Each edition delivers one clear, evidence-backed idea you can use. This is a special edition announcing a new course on AI Risk Management and providing a subscriber exclusive $200 discount for launch week.
AI Risk Management Course
Research Grounded with Pragmatic Artifacts
Hey —
Quick one this week. The course I've been building is live.
AI Risk Management for Practitioners.
Nine modules, self-paced, video. It maps NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act to the tiering, bias, oversight, and vendor decisions you actually make on real systems — not to a generic checklist someone printed off ChatGPT.
I built it because I couldn't find it. Every course I looked at was either a $995 exam-prep for AIGP, a $2,500 four-day live cohort I couldn't clear my calendar for, or a $50 Udemy overview that didn't cite a single peer-reviewed source. There's a real gap between "I want a certificate on the wall" and "I want to run a real assessment on Monday morning," and this course sits in the second camp.
If you're a subscriber to AI in Its Place, you get $200 off launch week with this code:
ai-risk-launch200
That drops the price from $797 to $597 through Monday, July 27th, 2026.
What you'll be able to do after nine modules
Tier a real AI system with reasoning that survives a board question, an auditor, or a plaintiff's attorney
Design a bias-test plan using two complementary fairness metrics — and know when to invoke the four-fifths rule as a defensible pause trigger under EEOC precedent
Size adversarial risk against the actual attacker profile, so you're not spending governance budget on threats that don't exist for your system
Design human-oversight workflows that reduce automation bias instead of theatrically checking the box
Assess LLM supply-chain risk beyond the direct model vendor — including the ATS, the RAG layer, and the sub-processors nobody asks about
Write a POA&M that ranks findings honestly, and a five-sentence board summary the board will actually act on
Run the whole eight-step assessment on a real system in the capstone lab — end to end, in one working session
Module 1 is free
If you want to see the format and pace before you commit, Module 1 is a free preview — no email required, no credit card. Watch the first 15 minutes, then decide.
Module 1 covers why the Confidentiality/ntegrity/Availability (CIA) triad doesn't map cleanly to AI risk, the seven risk domains that sit outside traditional cybersecurity, and how the four NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF) functions plug into your existing security operations. It's the argument for why the rest of the course exists.
The code again
ai-risk-launch200: Good through Monday July 20, 2026
After Monday July 27, the price returns to $797 and the code stops working. No extensions — I'd rather draw a hard line than start a rolling discount that erodes the price for everyone who paid full.
Thanks for reading this one and every other one. If you enroll, hit reply and tell me what system you're going to run through the capstone — I read every response.
Talk next week,
Dave
P.S. — If your team has three or more people who'd benefit from this, there's a 5-seat team package for $1,997 (subscriber discount brings it to $1,797 through Friday with the same code). Reply to this email and I'll send the team purchase link directly.