AI use grows faster than shared agreements
Employees already use AI daily. Agreements, capability, and review lag behind actual practice in teams and departments.
A New Covenant
AI is already inside. The question is whether your organisation has made clear agreements around it.
The Intelligence Covenant Institute is an independent foundation and think tank that researches and designs the social contract with AI at the institutional level. Through The New Intelligent Covenant, we translate that thinking into publications, briefings, and covenant trajectories.
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Institute, framework, and advisory
The Intelligence Covenant Institute
Independent foundation, think tank and publication platform for essays, research, and intelligence briefings on the institutional AI question.
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The intellectual framework - three principles and seven organisational layers for the social contract with AI.
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The separate commercial advisory practice: executive briefings, covenant explorations, and design trajectories that apply the framework inside your organisation.
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Three signals leaders cannot ignore
Responsibility is fragmented
IT, HR, compliance, and line management each hold a piece, but no one owns the whole. The social contract with AI is never made explicit.
Training without a social contract creates false safety
AI literacy without institutional agreements gives employees tools without clear boundaries, oversight, or correction mechanisms.
For whom
Recognisable decision moments
The Institute is for organisations where AI is already inside, but ownership, data boundaries, capability and review are not yet organised firmly enough.
Relevant for
- Boards, executives and supervisors who need to give direction to AI use.
- CIOs, IT, data and innovation teams seeking control over use, vendors and risks.
- HR, education, compliance and practice teams translating AI into behaviour, capability and agreements.
Typical triggers
- AI is already being used outside shared agreements or approved tools.
- The board, executive team or supervisory board asks for a clear line.
- The EU AI Act, AI literacy or sector standards become concrete.
- Shadow AI, data risk or unclear responsibility becomes visible.
From insight to action
How the Institute works
From public thinking to concrete application. Essays build the body of thought. The Intelligence Brief tracks developments. Executive briefings translate insights into leadership choices. The Compass makes friction visible. Covenant design creates the first workable agreements.
Publications
Research and editorial work
In-depth essays and briefings for leaders who want to shape their institutional relationship with AI.
Foundational essay
The social contract with AI takes shape inside institutions
Why responsible AI starts with schools, companies and public organisations, not with legislation or models
The social contract with AI is not formed in parliaments or model labs, but in schools, teams, boardrooms and service desks. Organisations are the fourth party, and they must become that in practice.
For: Board members, school leaders, CIOs, HR directors and compliance leaders
NIC Advisory
Apply the framework inside your organisation
NIC Advisory translates the New Intelligent Covenant into concrete interventions for boards, CIOs, HR, and compliance leaders.
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Executive Briefing
Compact session: the Covenant model, your context, and the covenant questions on the table now
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Covenant exploration
Exploration of actual use, data boundaries, capability, and responsibility against the Covenant framework
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Covenant design
Focused design trajectory with cross-functional team: norms, boundaries, ownership, and escalation
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The Intelligence Brief
Bi-weekly intelligence on the social contract with AI, human judgment, and the common good. No hype - rigorous editorial thinking.
On The New Intelligent Covenant - the Institute's framework.