Your organisation is already using AI. Some of it you chose. Some of it arrived inside tools you already had, or in the hands of people who found it useful. Either way, you now have AI to govern, and a new law that expects you to.Governance sounds like a burden built for someone far larger than you. It is not.In AI: Bowling Bumpers, A Business Leader's Practical Guide to AI Governance, Stephen Redmond sets out what the EU AI Act actually asks of an ordinary business, and how to meet it without a compliance department. This is the third book in the series that began with AI: Curious to Capable and continued with AI: Capability Delivered. You don't need to have read either one.Inside the bookWhat the EU AI Act actually requires of an ordinary business, in plain EnglishFinding the AI you already run, including the Shadow AI you suspect is thereRight-sizing the programme to your organisation, from a fifteen-person firm to a multinationalThe one-page policy, the small council, and the decision rights that make governance holdThe permissions problem that surprises organisations on day one, when a tool like Copilot or Gemini makes every loose folder searchableAI literacy, and what Article 4 asks of youDeployer obligations under Article 26, and when the duty hardens for high-risk systemsWhere other laws set the floor, including NIS2Recording, transcription, and GDPR, handled as a governed practiceThe penalties, in brief, and why smaller organisations are treated proportionatelyYour first ninety days, and your first twelve monthsThe people who carry governance day to day, the Champions, Bridgebuilders, and SentinelsYou will follow ACME, a fictional company, through the political, technical, and human work of governing AI. ACME is invented. The situations are not.Who this book is forThe business leader who knows AI needs governing and doesn't know where to beginThe owner of a small or mid-sized firm with no legal or compliance departmentThe board member or director asking whether the organisation is exposedAnyone responsible for AI in an organisation that is not a multinationalAbout the authorStephen Redmond is the founder of Straitéis AI and the author of AI: Curious to Capable and AI: Capability Delivered. He has over thirty years of experience in data, analytics, and AI, working at board, executive, and CIO office level across financial services, aviation, retail, life sciences, manufacturing, the food industry, and the Irish and UK public sectors.Practical, direct, and grounded in real organisational experience.
