Questions and boundaries
Trust starts with direct answers.
Ask Alpha is clear about what it does, what it does not do, and where human expertise remains essential.
What is Ask Alpha?+
Ask Alpha is a private subscription application for individual directors and senior executives. It helps you understand AI governance readiness, strengthen your board profile, prepare for governance conversations, and work through oversight decisions with structured counsel.
How is Ask Alpha different from a general-purpose chatbot?+
Ask Alpha begins with your readiness baseline and professional context. Its outputs separate sourced facts, reasoned interpretation, unresolved evidence, and recommended next actions instead of returning an unstructured conversational answer.
What does the readiness score mean?+
The score is a directional measure of current preparedness to oversee AI and agentic systems. Ask Alpha pairs the number with a qualitative tier, evidence confidence, strengths, gaps, and practical next steps. It is a starting point for judgment, not a verdict.
Is the result a certification, rating, or legal opinion?+
No. The personal scan is provisional and advisory. It is not an Alpha company rating, professional credential, legal opinion, audit conclusion, or determination of board fitness.
What is included for free?+
The free experience provides one provisional readiness baseline, qualitative interpretation, visible evidence limits, and a path to save the result in an Ask Alpha account.
What does the $99 monthly subscription unlock?+
Premium access includes readiness history, deeper profile and skills analysis, directional board-fit guidance, boardroom preparation workflows, saved context, and context-aware Ask Alpha counsel. A free trial is offered before monthly billing begins.
Does Ask Alpha make decisions for me?+
No. Ask Alpha supports director judgment. You remain responsible for decisions, approvals, and escalation to qualified legal, regulatory, audit, risk, or search professionals when their expertise is required.
Can I cancel or manage billing myself?+
Yes. Stripe securely manages the subscription and billing portal. Access changes only after Alpha verifies Stripe's server-to-server billing event, never from a browser redirect alone.