AI Center of Excellence Charter

A leadership team standing up a formal AI Center of Excellence needs a charter that secures executive alignment, defines scope without creating bottlenecks, and gives the team a mandate they can execute against — not a mission statement that dissolves in the first conflict.

- Five diagnostic questions that expose misalignment before you write a single charter line

- 1,200–1,600 word charter with mission, scope, operating model, and governance explicitly mapped

- Decision rights framework specifying who owns use case prioritization, model risk review, vendor selection

- Operating model options (centralized vs. hub-and-spoke vs. standards body) with trade-offs named

- 12-month milestones tied to executive sponsor priorities, not vanity metrics

- Risk mitigation design: three failure modes and specific charter language that guards against each

- Resource requirement mapping: team roles, seniority levels, budget ranges, cross-functional dependencies

- Authority boundaries preventing both toothless advisory status and innovation bottleneck

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI model. Answer five questions about current AI adoption state, primary mandate, executive sponsor authority, team composition, and expected resistance. Get a formal charter document ready for executive committee presentation.

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