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title: "AI Governance with the Context Layer for AI | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/ai-governance/"
description: "Drive AI forward, governing AI for innovation and compliance. All in Atlan, the only platform that brings all the humans & AI of data together."
keywords: "ai governance, ai data governance, atlan"
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> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**AI Governance: Driving AI Forward.** AI governance needs to mirror the way AI works: starting with the use case, working behind the scenes, and speaking to users in their language. This page describes how Atlan registers, discovers, monitors, and governs AI models and applications.

[Book an Atlan Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)

## Govern for innovation and compliance

- **Business value.** Start AI product development with use cases for collaborative, business-driven innovation.
- **Automation.** Automate intake, discovery, and risk management of AI models and applications.
- **Adoption.** Embed AI governance into AI development for widespread adoption of central AI capabilities.

## Centralized AI asset management

Register and discover AI models and applications in a single source of truth.

- **AI asset registration, simplified.** Register and track AI assets with a structured intake form, ensuring visibility and bi-directional feedback from day one.
- **Automatic intake (Beta).** Atlan's metadata control plane automatically discovers and catalogs AI apps directly from your AI/ML platforms.
- **Custom metadata, tailored insights.** Attach custom metadata to AI assets for richer, business-aware context.
- **Smarter AI asset discovery.** Link AI assets to terms, domains, and products for embedded discoverability.

## Monitor and evolve (Private Beta)

Trace how data flows through your AI value chain for trusted governance across your AI lifecycle.

- **Embedded workflows.** Approve new AI asset and change requests via configurable workflows and forms for traceable oversight, integrated with Jira and ServiceNow.
- **AI asset versioning (Beta).** Maintain a complete history of datasets, models, and policies with automated version tracking.
- **Policy management.** Create automated policies via Policy Center for model drift, ethical AI, and other risks, to constantly monitor for non-compliance.
- **Compliance readiness (Beta).** Meet audit and compliance needs with automated lineage tracking, so you can prove AI's reliability.

Atlan is co-building beta features with customers.

## Customer: General Motors

"We need to go from pockets of limited AI and ML execution to really building AI into the DNA of GM ... we use Atlan for end-to-end visibility from the cloud all the way back to our on-prem." - Brian Ames, Sr. Manager, Production AI & Data Products, GM

## Learn more about AI governance

- [Great Data Debate: Why Your Governance Will Always Fail](https://atlan.com/virtual-event/great-data-debate/) - learn from past data governance programs and get AI-ready in 2025 with a panel of governance practitioners, founders, and AI experts (recording).
- [Unpacking the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Governance](https://atlan.com/virtual-event/gartner-mq-data-governance/) - Austin Kronz, Atlan's Director of Data Strategy and former Gartner analyst, breaks down the biggest insights from the report for enterprise CDOs (recording).
- [Re:Govern Replay](https://atlan.com/regovern/) - innovative data governance practitioners at Re:Govern, the industry conference for a new era of data and AI governance.
- [Re:Govern sessions: how leaders across industries are using Atlan](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/)

Ready to accelerate AI innovation? [Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)