Educational use licence: free for public and non-profit teaching. Simple citation required. No commercial use without written agreement.
Open standard, vendor-independent, translatable across 14 AI jurisdictions. One vocabulary your students will keep regardless of where they work next.
Four principles, four autonomy levels, six maturity dimensions. Cases with named characters and precise legal references, no fluff.
AI Act, GDPR, DORA, NIS2, ISO 42001, one vocabulary for 25+ regulations. Your students don't learn a text, they learn to reason about AI governance.
The DDAO role (Delegated Decision Agent Officer) is defined in the framework and instrumented by card ACF-13 (Agent Mandate) and simulation ACF-16.
The ACF® Toolkit Manual is not a card catalogue: it is illustrated doctrine (4 principles, 4 autonomy levels, criticality, risk, maturity, DDAO role, pyramid emblem), a user's guide, the 45 cards in blank form across three families (Decide, Organise, Operate), 2 complete worked case studies, an FAQ, resources and a conclusion. Designed to serve as reference in lecture halls, tutorials and continuing education.
45 cards across three families: Decide (ACF-01 to ACF-20), Organise (ACF-O1 to ACF-O10) and Operate (ACF-P1 to ACF-P15, agent operations). Designed to be projected in a lecture hall, printed for tutorials or handed out in training, they all exist in blank form; 42 also come filled in by each of the 2 running cases, Lendari and Rhena, giving 2 comparable worked answers to the same question. All three families download card by card below; the full set also ships in the toolkit ZIP.
The cards are worked on cases. Two collections go with them, and they are not read the same way: the Playbook projects the path onto fictional organisations, ACF in Action observes real companies and real mechanisms from public sources.
18 publications analysing real companies and real mechanisms through the ACF® grid, from public sources only, plus 9 teaching kits pairing a reference case with an incident.
See the collection →8 sector notebooks written, forthcoming. Each builds a fictional organisation and runs the full ACF® path on it, from the initial situation to vendor exit.
See the collection →No "Company X wants to deploy an AI". Every case starts from a real, dated AI agent: Air Canada's chatbot, found liable in 2024 (Moffatt v. Air Canada); Morgan Stanley's GPT-4 assistant; Cruise's robotaxi, suspended by the regulator; Replit's coding agent; Klarna's support agent. The "ACF in Action" library gathers 9 kits, each a reference / incident pair on one governance concept: responsibility, kill switch, criticality, bias, transparency, autonomy, drift, non-delegable zone, register. The teacher version (brief, answer key, 100-point grading grid, quiz and slides) is available on request, through the teacher access flow.
Air Canada and its chatbot, Jake Moffatt the passenger, Morgan Stanley and its GPT-4 assistant. Identified, dated actors, with a mandate and a line of responsibility, never "Company X".
Moffatt v. Air Canada (2024), EU AI Act art. 50, NYC Local Law 144, GDPR. Every case points to the texts actually mobilised, not "the regulation provides that…".
Counter-intuitive-but-argued answers are rewarded. The goal is to train lawyers and engineers able to defend a position, not to tick a checklist.
Each case fits on 1 to 3 useful pages. No decorative intro, only the elements the student must qualify.
The Teacher Pack contains cases calibrated by academic track, with matching model answers.
« ACF® does not provide AI auto-grading of cases. Grading is the moment when the teacher transmits nuance, emerging case law and contextual judgement, none of which a model can replace. »
Each format is documented with learning outcomes, prerequisites, student deliverables and the matching grading rubric.
Reserved for practising teachers, trainers and speakers. Free for teaching and non-profit use. Each request is reviewed before delivery to ensure that restricted resources (model answers, cases by track, grading rubric, templates) stay in a teaching context.
A community of teachers, trainers and researchers using ACF® in their programmes. Case sharing, lessons learned, common calibration.
Ongoing exchange between ACF® teachers, questions, case sharing, case-law resources.
1 to 2 issues a year: AI Act and GDPR developments, new cases added to the Teacher Pack, meeting dates.
Inter-school format announced at the start of the academic year, AI governance challenge on real cases.
Agentic Commerce Framework® and ACF® are registered trademarks. The toolkit (Manual + 45 cards + deck) is freely usable in teaching, research and academic publications under simple citation. No commercial use without written agreement.