# AI Practice — Enrique (Rick) Sanchez, Jr.

> AI governance programs, risk and compliance, contracts and vendors, data and model governance, incident readiness, and the six-layer framework.

Source: https://ricksanchez.org/ai-practice.html · Updated: 2026-09-02 · Contact: rick@ricksanchez.org · (877) AI-CAIO-1

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## AI Practice.

I help organizations build and use AI responsibly — governance frameworks, risk and compliance, contracts, data, and incident readiness — designed so engineers can implement them, executives can defend them, and a regulator can audit them.

### What I Deliver.

#### AI Governance

Governance frameworks, policies, and operating models that scale with innovation instead of stalling it.

#### Risk & Compliance

Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, security, and ethical risk across the AI lifecycle.

#### Contracts & Vendors

Draft and negotiate AI, data, and technology contracts that allocate risk and protect value.

#### Data Governance

Data governance programs that protect privacy, ensure quality, and unlock the value of what you already hold.

#### Model Governance

Controls for model selection, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement — with evidence at every step.

#### Incident & Response

Prepare for and respond to AI incidents with clear playbooks and regulatory alignment.

### How I Help Organizations.

- Risk-aware innovation. Enable AI initiatives with guardrails, not roadblocks.

- Executive alignment. Translate AI risk into business and board-level language.

- End-to-end coverage. From strategy and policy to operations and response.

- Regulatory readiness. Align with emerging laws and standards across the globe.

- Practical outcomes. Frameworks, playbooks, and training your teams will actually use.

- AI governance program design and implementation

- Policy and procedure development

- AI due diligence and readiness assessments

- Vendor and model risk management

- AI incident response and investigations

- Training for leaders, legal, and technical teams

### My Framework: Six Layers of AI Governance.

Integrated. Practical. Defensible.

#### Strategy

Align AI with business strategy, risk appetite, and value creation.

#### Governance

Establish roles, policies, committees, and decision rights.

#### Legal & Regulatory

Ensure compliance with laws, contracts, and emerging regulations.

#### Information Governance

Manage the data lifecycle — privacy, quality, retention, and access.

#### AI Security

Secure the systems, data, models, and integrations behind every deployment.

#### Operations

Monitor performance, manage risk, and continuously improve.

This model is built on leading frameworks — including ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 23894 — and tailored to your organization's industry, risk profile, and goals.

### Who I Work With.

I partner with leaders building or using AI in complex, regulated, or high-stakes environments.

### Why Work With Me.

- Lawyer + engineer + operator. I understand both the technology and the law, and I have shipped systems under both.

- Board and executive trusted advisor. I speak to risk, value, and strategy in the room where it is decided.

- AI governance leadership. Member, State Bar of Texas Emerging Technology Committee.

- Author, speaker, educator. I teach, publish, and translate complexity for the people who have to act on it.

- Hands-on experience. I build practical solutions that work in the real world, not reference architectures.

> “His combination of governance depth, technical fluency, and mission-critical systems experience is exactly what this moment in healthcare demands.”

### Frameworks I Use.

I align programs to globally recognized standards and best practices.

### Start Now — Protect Your Customers and Your Organization.

You do not need a finished program to begin. Governance can start with what you already have today — policies, contracts, and workflows. Let's build a plan that reduces risk, protects the people who trust you with their data, and accelerates responsible innovation.