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Where to Begin

Where you begin depends on what you are doing now. Three entry points, one triage.

Pick your situation

  • I am shipping an LLM feature in days, not weeks

    Seven controls, one checklist, one decision tree. Deliberately short, deliberately opinionated. Once these are in place, you have an AIRSLite deployment: enough runtime safety to go live, enough observability to learn, enough structure to decide where to invest next.

    AIRSLite

  • I need working code in thirty minutes

    End-to-end: classify risk, deploy guardrails, configure a Judge model, set up human oversight. Opinionated setup, runnable examples, zero multi-quarter runway required.

    Quick Start

  • I want to understand the framework before I build

    Curated reading paths through the full framework, organised by goal. The Golden Thread takes you from why runtime security? through each control layer to how the system self-corrects in about two hours. Other paths cover threat landscape, multi-agent security, and practical artefacts.

    Reading Paths

More paths

  • Fast Lane if your system qualifies as low-risk (internal, read-only, no regulated data, human in the loop) and you want to deploy without a formal security assessment.
  • FAQ for specific questions about scope, cost, vendor AI, team size, and how AIRS maps to ISO 42001 and other standards.

If you are still not sure

Walk through these in order. Each one answers a question the previous one raises, and you can stop at any point once you have what you need.

  1. AIRSLite gives you the short list. If the seven controls are enough for your situation, you are done.
  2. Quick Start turns the short list into working code.
  3. Reading Paths gives you the reasoning behind every control, so you can adapt them to your context rather than copying them blindly.
  4. For Your Role tells you what any of this means for your specific responsibilities: security leader, product owner, AI engineer, risk manager, and six others.

Prefer a role-based path?

If you would rather triage by who you are than by what you are doing, jump straight to For Your Role. Each page tells you what matters for your role, why, and where to start reading.

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