Community
Vela is building a community of directors and boards who treat AI oversight as a shared discipline — practiced in the open, with peers, before the stakes are real.
Why a community
AI governance is a muscle. Directors build it faster alongside peers working the same scenarios, comparing the calls they would make and why.
Every member sits on a board. The conversations are candid because everyone in them carries the same fiduciary weight.
The Compass gives the community a common language, so a director's practice on one board carries to the next.
The name
It was once part of Argo Navis, the great ship of the ancient navigators who had no shore in sight. It is the right image for this work: finding the way forward together, by fixed points, when the map runs out.
AI governance is that kind of passage. No board has done it before. A community is how directors navigate it without sailing alone.
Who's in the room
Audit, risk, and full-board members carrying disclosure obligations and Caremark-level oversight duties.
Independent directors and family representatives governing AI bets without a public-company apparatus behind them.
Members of the Private Directors Association and peer director networks Vela works alongside across the country.
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