Richa Kaul, Complyance: Asking the Right Questions
From The Road to Accountable AI by Kevin Werbach
April 2, 2026 · 33 min · Season 5 · Episode 4
About this episode
Richa Kaul discusses the AI risk landscape for enterprises and the importance of asking the right questions for effective governance.
Richa Kaul breaks down the AI risk landscape for enterprises, and argues that the key to managing all of them is resisting the urge to sensationalize. Kaul offers a candid assessment of where enterprise AI governance committees are falling short, noting that many lack the technical fluency to ask vendors the right questions, such as where customer data goes, whether it trains other clients' models, and what specific steps reduce hallucination. She suggests that market-driven security standards like SOC-2 and ISO 27001 often matter more in practice than government regulation, creating a "beautiful ecosystem" where risk management runs ahead of the law. Looking forward, she addresses the growing challenge of agentic AI systems that make decisions autonomously, offering a deceptively simple prescription: Map every action an agent can take, know where your highest risk sits, identify the critical decision points, and demand human sign-off at each one/ Richa Kaul is the founder and CEO of Complyance, an AI-native enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform. Before founding Complyance, she was Chief Strategy Officer at ContractPodAi, a legal technology company, and…
People in this episode
Host: Kevin Werbach
Guest: Richa Kaul
Topics covered
- AI risk management
- enterprise governance
- data privacy
- AI compliance
- technical fluency
- agentic AI systems
Keywords
- AI risk
- enterprise governance
- data management
- compliance
- technical questions
- agentic AI
- risk management
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Complyance, ContractPodAi, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, McKinsey, SOC-2, ISO 27001
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