National AI Centre tools and templates

Put published Australian AI guidance to work inside your organisation.

AI Governance helps your team use National AI Centre resources as connected, reviewable work. Start in the workspace or bring a completed supported template with you.

12 core resources9 team activities6 Essential AI PracticesStart anywhere

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From guidance to governed work

Use the resource without losing its context.

A document can help you begin. The workspace keeps the resulting work, responsibility and follow-up connected.

Begin in the way that suits your team

Start a guided activity in the workspace or import a completed supported Word, Excel or PDF file. You do not need a template to begin.

Review before anything is saved

Check mapped values, gaps and conflicts. An uploaded file is supporting material, not proof that a control works.

Connect work to responsibility

Keep owners, evidence needs, actions, decisions and reviews with the organisation or AI use case that needs them.

Complete resource coverage

See how each published resource is supported.

This covers the 11 downloads on the National AI Centre Planning tools and templates page, plus the separately published AI screening questions.

Guided activity

AI screening questions

Answer seven questions in the workspace, save the result and return to it when the use case changes. Screening identifies attention areas; it does not produce a score or approval.

Open the official AI screening questions

Guided activity and Word import

Business process mapping template

Map the current process, pain points and possible opportunities in the workspace, or review a completed official Word template before saving it.

Open the official Business process mapping template

Guided review and supporting-material import

Data quality checklist

Review the information needed for an AI use, record material gaps and create owned follow-up without treating an uploaded file as proof.

Open the official Data quality checklist

Guided review and supporting-material import

Questions to ask AI suppliers

Record supplier answers, keep claims separate from reviewed evidence, and assign unresolved questions and actions.

Open the official Questions to ask AI suppliers

Guided activity and PDF import

Team readiness canvas

Work through six readiness areas, include affected people, and turn gaps into actions with owners and a review point.

Open the official Team readiness canvas

Facilitated team activity

Test your scenario facilitator guide

Prepare a structured session, record participants and observations, then return priority issues and actions to the AI use case.

Open the official Test your scenario facilitator guide

Selectable workshop scenario

Scenario 1: the helpful assistant

Use the published scenario in a facilitated exercise and preserve what the team observed, decided and needs to do next.

Open the official Scenario 1: the helpful assistant

Selectable workshop scenario

Scenario 2: the invisible shortlist

Use the published scenario in a facilitated exercise and preserve what the team observed, decided and needs to do next.

Open the official Scenario 2: the invisible shortlist

Selectable workshop scenario

Scenario 3: the winning application

Use the published scenario in a facilitated exercise and preserve what the team observed, decided and needs to do next.

Open the official Scenario 3: the winning application

Guided policy and Word import

AI policy guide and template

Create or review one controlled organisation AI policy, assign an owner, manage versions and connect the adopted policy to relevant AI use cases.

Open the official AI policy guide and template

Word import and shared register

AI register template

Review mapped rows from the official Word template before creating or updating records in the organisation’s shared AI Register.

Open the official AI register template

Excel import, export and shared register

AI register template (spreadsheet)

Review each spreadsheet row before import, resolve conflicts and keep the same controlled register fields available for export.

Open the official AI register template (spreadsheet)

Inside the workspace

See where the work happens.

These product views show how published resources become organisation records, team activities and owned follow-up.

Start with the work you needChoose the National AI Centre resource that matches the work your organisation needs to do.

Maintain one controlled AI policyCreate, review and maintain an organisation AI policy with a clear owner, status, version and review point.

Bring an existing register with youReview every Word or Excel row before it becomes an organisation record.

Explore the work before choosing AIMap the current process, identify the real problem and explore whether AI is an appropriate response.

Prepare people and practise difficult situationsRun a structured team exercise and turn observations into owned follow-up.

Keep claims, evidence and gaps separateRecord what is known, what a supplier says, what evidence shows and what still needs checking.

Keep responsibility clear

Guidance supports a decision. It does not make one.

Using a published resource does not establish compliance, approve an AI use or replace professional and legal advice. Your organisation remains responsible for deciding what evidence is sufficient and whether an AI use should proceed.

Open Planning tools and templates on ai.gov.au

Ready to put the guidance to work?

Start with a practical tool or create your organisation’s AI policy. You can connect the work to a use case and assessment when you are ready.

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