Stage 03 · Implement · The Snakes and Ladders AI Framework®
Ship AI your board can sign off. A governance led AI project platform built on the Snakes and Ladders AI Framework®: ten stages, one hundred squares, gates you must clear, and evidence that writes itself. From £29 a month.
Routledge, 2027 · with Dr Angus Finney, Cambridge Judge Business School
Snakes & Ladders®The framework, live on stageThe business case
Auto generated board papers and committee packs turn governance from a delay into the thing that gets you approved.
Portfolio health, gates, risks and owners across teams and entities, readable by leadership.
From £29 a month, with the Training Game evidencing the EU AI Act Article 4 literacy duty.
The platform
Snakes and Ladders® is project management software built specifically for AI initiatives. If a generic tool like Asana runs your everyday work, this runs your AI: the framework's stages, gates, snakes and ladders are how work actually moves through the system.
Plan each initiative on AI-specific stages and gates, from first idea to governed rollout, instead of forcing AI into a generic template.
Risks and accelerators are first-class objects on the board: a snake blocks the route until it is dealt with, a ladder moves you up it.
Approvals, evidence and the audit trail are collected while the work happens, so compliance is a by-product rather than a scramble.
Every AI initiative, its stage, its risk and its owner on one screen, ready for the board meeting.
Play the board
Click any square to move. Land at the foot of a ladder and you climb, land on a snake and you slide. Every ride reveals a real lesson from the boardrooms, regulators and standards bodies we work in.
The full playbook, diagnostics, governance gates and board-ready tooling, arrives with the book in 2027. Advisory clients work with it now.
The framework behind the platform
The gameboard
A clear path from idea to production, with governance gates built in from day one rather than bolted on after launch.
The ladders
Board literacy, data readiness, working-backwards scoping. The moves that make every later decision faster and safer.
The snakes
Shadow AI, pilot purgatory, model drift, compliance debt. The risks that quietly send a programme back to square one, and how to avoid them.
Inside the product
Two products, one framework: the Platform governs and delivers AI projects, and the Training Game evidences the EU AI Act Article 4 literacy duty at £490 a year, included with Enterprise.
Work with Snakes & Ladders
The first call is free, on Zoom, and straight-talking. We will map your ladders and snakes together, and you will leave with a clear next move.