Quickstart

This guide takes you from access to your first governed AI use case — a registered AI system with an assessment run against it and a report you can share. It is task-oriented: each step stays at the level the documentation supports and links to the deeper guide where the detail lives.

New to what Asenion does? Read What is Asenion? first for the end-to-end picture, then come back here to do it.

Before you begin

  • You need access to an Asenion organization. Organizations, the first administrator, and role assignments are provisioned with the Asenion team rather than through self-signup. If your organization is not set up yet, contact support@asenion.ai.
  • Know your role. What you can do depends on your role. Platform roles (Admin, User) and project roles (Owner, Project Lead, Member, Reviewer, and Approver) are described under User Roles, with the fuller governance workflow — including the governance owner, responder, and auditor roles — in Getting Started.
  • Know the vocabulary. A use case is an AI system you govern; a policy pack is a qualitative assessment you run against it; an assurance pack is a quantitative test. The Taxonomy and the Glossary define these in one place.

Choose your path

Asenion is used by several roles that hand off to each other. Start where you fit:

  • Administrators set up the organization — members, roles, policy and assurance packs, lifecycle stages, and thresholds. See Admin and Getting Started.
  • Project owners and leads register AI use cases and steer them through governance. This is the core path below.
  • Reviewers and approvers act on assigned tasks — reviewing responses and signing off. See the workflow in Getting Started.
  • Engineers connect an AI system for testing. See the endpoints reference and Installation.

The core path: from zero to your first report

The steps below follow the governance workflow a project owner drives. Where a screen-level detail is covered by a deeper guide, this page links to it rather than restating it.

1. Sign in

Sign in to your Asenion organization. If you do not yet have access, see Before you begin above.

2. Register your AI use case

Create a use case to represent the AI system you want to govern. A use case can be a predictive, generative, or agentic system, built in-house or by a third party, and it carries the system’s stakeholders, assessments, and reports. The user who creates a use case becomes its project owner.

See Use Case for what a use case holds, and the “example user workflow” in Getting Started for where registration sits in the wider flow.

3. Apply a policy pack and run an assessment

Attach a policy pack to your use case to assess it qualitatively against a framework, standard, or your own policy. Asenion’s library covers frameworks such as the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and New York City Local Law 144, among others; you can also ingest your own policies.

Browse the library at Policy Frameworks. Responders complete the assessment with supporting evidence as part of the review workflow.

4. Connect a system and run a test

For quantitative evidence, attach an assurance pack and run a test. Asenion’s testing covers structured adversarial testing for LLMs and agentic systems, bias and fairness metrics across protected classes, and statistical drift detection. To test an LLM-backed system, expose the chat endpoint Asenion calls and authenticate it with a Bearer token or API key over HTTPS.

See Testing for the test catalog and the endpoints reference for the integration contract. Results attach to the use case they belong to, alongside its assessments.

5. Review, sign off, and generate a report

Move the assessment through the review workflow: a responder submits, a reviewer checks the submission, and an approver signs off. Reports draw from the same records your team worked in, so the report reflects the actual state of governance. Download it as a timestamped PDF that records who reviewed and signed off.

The reviewer-and-approver handoff and report generation are covered in Getting Started.

Where to go next