DSI 001 · For boards and audit committees

Your duty did not change

The evidence required to discharge it did. DSI 001 produces the independently assessed, contemporaneous record a board needs to answer the three accountability questions for an autonomous system, through the structures it already uses.

The accountability standard did not move

The test a court applies after an adverse outcome is unchanged: who held authority, what did they know, what did they do.

Governance that exists on paper but is not exercised does not discharge the duty, a principle the authorities articulate for directors generally and which applies by analogy to autonomous-system oversight.

Question 01

Who held authority?

The autonomy and authority summary, tabled at deployment.

Question 02

What did they know?

An independent assessment, not a management representation.

Question 03

What did they do?

A contemporaneous record of resolutions and escalations.

If absent

Governance on paper

A structure that exists but is not exercised.

Seven obligations, one assessment

Board obligation	DSI 001 output	Reporting artefact
Know what is deployed	Registry and dimensional profile	Decision System Registry
Understand autonomy	D1 Autonomy Gradient	Autonomy and Authority Summary
Challenge management	Independent GBI assessment	Independent Governance Assessment Report
Monitor controls	GCI, exercised in practice	GCI Dashboard
Oversee liability	D4 and multiplier conditions	Liability Architecture Summary
Keep pace	D6 and reassessment triggers	Reassessment and Lifecycle Summary
Keep records	EIS-01 evidence tiers	Evidence Tier Report

The questions the GBI answers

D1Autonomy. What runs without a director or officer in the loop?

D2Data. What is exposed if its decisions are wrong?

D3Contract. Is liability for autonomous actions allocated in the chain?

D4Liability. Are autonomous commitments recognised and treated?

D5Leverage. How dependent is the organisation on the system running?

D6Stability. Does governance keep pace as the system changes?

For APRA-regulated boards

The expectation is explicit: CPS 230 contract compliance is due 1 July 2026, and the April 2026 AI letter calls for board oversight of AI as an enterprise risk. (Regulatory position as at [25 June 2026].)

Bring an assessment to the board

Commission a DSI 001 assessment and table the board paper alongside the registry, the autonomy summary and the independent assessment report.

Commission an assessment Read the framework

Status and limits. DSI 001 does not determine whether directors have discharged their duties; it provides a structured, contemporaneous record relevant to that question. A GBI score carries evidential value only when issued by an accredited DSI 001 assessor against the methodology; self-scored or indicative figures are not DSI 001 results. DSI 001 does not determine legal compliance, regulatory approval, insurability, creditworthiness, or the discharge of fiduciary duties. It provides a scoped governance classification and evidence record that may be relevant to those analyses.