“AI governance framework” pulls close to 3,000 searches a month, and most of what ranks for it is written for a Fortune 500 compliance department with a dedicated AI ethics officer. If you’re running a business in Denver, Boulder, or Golden with 5, 20, or 100 employees, that content is useless to you: not wrong, just built for a company ten times your size. Here’s what governance actually looks like at your scale.