Fabio Aulico · AION Governance
A publishing platform for operators working on the gap between AI ambition and production reality. Essays, tools, and the forthcoming book Govern or Fail.
Core thesis
Ungoverned AI is a short-term arbitrage that collapses. Governed AI is a compounding structural advantage by the third deployment.
The governance failures breaking enterprise AI programs are not policy failures. They are architecture failures — distance between what governance documents say and what the infrastructure actually enforces.
Why this exists
Between eighty and ninety-five percent of enterprise AI initiatives never reach production. The technology works in most of them. What fails is the operating model around it.
This site works through that problem in public — the gap between what governance documents say and what production infrastructure actually enforces. Less company posture, more clear thinking.
The book
Govern or Fail: the full argument, thirteen chapters, forthcoming late 2026.
Read the pitch →Tools
Interactive Debt Quadrant, 25-question maturity assessment, 90-day executive action sprint.
Open the tools →A note on this site
I started paying close attention to AI in late 2022, when GPT-3.5 made it clear the work of the next decade was going to be different from the work of the last one. The question was what that actually meant inside large organisations.
Before that, I spent fifteen years on the enterprise side of technology — integration architecture, middleware, DevOps, and complex programme delivery at companies like Swisscom, UBS, Philips, and Roche, then consulting and solution architecture in Switzerland. I am now a Senior Account Partner at Salesforce. The constant across those roles was the same gap: the distance between what new technology could do and what enterprises could actually absorb.
Since 2023 I have been learning this new wave by building with it. Python notebooks, fine-tuning small models, quantisation, LangChain and LangGraph, MCP, agents, vibe-coding tools, a home lab built around an RTX 4090 running local models. This site is coded by me with Codex and Claude Code. I find the shortest path to understanding a technology is to put my hands on it.
What I saw, repeatedly, was the gap between how fast AI moves in the open world and how slowly it metabolises inside enterprises. That is what the book is about — and what this site is for. Part field notes from my own experiments, part the working-out of the argument that became Govern or Fail.
Recent essays
View all →Policy matters, but governance debt usually starts in architecture: disconnected tools, unclear ownership, and operational gaps that only become visible once AI use reaches production pressure.
Updates
A note when there is something worth sending — new essays, framework updates, and progress on Govern or Fail. No funnel sequence.