Introduction
What AI Compass covers, who it is written for, and how the level of detail works that lets every article be read briefly or in full.
What this compass is for
A great deal is written about artificial intelligence, and most of it is either too brief or too technical. Specialist articles assume the knowledge you are still trying to acquire. Summaries stop exactly where it gets interesting. AI Compass solves that differently: one article per topic, three levels of detail, one address.
You decide on every page how thoroughly to read. Overview tells you what a thing does and where its limits are. In practice shows how to introduce it in your own team. In depth describes interfaces, data flows and the evidence an audit asks for.
- Every article is readable without prior knowledge. Simply set the level to Overview.
- Every statement says what it rests on.
- What the law requires sits with the task it concerns, not in an appendix.
Three levels, one piece of content
Anyone who wants to know what a task achieves reads the overview. Anyone introducing it reads the practice level. Anyone answering for it technically or legally reads it in depth. It is the same article; you are only seeing a different section of it.
| Level | Answers | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Purpose, example, limits | Getting oriented in ten minutes |
| In practice | Introduction, responsibilities, metrics | Introducing something in your own team |
| In depth | Interfaces, data flows, evidence | Answering for it technically or legally |
That is not a trick but a consequence: the same thing can be described correctly at three altitudes. What changes is the level of detail, not the statement.
What you will find here
Concrete tasks with a datasheet, filterable by department and risk class.
Learning pathsOrdered sequences of articles from the first steps to keeping evidence, with progress and a certificate of participation.
GovernanceThe EU AI Act and the GDPR applied to tasks rather than to paragraphs.
GlossaryTerms as this compass uses them, short and linked.
How the articles are built
Every article follows the same order, so that comparing two topics does not require rereading.
- 01
Purpose and boundary
What the task does, and what it expressly does not. The boundary is the more important part.
- 02
An example from practice
A concrete prompt, the expected result, and the open points to settle beforehand.
- 03
Introducing it in a team
Who does what, in which order, and how you tell that it is working.
- 04
Data protection and duties
Legal basis, storage location, retention period, and what the risk class changes about all three.
The recommended start
One task, one team, six to ten weeks. Only then roll out more widely, using the metrics fixed before the start.
- Choose a task with a clear result and low risk.
- Fix two metrics beforehand, not after the fact.
- Document the results, including the ones you discarded.
How this compass is maintained
Every page has a responsible role and a review cycle. Changes to governance pages go through the governance function, changes to fundamentals through the editors. The current state is shown at the head of each article and dated when reviewed.
| Area | Responsibility | Review cycle |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals and practice | Editors, reviewed by a specialist | every six months |
| Governance and law | Governance, approval documented | quarterly |
| Tools and operations | Editors, checked against practice | on change |
All content lives as Markdown in a repository. Every change is therefore traceable, comparable and reversible, which at the same time satisfies the requirement to demonstrate the state at a given point in time.
Machine readability
The compass is expressly written for language models and agents too, not merely defended against them.
- Every article is available as plain Markdown at the same address with the
.mdsuffix. llms.txtdescribes the structure of the site,llms-full.txtcontains the full public text.- The known AI crawlers are expressly allowed in
robots.txt.
Tools for the start
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Starter kit: choosing and piloting a task
A worksheet for choosing the first task, a template for the two metrics, and a checklist for the evaluation after eight weeks.
Worksheet3 items