Step through the six essential AI governance practices, rate your organisation, and get a clear picture of where you are today and what to do next.
Most organisations have multiple active AI obligations today. Almost none have mapped them. That gap is where the exposure lives.
The AI 6 is the short name for the six essential practices set out in Guidance for AI Adoption, published by Australia's National AI Centre in October 2025. It is the federal government's primary reference for how organisations should govern and adopt AI responsibly covering accountability, impact assessment, risk management, transparency, testing and human control.
It exists because earlier guidance (the Voluntary AI Safety Standard, with ten guardrails) needed to be more navigable and cover both organisations that deploy AI and organisations that develop it. The National AI Centre worked with industry and CSIRO's Data61 to condense the ten guardrails into six clearer practices that align with Australia's eight AI Ethics Principles, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001.
It is voluntary in the same way the ACSC Essential Eight is voluntary increasingly the de facto standard of care that boards, regulators, auditors, large customers and investors expect to see. The National AI Plan (December 2025) confirms Australia will rely on existing laws plus the AI 6 in the near term rather than introducing a standalone AI Act.
The AI 6 condenses ten earlier guardrails into a navigable framework. Open each practice to see what good looks like, where organisations go wrong, and how mature you are today. Your maturity profile builds as you work through the six.
Description of where you are.
Guvn.Ai is the platform that turns this self-assessment into a continuously evidenced, audit-ready AI governance programme built on the AI 6 as its foundation.
Guvn.Ai uses the AI 6 as the foundation of responsible AI adoption. Bring your AI estate, your controls and your evidence into a single platform that maps to AI 6 and crosswalks to the global standards your auditors, investors and customers already know.
Rate all six practices to see your overall maturity score.
