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Michal Harcej
AI Governance Expert | AI Risk & Assurance | Decision Accountability | Governance Architecture
Co-Founder, Architect Builder, TauGuard Limited
Ireland · Europe · Polish, English
About
My architectural purpose is to digitalise existing organisational governance and strengthen it through architecture.
I seek to design the architectural infrastructure through which organisations can govern those existing environments more effectively, consistently and deterministically.
Organisations have already established their identities, purposes, responsibilities, governance arrangements, operational structures and systems. They have departments, domains, policies, procedures, delegated authorities and regulatory obligations. However, these elements frequently operate across disconnected systems, fragmented processes and separate information environments.
The challenge is not necessarily the absence of governance. It is the absence of an integrated architectural infrastructure capable of making existing governance operational, enforceable, traceable and demonstrable across the entire organisation.
My approach is therefore founded on one central principle: Do not replace existing systems to govern them. Architect the infrastructure through which they can be governed.
The organisation retains its identity, constitutional authority, governance model and operational sovereignty. The architecture provides the means through which its governance can become an operational property of the organisation.
My architectural thinking is also grounded in the principles of Security From Architecture (SFA) and Intelligence From Architecture (IFA). These specifications reflect the principle that security and intelligence should emerge from architectural design rather than being treated merely as external capabilities added to an existing system.
Security must be supported by the architecture's structural properties, authority boundaries, controls and enforcement mechanisms.
Intelligence must operate within defined architectural conditions. The availability of intelligence, analytical capability or computational power does not automatically establish authority, permission or legitimacy. In particular, intelligence must not independently determine what an organisation is authorised to do. Intelligence may inform decisions, but legitimate authority and permission must derive from the organisation's governing foundations.
I see my role as designing the architectural conditions through which governance becomes an enforceable property of an organisation rather than remaining primarily a collection of documents, policies and administrative processes.
My work is concerned with the relationship between constitutional foundations, identity, authority, intelligence, security, governance, execution, evidence and organisational continuity.
The objective is not to impose another governance framework on organisations or replace the systems they already depend upon. It is to architect the infrastructure through which their own legitimate governance can operate consistently across their entire organisational structure.
What I do
- Designing and building governance architecture
- Governance OS
- AI governance
- Advising boards, architects and developers
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Consulting, Advisory & board work, Research collaboration, Employment
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