About AI Gov Ops
Keep the garden of humanity growing.
AI is moving into the places where people work, decide, care, and depend on one another. We believe the answer is neither blind acceleration nor blanket hesitation.
It is better practice: open standards, operational evidence, and a community willing to do the hard thinking together.
The people behind it
Meet the foundation founders.
Bob Rapp and Ken Johnston lead the AI Gov Ops Foundation with the practical conviction that responsible AI is built by people who stay close to the work.
Built by practitioners
A shared practice for the space between policy and production.
Their work brings together the realities of enterprise AI, regulated environments, operational evidence, and an open community willing to keep improving the standard.
Co-founder · Foundation leader
Ken Johnston
AI and data leadership across Microsoft, Ford, and Autonomic.ai — bringing a builder’s eye to the systems and incentives around AI.
Co-founder · Foundation leader
Bob Rapp
AI/ML work across Vodafone, IBM Watson, GE Healthcare, Microsoft, and General Motors — grounded in the realities of regulated, consequential work.
What we believe
Good governance is a team sport.
Share the work
The strongest standards are shaped by the people who have to live with them in production.
Stay close to reality
A policy is a promise. A control and its evidence show whether the promise survived contact with the system.
Leave the gate open
Open tooling and plain language make it easier for more people to notice what matters and contribute a better answer.