NIRAP is an independent standards body for firms that use AI tools. We give your firm the standard, the tools and the independent verification to put an AI governance program in writing.
01ToolkitGuided sessions
02TrainingAI Governance 101
03VerificationRAICB trust badgeIf your practice buys AI tools off the shelf and puts the output in front of clients, NIRAP was built for you. We do not serve model labs, and we do not assume you have a chief AI officer.
Built for firms whose people use tools like these every day
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V-AGE™ examines how your office uses AI. It does not audit the vendor’s model, and it does not assume you own the system.
No compliance department is required. The controls are written in plain language, and a program can be written and ready to roll out in as little as one week.
A NIRAP assessor examines every submission. No credential is issued on assertion, and the fee does not change with the outcome.
NIRAP is not here to talk your firm out of AI. The goal is a firm whose people can move faster with confidence, not slower while they wait for permission.
Every NIRAP program is the same bundle of three parts: a toolkit that writes your program, training for your people, and independent verification. Each profession gets its own edition, written against that profession’s own rules.
Self-guided. You answer plain-language questions. The toolkit builds the documents your firm needs.
A guided tool asks one question at a time, in plain language.
The AI assistant drafts anything your firm is missing.
Each session ends with finished documents and tools that make your rollout easier.Your own staff run it. No consultants and no site visits.
Real estate brokeragesLive
Law firmsIn development
The law firm edition is in development. It covers the same ground in more depth, because the rules that govern lawyers ask more of a firm.
Send the link. Everyone who uses AI watches it, and you get a named record for the file.
The real estate edition is available now. The legal edition is in production.
Verification and the RAICB™ badge
RAICB™ certification is a point-in-time attestation that the program is in place. It is not a guarantee of legal or regulatory compliance.
The documents from your toolkit sessions, plus each person’s training acknowledgment.
A NIRAP reviewer reads everything you submit, usually within a week.
If something is missing, the reviewer tells you what it is and how to resolve it.
Clients and recruits can confirm your badge at verify.nirap.org.
Each profession has its own program site. That is where you will find its sessions, its fee calculator and its resources, because the fee depends on how firms in that profession are built.
brokers.nirap.org
The brokerage program is built for supervising brokers. It covers the five toolkit sessions, AI Governance 101 for every agent and staff member, and RAICB verification for the firm.
The law firm program is being built for mid-size and smaller firms. It will cover nine toolkit sessions, AI Governance 101, and RAICB verification.
Email us about the law firm programHR and staffing, financial services, consulting and others are next. Demand decides the order we build them in.
Email usV-AGE™, the Versatile Adaptive Governance Engine, is NIRAP’s standard. It does not audit the model your vendor built. Instead, it examines each way your office actually uses AI.
Enterprise AI frameworks assume you have an engineering team. A professional services firm usually has licensed professionals and support staff. So we took the recognized frameworks and right-sized them for a firm like yours.
What information goes in. This covers approved data sources, personal information removed before it is typed into a tool, and users trained before they get access.
What comes out and where it goes. This covers checks for invented facts, a person reading the work before a client sees it, and limits on what can be produced.
Who is accountable. This covers a named owner for every use, a person in the loop on high-risk decisions, and a log you can produce later.
The hard limits. This covers spending caps, prohibited subjects, regulatory boundaries, and permissions that decide who can use which feature.
The mappings below are NIRAP’s own, offered as a guide. They are not published or endorsed by NIST, ISO, NAR or the ABA.
A voluntary federal framework for managing AI risk. It is organized into four functions: Govern, Map, Measure and Manage.
Where each function shows up in your program
The international standard for an AI management system. It sets out what an organization needs in place to use AI responsibly and to keep improving.
Where its requirements show up in your program
Associations publish what their members should do about AI. V-AGE™ writes a module for each profession against that guidance.
Modules by profession
A brokerage and a law firm work through different practices, because their rules differ. Both are reviewed against the same V-AGE™ standard.
We want you to know exactly what a NIRAP credential says, because a credential is only worth what it claims honestly.
V-AGE™ was not drafted by academics or 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 run firms under scrutiny.
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 practices a profession’s rules require.
Assessments draw from more than 100 practices and more than 10 modules. That is why what a law firm completes looks nothing like what a brokerage completes.
Most firms take the express path, which comes with the AI governance bundle. Organizations with several business lines or complex AI use take the enterprise path on V-AGE Assess™. Both paths end in a submission reviewed against the V-AGE™ standard, and verified firms earn the Responsible AI Certified Business credential.
This path is for firms that need a working governance program fast.
This path is for organizations whose AI use is too complex for a single firm-level program.
Most organizations finish the baseline in two to four weeks.
Step 1
Thirty minutes to understand how your firm uses AI. Your assessment is configured from this conversation.
Step 2
You see only the controls that apply to your firm and your use cases.
Step 3
The platform explains each item in plain language and drafts missing documents for you to review and adopt.
Step 4
A person examines what you submitted against the V-AGE™ standard.
Step 5
You receive a trust badge, an assessment report and a public verification page, good for two years.
A client, a regulator or a carrier may ask what governance you have for the AI tools your people use every day. Recollection is not evidence. The exposure looks different in each 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 harm a client, the claim falls on the practice that delivered them. Your licensing board will ask what your firm did, and whether it was written down.
Client information typed into a personal AI account leaves your control. Most vendor contracts disclaim responsibility for harm their tools cause, and prompt histories are discoverable.
Real estate, as a worked example
These are the Fair Housing Act civil penalties per violation, before actual damages, attorney fees and injunctive relief (24 CFR §180.671). Every profession has its own equivalent schedule.
State AI statutes are already on the books in Colorado, Illinois and Texas, and licensing boards are drafting guidance. A firm that builds its record now has one ready when it is asked.
NIRAP, the National Institute for Responsible AI Practice, is a standards and certification body. We are not a consultancy, and we have no stake in any AI tool.
Most AI policies are written to say no. Ours are written so your people can say yes safely. Adoption and governance should run side by side. You should not have to stop using AI to get it under control, and you should not have to accept unmanaged risk to keep using it.
This is 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. The coach joins a working call at each session and reviews your documents before they go to the assessor.
Currently open only to real estate brokerages and Realtor teams. To see your fee before the call, use the calculator at brokers.nirap.org. The law firm program is in development. In another profession? Write to info@nirap.org, and tell us what your firm does.
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