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Describe the work
Answer a short set of questions about the task, information, tool, and intended result.
AI-use intake, decisions and evidence
Know it. Approve it. Prove it.
Give every employee one place to propose an AI use. Apply your policy, route the judgment, retain the rationale, and know what AI the organisation actually uses.
✓ No policy hunting or email chains ✓ Exact-version evidence retained
Example guidance
Supplier document summary
Northstar AI policy
What is being checked
Summarise a supplier contract before a meeting
PurposeDraft or summarise✓
InformationInternal document✓
ToolCompany-approved AI✓
ReviewBefore use✓
Policy answer
Allowed with safeguards
The task is allowed because the tool is approved and a person will review the output.
1
Remove information the summary does not need
2
Check facts against the original contract
3
Keep responsibility for the final work
One operational front door for responsible AI use
Security rulesPrivacy rulesCompany policyHuman oversight
How it works
From proposed use
to recorded decision.
Most people need an answer, while governance teams need oversight and evidence. One request supplies both without turning every low-risk use into a meeting.
02
Rules do the sorting
The relevant policy paths are applied consistently. Irrelevant sections stay out of the way.
03
Review only when needed
Route ambiguity to the right person, then record approval, conditions, rejection or an explicit exception.
04
Keep the evidence
Maintain the active register, rationale, discussion, evidence and policy-change review history.
Try the logic
Clear enough for Monday morning.
The checker asks ordinary questions and responds in ordinary language. This preview is illustrative; your workspace can apply its own policy.
Create your workspaceExample check
Can I use AI for this task?
Current answer
Allowed with safeguards
Useful answers, not traffic lights
“Yes” and “no” miss the point.
Good guidance tells people how to move forward. Can I Use AI distinguishes between a safe use, a fixable one, and one that should stop.
01
Allowed
Use the selected tool as planned.
02
Allowed with safeguards
Continue after the listed protections are in place.
03
Ask for approval
A named owner needs to review this use first.
04
Use another approach
Change the data, tool, or level of automation.
05
Do not use AI
This use conflicts with a rule that cannot be worked around.
Workspace
Northstar AI policy
AIPersonal information
Ask for approvalAIPublic generative AI
LimitedAIAutomated decisions
Not allowedAIApproved drafting tools
AllowedOne policy, actually used
Give the policy a front door.
A workspace turns your organisation’s approved tools, data rules and escalation paths into an intake, decision and evidence system everyone can use.
01
Legal & compliance
See every active use, exception, rationale and policy version in one register.
02
Security & privacy
Receive only the uses your policy routes to you, with the relevant context already collected.
03
Everyone using AI
Submit one specific use, receive a policy answer and follow any approval without chasing people.
Pricing
Start small.
Add your policy when it matters.
Only completed checks use an allowance. Your account’s first workspace includes 30 checks once; paid allowances renew monthly. Opening or abandoning a check costs nothing.
Free
$0
no subscription
Your account’s first workspace includes 30 completed checks that do not expire or renew.
Allowance
30 completed checks for your first workspace
1 total workspace member
Every plan includes
- Your company AI policy
- Policy assessments and approval workflows
- AI-use register, evidence and versioned records
- Policy-change impact reviews and insights
Team
$39
per month
excl. applicable tax
For a smaller team putting one workplace AI policy into daily use.
Allowance
100 completed checks each month
10 total workspace members
Every plan includes
- Your company AI policy
- Policy assessments and approval workflows
- AI-use register, evidence and versioned records
- Policy-change impact reviews and insights
Business
Best for teams$99
per month
excl. applicable tax
For growing organisations running regular checks across several teams.
Allowance
300 completed checks each month
40 total workspace members
Every plan includes
- Your company AI policy
- Policy assessments and approval workflows
- AI-use register, evidence and versioned records
- Policy-change impact reviews and insights
Company
$249
per month
excl. applicable tax
For company-wide use with a larger monthly decision allowance.
Allowance
1,000 completed checks each month
100 total workspace members
Every plan includes
- Your company AI policy
- Policy assessments and approval workflows
- AI-use register, evidence and versioned records
- Policy-change impact reviews and insights
Paid prices exclude applicable taxes.
Need a larger allowance or a tailored rollout? Talk to us.
From policy document to operating system
Know which AI uses exist—and why they were approved.
Start with one policy-backed request. Add reviewers, conditions and evidence as your organisation’s AI use grows.
Questions, answered
The useful details.
Looking for a deeper explanation? Read the workplace AI guides →
What is Can I Use AI?+
Can I Use AI? turns a workplace AI policy into an operational request and approval process. Employees submit a specific use, the policy resolves or routes it, reviewers record judgment, and the organisation keeps a living AI-use register.
Does Can I Use AI? make legal decisions?+
No. It applies the rules and policies configured for the workspace. Your organisation remains responsible for its policy, approvals, and decisions.
Can we use our own workplace AI policy?+
Yes. The workspace lets policy owners configure approved tools, information rules, human review, regional coverage, and escalation routes, then publish them as a fixed version.
What happens when an AI use is not clearly allowed?+
The request enters a review queue for the relevant policy, privacy, security, people or legal route. A reviewer can ask for context, approve with conditions, reject it or document an explicit exception.
What is recorded after a completed check?+
The case retains the submitted answers, policy result, exact policy version, reviewer rationale, conditions, discussion, evidence links, assignments and complete decision timeline.
Do policy updates change earlier records?+
No. Earlier records remain tied to the version that produced them. If a changed rule affected an earlier decision, Can I Use AI? flags that case for human review instead of silently rewriting history.
Does opening or abandoning a check use the allowance?+
No. Only a successfully completed check uses the workspace allowance.
Does the free allowance renew every month?+
No. Your account’s first workspace receives 30 completed checks once. Additional workspaces need their own paid plan. Paid allowances renew monthly while their subscriptions remain active.