Assettia compared with the tools beside it
Assettia is the data and AI programme record: one place where an organisation keeps what its programme owns, what it has decided, and what it has proved.
Three categories of software sit next to the programme record. Each holds part of the picture and does so well. These pages set out what each holds, what Assettia holds, and when an organisation needs both.
AI governance platforms: they hold models, agents and controls. Assettia holds the programme and links governance to the decisions it governs.
Portfolio and project management tools: they hold projects, dates and tasks. Assettia holds evidence, decisions and value, and produces the paper the board reads.
Decision intelligence platforms: they automate operational decisions. Assettia records the strategic ones, with the person and the reason.
Side by side
Four categories, six questions.
The same six questions asked of each category. Three of them hold part of a programme and do it well. None of them holds the programme itself, which is the gap Assettia was built for.
| Question | AI governance platform | Portfolio tool | Decision intelligence | Assettia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it holds | Models, agents and the controls around them | Projects, dates, tasks and resources | Decision models and the outcomes they produce | Use cases, data assets, decisions, risks, value evidence and board reports |
| Who reads it | Risk, compliance, engineering, audit | Delivery leads, the project office, sponsors | Operations and data science | Data and AI leaders, the executive team, the board |
| Where decisions live | Approval workflows around systems | Rarely recorded | Made by a model, with human oversight | On the programme's plan, with the person and the reason |
| Does value appear | Rarely; value is out of scope | Benefits fields, often unpopulated | In the outcomes the decisions produce | Value evidence linked to each use case |
| What it produces | Compliance evidence and audit trails | Plans, dashboards and status reports | Decisions and their performance | Board reports in which every figure names its population |
| Who owns it | Head of risk or responsible AI | Head of the project office | Head of operations or analytics | The data and AI leader |
What we deliberately do not do
Three things Assettia leaves to the tools built for them.
Most organisations of any size will run more than one of these, and that is the right answer rather than a compromise. Here is what each of the others is for, and where Assettia stops.
AI governance platforms hold the technical estate. They monitor models in production, test them, and evidence that controls operate. Assettia records the decisions and risks about those models and links to the platform that governs them.
Portfolio and project tools run delivery. They schedule work, manage dependencies and resources, and track tasks day to day. Assettia records why the work exists and what it delivered, and does not track tasks.
Decision intelligence platforms improve operational decisions at a scale no person could manage. Assettia records the strategic decision to build one, and the evidence of whether it worked.
An organisation with all four has no overlap to resolve. Each holds what it is built to hold, and the record links to the rest.
See where the record fits beside your tools.
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