Thanks for this. Your "the deployer role can change without you noticing" is the sharpest observation in an already sharp piece, and it's more structurally true than the legal framing alone captures. The system-by-system role classification you prescribe runs directly into the fact that most organizations can't enumerate the systems they'd need to classify: surveys across enterprise deployments show more than 50% lack any systematic AI inventory, and roughly 60% of AI systems run outside IT visibility. The silent deployer-to-provider transition isn't an edge case to watch for; it's the modal enterprise situation, and it's structurally invisible precisely because the AI inventory that would surface it is the single most common governance gap. Your decision tree is well-designed; the problem is that step one is failing before step two begins.
You're right that the inventory gap sits underneath all of it. The classification only works if you know what you're classifying, and the systems running outside IT visibility are often the ones that shifted the role in the first place.
Thanks for this. Your "the deployer role can change without you noticing" is the sharpest observation in an already sharp piece, and it's more structurally true than the legal framing alone captures. The system-by-system role classification you prescribe runs directly into the fact that most organizations can't enumerate the systems they'd need to classify: surveys across enterprise deployments show more than 50% lack any systematic AI inventory, and roughly 60% of AI systems run outside IT visibility. The silent deployer-to-provider transition isn't an edge case to watch for; it's the modal enterprise situation, and it's structurally invisible precisely because the AI inventory that would surface it is the single most common governance gap. Your decision tree is well-designed; the problem is that step one is failing before step two begins.
You're right that the inventory gap sits underneath all of it. The classification only works if you know what you're classifying, and the systems running outside IT visibility are often the ones that shifted the role in the first place.