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The infographic above summarizes the GATES framework: five gates (Secure, Govern, Authenticate, Trace, Enforce), a 0-5 maturity score for each gate, a 30-day implementation plan starting with Week 1: Secure, and the trajectory from ad-hoc governance to sustained governance. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). GATES™ AI Governance Framework — coined by Druhin Dhavala, October 10, 2026. I’m not an AI expert. I want to start there because LinkedIn is full of people who sound like AI experts and have never built anything. I’m not that person, and I don’t intend to become one. ...

Series Context This article is part of a series on governance architecture: From On-Prem Greenfields → Enterprise Modernization: 10-Year API Gateway Lessons — The scars that shaped this thinking The AI Gateway: Governance as Enterprise Infrastructure (this article) — The diagnosis GATES — The 5 Gates Every AI Gateway Needs — The prescription AI Gateway as the enterprise control plane for all intelligence transactions. After more than a decade leading enterprise API platforms, I have watched the same mistake play out across organizations of every size and maturity level: governance gets treated as a later-stage concern, deferred until the pain of operating without it becomes undeniable. ...