National Institute for Responsible AI Practice
Governance, not brakes.™
Get a written file your office can run — and a credential clients can check. Independent review. Not a vendor badge. Not a score you give yourself.
Built for firms that license AI tools and put the output in front of clients.
Built for firms that license their AI tools, not build them. Two parts: a step-by-step guided toolkit to build your governance program, and a credential that shows you built it.
Who NIRAP serves
If your practice buys tools off the shelf and puts the output in front of clients, this was written for you, not for model labs, and not for enterprises with a chief AI officer.
V-AGE examines how the office uses AI. It does not audit the vendor’s model, and it does not assume you own the system.
No compliance department required. Plain-language controls, a tailored dashboard, and a program ready to launch in as little as one week.
Every submission is examined by an assessor. No credential issues on assertion, and the fee does not change with the outcome.
NIRAP is not here to talk your firm out of using AI. The gains are real, and the practices that use these tools well will outwork the ones that do not. What creates liability is not using AI. It is using it with nothing written down, nobody accountable, and no record of what was checked. A verified firm is one whose people can move faster with confidence, rather than slower while they wait for permission.
The toolkit
Five working sessions, run by your own staff, produce every document needed for your AI governance program. Start with the free gap assessment and see where you stand before you buy anything.
Free · Start here
No account, no cost, nothing to install.
Your answers stay in your own browser.
Bundle · Five sessions
Licensed to the firm and run with your own people. Releases October 1, 2026.
No consultant required and no engagement to schedule.
In real estate? See how the brokerage program runs, session by session, at brokers.nirap.org →
The credential
Same bundle, two holders. Real estate is live. Legal and HR and staffing are in development: same engine, with a module written against each profession’s own rules.
RAICB™ · Firm
Held by the firm, not by one employee who might leave.
Thirty minutes. We scope your firm on the call.
RAICP™ · Individual · Real estate
For the licensed real estate professional. Held by the agent or broker personally, not by the firm, so it moves with them.
Why it holds up
How firm verification works
Most firms take the express path, which comes with the Responsible AI Toolkit bundle. Organizations with several business lines or complex AI use take the enterprise path on V-AGE Assess™. Both paths end in a submission for firm verification against the V-AGE standard. Verified firms earn the Responsible AI Certified Business credential.
Express path · Included in the bundle
For firms that need a working governance program fast.
Enterprise path · V-AGE Assess™
For organizations whose AI use is too complex for a single firm-level program.
Your assessment runs on V-AGE Assess™. You log in, see exactly which controls apply to your organization, and work at your own pace. Most organizations finish the baseline in two to four weeks.
Thirty minutes to understand how your firm uses AI and which tier fits. Your assessment is configured from this conversation.
You see only the controls that apply to your firm and your use cases. There is no generic checklist to wade through.
The platform explains each item in plain language and drafts missing documents from your own answers for you to review and adopt.
A person examines what you submitted against the V-AGE standard. This human review is what makes the credential credible.
Trust badge, detailed assessment report and a public verification page. Verification runs for two years.
The standard behind the credential
V-AGE, the Versatile Adaptive Governance Engine, does not audit the model your vendor built. It examines each way your office actually uses AI, across four dimensions.
What information goes in. Approved data sources, personal information removed before it reaches the tool, and users trained before they get access.
What comes out and where it goes. Checks for invented facts, a human reading the work before it reaches a client, and limits on what can be produced.
Who is accountable. A named owner for every use, a person required in the loop on high risk decisions, and a log you can produce later.
The hard limits. Spending caps, prohibited subjects, regulatory boundaries, and permissions deciding who can use which feature.
V-AGE was not drafted by academics, and it was not drafted by an AI vendor. It was built by people who have carried this risk inside regulated businesses: cybersecurity practitioners, governance and privacy specialists, and business operators who have actually run firms under scrutiny.
On the jargon. A control practice is one specific thing your office does and can prove, such as naming the person who approves a new AI tool. A regulatory module is the set of those practices a particular profession's rules require. Your assessment draws from more than 100 practices and more than 10 modules, so what a law firm completes looks nothing like what a brokerage completes.
Where the liability lands
When a client, a regulator or a carrier asks what governance you have in place for the AI tools your people use every day, recollection is not evidence. The exposure looks different by profession, but it arrives through the same three doors.
AI used to screen, rank or evaluate people sits under Title VII and the ADEA. The EEOC has been direct that automating a decision does not move responsibility off the employer.
When AI assisted advice, filings or documents cause client harm, the claim lands on the practice that delivered them. Your licensing board asks what your firm did, and whether it was written down.
Client information typed into a personal AI account leaves your control. Most vendor contracts explicitly disclaim responsibility for harm caused by their tools, and prompt histories are discoverable.
State AI statutes are already on the books in Colorado, Illinois and Texas, licensing boards are drafting guidance, and insurers have begun adding AI governance questions to errors and omissions applications.
Real estate, as a worked example
Fair Housing Act civil penalties per violation, before actual damages, attorney fees and injunctive relief. 24 CFR §180.671, amended June 12, 2025. Every profession has its own equivalent schedule.
Get verified now and you build a documented track record. Wait, and you will be assembling one under pressure, after something has already gone wrong.
Pricing
Who can enroll
Currently open only to real estate brokerages and Realtor teams.
Not in real estate? Join the waitlist, and we will build your track against your own profession’s rules.
Two things set the fee. The first is how many AI policies the firm needs. The toolkit produces one policy with its supporting documents, and a firm needs one for each state it is licensed in, because the rules differ from state to state. The second is how many agents the firm carries, because every agent puts client-facing work out under the firm’s name. The fee covers the whole program, and there is no charge per seat.
Your program fee
From $1,395
Enter your states, any additional policies and agents to see your price.
$0
RAICP certification for individual agents is sold separately and is not part of this fee. See RAICP pricing.
Four example firms
| Example | Priced on | Agents | Program fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo independent | 1 state | 12 | $1,395 |
| Multi-state team | 3 states | 60 | $2,195 |
| Cloud brokerage | 6 states | 400 | $7,145 |
| Regional brokerage | 8 states, 4 supervisor-specific policies | 400 | $7,295 |
RAICP™ · Individual · Real estate
The program fee above verifies the firm. RAICP is the credential for the individual licensed agent or broker. It is held personally, not by the firm, so it moves with them if they change brokerages.
Get started
A 30-minute call with NIRAP. We scope your firm, confirm your program fee, and answer your questions before you commit.
Add a NIRAP coach
A working call at each of the five sessions, plus a review of your documents before they reach the assessor.
Currently open only to real estate brokerages and Realtor teams.
Tracks for law firms and HR and staffing firms are in development. Not your profession? Let us know and join the waitlist, and we will build your track against your own profession’s rules.
Book your discovery call
Nothing is charged today. The button sends us your details and opens the calendar, where you pick a time for your 30-minute discovery call.
Join the waitlist
Real estate is live and enrolling now. The tracks below are in development, and the order we build them in is decided by demand. Registering costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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