilitate an executive workshop where you map what leadership assumes against what the interviews and any workforce input already show. The gap between what leadership assumes and what the interviews reveal is usually the moment they say "we need the audit."

Discovery interviews Executive workshop Evidence map
3
Low-Friction Entry Point

Start them on the Browser Extension, or Shadow AI, before the contract

Not every client is ready to sign a full audit engagement on day one. Your fastest path in is the Governance 1st Browser Extension: it deploys in minutes across the workforce and produces real data (prompts blocked, sensitive fields redacted, AI response behaviors flagged) within the first week. If the CISO is more worried about unsanctioned AI use than about how existing AI is being used, lead with the Shadow AI detection extension instead. Either one gives the client tangible governance in weeks, and gives you the evidence you need to sell the full audit and implementation.

Browser Extension Shadow AI extension First-week telemetry
4
Audit, Weeks 1 to 8

Run the seven-lens AI Governance Audit

Once the engagement is signed, you work through the seven assessment lenses: GAP Analysis & Review, AI Leadership Self-Assessment & 360, AI Compliance Readiness, Workforce AI Readiness (Skills), Workforce AI Readiness (Anxiety), Shadow AI Usage Assessment, and AI Policy & Procedures Review. Workforce surveys and leadership interviews carry the human-centered lenses. The Browser Extension and Shadow AI extension carry the Shadow AI Usage Assessment. Every finding is entered into Governance 1st, so scoring, gap-weighting, and the maturity index all live in one workspace instead of a stack of spreadsheets.

Workforce surveys Leadership interviews Browser Extension Shadow AI extension Governance 1st (audit workspace)
5
Report & Roadmap

Score, triangulate, present a defensible roadmap

You resolve all seven lenses to the same five-level maturity scale, triangulate leadership claims against workforce answers against system signals, weight gaps by risk, and produce the executive readout, the full report, and the prioritized roadmap. Every score is evidenced. Every recommendation has an owner and a phase. This is the deliverable the client's board reads and the CISO acts on.

Governance 1st (report) Maturity index Executive readout
6
Implementation, Months 1 to 18

Turn the roadmap into a live program

The implementation runs across nine workstreams in three phases (Stabilize, Build, Operate & Optimize): Governance Foundation & Ownership, Policy & Standards, AI Inventory & Use Visibility, Risk Management, Controls & Oversight, Compliance Operationalization, Workforce Capability, Trust & Change, and Monitoring & Continuous Improvement. This is where the tools come together: Policy FastTrack generates the tailored policy suite for the Policy & Standards workstream. The Browser Extension and Shadow AI extension feed the Use Visibility and Monitoring workstreams. Governance 1st hosts the inventory, the risk register, the control library, and the evidence trail.

Policy FastTrack Browser Extension Shadow AI extension Governance 1st (program)
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Continuous, Post-Implementation

Governance becomes a subscription, not a project

Once the roadmap is delivered, the client stays on Governance 1st, the Browser Extension keeps guarding the workforce, and quarterly re-assessments (a workforce pulse survey plus the seven-lens re-score) confirm gap closure. You earn recurring commission on the platform and system business, and the client has a program, not a one-off report. This is where the Advocate's book of business compounds.

Governance 1st (subscription) Browser Extension (ongoing) Quarterly re-assessment
Two ways in, one destination

You never need the whole engagement signed to prove the value.

The Governance 1st Browser Extension and the Shadow AI detection extension are your two lowest-friction entry points. Either one gives the client real governance data inside a week, and gives you the evidence you need to walk them into the full audit and implementation.

Start with the Browser Extension

For clients whose primary concern is what their people are typing into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Governance shows up in the workforce's browser the day it's deployed.

Start with Shadow AI detection

For clients (usually CISOs) who suspect unsanctioned AI use is widespread and want a defensible inventory before they commit to a full program.

What does the AI Advocate training actually cover?

Advocate training is not a webinar. It is a multi-week, multi-module program that certifies you can deliver the HR Rebooted audit and implementation methodology with any client, using every tool in the kit. Here is what's in it.

Module 01

Foundations of AI Governance

  • The NIST AI Risk Management Framework, end to end
  • How our audit maps to Govern / Map / Measure / Manage
  • Global regulatory landscape (EU AI Act, US state laws, sector rules)
  • The business case for governance, translated for a CEO and a CFO
Module 02

The Governance 1st platform

  • Workspace setup, client provisioning, roles and access
  • Running the audit inside the platform (all seven lenses)
  • Building the maturity index and prioritized roadmap
  • Operating the implementation workstreams and evidence trail
Module 03

Facilitating discovery interviews & executive workshops

  • Using the interview scripts across Governance, Leadership, and Readiness
  • Facilitation techniques for 1:1 stakeholder discovery
  • Running the executive workshop and building the evidence map
  • Turning the assumption-vs-evidence gap into an executive close
Module 04

Browser Extension deployment

  • Individual, enterprise, and managed-config installs
  • Configuring the sensitive-data filter library
  • Reading the enterprise activity report
  • Positioning the extension as the client's day-one governance win
Module 05

Shadow AI detection & the Shadow AI Usage Assessment

  • Deploying the Shadow AI extension across a workforce
  • Interpreting the detection data and categorizing risk
  • Feeding results into the audit's Shadow AI lens
  • Presenting findings to a CISO or Legal team
Module 06

Policy FastTrack, from audit to enforceable policy

  • Generating a tailored policy suite from audit findings
  • Named-tool, named-data policy design
  • Attestation, reinforcement, and change-management templates
  • Handling jurisdiction-specific policy variations
Module 07

Delivering the audit methodology

  • Scoping and mobilization, from first call to signed SOW
  • Running the seven assessment lenses (interviews, surveys, evidence)
  • Scoring, triangulation, and defending findings under challenge
  • Executive readouts and building a board-grade report
Module 08

Running the implementation program

  • The three phases (Stabilize, Build, Operate & Optimize)
  • Sequencing the nine workstreams from the roadmap
  • Managing risk, controls, and continuous monitoring
  • Handing off to the client for sustained operation
Module 09

Selling the engagement

  • The two-track pitch (Audit + Implementation)
  • Objection handling for CEOs, CISOs, HR leaders, and Legal
  • Positioning the Browser Extension and Shadow AI extension as day-one wins
  • Structuring commission, retention, and expansion
Module 10

Ethics, ongoing enablement, and the HR Rebels community

  • Advocate code of conduct, NDA obligations, client boundaries
  • Monthly training refreshers and AI mastermind calls
  • Early access to new evaluators, assessments, and platform features
  • Speaking opportunities via HR Rebels community events
Ready to run this playbook?

Apply to the AI Advocate Program.

Every Advocate gets the toolkit, the training, and the commission structure that make this playbook workable from day one. The application form lives on the main program page.

Browser Extension, Shadow AI, Policy FastTrack, Governance 1st
Full audit & implementation methodology, taught
30% commission on direct client business