AI Inventory Template

Most teams can't answer one question their examiner now asks: where is AI being used across the organization? This free Excel template gives you the structure to find out. List every AI system (including embedded tools and shadow use), classify it by risk, assign an owner, and fold it into the cyber risk program you already run. It's built to satisfy NIST AI RMF Govern 1.6, so you walk into your next exam with a complete, defensible inventory instead of a guess.

What's included

1. AI System Inventory — a ready-to-fill register with dropdowns covering owner, vendor, intended use, data sensitivity, human oversight, and approval status.
2. Risk Tier Guide — a simple Tier 1/2/3 system based on confidentiality, integrity, and the data each tool touches, with a review cadence for each tier.
3. AI Risk Reference — the eight failure modes that actually show up in deployments (hallucination, bias, model drift, data poisoning, prompt injection, and more), each with a real-world example.
4. Examiner Mapping — every set of inventory columns mapped to the exact NIST AI RMF subcategory it satisfies, and what an examiner is checking.
5. Start Here guide — the principle the template runs on and how to fill it in, so a lean team can have a first version done in an afternoon.